Always loved the NY Dolls, and “Hot Hot Hot” wasn’t bad, either. Also, he was a pretty good actor.
He was so funky but chic!
I only knew him from Scrooged and as Buster Poindexter who was part of the Saturday Night Live house band in the late 80s. I didn’t know he was in a punk band before that. Well, for Scrooged and Hot, Hot, Hot alone he will be missed.
I think of myself as well-versed in the history of Rock (particularly Punk) but I had no idea they were the same person.
He had a great role in Let It Ride.
The New York Dolls were a hopelessly unsuccessful, but immensely influential band. Malcolm McLaren learned everything about forming the Sex Pistols when he (very unsuccessfully) managed the Dolls. Both their albums were great, but nobody listened at the time because of mismanagement and awful promotion. Now they’re all dead, Johansen was the last to go. RIP, you done good.
ETA: a little bit of trivia: when he was a teenager, Morrissey was the head of the British New York Dolls fanclub.
I loved the Dolls.
Dang, loved NY Dolls as well. I wore out their first album (well, technically it was a tape).
I was coming in to say that Sylvain Sylvain was the last, but I see we lost him back in 2021 
. New York Dolls was pretty much a perfect debut album and Johansen was the perfect front man (even if he drove poor Arthur Kane nuts).
“Trash, go pick it up, don’t take your life away.”
The NY Dolls were better than their “glam” image. The later Buster Poindexter stuff is forgettable.
I swear he was in some horror movie. I remember it because in a scene, a black cat went into his body.
The NYDolls were one of a kind.
Can’t remember if the black cat thing happened, yet he played the “Ghost of Christmas Past” in Bill Murray’s “Scrooged”. I think he was a cab driver.
Hehehe, I am a little stunned that this thread revealed that to you. Not that I picked up on it myself, I basically have face blindness and a girlfriend of mine pointed out that Poindexter was Johansen, I’m absolutely certain that my amazed look when she told me this entertained the hell out of her. I should have picked it up from the voice.
Tales From the Darkside - The Cat from Hell
Cool! So he was in Tales and Scrooged.
“Go back to Jersey, you moron!” - what an insane role.
I saw him when I was in college in the early 80s. I wasn’t wildly familiar with his stuff, but he was entertaining. IIRC, he did the first set as David Johansen and the second set as Buster Poindexter.
Buster and the Banshees clearly were having fun with this cover of Louie Innis’s “Good Morning Judge”.
Not to be confused with the 10cc song of the same title.
He taught us how to use Preparation H to tighten up our eyes.
RIP David Johansen. OMG… I sort-of met him. I gambled on the other side of the table from him at Foxwoods back-in-the-day. He laughed, smoked a big cigar, and he won like Crazy. When I left the table, every other table I gambled at that night I was a winner.
I liked his music, I liked his acting, I respected him enough not to fan-boy him. His gift to me was Good Luck.
#GoneTooSoon
A very underrated comedy and he was very good in it.
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