Bob Blank (Blank Tapes, ZE Records, Prelude, West End)

"When we opened the studio, the joke was that after 6:00, you could lie down in the middle of 20th Street and nothing would hit you. But by the early ‘80s...you couldn't find parking."

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 (you can purchase it here). Naturally, in the course of writing a book about New York City music scenes, I interviewed a lot of New York City musicians, deejays, club workers and owners, and scenesters —1…