As Poindexter, Johansen often appeared with his band, The Banshees of Blue. "Hot Hot Hot" was initially written and recorded by Montserratian Soca artist Arrow. As Poindexter, he scored his first hit song, "Hot Hot Hot", which, in an interview on National Public Radio's Fresh Air, he called "the bane of my existence," due to its pervasive popularity.
He also appeared as part of the house band on the television program Saturday Night Live. In the late 1980s, Johansen achieved moderate commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, accompanied by The Uptown Horns, performing jump blues, traditional pop, swing, and novelty songs.
He is also known for his work under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, and for playing the Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooged. He is best known as a member of the seminal proto-punk band the New York Dolls. Turns out she is a massive fan.DecemDavid Roger Johansen (sometimes spelled David Jo Hansen born January 9, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. Standing nearby with a tall boy of Pabst Blue Ribbon in her right hand was America’s Next Top Model winner–turned–Oxygen reality show host Carrie Dee English. They wanted to come back to their roots, back to the Bowery, and do something fun.” We’re putting our profits back into supporting the music scene in New York. “We’re still bringing live music to the Bowery. “I think, since we’ve opened, people have come to see the reality that we’re doing something good here,” he said. But speaking to the Daily Transom backstage about an hour before the Dolls went on, dressed in a military-band-style jacket, black jeans and a “315 Bowery” T-shirt, all of his own design, the 54-year-old designer didn’t seem fazed. Varvatos’ presence on the onetime skid row, not least of all some neighborhood activists, who associate his store with the dreaded G-word. Of course, not everyone is pleased with Mr. Varvatos has been hosting regular concerts there, including performances by Joan Jett, Blondie’s Clem Burke and Wayne Kramer of the MC5. Much of the grime that characterized the old CBGB-stickers, show flyers, graffiti, even cracks and smoke damage-remains intact. Varvatos, a die-hard rock fan who said he’d seen hundreds of shows at CBGB over the years (he also mentioned that he first saw the Dolls in Michigan in 1972 at the age of 16) has tried to keep the spirit of the original club alive since opening his boutique in the former hard rock spot just a year ago. Varvatos’ new rock ’n’ roll show on Sirius Radio, which was broadcast live.
But the performance was, after all, a record release party for the band’s new disc, ‘Cause I Sez So, as well as the launch of Mr. To the disappointment of some in the audience, almost all the songs played during the roughly 45-minute set were new, save a half-blazing, half reggae-esque version of the classic Dolls’ anthem “Trash” during the encore. “This is beyond my wildest dreams,” the rail-thin Mr. (Guitarist Johnny Thunders died a mysterious, drug-related death in 1991 Jerry Nolan, the band’s second and longest-running drummer, suffered a stroke in 1992 and bassist Arthur “Killer” Kane passed away from leukemia just weeks after the British singer Morrissey reunited the Dolls for a concert in London in June 2004.) “Oh, this is beautiful!” said singer David Johansen, who emerged before a wall-to-wall crowd in a snug black blazer and skintight jeans, with a silky leopard print scarf draped around his neck, and who, along with guitarist Syl Sylvain, is one of the band’s two surviving original members. in what was once the equally legendary Bowery punk club, CBGB. Not that this was a bad thing, especially considering the reason for this demographic role-reversal was a rare and intimate appearance by the legendary New York Dolls, who took the stage around 9:45 p.m.
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