Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Rock & Roll
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Remember Vlad, the scruffy looking fellow who used to play the guitar, grimacing as he did so, at the corner of 7th Ave. and 23rd. Well, he’s back. The reason he hadn’t been around for awhile was that some jerk complained about him and the cops had to give him a ticket and tell him…
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As a Drummer and Drum Builder to the stars, Johnny Craviotto has been involved in the music business for nearly half a century. He began his professional playing career in the early 1960s and quickly progressed to touring and performing with such rock-and-roll legends as Ry Cooter, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Moby Grape, and Neil Young. Legends:…
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http://www.brightcove.com/playerswf Legend has it that on August 10, 1967 the Grateful Dead played a concert on the roof of the Chelsea Hotel. Flash forward 40 years and check out this concert by San Francisco singer/songwriter John Vanderslice.
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One of the best things about having a blog is that people give you gifts. For example, just last week, one of our neighbors down the hall gave us a cassette tape. Yes, a cassette tape. It was a copy of former Hotel Chelsea resident Danity Adore’s Country style recordings. The tape contains exactly what…
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The Supertones play"Bongorama"at Jimmy’s Seaside CT with roller girl on the dance machine.
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Dee Dee Ramone was a Chelsea Hotel institution, coming and going, moving in and moving out, through the better part of three decades. At once likable and obnoxious, Dee Dee had a rock star’s charisma and a child’s insecurities, which he dealt with by by self medicating on whatever he could get his hands on. …
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Steve Dior, who played with Sid in a band called the Idols, has come up with a new theory about Nancy’s murder. He says a drug dealer from New Jersey did it. But is that the same person as Rocket’s Redglare? We’ve heard the theory that Rocket’s did it, but we thought he lived in…
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Joe Bidewell, who played back-up for Nico in the 1980 BBC documentary, closes out the show with his own musical tribute to the Chelsea, "Dream Hotel." Several years ago I heard Joe perform "Dream Hotel" at Sine, which sadly, like a lot of other clubs that Joe used to perform in (CBGBs), are no longer…
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Today, May 24th is Talk Like Bob Dylan day. Check out the link for a lot of bad Bob Dylan impersonations or submit your own. It’s also Bob’s birthday. Stop by the Chelsea Hotel, Saturday, May 26, starting at 9:00 p.m. (Rooms 215 & 219) for a belated celebration. "A Night in Bob Dylan’s Bedroom"…
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Bob Dylan sings Hank Williams’ "Lost Highway," in footage from the 1965 documentary Don’t Look Back. Joan Baez, with whom Dylan had just finished a 10-date American tour – and with whom he was having an affair, by then waning – is visible in this clip. D A Pennebaker’s documentary Don’t Look Back is now…
Living with Legends 