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“You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory” by Johnny Thunders
Chronologically speaking, “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory” was recorded long before Johnny Thunders passed, but for all intents and purposes this is his swan song.
Somebody should have seen it coming. Thunders was the lead guitarist for the New York Dolls, but he split with that band after a disastrous tour in Florida taught him and Jerry Nolan how hard it could be to score heroin when you’re far from New York. So they formed the Heartbeakers, a band full of junkies who recorded one great album, L.A.M.F. (As in Like A Mother-Fucker.) That band didn’t last long, for all the obvious reasons. So Thunders embarked on his solo career and recorded one brilliant, indispensable album, So Alone—and then spent the next thirteen years searching for a good place to lie down and die. So it goes.
