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Originally Posted by ET2SN

There's a really good docu on YouTube about Arthur "Killer" Kane (Bass and thigh high latex boots) I was going to post it, but the end is a bit sad. Killer went though his problems after the Dolls broke up and wound up working in the library of LDS in L.A. He had a bit of a falling out with David/Buster but then in 2004 he had the chance to get back together with the band for a concert in London which went very well. He got back to L.A. and started to feel sick, went to the hospital and was told it was Leukemia and died two days later.

Looked up the documentary you mentioned; I hadn't seen it before and was pleasantly surprised; Some of the other Dolls docs have been disappointments as they were either poorly done or overly sensationalized; as mentioned before, The Dolls were frequent customers at the club where I worked in Hollywood back in the 70s and I remember Arthur as a rather gentle, quiet person, quite unlike the rest of the Dolls; Arthur was a big guy, dwarfing his band mates and he was very popular with the groupies; the quiet guys always get the prettiest girls; he seemed perfectly content to just tag along, drink his pints, and observe the madness; at one point he broke his arm, his wrist IIRC, and came in with a cast on his arm; the other Dolls were ragging on him, going on and kidding him about how he would have to give up bass playing and find another job; the owner of the club joined in on the ribbing and offered him a job as a bartender; Arthur took the joke in stride and went behind the bar and spent the rest of the nihjt tending the bar, bad arm and all, much to the amusement of the Dolls; you were right when you said the ending is a bit sad, but, at least, Arthur got another moment in the sun to take with him on his homecoming...


Thanks for the clue on the documentary...



An odd coincidence in the film: Over the last several years, because I really do like to do research, I have assisted many persons in digging up genealogical information, often using the Social Security Death Index as a source; one day, while showing someone how to use the Index, I just decided to input my father's data as an example; the SSDI showed my father had died in 2000 and, prior to that day, I wasn't aware of his passing; so, when I saw the segment abut Arthur finding out about his father's death the same way, I really felt for him and with him...

This clip is of the taping of a Dolls performance back in 1973, the year I first saw them and the year they broke big in LA; the performance was taped for a local LA teen music program MC'd by a "boss Radio" DJ named The Real Don Steele; I recognize a lot of the people in the video and, if you notice the young ladies on the elevated platform on the right side, those were some of the more 'famous' groupies of the LA scene; I rather imagine a lot of the people in the clip are either long gone or grandparents themselves; now, that would be a reunion to see...





...clips like this is what makes me wonder how we survived for another half-century...





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