Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Rock & Roll
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I just finished reading an article in The NY Times about Rock-and-Roll Hotels – you know, hotels where rock bands stay and throw TVs out the windows and such. I didn’t even think they were going to mention the Chelsea – and of course I was outraged – and then when they finally did it…
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Earlier this week we were invaded by a film crew. Tractor trailers blocked our access to the street. Bight lights, cameras, and tables filled with food lined the hallways of the Hotel Chelsea and the sidewalks outside the hotel. Production people loitered in the stairwells and the lobby. “What’s going on?” we kept asking. “They’re…
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Elefant singer/indie rock sex symbol Diego Garcia falls into a videotaped romp with a lolita at the famously seedy Chelsea Hotel. The debauched experience seems to set the whole band in a mad panic, which is compounded by the realization that someone has tampered with their instruments. The obvious precursor to this gritty, yet artful…
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Tim Sullivan is the guitarist for NYC’s best surf-rock band, The Supertones. What do you do?Musician, Surfer, Dancer, Artist How’d you get interested in surf music? My dad and granddad were surfers from California, so I started to surf at a very young age, like around 1961 or so. And in 1963 my Uncle Len…
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Photographer Theresa Kereakes conducted some market research for a coffee table book that she is publishing. She learned that the public wants to see photos of Dee Dee Ramone and Stiv Bators. But her burning question is, do you want to see backstage photos or performance shots? My answer: both. Go to her site, Punk…
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What do you do?My name is Holly Williams, I am currently living between Nashville and LA.I am a singer/songwriter originally from Nashville. Sometimes I try toescape the pressure of writing country songs because of my family(mygrandfather is Hank Williams and my dad is Hank Williams Jr.) The Chelseainspires me, I have been touring all year…
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There are a lot of musicians living at the Chelsea, good as well as bad. They practice all the time, day and night, and most any type of music is tolerated, from jazz, to classical, to rock and roll. Even so, there are limits. One holiday season, the person living directly above me acquired…
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Dee Dee Ramone moved around from room to room in the hotel. He was always dissatisfied with whatever room he landed in, and after a year or two in one room he would move to another floor. He told me that one time they had put him in a new room, and no…
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The Chelsea Hotel may not have been musician Dan Bern‘s first choice (thanks to Ian Schraeger the Chelsea is now the only choice), but it sounds like he had an OK time. What do you do?i write songs & travel around singing ’em and make records from time to time. When did you visit the…
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June 5 will mark the third year anniversary of the death of Dee Dee Ramone. He and his wife and dog lived on and off in the hotel during the year preceding his death. For part of that time, Dee Dee was my neighbor. Here is the story of how we met. Somebody new…
Living with Legends 