Yet another great song from the Heartbreakers off their one and only studio album, L.A.M.F.
This song is actually about heroin. You might be able to figure that out if you listen carefully enough.
I’m living on Chinese rocks
All my best things are in hock
Get it?
Johnny Thunders was a long term heroin and opiate user at least from 1975 in the New York Dolls (Thunders and Jerry Nolan’s heroin use caused the breakup of the band in Florida) until his death, probably heroin-related, in 1991.
I saw them once in Hollywood in 1981. As they were leaving to go backstage at the end of the show, I was looking right at Thunders.
He looked at me and caught my eye.
He had the strangest, most haunted look in his eyes. Fear and terror combined in some sort of a mental haunting.
I will never forget it.
RIP Johnny Thunders.
