Cindy Lee Berryhill

"Nobody had booking agents or anything like that, or even a reputation. It was almost like playing an open mic *was* the gig."

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…