The Johnny Thunders Story with Nina Antonia

[bellapage666]

I love Johnny Thunders .. His music was great ! He did it the way he wanted to and it's truly sad that he is not hear today ! RIP JOHNNY T. !

[scumgod13]

I think she is Beautiful. A damn good article if you've read in cold blood.

[Waitingforriki]

I love to play guitar & write music..but I cannot stand to hear critics & journo's talking about it !!!! Listen to it & stop talking bull !! Peace Rx

[Keeeeeeeeth]

ha ha 26:30 thats exactly the sorta nikki sixx would say, hes sucha lieing prick

[Jofph]

My experiences with Heroïn were devastating. The drug that has both heaven and hell in its package. For me was it impossible to use H. every now & then. It's always and everyday. Even when you're on methadon.

[320stickit]

THEY WERE all dandys? are ya fa real?I SANG WITH JOHNNY N yeah BILLY IF still alive should be interviewed

about JT. THISBORING B.S IS OUT THERE.I REMEMBER JT tellin BILLY 1 NIGHT BACKSTAGE HE WAS GONNA PUNCH BILLYS FUCKIN FACE-IN CAUSE HE OWED JT $;AND HE was gettin paid right after done playing.I REALLY WONDER IF JT OPENED UP TO THIS WANK.IF YA KNEW JT YA WOULD KNOW THIS O.D

IS MABEY BULLSHIT JT COULD OUT-DRUG ANY1 THE FREAKS WHO GOT PICKED UP FOR JTs murder were never chargd robbery gone bad

[320stickit]

this BLOODY BORING BS THESE 2 ARE TRYING TO DO LAMF & THATS WHAT JT WOULD'VE SAID.THIS BLEEDIN BORIN FREAKS GOT 1 THING RIGHT HE DIDNT OD SHUT THE FRIG UP YA MINDLESS FREAKS TRY WRITING ABOUT THE 3 BEARS OR GOLDYLOCKS. LAMF LAMF LAMFs GET OUTTAKE A SUBWAY TO NOWHERE YOURE BS IS NOTHING THAT ANY1 WHO KNEW JT DIDNT ALREADY KNOW and drugs were part of JTs dealin with jerks like u2.its just too bad he started gettin it under control when HE WAS TAKIN FROM US.MISS YA JT

[StardustMaeField]

@320stickit .....You do know that L A M F means "Like A Mother Fucker", Right?

[Johnnystrychnine]

people stop glorifying heroin, there is no positive end to using.

[telaverzion]

clearly he doesn't have a clue (look at him FFS)

[crypttonite]

does this interviewer even listen to Johnny Thunders, he may not be a junkie, but damn he's a bore, and Nina is famous cos' she knew famous people....

Johnny Thunders has plenty of music that fucking rules, over and over again he is the sound of rocknroll, and he was the lifestyle- he was miserable in many ways, and maybe he didn't o.d. he was a junkie so what, I'm not emulating him in this way, and I don't stigmatize him either. The man Johnny was fascinating in interviews.

[JLSXXX]

A VERY KIND LADY.YOU SHOULD DO A BOOK WITH PETER DOHERTY!!!!

[deepelmdesciple]

I actually know The Heartbreakers bassist, Billy Rath. Theres only him and one other guy alive who know everything. Somebody should be interviewing him.

[Snowman999]

No one comes close to the electricity, excitement and pure joy Johnny brought to crowds throughout the 70s till his death. NYC club scene died with Johnny. Love you till the day I die.

[ritter89]

"David Bowie is redundant now and Johnny is an icon". Well, yeah, of course, he dropped dead at 38 of a drug overdose whereas Bowie went on the live into old age. I love music but I can't stand how so many people get hung up on an image rather than the music itself. Anyone can have a short meteoric rise and then implode at 27 and become an "icon" but only a few can sustain creativity throughout a lifetime (Tom Waits is an example). Dead icons are mainly fascinating to teenagers

[johndee6]

the original guitarist of the dolls in its infancy was lou rone and john played bass!...they were good kids

[The170460]

he was just a junkie not a good guitar player and not a good singer.

[fkguitar]

@The170460you're so wrong! I challenge any guitar player to try and play "Pipeline" the way Johnny did. It can't be done! There's not a Jimmy Page, Al Dimeola, or Steve Vai out there who'd be able to do it.

[The170460]

@fkguitar sorry but i hate this guy and his way of life. It's a pity to see his live performances.

[fnnichols]

saw j.t. in D.C. in 87 with nolan kane cool ross

[Nyquilcoma]

It truly blows my mind that these English twats can take such a fascinating subject as the life of rock'n'roll icon Johnny T and turn it in to a total yawn fest.

[Nic01224]

@Nyquilcoma Hey man, I'm English and I love Thunders-we're not all this boring-but I HATE the presenter dude too!!

[BoulevardTrash99]

Johnny Thunders is a fucking icon.

[TheRalphus666]

That shitty wall behind that guy is fuckin pissin me off,at 1st I thought it was wallpaper but I see its just cloth,id like to take these assholes and put that cloth around their head and smash them together

[gorehoundgirl]

this guy is an ass

[scorpiovike]

Nina keeps trying to engage this douche in conversation and he just stays a fucking stiff.

[Babyhowdy233]

@scorpiovike

Nina is such a charming and engaging person and really deserves a better person to interview her than this stiff.

[svenzia]

@Babyhowdy233 I agree. Love her writing. JT forever.

[NYDoll9]

I knew Johnny and was one of the last people he talked to a week before his death. Contact me if you want any info on my Good Friend, Johnny.

[TheRalphus666]

@NYDoll9 In New Orleans you talked to him??

[NYDoll9]

@TheRalphus666

Yes, I hung out with him. I was 20 years old, working as a bartender at The Pyramid. The afternoon shifts were very very slow. One day this guy walks in and asks for water. just water. I give it to him. He disappears into the bathroom for a bit. i think nothing of it. Then my friend Lazar & her BF come in and sit down. She's drinking and crying that she has to have another abortion..that makes 6! She's upset. The bathroom guy comes back & he & Lazar and her BF

[NYDoll9]

@TheRalphus666 .start talking. I listen. Turns out the bathroom water guy is Johnny Thunders. I mean I saw him in concert not 2 years ago at the old Ritz but up close? And kinda hanging with me?!! But I am not easily star struck. Johnny hung around The Pyramid for the next 3 weeks.Soon after he turns up dead. sad story. He was even telling Lazar to have the baby; all children need is love. He'd know; he said had 3 kids. I miss him sometimes.. I only knew him in NYC. Y r u asking aboutNewOrleans?

[CountThrillhammer]

Sad self obsessed washed out old bag - Johnny Thunders as a rock 'n' roll star ? What a walking cliche - responsible for every cunt who wears black leather trousers and drinks Jack Daniels.

[clashcityrocker2007]

Johnny Thunders and the New York Dolls are responsible for every single rock band since their time. They where one of the 1st bands to break away from the shitty crappy wanky music that went before them.

[CountThrillhammer]

@CountThrillhammer That is profound - much more influential than the Rolling Stones , Kinks , Pretty Things etc. At least Johnny was original - he was the only one who didn't copy Keith Richards just as Johannsen never copied Jagger - what a pair of originals they were.

[hausekar]

@CountThrillhammer Thats what they call ironi isn't it?

[CountThrillhammer]

@hausekar - It is indeed, not only irony but good old fashioned sarcasm. I can't resist it when people make such ill informed comments but I respect anyone who is articulate and original , no matter what their views are. Johnny Thunders was a stupid cunt, he used to taunt young fans who hadn't taken heroin by producing a loaded syringe and daring them with ' are you a boy or a man ? That is very stupid and evil behaviour. Music is wonderful but musicians are cretins by and large.

[srfrr]

she talks like she has a dick up her ass.

[severina1]

wow way to go, insult an intelligent woman by giving the lamest example of a sexual act simply because knowledge is exuded in respects to one giving topic which shes documented and respected for writing about, cant think of anything better to say can we?

[srfrr]

@severina1 Sorry.

[Flipper79able]

@srfrr Fuck you.

[srfrr]

@Flipper79able Lick my ass.

[kidcalabria]

"Self-destructive route"? People nowadays are so conditioned by media & propaganda that they don't know what they're saying! Johnny Thunders & Co knew about drugs. William Burroughs never stopped using & he's considered the greatest novelist of the second half of the 20th century. Prohibition's a recent invention: Baudelaire, Wagner, De Maupassant, Poe, Coleridge, Berlioz, Cocteau, Piaf & many others were "drug-addicts"! This is Rock&Roll! Don't do drugs & listen to Britney Spears then! Idiots!

[TWHuey]

@kidcalabria I concurr. These fucks don't know anything about Thunders or most artists. Why? They have stopped finding things out for themselves.

[Babyhowdy233]

@kidcalabria

I couldn't have said it better!

[TheRalphus666]

@kidcalabria Turn of the century when heroin was legal women didnt drink it was a man thing so they shot heroin or morphine in 1900 those women with the petticoats and skirts made up for the majority of drug addicts.And we can thank Bayer the aspirin company for putting it out they held the patent.it was racism against the chinese that prohibition of opiate based drugs came about.They had jobs workin for the railroad companies and the people out of work were pissed.So they said opiumdenscorrupte

[BobTheRecordGuy]

@kidcalabria Drugs suck, and people who think drugs are 'cool' suck. People that think drugs are 'cool' are what killed JT. William Burroughs was a waste. he wrote some books that critics like ans he spent most of his time doing NOTHING.. like every junkie, he was waiting...waiting...waiting... That's all junkies do, they rarely DO anything, and once they're into their addiction for real they do nothing positive. Sorry, been there, done that. Not necessary to do any drug to be real R&R.

[BobTheRecordGuy]

@kidcalabria : If someone has to do drugs to be cool then they aren't & never will be cool. "Johnny Thunders" -yeah, look at the video of him trying to teach little kids to sing the chorus of his song, chewing the inside of his cheeks out and scaring the hell out of them. Look for the interviews where JT told the truth- he wasn't one to preach but he let it be known that he didn't respect the people that tried to live the junkie life vicariously through his misery.

[kidcalabria]

@BobTheRecordGuy My point wasn't about being cool through drugs or rockstars' personas, only about the uselessness of the "war on drugs", the fact that people took them since the beginning of time, that all kinds of smart people used them (Marcus Aurelius & Otto Von Bismarck were addicts & they kept whole nations going, or Wilberforce, the English politician responsible for the end of the slave trade) & that it's possible to use opiates & have a productive life at the same time

[inn7516]

@kidcalabria Thank you for your accurate comment!

[embo1000]

David Bowie redundant?

[Takac1979]

I adore Johnny, but this interview is really boring...

:-(

[goldenoriol]

I´d like to know exactly wich kind of relationship she had with Thunders...............but the naked truth...................

[DressSmartLookHard]

These two are such BORING BASTARDS! R.I.P. Johnny!

[cell9song]

I'm sure she's a great biographer but God almighty she's an awful interview. Its like pulling teeth to get anything more than 2 sentences out of her.

[68Strut]

This girl is a babe! I love her.Johnny and Perret are two idols of mind,equally as important as Keith and Mick Ronson and the rest.This interview is outstanding!Can't wait to find the Peter Perret book,along with 'In Cold Blood.' Thanks for this wonderful footage.

[penthouse10]

She really finishes JT's bio with her book about Peter Perret. Read them both...

[severina1]

well at least she can spell peoples names correctly! and all her info was from the horses mouth so to speak so i do wonder about these apparent mistakes??

[severina1]

And whats so un-constructed about it may I ask, he who still failed to realize a huge spelling mistake in an authors name and who still cant pin point the mistakes mentioned, all I did was ponder it? No idiocy there just curiosity, I wasnt rude either.

[severina1]

I may also add, its a comment page, it does not state anywhere it is a page for grammatical literal sentences. And I realized you meant the book, what the hell did you think..?

[Enysvar]

you write too much stop now you make me sick

[severina1]

thank you so much!! x

[severina1]

she never once glossed over, read her books and you'll find out before judging so harshly.

[Chuckjagermeister]

I'm sorry but what would a Brit really know about The Johnny T?

[severina1]

ok, she was the first person to write the original JT fanzine, she wrote the only biographies on JT, the new York dolls and the heartbreakers, shes traveled to the states was in the Arthur Kane movie helped with the Morrissey meltdown and was very close friends with Mr thunders from the early 80s, you should do your research shes a legend never seen any Americans do that much work about the man..shes published all over the world.. you should look her up before judging anything...

[JukeboxHeartbreak91]

you'll have to forgive my fellow ameircan shit heads. you have to understand, to alot of people Thunders is the only national gem we have. and as you can imagine alot of people are kindof possessive over him. i know it sounds stupid but to rock n' roll dipshits in the states its very serious. and to have a brit be a poster child of johnny thunders nostalgia and knowledge is insulting to alot of people. thats the only reason people are talking shit, i apologise for them

[severina1]

and you have every right to be so precious over him,i just cant stand people shouting of when they clearly know dont know anything, he was a great artist and is very much missed over the water to, you have no need to apologise for your dipshits my god we have them in abundance as well,(we have david f'#;/'. beckham as a national treasure!) the world is full of them, i was just proud that jt shared his time with us and thanks to miss antonia hes more recognised to this day as well xx

[paulbuss]

Moz meltdown? didnt he have a hand in getting a reunion going??

[severina1]

yes he did and the gig, which was a collection of different bands headed by the dollies was called the morrisy meltdown!

[rnbsnemtp]

@severina1 Johnny Thunders died in 1991, The Morrisey Meltdown was in 2004. Arthur "Killer" Kane, Sylvain Sylvain and David Johannsen were the only surviving "Dolls to perform. Jerry Nolan died in 1992. Arthur died a month after the show.

[severina1]

@rnbsnemtp i know??? may i ask why that was my answer? it was almost a year ago i responded..

[severina1]

seemed to keep you quiet? i hope i changed your mind, i was also going to add that JT had a much larger following in london at that time, an english manager too! oh and was signed to an english label.

[JukeboxHeartbreak91]

well considering the fact that when the dolls were crucified in the states. the UK were the only ones that apreciated them. watch new york doll, it explains it much better

[Alpharaw]

she was in "new york doll" the movie about arthur kane- touching story

[dudebearpig05]

he is still a legend tho

[JoeKersten]

I've actually had the chance to exchange words with Nina while doing research for my own writing, she's an absolute sweetheart.

[ortleyman]

I do not think that JT was destined to die tragically, he and Jerry Nolan got into heroin at a late age and did not know alot about using and when they tried to get out they were too far into it. JT was obsessed with his music as much as his drug usage and it's just ashame that he could not find away to get clean. There is nothing romantic about being a fucking junkie. Not the ones I know of anyway.

[markwasthere]

late in life? by the time JT was 25 his 'job' was staying high

[johnsonfletch]

Johnny Thunders did exactly what he wanted to do...including being a Junkie.

But all you critics can't touch his stage presence and originality. He was one in a million, good or bad.

[studio249]

Fabulous, thank you.

[markwasthere]

I luv JT-he is the best ever. Nina loves to portray JT as some super sensitive guy which really was not true. His autopsy report was always disputed but why is it so hard to believe that he just OD'd and then was robbed when he hit the floor? Especially with it being his first nite in New Orleans. I could see him walking around looking for dope. He was not shy or sensitive about asking for that. The pics were the best part of her first book, its a beautiful book.

[StatutoryTape]

I hope Nina's point about musicians as dandies will be heard by the legion of

baggy pants/whiskers/woolly hat alt-rock dross. They're neither witty nor ornamental. They need help more than Johnny, for they have never lived.

[Talulah1997]

Me, I like this one much better than those idiot presenters of/from MTV! :-)

[StatutoryTape]

Rightio, Talulah. Good taste is the main thing, and Cherry Red have that inabundance. Those vulgarians at MTV are very complicit in destroying pop music in the USA.