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| | Vintage Guitar® magazine : Artist Pages |
 | | Sylvain’s enduring fame lies in the saber-sharp guitar styles he pioneered as one-fifth of the Dolls, who ranked among rock’s ultimate street gangs from 1972 to 1975, casting a cut ’n thrust blueprint for the likes of Aerosmith, Blondie, The Clash, Guns ’N Roses, Kiss, and the Sex Pistols. |
 | | Sylvain continued to work with Johansen, who kept the Dolls name for European and Japanese tours and weekend U.S. gigs into ’77 (the lineup included bassist Peter Jordan, who filled in when Kane was unable to play). |
 | | Sylvain no longer had his White Falcon (“Eastern Airlines wouldn’t let me check it, and they busted the neck on it”), so he switched to a custom Fender Telecaster for his Criminals days, and two RCA albums, Sylvain Sylvain (1979), and Syl Sylvain And The Teardrops (1981). |
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