On The Corner
Thank you Thank you Thank you, Dad! Over dinner, one night in late June of 1964, my father announced that he’d bought tickets for the Beatles at the end of the summer. For an 11-year-old, whose life had been totally turned inside out earlier that year when the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show, this news was Christmas times 20!
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If you are a hardcore Doors fan, you'll likely recognize the name Danny Sugerman. Danny was Doors Freak Number 1! He latched onto them as a teenager. He lived in their hometown. He was unrelenting.
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I grew up with parents that absolutely forbade TV, any TV, Monday through Thursday. My Dad was a newspaper editor, my Mom was/is an artist. They said, "TV is garbage that rots your brain and ruins your schoolwork. Therefore, you can only watch it on weekends!"
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So, it was early December, 1974. I was in a cab with two of the other guys in my band, the Planets. It was about midnight, we'd wrapped up our rehearsal about 15 minutes earlier, pooled our money, and hence the taxi instead of the subway.
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The garish posters started showing up around the East Village a few weeks ago, Looking like a boxing match announcement from the Sonny Liston era. Hell, the dual ben-day dot portraits were enough to draw me in.
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The Fall of 1974. I am meeting friends at the Bottom Line for a Waylon Jennings show. Yes, for a New York City boy, I was Country before Country was cool.
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Way back during the last years of the ‘60s and start of the ‘70s, I went to the famous High School of Music & Art in Harlem, USA. It was way the heck uptown in the middle of CCNY’s campus.
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In 1973 and '74, the years of Glam, if you were in a band doing your own material in New York City and infinitely cool...
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Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan left the New York Dolls in 1975 to start the Heartbreakers (two years before us New Yorkers heard that buck-toothed blond fella from Florida).
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In honor of Mr. Presley’s 75th birthday. It’s 1956, I am 3 years old. My best friend is Corky. His dad is taking us, along with Corky’s two utterly fascinating sisters, Meg, 9 and Kate, 7, to the Central Park Zoo in his green Packard “woodie” station wagon.
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This little vignette was chosen to be included in the Deluxe 40th
Anniversary Edition of the Rolling Stones’ legendary live album from
1969, Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out!, recently released on ABKCO Records..
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
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