1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 1: Can'st playground taking a walk with Buzz Night. 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 2: Well, Hi, I'm Buzz Night and I'm the host of 3 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 2: the Taking a Walk podcast series and Danny Fields. It's 4 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 2: so nice to be taking a walk with you in 5 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 2: the lovely West Village. 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, this used to be a little more racy and 7 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: avant garde and experimental and young and gay and holding excentric. 8 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: We're on Famous tenth Street. Over there is Christopher Street, 9 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: which people conflate with gay liberation because it was a 10 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: cheesy glock all the stone wall. Further on Christopher's result 11 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: what in America it's called kay Pride Day or something. 12 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 3: In Germany it. 13 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: Is Christopher Street Day really CSD and they would say, 14 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: oh are you here for CCHD, And people go. 15 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 3: Christopher's Street Day. 16 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: They named the holiday after the dreadful Gisto prest Regions. 17 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,639 Speaker 3: I wish there were more interesting people who are hearing everything. 18 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: Now they're boring and you see nannies with thousand dollars 19 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: baby covers, Jules see mom and dad are all you know, 20 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: maybe a lot of money. 21 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 3: So it is way different obviously than the day. Oh god, 22 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 3: it's so different. 23 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: My first apartment in Greenich Village was ninety nine dollars 24 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: a month, and that was in the early nineteen sixties, 25 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: a long time ago, but still dollars with the medium 26 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: for one bedroom and and half. 27 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 3: Now it is four thousand a month, right, do you 28 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 3: do a you like walking around still? And they got 29 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,399 Speaker 3: it off. It's too much. No, it's not too much, 30 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 3: it's too nothing. It's yeah, I'm saying. 31 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: It's like and these all these little or two shops 32 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 1: or designers and stuff. The street became high end to 33 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: shop in history. Yeah, as you see the street is 34 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: falling into the earth. They do this a lot because 35 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: that street anymore. 36 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 3: This metal place. This in the next corner was the 37 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 3: famous pink tea cup where it sort of rock and 38 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 3: roll started. 39 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 2: So the typical routine was was like started, what time 40 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 2: of the day when you when you would just go 41 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: hang and listen to music and hang with friends. 42 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: And oh that was so good because any office job 43 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: got involved in anything to do with show business or music. 44 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 1: I wouldn't come in until twelve one o'clock because I 45 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: had to. 46 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 3: Assume I was hanging out. That was just because I 47 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 3: can't really get up. 48 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: Before near any This was Italian sort of second and 49 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: third generation immigrants. 50 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 3: That was the village. 51 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: It's faint, and here's the Upper east Side and it's 52 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: not so busy, incredibly packed and all that as the 53 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: Upper west Side. But the place to live now is 54 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: way down. 55 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 3: Channel where they're converting. 56 00:03:53,880 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: All office buildings into bigger parkings. You see that was open. 57 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: It was a big cafe. The sidewalk, that whole corner 58 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 1: is gone. Things are just bored up. And the reason 59 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: I don't mean to sound snotty. You asked before, do 60 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: I just go walking around? Why? I mean, why to 61 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: see drug stores and banks? I'm so spoilt and staying 62 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: in so ho. He just walked out and it was 63 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: a show more better than a show that you paid 64 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: a lot of money for this here, but look at 65 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: it's a bank. Yeah, John, I didn't want to proclaimed 66 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: shares and the square is the center of the world. 67 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: This is sharing the square? Is this the look the 68 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: center of the world to you, not to me. 69 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 3: What you're Did you move to the village. 70 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: When I got out of Harvard Law School in nineteen sixty, Yeah, 71 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: and I lived in a hotel that was seventy eight 72 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: dollars a month. 73 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 3: It was just off Washington Square far there. 74 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 1: Was, so I had to sleep with the toothpaste under 75 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 1: my pillow where Alison would be frozen solid. It was morning, yes, 76 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: the meeting. It's the Village Plaza hotel. Now it's a 77 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: Pasha apartment house. Oh, the Village Plaza. And that's the 78 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: gay park. Because here's the stone wall and. 79 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 2: This, I'm sorry, Danny, right here, this is a fairly 80 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 2: notorious spot. 81 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 3: Right. 82 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: This is bigging it forever. I had never say put 83 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: in it. I have no idea what goes on, but 84 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: it's still but you've heard it's here. This happened to 85 00:05:55,520 --> 00:06:00,039 Speaker 1: be the play that wasn't paying enough protection, so the 86 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: police raided. 87 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 3: It on the drag. 88 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:08,039 Speaker 1: Queens began protesting and throwing things and said this was 89 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: a famous chorester. Okay, and little read this is the 90 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: best part to see the riots. Yep, he lived in 91 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: that apartment. 92 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 3: Oh he did. Oh wow. 93 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: One night after his concert. Uh the bottom line, he 94 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: brought home the tape of the Commons. I loved him 95 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: very much. And I'm not saying anything derogatory beout lovers. 96 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: I never would, and I loved him very much, and 97 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: he was a threet guy. We put the tape on 98 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 1: the shows were all over Little All. It's like one 99 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 1: or two in the morning, and he would come by here. 100 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: The windows were open. I swear the speakers were pointing 101 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 1: out who was listening through his performance earlier that night. 102 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: And it's always everybody else with a square miles this 103 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: is quite charm village. It's all owned by n YU. 104 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, most of the area, right. 105 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just with Brian and Brooke for a second. 106 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: They're barked on a thirty billion dollar expansion. Now, when 107 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: I was in high school and I want to show 108 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: you that building one fiftive, you don't have a good 109 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: story about it. 110 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 3: N YU was when you. 111 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: Couldn't if you had in charity school, when your parents 112 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: wouldn't have said you out of town. It was NYU. 113 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: It was really for the bottom twenty percent child. If 114 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: you don't see buzzers all there are individuals. Are you 115 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: sea buzzers. There's a way that subdivided. But a few 116 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: of these houses are intact as they were when they 117 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: were built for this was the you were here on 118 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: Wall Street. This was a suburb because it was a 119 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: mile or two miles by Forest of Carriage. The East 120 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: eighties where the Mayor's mansion is now was once the 121 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: summer mansion of the Riker family. Now Rikers Island where 122 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: the prison is was the summer manon here's some other one. 123 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: But going to the East eighties was five hours really 124 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: from Wall Street, so that was like your week end 125 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: in the country. We went to eightieth Street, isn't that funny? 126 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: North of twenty third Street was really uptown. On the 127 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: forty second Street where the library is now was a 128 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: reservoir and you walked. 129 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 3: Around the edge of it. 130 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:00,080 Speaker 1: That was really a ship to the country. 131 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 2: We'll go back to what you were talking about, how 132 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 2: in London it's you know, things haven't really changed as dramatically. 133 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 3: Why is that? 134 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: Well they have the little my gym that used to 135 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: close at eleven now closes a town. Why that, Oh well, 136 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: we had very restrictive areas during the lockdown. Yes, but 137 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: it's over so that was really nice having a general 138 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: but less or eleven. 139 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 3: But there was a shrink. 140 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: When we went in December last year, the Christmas through 141 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: January to London, it seemed like seventy percent in London 142 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: was there, But of course all the big cities were 143 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: closed down, restaurants were closed down, and none of them, ever, 144 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:59,199 Speaker 1: knew that they would be able to open again because 145 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: oh knew what was happening. Right on the corner was 146 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: the Hotel Earl. It was really cheap. That's where rock 147 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: and Roll banks because this was the villa and there 148 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: probably thirty forty dollars a night. Now it's the Hotel 149 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: Washington Square and it's like five hundred dollars and this 150 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: is a high end ormet restaurant. These here on the 151 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: north side of the square were the private mansions of 152 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: again people who were in business finance downtown. This was 153 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: pretty far north. This was why, okay, we'll be acceptable. 154 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: I think Henry James Washington Square is one of those 155 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: imaginarily said in one of those first two houses. 156 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 3: But U ce n y U, Yeah, this is sort 157 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 3: of a druggy corner. 158 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: NYU, They say, who needs a campus now in Washington? 159 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 3: Has it always been that corner? Well? Has it always 160 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 3: been the drug corner of the park? Over Park was 161 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 3: the park. 162 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,319 Speaker 1: We couldn't walk down from there to there without a 163 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: five dollars bags I got. I think the still is 164 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 1: just scent with a sort of suiting. But these are 165 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: mansions and behind it, I'll show you was the news. 166 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 3: The sleepers. 167 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 1: This is what they do when they try to pretend 168 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: we are preserving the quality of the neighborhood. They tear 169 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 1: down a bunch of these and build that. So you're 170 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: supposed to think this is from eighteen eleven, you know 171 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: they Oh, look how it blends in what these two 172 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 1: hundred year old have. 173 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 3: That this was a splendid place to live. 174 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 2: The park is active at activity going out. 175 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 3: It was yeah, let's Washington's real. Yeah. 176 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: And this is where David Field recorded having marijuana, which 177 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,719 Speaker 1: a FEUs the title. There is no such thing as 178 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: having marijuana, right, I mean, no one says that, right. 179 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: But I was reading in Time magazine an account of 180 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: a anti war protest that stormed into Grand Central Station, 181 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: and the writer of the argument of the article said, 182 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: crowd of hippies burst in saying, have a marijuana. Well 183 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,719 Speaker 1: the song is I like marjuana. But he had a 184 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: little bit of a speech defect, so you go, I'm Alana. 185 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 3: So the guy said, seeing you have a marijuana, And 186 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 3: I said, there's the title of. 187 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 1: That was it? 188 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 3: That was it? 189 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: That was goals a typo, I mean a type as 190 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: a misreport. 191 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 3: You see behind it is amused with. 192 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,199 Speaker 1: A little carriage has for sure, you know, three or 193 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: four million dollars and someone lives. 194 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,839 Speaker 3: Up there an apartment door. I don't know what his 195 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 3: title is. 196 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: Eleanor Roosevelt was ded They never they hardly ever lived 197 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: to other you know. 198 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 3: But she she lived over on that side. 199 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: On that side the wa where with and they built 200 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 1: a special elevator in case the president ever wanted to 201 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: come and see his wife's You were in New York apartment. 202 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 3: We used it once like taking. 203 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: A forty four campaign once to change really, yeah, you 204 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: just had to pick up some some shoes that yeah, 205 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: well you know as. 206 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 3: The sound you hear are skateboarders. You see this trashy. 207 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: This was never. 208 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 3: This was completely illegally. 209 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: He could not sell thing in Washington, Sport Worth lockdown 210 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: and the loosening of everything, and you're gonna know what 211 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: kind of world you live. 212 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 3: Listen to what it's for top. Yeah, it's like a 213 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 3: bizarre and on her on. Oh, I'm not sure they're 214 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 3: going to take overage job. Okay, let's go to Fourth Street. 215 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: Oh I missed the part of Fourth Street between seven 216 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: and Hudson, which is where Bob was living when he 217 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: wrote positive with Port Street. It was here, it's to 218 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: Washington Square South and then it becomes Sports Street together, 219 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: but that is Sports Dream. 220 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 3: Were there other concerts here besides David Peel? It wasn't 221 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 3: not a concert. 222 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: This is I think it was a song Washington Square 223 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: where on Sundays, unaccompanied or acoustic singers would sing a 224 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: little crowds Washington Square something like that. It's up a 225 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: songwriter finds his destiny in Washington Square. Once a week 226 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: he could come here and sing for free. And so 227 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: David was sort of by that tree, and that's where 228 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: I stopped and said, oh my god, this is this 229 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 1: is that album? And one of those lamp posts has 230 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: really got the electricity? 231 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 3: Could they pull that off today? What they're pulling off? 232 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 3: There's everything to a lamp post that's minor. 233 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 1: That's the hand wanted to live lobby with terraces around 234 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: each floor. They found out during the finals time everyone reading. 235 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 3: Past was jumping off. They cleaned up the botties. It 236 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 3: really was people n y U. 237 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: Students were jumping off of the happenings. Let's go look 238 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: at the suicide job. See it's kind of pleasant Globert here, 239 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: it's different. Yeah, you have to see what they did. 240 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: See the suicide. See that metal fence, Yep, that was 241 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: never there. So at finals time they were just kids 242 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 1: flying off the balcony just to see railing. 243 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 3: It's only that hot, so that's we need your trauition. 244 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:27,120 Speaker 3: So we're going to win this in defense right career. 245 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 1: September seventh, twenty eighteen. I was getting out of a tack. 246 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: See you can see my friend doing a poetry panel there, 247 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 1: I think, and my hand was on the door one 248 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: of those shores and he stepped on the accelerator. That 249 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: violence flying. Oh boy smashed this emergency surgery. But I 250 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: still haven't gotten a penny I know, and the lawyers 251 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 1: we're working on it because we expect to break anyway, 252 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,880 Speaker 1: expect to break pole, drive. 253 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 3: A cab or own a cave without taking out. 254 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: Insurance on it. That's that's part of the way you 255 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 1: get your taxi owner license. Yeah, how's it feel well? 256 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:23,880 Speaker 1: It feels sucky. We are now in Eastportstreet. It's one 257 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: of those odd streets that after you know in London, 258 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 1: the street will change games three times. Yeah, this is 259 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: still the twists and turns. It's still remains sports true. 260 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:39,719 Speaker 1: It's still logic. 261 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 3: That's there are three apartment houses anything like that piece 262 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 3: of ship and those with the apartment houses that we're 263 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 3: going to have to put that in your south to drive. 264 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 1: At the same time, Robert Moses was planning to build 265 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: a highway through the square, and of course he listen 266 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: best in this building financially invested in the villainy and 267 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: pretty a highway for Washington Square. So the building that 268 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 1: there was a partner in Cony who now demand fireplaces. 269 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: This is Mercer's Street and where that gap is was 270 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 1: the Mercers Street Hotel, which is where the New York 271 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: Dolls played, and that was New York rock and roll, 272 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 1: and there was a scene and they played there once 273 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: every few weeks and they would get the coolest took 274 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: this the wildest people in the city. 275 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 3: There's the New York Dolls, and we really love that. 276 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 1: It collapsed one day it just started to rumble at 277 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: It was the great society hotel of the eighteen eighty. 278 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 3: Six and anything UNRS or Arts Central. It was really 279 00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 3: beautiful building. That's not it. Yeah, that's a not their building. 280 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,400 Speaker 3: The building to the right and does not exist yet. 281 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 2: The bottom line, any particular anecdotes from from that. 282 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 3: There was wonderful that it was there. 283 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: It's kind of an ordeal sitting in your seat, wait 284 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,360 Speaker 1: for your wait for or do your French fries. Make 285 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,640 Speaker 1: sure they know the record company's picking up the bill. 286 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 1: It was like that here from the show that has 287 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 1: to be over now no more encore. The dressing room 288 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:42,679 Speaker 1: was about the size of that. I'm sure there are 289 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: histories that say, we're played at the bottom line and 290 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 1: it will be a retort every act that broke. 291 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 3: In the sees. 292 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember there was the Springsteen Show that Anny 293 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 2: w f M broadcast from there, which was sort of 294 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 2: little for his beginning. 295 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: This was the name business there New York. This was 296 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 1: broadly and these were great office buildings. I mean, look 297 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 1: at the size of them, and you know what a 298 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: great office builder was like now it's eighty story. So 299 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: these were them. So whenever possible, there still existing being 300 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: turned into residential loss with our ten order. 301 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 3: This is remember my building. Yep, it's the same era. 302 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 3: Oh sort to tell them all. 303 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 1: They were big on arches, yep, Well it's eighteen ninety 304 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: eighteen eighties books. Each one of these buildings was a 305 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: prize for your businesses. The great market prestige that you 306 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 1: had the building on Bordle and now they're good for 307 00:21:54,840 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: nothing but rich artists. Now the streets change games. Ray 308 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:06,400 Speaker 1: Jones Street is Third Street for some reason. It's great. True, 309 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: it's like, well, there's no reason for it, but could 310 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: become across These mobilities were cast iron fronts. They're super projected. 311 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: This is it's one of the great heroes of nineteenth 312 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: century architecture was cast iron. 313 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 3: They all looked like that. So, Danny, what are you 314 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 3: doing these days other than walkome with me? 315 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: I got two guys there again organizing my archives. I 316 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 1: don't like the way the photographs are organize. Every drawer 317 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 1: in about eight filing cabinets had a huge folder called 318 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: M I. S. C. That's where everything went. Hey, that 319 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: was the opera house. Yeah, that's the New York Public Theater. 320 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 1: That's old. That's from another era. 321 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 3: It's all bothered. What's going on? 322 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, Lafayette Street becomes Fourth Avenue and that's another one 323 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: of those building unless it's the same aunt point to 324 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: see before exactly. It was built by the same architect 325 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: who did my building, and downstairs was a club falled 326 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: it was like a cabaret. John Rivers who play there 327 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: the Middler, and it was like very there comes the 328 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 1: old Seamen's merchants. Old Sea Merchant's House is the building 329 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: of US long ago designated for preservation. So as this 330 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: whole part of New York looked like that, and that 331 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 1: was a private house. But now it looks like, Okay, 332 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: here's the old merchant. Yeah, Merchant's house. Oh yeah, and 333 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 1: it's always astonishes beater. 334 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:11,400 Speaker 3: What was there? Was there? 335 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 1: Oh no, I will never know something you fair Now 336 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: it's like an awful little park. Catch yeah. Now we've 337 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: come to the which is third out of you by. 338 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:38,439 Speaker 1: It's called Valerie doun hum. This was the first street 339 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: in America, the world or something to have electric blocks. 340 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 3: So we're really going back. This was a som. 341 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: Madonna lived on Fifth Street between here and the next block. 342 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:59,640 Speaker 3: That was her first on that would be on my tour. Befely, 343 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 3: go up. Let's see. 344 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: Her triplex was on Central Park. Something that we loved 345 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 1: was here. Thanks going, I'm not a garden. It was lovely. 346 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:23,479 Speaker 3: It's got But this place, the Bowery would have been 347 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 3: like always. 348 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: Bums, bums, bombs and lino. Now it's choice. Story threw 349 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: us straight. Oh, okay, really that's nice. I really know 350 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 1: where they're working. Run. Yes, nobody would come here. We've 351 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: had a band playing at CBS, which was in the 352 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 1: next law. I can't tell that name. 353 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 3: Is. 354 00:25:55,359 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: It's just drunks, I mean wild outlaws. For they are fifteen, 355 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 1: they're just grownks. No, I can't go there through description. 356 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: They always ask me for money, or they're filthy, or 357 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: they smell or was. 358 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 3: The disgrace of New York. This was a good role. 359 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 3: So you have passed your archives on to Yale or 360 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 3: some of you, some of. 361 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 1: Your arms seventy five cartons. They took three shipments from 362 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: their land. And I look around and I will see 363 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: any lot. 364 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 3: Of space here. Now you still have a few things. 365 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 3: I never asked for my. 366 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: Art, pretending on the role. Never asked for my photographs. 367 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: Of course, I'd be happy to give them visitized, because 368 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 1: they don't. They just want the record. There comes a 369 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: point where they like. 370 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 3: Very you know, thing like the original tape. 371 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: What is the tape? It's not like handmade? Okay, So 372 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: as old as you could get. This was a theater. 373 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 3: That wasn't very cool. Fucking Bond Street, the second Street. 374 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:27,640 Speaker 1: Well, I will show you Cebev is now an extremely 375 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: pretentious tissum story. 376 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 3: Really you'll see. 377 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: Ramon is essential. This is showing your own way. You 378 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 1: might want to notice because this is Ramone. It's like 379 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: this was Ramone's territory. Yeah, that's the most stolen street 380 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: sign in New York. 381 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 3: Look at that. 382 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: At one point they had so high you couldn't read it, 383 00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 1: but you couldn't steal it either. Sixth East Second Street 384 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: is where there were mongs. Archer at the archeral Vega 385 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: was very brilliant, wonderful lived that building with a white 386 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: train and the roans was used as the dressing room. 387 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 3: We pause. 388 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: The dressing room was that sus okay. And there's a 389 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: shower curtain cornert, so between sets or whatever. 390 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 3: They were gathering there and they've all lived there in 391 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 3: their time. 392 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: And this was an alley behind CBGB's is like a delivery. 393 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: There is a famous cemetery. I don't even know if 394 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 1: you could ever get any of this the sohold, but 395 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: let's walk around the corner of the show. The CPS 396 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: universe was. 397 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:54,239 Speaker 3: A little different than it was back then. I mean 398 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 3: it was smart. 399 00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 1: People were finding barg and locks and and fathered trying 400 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 1: to sparsed out on the side. 401 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 3: Look because they didn't really virtue and lacer. 402 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 1: That's the bend with Luker that I was a couple 403 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: of famous corner where you got out of your taxis 404 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: and went to CBS. None of these storefronts existed then. 405 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 3: I don't know what they were, like. 406 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: What you see as the second floor and assigned would 407 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: say Washington Hotel or Central Hotel or something. Well, they 408 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: were just cocksliming up her bombs of twenty five cents 409 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: a night. 410 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 3: While CBS. 411 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: It tries to pretend now in New York, a few 412 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: vacated space and someone else moves in that has nothing 413 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: to do with who was there before. But they string 414 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: to the myth of this itself is sai. It's not 415 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: CBS moved out and clothe moved in. Are you open? 416 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 3: Are you open? Contact? 417 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: This was empty locks, so we would do our pott 418 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: open I'm now here. This was an empty lock bombs 419 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: on the sidewalk. But you're getting ideas. Some of the 420 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: buildings are buried like that, and some of them are 421 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: nineteenth century tenements like THEO. 422 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 3: They're joge amazing. Okay, so. 423 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 1: These rich young marries. Their parents bought them apartments. Here 424 00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: the specific very s that's this is the gallery. This 425 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: is the hall of al This is our tro vega. 426 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, was an. 427 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: Artist had lived over there and it was a very 428 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 1: dear friend of the owner version. 429 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 3: It's a I'm waiting for someone to say, Danny finally came. 430 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 1: This became a sort of the gallery for the CBS 431 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: people photographer. 432 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 3: And here the girl falthy of garbage all rare. 433 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: I took the Ramon's Rockets to Russia album cover and 434 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: this is you I knee deep and garbage and rats 435 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: one of those is this the stage loading the equipment 436 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: door and Cbjames probably you could see art's apartment. This 437 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: was a trick wall and they leaning against it. There's 438 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: a truck. 439 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,840 Speaker 3: Was Hilly Crystal was in the moving discut the moving 440 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 3: Yeah he moved. 441 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 1: We had a truck. 442 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 3: It was part back here. 443 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: Uh, he's a famous creature that we're mom sitting on 444 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: the flap of the truck, surrounded by nouns of garbage. 445 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 1: And now it's genter fun and this is what the 446 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 1: future of New York hold strokes. 447 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 3: But this was so disgusting. It's like if they said 448 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 3: this is. 449 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 1: Bombay and go oh, now I know what a real 450 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 1: slum looks like filth, but you didn't care. The trucks 451 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: filled up, you loaded into your tars and people hang 452 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: out here because the backstage was. 453 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 3: In tiny second three where ar tros Sting and. 454 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: Where you used to be able to see into the 455 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: alley where I took the rocket to Russia parts. 456 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 3: Indeed, he lived at the Middling and Joey lived there, so. 457 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: It's Ramon's church with Yeah, you won't see the trace 458 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: of the film War. You've got the cover of Allman 459 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 1: Brothers alive at the film Okay in the city in 460 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 1: front of the brick wall the film wos somewhere in Georgia. 461 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: Oh boys, this is still a vibrant neighborhood. As you 462 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 1: can see from here to where I live. This is 463 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 1: what I would call moderately the hybranted that there are things, 464 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: all things where people walking around. It's civilized and pleasant. 465 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 1: It's a lot of beautiful that I swear the. 466 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 3: Filmore the old Victorium, oh oh, from this Berry Street was. 467 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,759 Speaker 1: Where Electra Records and Conngractu with W N y U 468 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: took over the film or East for a night in nineteen. 469 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 3: Sixty eight to introduce the MC five to New York. Wow. 470 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:27,280 Speaker 1: Okay, so the weeks before and they promised five hundred 471 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 1: tickets to the block community. Okay, so block community had 472 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,640 Speaker 1: never received its tickets. And they were angry and they 473 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,799 Speaker 1: were swarming here, and it was mainly the motherfuckers. One 474 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 1: of the most extremely ugly people anyone who's ever seen. Okay, 475 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 1: the motherfuckers. And they would nurse their babies in the 476 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 1: theater seats and changed to diapers and telephone booths. 477 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:56,880 Speaker 3: Were really disgusting. 478 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,360 Speaker 1: They were really angry because myris responsibility to get the 479 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 1: MC five down here. 480 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,959 Speaker 3: So how do you travel when you have a band? 481 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:08,720 Speaker 3: You are letto? 482 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: Well, it's like throwing anything decent into their faces. Yeah, 483 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:20,800 Speaker 1: this was capitalist greed and horror was symbolized. Bakup, Come on, 484 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: that's how you go to funerals and weddings. We take 485 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:29,279 Speaker 1: people around. It's not my limousine, a band's limousine. We 486 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,560 Speaker 1: rented a limousine because there's a lot of us to 487 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 1: get down here. So these people went wild. Wow, and 488 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 1: they stormed in. So, now what's the theater? That's all. 489 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:45,840 Speaker 3: They stormed in. 490 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 1: Change and see go stay in your dressing room until 491 00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 1: this happily blows over. But they even disintegrated into a 492 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 1: bad start for any. 493 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 3: W electure records. 494 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:12,319 Speaker 1: The MCPI me, you couldn't dirty the motherfuckers because they 495 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:16,600 Speaker 1: were so dirty to begin with. But those five hundred 496 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,240 Speaker 1: tickets were found in the drawer of the theater's manager. 497 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 3: He never did. 498 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,360 Speaker 1: As much as we hate him, he was an asshole, 499 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: but he never did give them out because he didn't 500 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:32,440 Speaker 1: like them shitty in the aisles. Though he was the chairman, 501 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,280 Speaker 1: he thought he could somehow not give them five hundred angry, 502 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:43,400 Speaker 1: ugly people. They're pre tickets to this band of the revolution, 503 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:45,800 Speaker 1: and so they were denied that. 504 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,719 Speaker 3: So they were on edge. And then we pull up 505 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 3: right here with the limo and fucking hill. 506 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:56,839 Speaker 1: The Bill Graham claims he was hit over the head 507 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:01,520 Speaker 1: and his nose broken by in China least sing with 508 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,840 Speaker 1: the MC fox who wouldn't step on an nd okay, 509 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,160 Speaker 1: the world's least violent and sweetest person who was up 510 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,080 Speaker 1: in the Jersey. So I had a pass being press 511 00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:18,000 Speaker 1: and rightca and it was a little yellow card and 512 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:19,800 Speaker 1: said this will admit the bearer. 513 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:25,359 Speaker 3: The time it was expired okay. So a few weeks 514 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:26,960 Speaker 3: later I. 515 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,920 Speaker 1: Went in to see another band the usual business night, 516 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:35,200 Speaker 1: and outside Bill's office I said to his assistant, Oh, 517 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:41,120 Speaker 1: I need this renewed to do? Ask Bill to I 518 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,480 Speaker 1: thought everything had been settled between Jack Kltzman and Graham 519 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 1: and Annie w And the car comes back torn into 520 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 1: fuck you. 521 00:37:53,360 --> 00:38:00,279 Speaker 3: Bill Graham. Well you didn't meet him all, dad man, 522 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,360 Speaker 3: that's Danny. Huh, Danny, Danny. 523 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,840 Speaker 2: The beautiful part about taking a walk with you is 524 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 2: you're not just telling a story. 525 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,920 Speaker 1: You lived in the story. Oh yeah, one hundred years old. 526 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 1: Who lived sixth Street? 527 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:22,800 Speaker 3: Is Bill Grahamway? You see that something? I think that 528 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:27,600 Speaker 3: says Bill Grahamway because of the Gold War. Well, Danny, 529 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,840 Speaker 3: I told you we were going to do a little sauntera. 530 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,359 Speaker 3: We did a nice long walk. Oh yeah, I mean 531 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,040 Speaker 3: we did a lot of steps. How did you cross room? 532 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 3: We never did uptown? Did you ever count your photographs? 533 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:44,440 Speaker 3: Like how many that you actually have hundreds at the house? Yeah, Danny, 534 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,520 Speaker 3: it was such fun. Thank you so much. Let's do 535 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:48,959 Speaker 3: it again. 536 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,239 Speaker 1: After telling you about my last disasters, one bout Yes 537 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,120 Speaker 1: we will, I hope. So I busted chour with non 538 00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,200 Speaker 1: English speaking of Belgians with blue hair who only wants 539 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:01,359 Speaker 1: you to know where Michael. 540 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:07,239 Speaker 2: Jackson, Thanks Danny, thanks for okay, appreciate your generosity. 541 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 3: Absolutely, thank you very much. 542 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:16,080 Speaker 2: Taking a Walk with Buzznight is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, 543 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,759 Speaker 2: or wherever you get your podcasts.