Crispin Cioe Plays with Buster Poindexter - "Hot Hot Hot" - Live at the Roxy

Details

Description

Buster Poindexter's "Hot Hot Hot" features the performances of Crispin Cioe (alto sax), Arno Hecht (tenor sax), Paul Litteral (trumpet), and Bob Funk (trombone) of the The Uptown Horn throughout the song.

The hit song by Buster Poindexter (and His Banshees of Blue) was written and first recorded by Montserratian musician Arrow. Buster Poindexter is the the lounge singer persona of singer David Johansen.

Buster's "Hot Hot Hot" garnered extensive airplay through radio, MTV, and other television appearances and is a conga line favorite at weddings. The music video begins with Johansen briefly mentioning his role as the frontman for the 1970s proto-punk band the New York Dolls, showing the band's vinyl and tossing them aside while talking about the "really outrageous clothes" he wore and how he came to be interested in a "refined and dignified kind of a situation", which leads into the song. Along with the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, they were one of the first bands of the early punk rock scenes