Thunders, Kane & Nolan - You Can't Put Your Arms around a Memory Dvd

January 4th, 1987 At The Roxy In L.A.
Drums - Jerry Nolan
Guitar - Barry Jones
Bass - Arthur "Killer" Kane
Backing Vocals - Babsie Doll
setlist:
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 Destruction
11. Lonely Planet Boy
12. The Wizard
13. Play With Fire
14. Green Onions
15. In The Midnight Hour
16. Little Queenie
17. Born To Lose
18. Jungle Love
19. Courageous Cat
20. Chinese Rocks
21. Pipeline

[@geoffreyhutchinson483]

Saw the Heartbreakers many times in 78-80. Best nights of my life. As a 15 year old who snuck out. I still measure my life by those days of the best music ever.

[@leahflower9924]

Damn that sounds like fun

[@solele6536]

I'm writing the same thing to a friend who is 63 now and who doesn't even know who these people are who made the best music ever. I was born too late, in 1974, and I have only listened to these dramatic and romantic emotions for 25-30 years, when Johnny was already gone. 🥺😢

[@maurenwalsh5313]

Totally feel what your saying about measuring your life .....

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

You new the score. Thunders and the heartbreakers were the real deal

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

@@matthewjdouglas6471 absolutely mate RnR

[@julescaligula6974]

This is the tightest, straightest & most sober (whatever constitutes as sober for JT) I've ever seen Johnny play. Even more energy than the Dolls days. Flawless

[@solele6536]

Yes, this is the most beautiful Johnny concert I have been able to see.

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

I agree mate may they all rest in Rest in Powder RnR

[@smkxodnwbwkdns8369]

he is coked up here and strung out

[@nickjones2656]

@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 Nowhere near as strung out as he was most nights onstage. This is fab.

[@stealthsadhu306]

You are right! From another who was there. Long may he wave, in videos like this.

[@kenwarring816]

Came to see a train wreck.... Saw a master at work. If those kids sitting there only knew.. A Master at work.

[@slimedog]

Being such a big fan of Thunders is so great to witness a truly great performance by him as so many posted live shows seem to hope to denigrate his memory. Him and Dee Dee were the best punk songwriter of that era and both suffered from the same disease.

[@tboysrocknroll9252]

When Johnny is on point, man he is great!!... I always hated seeing him fucked up on stage...this really shows what he was capable of...

[@peterzang]

Agree. A singular talent. Close on Keith’s heels.

[@jonyscrewzo]

Where did you sew him?

[@petercrowley41]

THUNDERS! JONES! KANE! NOLAN!

[@jamesmartin6709]

Never saw him so coherent. The guitar playing on Personality Crisis rivals his best days in the Dolls. He was sloppy, but he had a very distinct guitar sound. You can always tell when you're hearing Thunders!

[@meanmrmustard62]

Always can tell, even just a quick lick. Many try but no one sounds just like him

[@chrisghiardi117]

Tight band. Pretty prime JT and you can really appreciate the drumming.

[@howiewolf5684]

That's why we loved him so much!!! With Barry Jones on guitar!!! Makes it even better!!!

[@elainephilly]

Ah memories. Arthur sent a guy to get us. He saw us in the balcony. Nice man. Had enough class to walk with us since we wouldn't all fit in the limo. He wanted to drink, but, I was only 16 or 17.

[@numerick2010]

Johnny, like Gene Vincent , same sensibility , same Rock'n ROLL !

[@gamblers220]

Nolan is a beast! Jerry and Johnny (and Kane) all in top form, live too! 🤗

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

Excellent RnR

[@scottanderson4175]

Arthur Kane, was right handed 😐

[@johnflushing9328]

Thunders at his best...

[@jellobiafra2810]

I'm from Detroit (blow the reveille)! Johnny's guitar sounds like: *The dinosaurs right after the meteor hit!* *COOLEST EVA LIVED!* Dave B.

[@mikeb4960]

Just a great, great rock n roll show. Johnny an amazing musician and showman.

[@roterfuchs8201]

I've never seen or heard Thunders so on it like this, Righteous Stuff!!!!

[@ignacioponce1485]

Johnny is really tight in this. A treasure for the viewer. Thanks for Shanre!

[@chesterproudfoot9864]

What a show! - Correction: what a fucking SHOW!

[@dimitriosalexiadis2300]

When thunders says real world is you must wait for... What a show

[@michaelb.9548]

Holy Moses! What a magnificent gig!

[@leahflower9924]

Even the way johnny says my man Arthur with that Queens accent is so cool lol 😎

[@testcyp767]

Johnny was Jackson Heights born and bred.

[@leahflower9924]

@@testcyp767 I'm aware and Ramones are from forest hills...my dad is from Bayside queens and apparently we are loosely related to Eddie Money 😅

[@testcyp767]

@@leahflower9924 that is so cool. I'm from Jackson Heights myself about three blocks from where JT grew up. He was a bit older than me so we never crossed paths in the neighborhood. Whenever I saw him solo or with the Heartbreakers, I was not aware back then that he was from my neck of the woods.

[@leahflower9924]

@@testcyp767 I was hoping there would be a movie about thunders like early baseball days then not wanting to cut his hair and telling ma he's gonna join dolls and dress in drag lol and then his heartbreaker and solo days..not a documentary though like a real movie

[@testcyp767]

@@leahflower9924 that sure sounds great. I would certainly buy a ticket. The thing is your average music fan of today have no idea who he was. Another unfortunate reality is almost everyone close to Johnny is gone. His sister could have had a huge part putting something like that together.

[@RyanKidd77]

Got this show on DVD. Johnny is so on point here. Love it

[@leahflower9924]

Sticks a comb in his hair and then sings lonely planet boy wow I'm in heaven

[@RyanKidd77]

@@leahflower9924 💯

[@oliverkalamata2753]

Never get tired of hearing JT playing right on cue!

[@jonyscrewzo]

@@oliverkalamata2753 💔💔💔

[@MrGiorgioud]

When he was on form Johnny Thunders was God.

[@leahflower9924]

Some people claimed he had a weak voice I think it sounded like that on LAMF...this proves he didn't have a weak voice though

[@laswastedyouth]

I love Johnnys voice! And he is hands down my favorite guitar player of all time. Certainly not the most technically proficient. But he could just make you FEEL every note. Just magic!

[@MrGiorgioud]

Not a weak voice at all! Especially towards the end of his life, he really channelled the bluesmen who were his main influences. Had he lived, he would have become a master Blues player and singer, and he would have been stellar. But alas, it wasn’t to be....

[@leahflower9924]

@@MrGiorgioud johnny was god and gg allin was Jesus Christ (literally) 😅

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

@@leahflower9924 well said RnR

[@sayaka8587]

Johnny, Jerry and Arthur all playing at their best. Johnny's guitar sound is just so amazing, distinctive, If only one I could play my junior like that. Thanks for posting 😊😇😇

[@josecatalino4383]

La mejor musica de mi juventud y de mi vejez.

[@damienconnor9572]

Superb..

[@JH-yk5se]

This is fugging great!!

[@bradhill5918]

I'm seeing Nicky Mick Tommy and slash in the crowd lol

[@timleachman7915]

Sooo good!!!! To bad they're gone!!!❤🎀

[@twistedspanner]

It's a pity that you hardly see Arthur Killer Kane in this. It would have been so much better if he stepped up front and of course a few extra cameras. Great gig tho.

[@jonyscrewzo]

Yeah you right.. but thats what he want at that time, laid back in the shades 😎🤙

[@twistedspanner]

@@jonyscrewzo yeah makes sense. I don't think Arthur had gigged for years before this so I can imagine him wanting to keep a low profile.. He probably just wanted to make sure he concentrated on playing well. still a shame tho.

[@robertafierro5592]

They are so" down to the core

[@nanchanger]

Saw him 6 days later in N.J.

[@leahflower9924]

Oh wow in Passaic or at stone pony?

[@nanchanger]

@@leahflower9924 they appeared at City Gardens 1/10/87, and the Ritz a week later...

[@garthkolbeck8674]

@@nanchanger I missed that one, I met him at City Gardens after his 86? Show but I don't think he was with any original members of dolls or heartbreakers

[@nanchanger]

@@garthkolbeck8674 in 1986 he was in Philly, Irving Plaza and Hoboken...

[@garthkolbeck8674]

@@nanchanger I missed those shows too... I had a hard time finding out about shows then ... I definitely saw him at City Gardens and I think he had two black sidemen for bass and drums, he did a short acoustic set too...

[@alexijo24]

Pipeline.....just unbelievable!

[@terrymann1375]

My favorite junkie! Occasionally I miss him.

[@jonyscrewzo]

Where did you sew him Terry?

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

Mine too 💊🤣 RnR

[@frederickgleason89]

This show was so superior to a lot of right on people of the central coast of ca ….thank you Johnny gas - station .as he drove us their in that baby blue & white hump in the front and smelled like surfboards …. D i played and other artists ,and we danced the hole fricking jolly new time,even did helicopters,spinning like if you were in a tea cup ,some one would try to bounce you ,knock you down but the force was so strong ,they ended up like dice up against the wall …I here the voices and I know almost what we were doing,you could hear Kirk Sampson telling everyone to shut up& after that show Kirk would wear his hat his dad got for him in Kenya,… thanks Johnny for your thunder and lightning ,just like being at church,it was on a Sunday ,of course it was punk& rock n roll praying together. …,.;:;**^# LOVE em PuNkXs central coast DAM itt

[@jonyscrewzo]

@@frederickgleason89 💔💔💔

[@robertafierro5592]

Johnny could command the stage..they are so good, they make you forget all.about David.

[@johnnytuinals9046]

thanku)) at the end of pipeline the camera scans to the audience and you see a guy smiling, it looks like Sylvain)) is it

[@aldotorres6930]

😎😎😎😎😎😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😈😈😈😈🤯🤯🤯🤯 QUE BUEN RITMO!!!

[@JorgeLopez-cy9bt]

Disculpa… que es eso de buen Ritmo?…. Esto no es bachata…. Esto es Rocka’n Roll!!! Porfavor… eso no es comentario para Johnny thunder…. Quisiera saber cuánto discos del tienes

[@aldotorres6930]

​@@JorgeLopez-cy9bt por su puesto que es rock and roll, y me gusta mucho porque ademas de agresividad y lenguaje vulgar tambien tiene un buen ritmo bien pegadizo y aveces lo bailo xd, quiza los escucho de una forma muy diferente a la tuya, pero aun asi em gustan mucho y no nececito tener sus discos para que me gusten :)

[@michelemontague8485]

@@aldotorres6930 Thunders used to say constantly that if people didn;t dance then he wouldn;t play...

[@thedigitalguitarist3541]

Saw him in 81 or 82. Best 45 minutes of pure rock and roll of my life. 2am closing time Johnny demanded drinks. Bartender said no. End of set. I expected this show to be a trainwreck this late in their lives, but it's amazing, BTW, 14 is Sonny Boy Williamsom II / Rice Miller's "Help Me", not "Green Onions", which came out a good few years later.

[@jonyscrewzo]

Where did you see him?

[@thedigitalguitarist3541]

@@jonyscrewzo Scorgies in Rochester, NY

[@jonyscrewzo]

@@thedigitalguitarist3541 🙀

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

Met him later his gig started 3am at Pandoras Box Festival in Rotterdam 84 and we spend some time with him in our van 💊 🤣 RnR mate have fun

[@zepps88]

Duff McKagan was at this show

[@jasonwilliams-wq6bs]

Raw rock and roll concert Thunders at his best and yes not that fucked up he lived the life as he says to much junkie business

[@tejaspics]

ICON.

[@CapstoneTider]

JT fit seamlessly into the LA Glam Metal sleeze rock scene of the late 80s. He wrote some of the rules for it.

[@gasutrias9961]

😍

[@normansmith9151]

hey needed her when i was a teen

[@JorgeLopez-cy9bt]

Bien… simplemente esto es Rocka’n Roll… sucio y des prolijo… como tiene que ser…. De “Reviente”… guitarras desafinadas y agresivas… tuvo que Pasar muchos años para que Johnny tenga que ser reconocido como un “icono “ del verdadero Rock…. Claro …para todos aquellos que saben que es Rocka’n Roll… disfrútenlo…. Yo lo hago desde mi casa

[@jorge4ever357]

i heared johhny before i knew about the ramones i like him better just because he got sombody black on stage next to him 🤯🤯 and hes a lefty player like me 🔥

[@twangist]

??? He plays rightie.

[@krisscanlon4051]

Arthur! Listen to that accent !

[@Mick-Kahl80]

🎸🔥💯💋

[@BlueLou974]

Mr Born tOO lOOse at his best w/the killers crew.

[@Ottobehemoth]

Desde de los new york dolls no se lo vio tan bien arthur kane tocando, jhony estubo bien a llevarlo a tocar y sacarlo del agujero en que estaba

[@Saxophoneman420]

32:20

[@timleachman7915]

Was that Arthur's wife that tried to cut his finger off????? Did he have more than 1??

[@jonyscrewzo]

Hhhh no!! That was not her who cut his finger 😁

[@Matthew-qk1xi]

His girlfriend Connie cut his thumb, then she became Dee Dee Ramones girlfriend for a bit. By all accounts she was a bit of a handful.

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

😂😂😂 RnR

[@damotheman4196]

​@@Matthew-qk1xi A handful? Ironically enough, she almost left someone handless.. 😊.. I'm sorry. I'll get me coat. 😂

[@leahflower9924]

Who's the woman singing born to lose?

[@jonyscrewzo]

Arthur wife

[@twistedspanner]

@@jonyscrewzo She's in it more than Arthur.

[@bigmaz4002]

I love seeing Johnny all cleaned up and ripping….. one true rock n roller, mister Johnny Thunders!

[@scottanderson4175]

Arthur Kane, was right handed 😐

[@jonyscrewzo]

Yes buddy Arthur playing in the back, the left handed is Berry Jones

[@jameskennedy721]

It was a dark day when Thunders first tried heroin .

[@twangist]

You never heard him or heard of him before that.

[@tomallen5837]

Set list?...Anyone want to take a shot at it?

[@humbug4478]

Its in the description

[@damotheman4196]

​@@humbug4478 Lol... Good shot man.

[@enzosallu3444]

The real protopunk 🎸💉💦🎶🫧🎼. Stratosferico periodo.....

[@Deeznutseighthundredthirty]

So sick to see him sing Personality Crisis

[@THEBANDIT7979]

People got their money’s worth. Thunders was on that night.

[@jonyscrewzo]

People got a lot more then that 🤙