I wrote a book about 60 years of New York City rock music scenes called This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City. Naturally, in the course of writing a book about New York City music scenes, I did a lot of interviews with New York City musicians, deejays, club workers and owners, and scenesters. A lot of interviews. 140 interviews, specifically, which, in retrospect, was probably too many interviews (whoops).
A lot of these interviews were deeply fascinating, went on for hours, and dove deeply into what it’s actually been like to live and create art in New York through the decades. And then, afterwards, I would find I was only able to include about 1/12 of the interview in the actual book.
So, I’ve decided to share some of my favorite full-length interviews. I’ll post a new one every week or two, for as long as they last.
