Born To Lose

The Lech Kowalski movie about Johnny Thunders has been up on YouTube since late 2008. I used to have a copy of this cut (there are several) on DVD but it was like Johnny - quite fucked up - and would skip. Here's all 100 minutes of it.

A line-up that speaks for itself, no?

Oh to be in NYC for this...

Walter Lure (2)

A review of that Walter Lure live album is posted at the Bar here. Short story: Rough 'n' ready and rocks pretty well and at 10 Euros a copy it's worthy of investment.

Walter Lure's new live album

Ex-Heartbreaker Walter Lure toured Europe in 2007 and Italian label Nicotine Records is doing something about it. Here's the tracklisting for the live album:

  1 One Track Mind
   2 Sorry
   3 Never Get Away
   4 Cry Baby
   5 Get Off The Phone
   6 Busted
   7 Let Go
   8 London Boys
   9 Take a Chance
 10 I Wanna Be Loved
 11 Born To Lose
 12 Chinese Rocks
 13 Too Much Junkie Business
 14 Do You Love Me?

Eyewitness accounts (thanks Greg Bowen in France) say the shows were great. Buy it here.

Walter Lure speaks

Walter Lure played guitar with Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers and also as a session man on many Ramones records. Nowadays he's a stockbroker on Wall Street, occasionally gigging with his own band The Waldos. I tripped over a fine interview with the man here that looks to be reasonably recent. No sign of that live album he mentions on Nicotine yet but we'll let you know if and when it appears.