Wednesday, March 14, 2018

The New York Dolls boxset 'Personality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos'


A new 5 disc box set collecting demo sessions and live recordings from The New York Dolls will be released this spring. Personality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972-1975 features demos, live shows, and radio sessions from the legendary band. The set captures the band at their best - raw, intense, and powerful.

The demos are taken from three sessions prior to the band's short lived stay on Mercury Records and includes early versions of "Trash," "Personality Crisis," "Pills," "Jet Boy," and more. It should be noted that these demos were previously released in 2006 on Private World: The Complete Early Studio Demos 1972 - 1973, however the compilation is now out of print. The bulk of the material on the set - three discs - is taken from live shows from 1973 through 1975. Of note one of the live sets is the band's Detroit performance captured on New Year's Eve 1973 at the Michigan Palace. All of the material - demos and live material - has been remastered and comes packaged in a clamshell box.

Personality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972 - 1975 arrives April 27th and is available to pre-order through Amazon and Cherry Red. View the tracklisting below:



Disc 1 - Studio Demos 72 - 73

Blue Rock Studio, NYC, June ‘72

01. Bad Girl
02. Looking For A Kiss
03. Don't Start Me Talkin'
04. Don't Mess With Cupid
05. Human Being
06. Personality Crisis
07. Pills
08. Jet Boy
09. Frankenstein

Escape Studios, UK, Oct ‘72

10. Personality Crisis
11. Looking For A Kiss
12. Bad Girl
13. Subway Train

Planet Studios, NYC, March '73

14. Seven Day Weekend
15. Frankenstein
16. Who Are The Mystery Girls?
17. (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown
18. Back In The USA

Disc 2 - Studio Demos 1973

Planet Studios, NYC, March '73

01. Endless Party
02. Jet Boy
03. It's Too Late (False Start)
04. It's Too Late (Full Version)
05. Bad Detective
06. Lonely Planet Boy
07. Subway Train
08. Private World
09. Trash
10. Human Being
11. Don't Start Me Talkin'
12. Hoochie Coochie Man
13. (Give Him A) Great Big Kiss
14. Vietnamese Baby
15. Babylon
16. Bad Girl
17. Pills
18. Personality Crisis
19. Houdini
20. One Night In Texas
21. After The Storm
22. Percy The Pimp
23. Running Wild
24. All In Your Mind
25. Suicide
26. Feel Like I've Been Here Before
27. Who Do You Love
28. The Best Friend I've Ever Had

Disc 3 - Live

Bataclan, Paris, December 23rd, 1973

01. Trash
02. The Milk Man
03. Puss n' Boots

Michigan Palace, Detroit, December 31st, 1973

04. Intro/Personality Crisis
05. Bad Girl
06. Looking For A Kiss
07. Who Are The Mystery Girls?
08. Stranded In The Jungle
09. Human Being
10. Pills
11. Trash
12. The Milk Man
13. Puss 'N' Boots
14. Babylon
15. Lone Star Queen
16. Don't Start Me Talkin'

My Father's Place, Long Island, April 14th, 1974 (WBAB Radio Broadcast)

17. Puss N Boots
18. Looking For A Kiss
19. Trash
20. Stranded In The Jungle
21. Personality Crisis
22. Bad Girl
23. Pills

Disc 4 - Live

My Father's Place, Long Island April 14th, 1974 (WBAB Radio Broadcast)

01. Hoochie Coochie Man
02. It's Too Late
03. Chatterbox
04. Human Being

Vancouver, Circa June/July 1974

05. Hoochie Coochie Man
06. (Give Him A) Great Big Kiss
07. Don't Mess With Cupid
08. Chatterbox
09. Babylon
10. (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown
11. Who Are The Mystery Girls?
12. Jet Boy
13. Human Being

Dallas, September 1974

14. Intro/Personality Crisis
15. Vietnamese Baby
16. Bad Girl
17. (Give Him A) Great Big Kiss

Disc 5 - Live

Dallas, September 1974

01. Pills
02. Frankenstein
03. Lone Star Queen
04. Don't Start Me Talkin'

New York, 1975

05. Red Patent Leather
06. On Fire
07. Something Else
08. Daddy Rolling Stone
09. Ain't Got No Home/Dizzy Miss Lizzy
10. Girls Girls Girls
11. Down Down Downtown
12. Pirate Love
13. Pills
14. Teenage News
15. Personality Crisis/Looking For A Kiss
16. Stranded In The Jungle

Published March 14th, 2018