{"id":63046,"date":"2026-04-22T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/jesse-malin-celebrates-howie-pyro-in-hollywood-forever-song-video\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:30:31","slug":"jesse-malin-celebrates-howie-pyro-in-hollywood-forever-song-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/jesse-malin-celebrates-howie-pyro-in-hollywood-forever-song-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Malin Celebrates Howie Pyro in &#8216;Hollywood Forever&#8217; Song, Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/howie-pyro\/\" id=\"auto-tag_howie-pyro\" data-tag=\"howie-pyro\">Howie Pyro<\/a>, the bassist and co-founding member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/howie-pyro-dgeneration-dead-obit-1343029\/\">D Generation died <\/a>in 2022, it shook his former D Gen bandmate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jesse-malin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jesse-malin\" data-tag=\"jesse-malin\">Jesse Malin<\/a> to the core. Last week, the New York songwriter released a tribute song to Pyro, \u201cHollywood Forever,\u201d with a B-side of the Clash\u2019s \u201cRudie Can\u2019t Fail.\u201d Malin takes the Pyro homage a step further on Wednesday with the release of an accompanying music video featuring photos of Pyro, also a popular DJ, as well as items from his vast collection of curiosities, including figurines and books on the occult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cHe would always say, if he had to go, Hollywood Forever Cemetery is the place he\u2019d want to be buried,\u201d Malin says in a statement. \u201cHowie could get along with anybody. He was friends with both Johnny and Joey Ramone. Hells Angels, skinheads, drag queens, comic-book nerds, art collectors, fashionistas \u2014 they all loved him.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jesse Malin - Hollywood Forever (Official Music Video)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-kYKZXGs74?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPyro, born Howard Kusten in 1960, died May 4, 2022, after a battle with liver disease. A year later, while celebrating Pyro\u2019s memory over dinner with friends, Malin himself was struck by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/jesse-malin-stroke-healthcare-fund-1234770111\/\">rare spinal stroke<\/a>, which left him paralyzed. He tells the story of his health injury and his long history with Pyro in his ongoing stage show, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silvermanhattan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Silver Manhattan<\/a><\/em>. Malin announced the final extension of the production, which now runs through May 10 at the Bowery Palace theater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cMy play <em>Silver Manhattan<\/em> is a love letter to New York City, and it\u2019s also a love letter to Howie,\u201d Malin says. \u201cI didn\u2019t make it to the end of that party. I ended up in the hospital for three months, but I did write this song to show him how much he meant to me. It\u2019s our story.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe video for the single \u201cHollywood Forever,\u201d released on Little Steven\u2019s Wicked Cool Records, was directed by Marti Wilkerson, whom Malin writes about in his just released memoir, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/jesse-malin-book-excerpt-almost-grown-1235542142\/\">Almost Grown<\/a><\/em>. Known as the \u201csixth member of D Generation,\u201d Wilkerson was the band\u2019s unofficial documentarian. \u201cInstead of having a guitar or mic, she had a camera. She\u2019d be on the bar, she\u2019d be dancing, shooting photos, she\u2019d be on the floor, anything, doing it. And she documented those days,\u201d Malin says. \u201cShe made the video showing all the things \u2014 the many things \u2014 from Howie\u2019s collection of weird and obscure stuff that do exist in the bar 96 Tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPerformances of Malin\u2019s <em>Silver Manhattan<\/em> run Wednesdays through Sunday. He talked about the production during a recent appearance on Little Steven\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/the-mooney-suzuki-comeback-reunion-1235548620\/\">Underground Garage Cruise<\/a> where he sat for a reading of his memoir and gave a pair of celebratory live performances backed by his longtime band.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jesse-malin-howie-pyro-hollywood-forever-video-1235551486\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Howie Pyro, the bassist and co-founding member of D Generation died in 2022, it shook his former D Gen bandmate Jesse Malin to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":63047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}