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mandag den 17. februar 2014

Marty Thau (1938-2014)


“The night before we left for Chicago, David had been out on the town. He was staying over at Barbara Troiani’s house and they had got back at six in the morning, drunk out of their heads. I showed up at eight with a limousine. David was still drunk and Barbara was at the sewing machine putting the finishing touches to what he was going to wear to the meeting. We get to Chicago and are taken into this boardroom with the largest table I’ve ever seen in my life, then in comes Irwin Steinberg, Mike Gormley from publicity and all these heads of departments that we’ve never met before. It was a really important meeting to determine how we could utilize David to be a voice to the press when all of a sudden he leans forward, his head smashes down on the table and he’s fallen asleep.”

- Marty Thau til Nina Antonia i ’The New York Dolls. Too Much Too Soon’, om David Johansen og hans første møde med toppen af Mercury Records, som New York Dolls lige havde skrevet kontrakt med.

Pladeproducer, manager, iværksætter, pladeselskabsejer med mere Marty Thau, døde torsdag d. 13. februar, i en alder af 75 år. Thau var som manager med til at sætte skub i New York Dolls og Suicides karriere. Han arbejdede i en periode også tæt sammen med The Ramones, Blondie, Brian Setzer, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Real Kids og The Fleshtones.


Hvis nogen skulle være i tvivl, så er det Muddy Waters, der står mellem Johansen og Thau øverst oppe.

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