In the Flesh

Johnny Thunders - In the Flesh

In the Flesh
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Artist: Johnny Thunders
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2000-05-09
Music Label: Amsterdamned
Soundtracks:
  1. Pipeline
  2. Blame It on Mom
  3. Personality Crisis
  4. I Can Tell
  5. Dead or Alive
  6. Can't Keep My Eyes on You
  7. I Ain't Superstitious
  8. Too Much Junkie Business
  9. You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
  10. Eve of Seduction
  11. Lonely Planet Boy
  12. The Wizard
  13. Play with Fire
  14. Green Onions
  15. Midnight Hour
  16. Sad Vacation
  17. Little Queenie
  18. Born to Lose

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Free Music Review: In The Flesh: Fire & Soul Intact
Hit: 5 Stars

I stopped going to Johnny Thunders' shows some time in the mid-80s when it seemed each performance was sadder and more macabre than the previous one: Thunders would start a familiar Dolls/Heartbreakers/solo song, stop singing, and/or playing after a verse or two, and leave (usually) Jerry Nolan alone at the drums while one of rock 'n' roll's great unrepentant geniuses abused, or deflected abuse from, an increasingly frustrated, or voyeristic (and ever diminishing) audience. "In The Flesh", a live set from 1987, is as potent as other reviewers here indicate, and took me by surprise.
The added pathos comes from the fact that the three ex-Dolls captured rocking the house - Thunders, Nolan, and Arthur Kane - are all dead. But tight, loud, and hot versions of "Pipeline," "Blame it On Mom," "Personality Crisis" a hard, bluesy, and passionate "Sad Vacation," and the closing "Born To Lose" will blow away all doubters. Thunders sings with fire and soul, a far cry from the dissipated moments issued during his lifetime on the live portion of "In Cold Blood," or "Stations Of The Cross." "In the Flesh" also captures marvelous rarities like "Ain't Superstitious," (based on the Jeff Beck Group version on "Truth"), "In the Midnight Hour" (inspired!), and a medley of "Too Much Junkie Business/Pills" that never falters.
The acoustic segment in the middle is touching and powerful, and when after a brief snippet (unlisted) of "It's Not Enough" he says to the audience "I'm gonna bring the boys back on," you sense both his slyness and vulnerability. He does, of course, but not before the crowd cheers him on to two more solo performances, including a terrific take on the Stones' "Play With Fire."
If you're new to Thunders, get those Dolls albums (on vinyl, as the cds need to be remastered), the classic solo debut "So Alone," and the Heartbreakers' "L.A.M.F." There are other gems, like the acoustic studio set "Hurt Me," but this fine cd - with terrific notes by "Creem's" Bill Holdship - proves that even fifteen years after the Dolls came to our attention, and long after many had written him off, Thunders (and Nolan, who was his perfect foil, and held it all together) could still sing, play and rock with the very best.
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