I had no idea that Buster Pointexter, better known for his "Hot, Hot, Hot" song from the early 80's, was actually the lead singer for the NY Dolls. I saw it on VH1's '1-hit wonders' program a couple of days back. Just thought I'd share some pointless trivia with you all.

Cheers.

> I had no idea that Buster Pointexter, better known for his "Hot, Hot,
> Hot" song from the early 80's, was actually the lead singer for the
> NY Dolls. I saw it on VH1's '1-hit wonders' program a couple of days back.
> Just thought I'd share some pointless trivia with you all.

> Cheers.
More useless trivia: Buster's real name is: Jay(?) Johannsen, he was on vocals, other NY Dolls are bass(?) David Sylvain and guitarist Johnny Thunders (who had erratic solo career, was cult artist of sorts and died from H overdose at Louisiana motel at 198-something). I forgot the Dolls drummer name, sorry! (Murphy somethin'?) There is an excellent book about protopunk-ers called "England is Dreaming" about Iggy, Dolls and Pistols, check it out... BTW, all of them Dolls were straight guys, who realized that crossdressing and "faggotry" is appealing for teenyboppers. In spite of this somehow pre-calculated formula shit... They were really good in capturing this teenage angst and sexual ambivalence, quest for glam and glitter etc... etc..., they were precursors of Kiss but better song-writing skills and sharper... Alas, commersially-wise Kiss did much better... BTW, I just found out recently that Kiss's Paul Stanley (enormously long tongue guy) is Israeli-born. ... I had LA Israeli boyfriend for a year, it was fun.... Kiss is fun too... but on the shallow side, like my ex-b-friend... I would better say ex-b-fiend... Kiss was very smart not to stay away from fag-rock too far, but not to embrace it as closely as Dolls did... They adopted more carnival-like then sexy costumes, fireworks, pyrotech effects and didn't try Doll's heroin chic appeal... Personally, I like Dolls more... American public obviously preferred Kiss... Not that NY-based Dolls were really marketed, they scared away music industry at 70s by their gender-bender ways... Tim Curry exploited in his Rocky Horror Picture Show this "Glen or Glenda" "boys will be girls tonite" goldmine a little bit later, alas Johannsen-Buster was too early for his time. Cheers

Sylvain Sylvain was the guitarist, not to be confused with David Sylvain of the band japan

> Sylvain Sylvain was the guitarist, not to be confused with David Sylvain
> of the band japan
Thanx.