{"id":6669,"date":"2019-07-13T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=6669"},"modified":"2019-07-12T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T09:28:36","slug":"gone-but-not-forgotten-arthur-killer-kane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=6669","title":{"rendered":"Gone But Not Forgotten – Arthur Killer Kane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Arthur Harold Kane Jr.<\/b>\u00a0 Born February 3, 1949\u00a0 was best known as the\u00a0bass guitarist\u00a0for the Legendry New York Dolls. Kane was an integral part of the band until he was kicked out in 1975., Following the departure of\u00a0Johnny Thunders\u00a0and\u00a0Jerry Nolan.<\/p>\n

In 2004, Kane rejoined the surviving Dolls (Johansen and\u00a0Sylvain Sylvain) to rehearse and play a reunion concert in\u00a0London, which was the subject of the 2005 documentary\u00a0New York Doll<\/i>.<\/p>\n

After leaving the Dolls Kane collaborated with\u00a0Blackie Lawless\u00a0in Killer Kane, which resulted in the single “Mr. Cool.” Lawless was an old friend from New York City and had replaced Johnny Thunders during the ill-fated Florida tour in 1975.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After the Dolls, Kane was involved in several bands that included: playing bass in the band formed by\u00a0Sid Vicious,\u00a0The Idols (with\u00a0Jerry Nolan), and The Corpse Grinders (with\u00a0Rick Rivets); and joining Johnny Thunders on a few tours in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

In the early 2000s, Kane met filmmaker Greg Whiteley through his work with the Latter-day Saints, and the two became friends. Whiteley commented that all Kane ever talked about was how he wished that he could somehow get the Dolls back together.\u00a0\u00a0The idea of doing a film on Kane’s life followed. Coincidentally, in 2004\u00a0Morrissey\u00a0a high-profile fan of the Dolls\u2014offered Kane an opportunity to perform a reunion show with the surviving Dolls (David Johansen\u00a0and\u00a0Sylvain Sylvain) at the\u00a0Royal Festival Hall\u00a0in London as part of his\u00a0Meltdown Festival.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>When Kane called Whiteley to ask for a ride to the\u00a0pawn shop\u00a0to retrieve his bass guitar, Whiteley asked if he could bring along a camera. From there Whiteley filmed Kane’s experiences preparing for the reunion, rehearsing with the Dolls in New York, and reconciling with Johansen, culminating in two sold-out shows in London; which for Kane was all a fulfillment of a nearly thirty-year dream. Whiteley’s footage resulted in the 2005\u00a0Sundance\u00a0featured documentary,\u00a0New York Doll<\/i>.<\/p>\n

On July 13, 2004, just 22 days after the reunion concert, Kane thought that he had caught the flu in London and checked himself into a Los Angeles hospital, complaining of fatigue. He was quickly diagnosed with\u00a0leukemia\u00a0and died within two hours.<\/sup><\/sup>\u00a0He was 55 years old. Johansen described Kane as “nonjudgmental,\u00a0bawdy\u00a0and\u00a0holy.”\"\"<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

In 2009 Kane’s autobiography was published entitled,\u00a0I, Doll: Life and Death with the New York Dolls,<\/i>\u00a0with the foreword and epilogue written by Barbara Kane.<\/p>\n

Kane met Barbara when he was with the Dolls, and they were married in 1977. Although they were separated for many years, their divorce never became finalized.\u00a0<\/sup>She was interviewed for the\u00a0New York Doll<\/i>\u00a0documentary, portions of which are interspersed within the film’s narrative.<\/p>\n

In 2005 the documentary,\u00a0New York Dolls: All Dolled Up<\/i>, was released on DVD. The directors, rock photographer\u00a0Bob Gruen, and his then-wife, Nadya Beck, owned an early video camera and shot many hours of footage of the Dolls in the early 1970s. Edited down to 95 minutes, the black and white film shows the Dolls in different locales, such as backstage or at an airport, and documents several of the Doll’s live performances in New York City and California.<\/sup>\u00a0Kane appears in some of the footage wearing a\u00a0plaster cast\u00a0on his left arm. This was the result of his volatile girlfriend Connie attempting to cut off his thumb so that he would be unable to play bass anymore.<\/sup>\u00a0In his autobiography, fellow bass player and Dolls fan\u00a0Dee Dee Ramone\u00a0mentioned Kane when discussing Connie, whom he himself later dated.<\/sup>\u00a0Dee Dee and Connie’s similarly violent and tumultuous relationship would inspire the 1977\u00a0Ramones\u00a0song “Glad to See You Go”. Kane passed away on this day in 2004.\u00a0 If you’ve never seen the Documentary then go see it its funny, enlightening, sad yet uplifting.\u00a0 Arthur Killer Kane RPM salutes you.\u00a0 One of the good guys Gone but not Forgotten.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arthur Harold Kane Jr.\u00a0 Born February 3, 1949\u00a0 was best known as the\u00a0bass guitarist\u00a0for the Legendry New York Dolls. Kane was an integral part of the band until he was kicked out in 1975., Following the departure of\u00a0Johnny Thunders\u00a0and\u00a0Jerry Nolan. In 2004, Kane rejoined the surviving Dolls (Johansen and\u00a0Sylvain Sylvain) to rehearse and play a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[2672,1631,2673,2676,536,2677,2675,654,1680,2674,1711],"class_list":["post-6669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","tag-arthur-killer-kane","tag-corpse-grinders","tag-david-j","tag-gone-but-not-forgotten","tag-johnny-thunders","tag-legend","tag-morrissey","tag-new-york-dolls","tag-rpmonline","tag-siv","tag-sylvain-sylvain","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6731,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions\/6731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}