Washington City Paper
Sep 2012
How the Brooklynization of culture killed regional music scenes.
As mainstream rock declines and disappears from the radio, an examination of seven bands who were amongst the biggest of their respective eras.
TM The only other time I saw you was in Bleecker Bob’s in the ‘70s. You walked in eating pizza and wearing aviator glasses and Bleecker Bob showed you an Ian Dury picture sleeve and you said, “I don’t listen to music by people I don’t wanna fuck.” PS (laughter) Yeah, that was me.
Four years after a disastrous MTV performance had led him to avoid the public, Rose was back on stage.
In this profile of the band, William Burroughs is interested in two things: big-time rock shows and random conversational tangents.
In the early 1960s, Middle Eastern guys in Brooklyn introduced America to Arabic rock-and-roll.