Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore)

"If you would have told me in 1985 that I would still be talking about Sonic Youth in 2014, I would have thought, 'What are you, fucking nuts?'"

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 (it comes out on July 11! Pre-order it here). 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…