American - Musician | January 9, 1950 -
I've been tired since I was 15.
David Johansen
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I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
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Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'
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I'm afraid of me.
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I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.
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I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
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When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.
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In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
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The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
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