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Speaker 1: Canst play Ground. Taking a Walk was Night. Listen to

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Speaker 1: the Taking a Walk podcast in the coming weeks for

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Speaker 1: a limited series Greenwich Village. If you look on any

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Speaker 1: map of New York, you'll see a grid except for Greenwich.

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Speaker 1: Vielle musician and author Richard Barone. When the grid was built,

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Speaker 1: the residence of Brenishvielle refused to be on the grid.

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Speaker 1: And that's just simply one element of what makes Bruenis Village.

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Speaker 1: It's just always unique. It's not on the grid. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the symbol. Just that is such a metaphor. Former

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Speaker 1: manager of the Ramones and Lou Reed, Danny Fields, this

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Speaker 1: is your own way I wanted No, this was Ramone's territory. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the most stolen street sign in New York. Look

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Speaker 1: at that. At one point they had so high you

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Speaker 1: couldn't read it, but you couldn't steal it out the

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Speaker 1: top for Bob grew It. I went to the Polla

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Speaker 1: Theater for a benefit concert Jion Yogo over there. They

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Speaker 1: were waiting for their car backstage, and a bunch of

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Speaker 1: people were taking pictures, snapshots, you know, like selfies would

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Speaker 1: call them. Now and John's at one point said, people

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Speaker 1: are always taking our picture and we never see it.

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Speaker 1: What happens with these pictures? And I said, well, I

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Speaker 1: live around the corner from me. I'll show you my pictures.

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Speaker 1: Music executive Steve Lee all Marks used the expression for religion,

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Speaker 1: but I'll rephrase it and put it in the context

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Speaker 1: of music. It's the opiate of the masses, common and

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Speaker 1: nominator that everyone in the world knows in some form

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Speaker 1: or another, from an aboriginal drum in Australia to the

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Speaker 1: beat of Souto. It's just everywhere in the meeting, you know,

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Speaker 1: we go, there's some representation of music. Radio personality Ken

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Speaker 1: dash Out. I got my first radio job doing weekends

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Speaker 1: at Excel Country in Newton, New Jersey, which was seventy

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Speaker 1: six miles away. I got a dollar seventy six an

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Speaker 1: hour for a five hour show. So I don't know

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Speaker 1: about these youngsters today buzz. But if you've totally gas

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Speaker 1: tolls and if I bought a sandwich, I was pretty

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Speaker 1: much losing five dollars this show. Owner of the music

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Speaker 1: in in Greenwich Village, Jeff Slatinet. We have shows here

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Speaker 1: at the store. We clean out the drums in this

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Speaker 1: room and we turn out the lights and that's the stage,

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Speaker 1: and we set up maybe forty chairs, and we have

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Speaker 1: open mics every Thursday night. And that's the core of

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Speaker 1: Greenwich Village forever, these great places that oh for you know,

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Speaker 1: small venues. Yeah, I saw Bob Dylan and an open

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Speaker 1: mic in the cafe why years ago when he had

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Speaker 1: an open mic. Yeah, did you think he was any good? Actually,

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