Richard Vasquez (The Choice)

"I was in my early forties, and I was looking for a very rich, abundant social life...I owned a nice building, I was pretty much set, and I could goof off."

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…