Who's Been Talking?

Emerging from the smoke of junkie legend, Johnny Thunders reached the 1990s in surprisingly fine form. Free of past malign associations, the original New York Doll had assembled a solid five-piece backing band, the Oddballs, and returned from his long train-wreck era of sloppy, audience-baiting caricature: “rent” party gigs where he would sing “Can’t Keep My Eyes Off You” as “Can’t Keep My Cock in You” for morbid thrill-seekers wondering if this would be the night his borrowed time ran out.