New York Dolls News

Winter won't be over for a couple more months, but already the sun is climbing a little higher in... Normally home to more folky and gentler sounds, Saturday night's "Rock the Barn" show featuring four hard-charging Delaware rock bands that will test the venue's new roof with a mix of thumping rock, blues and dance beats.

They stumble over each other's words, interrupt one another continually, finish each other's sentences and stammer corny one-liners with a child-like innocence that even hardcore fans might never associate with the Dolls, a band that has carried a reputation of confrontational danger since day one.

Some might claim that role for Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, another cocky, swaggering rock frontman.

Like many people around my age, my first exposure to David Johansen was through Buster Poindexter on MTV.

Muddy Waters begat The Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones begat New York Dolls. New York Dolls begat all things cool that followed.