Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Rock & Roll
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Well Michael Maher, the Australian documentarian who produced a film about the blog and the gentrification of the Chelsea and a piece about Coney Island, is at it again. Be sure to catch his latest, a short piece about that legendary meeting place of musicians and eccentrics of all sorts in a store…
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Former Chelsea Hotel resident Alejandro Escovedo has a new album, "Real Animal" set to be released on June 24. He recently peformed "Chelsea Hotel ’78" at the New Orleans Jazz Festival. A song dedicated to living at the Chelsea Hotel during the days of Sid & Nancy.
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After Jaz Jericho lost his battle to stay at the Chelsea Hotel he held a secret midnight going away party.Storme DeLarverie stopped by and serenaded the crowd with her version of "I Fell For You." Turn up the volume. It’s awesome! Unfortunately, Storme is out of the frame on the far right of the screen.
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Be sure to check out Chris Shott’s piece in The New York Observer about BD’s shameful attempt to evict a dying man, Jann Paxton. So what about it Marlene? Is it so important to win your war against Stanley Bard that you’re willing to abandon ever last shred of common decency? We think that, as…
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We ran into Jack White the other night at the Chelsea, wearing a cowboy hat with a big white feather that made him appear even taller than he is, and a huge fur coat of a kind only a true rock star such as himself could pull off. If he was trying to go incognito,…
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Milwaukee alterna band Fever Marlene wrote and recorded their second album, "White China" (Is that like the heroin man? Shades of Lou Reed!), over a four night stay in room 219 at the Chelsea . The 10 song album features a DVD documentary of the writing process and a photo journal. "White China" is set…
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On Goldie’s first trip to NYC in June 1986, he stayed at the Chelsea Hotel with Birdie and manager Martin Jones. As dawn breaks, he rants at imaginary people from his bedroom window. Clip from Zulu Dawn, a documentary on the pioneer UK hip hoppers of the 80s, that catches up with their lives today.
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Pianist and singer/songwriter Adam Rushfield, who goes by the professional name of Jaz Jericho, comes from a long line of musical talent: his great grandfather banged singer Sophie Tucker! When we met with Adam in his tiny room/music studio recently, he played us a tape of longtime resident 87-year- old Stormé DeLarverié belting out an…
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“The new generation of bands, they’re all nice boys,” chirps a boutique hotel owner (“Just Call Our Band the Model Guests,” David Brown, New York Times, 11/25/07). Articles such as this appear from time to time–obviously based heavily on press releases from the hotel industry—trumpeting the end of hotel-trashing behavior. For you see, the guys…
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For our Japanese readers, be sure to tune in to Sekaigumi TV #9 tonight (November 28 – Fuiji TV Network) for a documentary on the Chelsea. A full hour long, this film, focuses on the history of rock music associated with the Chelsea, profiling Sid and Nancy, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, etc.,…
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