Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Rock & Roll
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Photographer/gal about town Linda Troeller has done it again. She caught Patti Smith’s late show at the Bowery Ballroom Tuesday night. Patti’s new album, Twelve, is now available. div>
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We’ve written before about how Leonard Cohen’s "Chelsea Hotel #2" is the most covered song on You Tube. However, I’m a big fan of musician Dan Bern and he recently released a new album with his "Chelsea Hotel," song, which has a bit in common with Leonard Cohen’s song. Finally, someone covered Dan’s version. What…
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Apropos of nothing. Patti Smith talks about what it means to be "punk rock" and performs "You Light Up My Life." I don’t know why she didn’t choose this song for her new covers album. (Source: ABC, "Kids Are People Too," 1979)
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Laid back rock band Big Head Todd & The Monsters stopped by the Chelsea and the result is this hauntingly moody video for their song "It’s Alright" from the Sister Sweetly album. They’ve used some rather absurdist artistic license to come up with a valet who shines guest’s shoes and efficient housekeepers. That’s really stretching…
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Patti came walking down 23rd Street and entered the Chelsea Hotel unnoticed because legendary Stonewall activist and drag king Stormé DeLarverié and Vogue fashion news directorr/model Sally Singer were posing for the cameras and all eyes were on them. Patti ran into Warhol superstar Rene Ricard coming out of the hotel and they stood in…
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UPDATE: We hear that there’s a party for Patti Smith tonight at the STAR LOUNGE. Our invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. How much more heartbreak can we take? Good thing we know about the VIP elevator! First, there was all that business with Patti Smith’s publisher when they announced that Just Kids:…
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That’s Tim Sullivan in the baseball ball hat! If you dig The Supertones and want to hear more check out youtube.com.
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After we wrote about the BBC Chelsea Hotel documentary last week, Joe Bidewell (he’s the guy jamming behind Nico in the film) wrote to give us a a few behind the scenes details. Here’s his letter: (Photo: Joe is in the center) Yes, that is me playing ‘chelsea girls’ w/ nico. I’m strumming my then-new…
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Time Out magazine has released its rankings of the 50 greatest New York musicians of all time, and guess what, the Velvet Underground is #1! Surely this confirms our claim to be the greatest rock and roll Hotel of all time! (Nico, was a hotel resident.) Also on the list are the Ramones — who…
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A reader e-mailed to remind us that we neglected to mention an important day in rock history last week. February 22, 1978, Sid & Nancy were busted for drugs at the Chelsea Hotel. If we start commemorating all of the drug busts that have gone down at the Chelsea that alone would be a full…
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