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Avril Lavigne spotted at The Dolls concert at Irving Plaza.

The crowd was packed with three basic types: bridge and tunnel veterans like myself who wore the grooves out on Jet Boy while sneaking into Max's Kansas City to see the Heartbreakers; old punks and glamsters still "living the life" and looking like a band of walking dead boy Stiv Bators-like grandfathers with dyed black Keith Richards hair and wrinkled leather; and the youngsters in awe of the greatness and in search of the soul font of New York rock, including Avril Lavigne, who shimmied up front with her posse.