What a great song with backing vocals by Lisa, Bernard & Blondie while on guitar.

What a great rocker they missed out on with several others never performed live either.

They played it a few times on the 75 U.S. tour and famously at the El Mocambo in 77.

Get free.

Zack wrote on Feb 6^th, 2015 at 10:30am:


Exactly! A total of 4 live performances

leonid wrote on Feb 7^th, 2015 at 2:42am:

As was "Satisfaction". Richards has said many times through the years he thought it would just be filler when they were recording it at RCA in LA.
Of course he also famously claims it was written in his sleep.

"Dance Little Sister" is a tough as performance and production job.

It is a great song.
Off a great album.

<---------Uninspired filler??!!

I know lil' buddy, {{{{{sigh}}}}}, I know.

What's that?  Oh sure, here ya go:

jjjjjjjjjj JOEY?!!!!

"  .............  one of the songs they'd play whenever I got to shaking it  ..................  while away a Sunday afternoon dancing. What a fucking highlight "Dance Little Sister" was to pound the  ..................   those mindsliding days. Some songs were just part of the ritual, SFTD, Doll's "Trash," "Thunder Road," a bit of Janis here or there for me.   "


SheRat  ....   ?!






**********  { Young  Joey now giggling  }  ***********

Fun stories, as usual, SheRat.

Apropos of not much, the first time I saw the Clash in September '79, the David Johansen Group opened (preceded by the wonderful Undertones from Belfast, who I hadn't heard yet).

This was a big deal gig for me and my bro ($7 US!), only my second big gig as a pretty hip 15 year old (guess who the first was, in late '78; no, not the Stones).

So we sit in our assigned seats through the Undertones and David Jo (when the Clash came on we were right down stage-right in front of Mick's mic stand; almost got a bump from his pint of gin that he passed out after taking a bump and making a face. Almost got a bump, but peeps were all grabbing for it. It was Gilbeys too, my brand then!).

After David Jo's wonderful set, as the DJ music starts, we hear two really loud dudes behind us saying "...yeah, the Pistols are great, but the Dolls could have cleaned up the floor with them".
I turn around and it's too huge biker looking dudes - leather vests, mustaches and enormous bellies. I sort of keep listening to their banter as the between set music gets louder; they must have seen this little mulleted jerk tring to listen to their rapping, without fear (rock n' roll was still pretty tribal back then), and they seemed to start talking kinda like they were including me in their loud convo.
Always remember that - it seemed so unlikely and so cool and sorta sweet that these big ass roughnecks not only had GREAT musical tastes, but also seemed like they wanted to include this little 15 year old creep in their pontificating.

Don't know if they stayed for the Clash (I would assume they did) cause my bro and I bum rushed the stage as soon as we heard Sam Cookes "Chain Gang" start up and the lights go down.
Maybe the single best, and influential for me, show I've ever seen.

Fook stereotypes!

Yup. And great photographer Bob Gruen said when he first saw the Dolls in'72 at the Mercer Arts Center he was hanging around outside with a bunch of bikers playing with their knives. Bob got freaked at first when he went inside and saw them, but soon realized they were probably the best R n ' R band he'd ever heard!

Never mind what a couple Lynyred Skynyrd guys said to Syl Sylvain after they opened for the Dolls on their final tour in Florida in '75: "Ya'all boogie real good".
And then they all became drinking buddies. (good thing the Skynyrd dudes liked the Dolls and weren't dicks to them, as I reckon the Dolls could have kicked their asses easily in a fight!).

" Sounds like my boys from the Hole in the Wall were behind you at it  ............. "