Early New York Dolls Recordings Released in Box Set

The early days of the New York Dolls have been documented in a new release called Personality Crisis Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972-1975. The 5-CD remastered box set showcases rare and unreleased music from the lineup of vocalist David Johansen, guitarist Johnny Thunders, bassist Arthur Kane, guitarist Sylvain Sylvain and drummer Billy Murcia.

It includes three demo sessions from before their Mercury Records recordings plus a collection of live performances. Altogether it has early versions of what would become New York Dolls classics: “Jet Boy”, “Trash”, “Personality Crisis”, “Puss ‘n’ Boots”, “Stranded In The Jungle”, “Babylon”, “Who Are The Mystery Girls”, “Bad Girl” and “Pills”.

Personality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972-1975 is available now on CD.

Personality Crisis Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972-1975 Track List:

Disc One:

Studio Demos 72-73
Blue Rock Studio NYC, June ’72

1. Bad Girl
2. Looking for a Kiss
3. Don’t Start Me Talkin’
4. Don’t Mess With Cupid
5. Human Being
6. Personality Crisis
7. Pills
8. Jet Boy
9. 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 Two:

Studio Demos 1973
Planet Studios, NYC, March ’73

1. Endless Party
2. Jet Boy
3. It’s Too Late (False Start)
4. It’s Too Late (Full Version)
5. Bad Detective
6. Lonely Planet Boy
7. Subway Train
8. Private World
9. 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

Disc Three:

Live
Paris / Detroit / Long Island
Bataclan, Paris, 23 Dec ’73

1. Trash
2. The Milk Man
3. Puss’n’boots

Michigan Palace, Detroit, 31 Dec ’73

4. Intro/Personality Crisis
5. Bad Girl
6. Looking for a Kiss
7. Who Are the Mystery Girls?
8. Stranded in the Jungle
9. 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, 14 April ’74 (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 Four:

Live 1974
Long Island / Vancouver / Dallas
My Father’s Place, Long Island, 14 April ’74 (WBAB Radio Broadcast)

1. Hoochie Coochie Man
2. It’s Too Late
3. Chatterbox
4. Human Being Vancouver, Circa June/July ‘74
5. Hoochie Coochie Man
6. (Give Him a) Great Big Kiss
7. Don’t Mess With Cupid
8. Chatterbox
9. Babylon
10. (There’s Gonna Be a) Showdown
11. Who Are the Mystery Girls?
12. Jet Boy
13. Human Being

Dallas, Sept 74

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

Disc Five:

Live 1974
Dallas ’74 / NYC ’75
Dallas, Sept ‘74 (Disc Five)

1. Pills
2. Frankenstein
3. Lone Star Queen
4. Don’t Start Me Talkin’

New York, 1975

5. Red Patent Leather
6. On Fire
7. Something else
8. Daddy Rolling Stone
9. 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