Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Rock & Roll
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Willie Nelson – who never lived in the Chelsea as far as I know – is releasing a new album, titled Songbird. The album is produced, however, by former Chelseaite Ryan Adams, and contains a song, “Blue Hotel,” which Ryan wrote for Willie. on Oct. 31st of this year.Ryan was our neighbor when we lived…
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The Countess and the C.U.N.T. Rock Revolution is performing on Sat. @ Mo’Pitkins on Ave A between 2nd and 3rd @ "11" (Really means midnight). That is a Punk-rock-opera-cabaret band I sing/dance/perform with. I think it’s $10. Go over to myspace to listen to some of their awesome music. Plus, tomorrow, September 10th, tickets go…
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At last we get a real rock star in this hotel! Bruno Wizard, singer and songwriter for the seminal 70s punk band The Rejects, and later for The Homosexuals, checked into the room right next to us last weekend. Abandoning our usual rule of making people write these answers out, we interviewed him in person…
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Our Chelsea Hotel neighbor, Sathima Bea Benjamin, has just released a new CD, SongSpirit, on Ekapa Records. Interspersing old jazz standards with her own original songs, the CD covers almost her entire career, from an early recording with Duke Ellington in Paris in 1963, to her latest session in Capetown in…
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Now that 3/4 of the Ramones are dead — including our beloved hotel-mate Dee Dee, who’s gone to the great shooting gallery in the sky — the band seems to be getting really good product placement. In an upcoming episode of Entourage, the HBO show, the plot centers around a Ramones movie script that the…
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The Geezers (?) stopped by the Chelsea to jump up and down on the beds and bare their bottoms! What else is there for rockers to do once they make it to the Chelsea? Nail the furniture to the ceiling! Throw that TV out the window! Who says they don’t rule, you wanks!
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Rock and roll is here to stay. Responding to Steven Kurutz’s dis of the Chelsea, several readers wrote in to recount their rock and roll experience at the Chelsea. Former resident Bluehour tells us, “One day maybe I’ll write about the very nice rock star (Dee Dee Ramone) who peeled me off a sidewalk…
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Hiroya, the crazy Japanese graffiti painter with wild black hair who used to stand in the lobby in paint splattered suits and accost tourists with boasts of his artistic prowess, left several paintings behind in the hotel when he died. Two of them, replete with crosses, caskets, and the symbolism of death, and heavy on…
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