Arthur Kane, RIP

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Could the saga of the New York Dolls get any more tragic? Someone ought to make a movie.

We miss ya, Killer:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1489449/20040715/new_york_dolls.jhtml

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, this was a real bummer. Right before the reunion, too. Poor guy.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The reunion actually happened -- they did a couple of shows in London, with Arthur on bass, just a few weeks ago. They were scheduled to play NY as well, in August.

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuckin' a.

I hope his book on the Dolls gets printed some day. There was an excerpt printed on the Get Back LP release of the Actress demos. It's really cool.

RIP.

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 16 July 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Interested to find out from an obit that he became a Mormon.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Just read his obit in the latest issue of Mojo. Apparently, he once fell from a three-story window and lived to tell the tale.

Very sad story, otherwise.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 August 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

I saw New York Doll yesterday. It was pretty good. Some parts were a little over the top, but the story was fantastic. You just can't make shit like that up. The director said it would be released in October. Check it out. I cried.

― rocknrolldetox (rocknrolldetox), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Hey, someone DID make a movie!

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

The movie is great. It's called New York Doll. Everyone should go see it. Bring a tissue.

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Sunday, 30 October 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Oh shit, you ever get one of those moments where you're just so grateful to be a human being? I mean the whole emotions business? Like external things can hit your insides? Troll my soul, but I'm glad Killer Kane'n'I shared the Planet f'r'a'bit.

A: to the sure-to-be-arsked-Q: Ouzo and seltzer.

― Okeigh, Friday, 24 February 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Just watched this this morning. Great movie but sure bummed me out.
Hard to imagine a sadder story.

― steampig67, Sunday, 2 March 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

I dunno, he had a bad time in the Dolls, got better, then got back into the dolls, then died (happy?) and got a lot of love in the end.

― Mark G, Monday, 3 March 2008 12:56 (seventeen years ago)

When you look at it like that it's not so bad. He finally got his wish and who knows how it would have gone once the band started to record and tour again.

― steampig67, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:00 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I finally watched this a couple of days ago and I didn't see it as a sad story at all.

― Jazzbo, Monday, 3 March 2008 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

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