The Musical Life of Buster Poindexter, New York Dolls Founding Member
New York Dolls founding member David Johansen talks about his music career and his current engagement as his musical alter-ego, Buster Poindexter, at Café Carlyle, through February 21. Johansen transformed himself from a lipstick-smeared proto-punk hero into an urbane blue-eyed soul man and finally into the tuxedo-clad lounge lizard Buster Poindexter. He joined his first band, the Vagabond Missionaries, in his mid-t…