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During the summer of 1993 after my freshman year at NYU I purchased an Ibanez bass in a futile attempt to teach myself how to play. I took it with me at the start of the new school year to the dorm. By the 2nd semester I gave up trying to learn it and sold it my neighbor across the hallway who happened to be Daniel Kessler, the future guitarist of Interpol. Just thought I’d share that funny tidbit. Great video as always Mary.
You've found a niche. No doubt about it. You're really good at this kind of little mini-documentary. They're vastly entertaining to watch, and very informative. Your voice and presentation style suit the form very, very well. Just terrific stuff.
Mary please tell your Mum and Dad thank you. Thank you for the wonderful girl/teen/woman you raised for all of us! She is a joy and brings joy to so many. Cheers!
I moved to NYC in 1999. There was an energy in the air that might be hard to imagine now. It wasn't just rock music, or hip hop, it was everything, jazz, free-jazz, country, bluegrass....everything was happening. The city was a creative cauldron. Sad to me personally what it is now.
[namedrop alert!] I knew Brian Chase in college -- very good guy, soft spoken and an amazing musician. He was a jazz percussion major, and I heard him do a lot of very avant-garde kind of stuff. So, it was a surprise, when he graduated and moved back to New York, to hear that he was playing in a hard rock band. I was a bit skeptical at first, but the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are amazing!
As always you are very on the spot and very good at your profession. I’m getting your CD for sure. I was born and resided in NYC. Fond memories of what it Was. Lived around the corner from the Philmore East. It’s sad toe my home degenerate isn’t a place I recognize. I’m ashMed of it has become. I used to ride the subway to Coney Island for fun alone with my twin brother and pals. At 12 years old. Now a subway ride may do you in. Anyway I’m a big fan of yours. It’s good to see smart talented young people like you. You are a beautiful talented woman. You might want to add guitar lessons to your channel. Been playing for 55 years but I always learn something new. Keep it up. ❤
Wow, that interview with Gordon Raphael was great! RUclips is rife with content in which the presenter does the bare minimum/basically just reads the wikipedia page for a topic. The effort you put into digging up new and worthwhile info is appreciated.
Thanks for the education! I'm a bit older, I've heard some of this music on local radio stations, but haven't taken the time to check them out. I will soon...
Great Bands, great scene. I also can’t understate how special / fun it was to be in Toronto / Montreal early 2000’s. Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars, Apostle of Hustle, K-Os, The Dears, The Stills, Arcade Fire, Death From Above 1975 etc… So much music, amazing artists and Labels and just straight up Indie Magic 🔥 🔥🔥
Great video. That resurgence of indie guitar rock was such a nice treat after the drudgery of the late 90s butt rock that lasted well into the 00s. I was in the final years of college at the time when those bands really started making waves (2002ish), and it was really cool to see and hear. Those albums still resonate with me today.
Awesome video Mary! I thought I was well rounded considering I'm 69. But you really gave me an education on how much I don't know. Thank you so much!!!
Mary, I just started my journey on guitar at 62 years young. What an inspiration you are. I have to say the 70's was the best era for guitar music. My first introduction to rock n roll was through my sisters boyfriends eclectic album collection from Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Sabbath to Billy Connelly. I remember to this day, putting on the Piledriver album by Status Quo . It was the sleeve that hit me instantly. To this day i have seen all the above mentioned bands and no-one has come close to the atmosphere and the way audience reacted to the QUO and 3 chords.
Reliving my youth here, as I turned 21 11 days after 9/11. So many great bands and venues that are gone now. CBGB, especially the separate basement venue accessed via the CB’s Gallery next door were my favorite spots. My friend was bass player in a local band called The Realistics, they did a benefit show on my birthday after 9/11 in the basement. Very down-note night as you could see the lights from the work on “the pile” downtown when you went outside.
Yo. Mary. Huge fan of your channel for a few years now, and from a fellow musician, just wanna say.... That album title gave me a lovely little smile. Great name. (Great vid too)
I went to see The Strokes in London in 2001. Remember it was hot and sweaty in the venue and some girls singing Last Night on the tube on the way home. Don't remember anything else 🙃 Nice piece Mary - enjoyable and professional as always.
Didn't realise there was a book! I'll have to get it now. The film was extremely influential for me. It's given me the idea to get involved with my local music scene and see where it leads as I'm in Wrexham and it's going through a big growth at the moment.
This was interesting, thank you Mary. For me, anything after April 1994 is ‘the new stuff’. I don’t listen to the new stuff, so I’m happy to learn a little more about this time. Nice interview.
man, I wish for the old PBS days that your brought here. I remember as a teen staying up late getting stoned and playing guitar watching TV and catching old school documentaries. One that really stuck with me was the New York Post Punk scene that caught on in the early 80s. The story was a woman ended her own life and how a lot of the people in the scene felt bad about it especially when her close friend was trying to get a hold of her. I forgot what episode this was, but man. PBS did a hell of a job documenting certain time periods and showing what they looked like.
I found day jobs keep me creative, and I sometimes get ideas, and when things get boring, give me the drive for my art, in hopes of escaping. On the downside, I might be tired when I'm home, or have to make sacrifices of other things I want to do.
I remember this erav I recorded a couple of stroke songs & I mean just after 911 got bored with 'rock n roll" began cover song recording foreign language pop/house music & my own writing anyways tks much for this nice video trippy looking back that far I used to play a strat in those days
Rent wasn't cheap at the time. I remember it because I lived in NYC for awhile and then moved to Chicago. In 2000 I was 21 years old. You have to back to the 1980s to find cheap rent in any major American city. I mean, I hate to say this, but it's not like The Strokes were coming from working class backgrounds.
A friend gave me that demo advance to listen to at the time. I was a music writer working a small gig writing for the Village Voice playing/hanging in music scene in Brooklyn (which was much cooler than Manhattan's young college/Strokes scene musically - and the Strokes never played there once that I saw. Yeah Yeah Yeahs worked/paid dues in BK). "What do you think"? "It's o.k.. Pretty Good." "There gonna be the biggest thing in the world". they were set up to be big by the industry make no mistake, they were from upper East Side. They were not like the New York 70's Punk bands they emulated or some real stuff that was going on in lofts of Brooklyn.
Thank you for your hard work and dedication to sharing research and musical interests and experiences you have lived thru, completely enjoyed your content absolutely fascinating and brilliant 🎵🎶💜
Those bands brought back hope during a really depressing era in music where commercial media pushed nu metal and "buzz" noise. And thank god for Napster, iTunes, and the internet back then because my local radio stations in Houston still play nu metal and crap rock. Just to give you an idea of the crowd down here, they mosh to Coldplay. (-_-)
I was playing Leeds university in 1985 and the top Hi Hat screw failed and the Hi Hat sounded like a couple of dust bin lids. Hahaha. Murphy's Law. Guitar will never die because it's too exciting an instrument.
Also, Mary, don’t forget the influence bands like TV on the radio had on current world beaters FOALS! Best band live and on record at the moment. Collab more with RKC again. You all have something synergistic. KMac
Seeing the bands of that era play live was what made me pick up a guitar. Sad that two of the iconic (for me anyway) London venues, the Astoria and Mean Fiddler, were demolished to make way for a rail project.
Here's one for you, so one night a long time ago I went to see my friend Andrei and his band The Black Olives play at The Monarch, (now the Camden Assembly I think), on Chalk Farm Rd, a venue I'd played many times before. I rock up, pay my money, only to find that for some bizarre reason, (still never worked out why), they'd got kicked off the bill for some band called 'The Libertines' 😄...so yep, by pure fluke, I saw the Libs at The Falcon...and yes, it was absolute mayhem. But life changing ❤
In the case of the Strokes... At least a few of them studied at LeRosey (julian and albert, if i recall correctly ) and Julian's dad was the founder of Elite model agency. I mean they had the means to dedicate their time, cash, and connections) .
Not unlike Ani DiFranco (and her Righteous Babe Records) who started doing the same thing about the time Samantha was born, and who opened way for record-company-knockoffs like Alanis Morrissette (now *that* is ironic, unlike the song itself).
As "The Warning" brings back the Power Trio, with a vengeance, so might 'The Guitar' be resurrected from Rocks' Roots, and we'll all be singin' "The Bluest Blues" (Alvin Lee), as the future unfolds ...
Some of these dark-haired rockers remind me of Brian Cox, who Miss Spender might find to be an interesting interview. He was the keyboardist for the band Dare but quit the band to get a job (at least, a more traditional job): he's now a well known and very well spoken physicist at the University of Manchester. I'd be interested, anyway.
I cant find anybody that wants to make fresh original rock type music, where i am in Southern California. The musicians here are obsessed with genre and fitting into a genre. Metal, punk, post punk, desert rock, classic rock covers... Its sooooo depressing. I cant even get people to jam with me and see what happens. They all want to make the voring stuff that turned people off and drove them to hip hop. Sheesh.
This wave of bands never resonated in my town. Local radio never played them. Even today, when I mention the Strokes, people who are of the right age to have been their fans at the time don't know who I'm talking about.
It did not save the guitar. If anything, this LES/NYC garage rock 'scene' helped kill guitar music in the mainstream. The music industry will exploit anything that can be given an angle as 'fresh', in order to create a trend and to make $$$. This garage rock stuff just happened to be it in the late 90's/early 00s. It was the apex of the music industry and, another angle to work. In hindsight, that sound was the antithesis for what modern music was and would become, in terms of sound and production. Unfortunately, guitar music never was the same in the USA mainstream. There was Nu-Metal, Nickelback bands, and Guitar "Boy-Bands" like Hoobastank & Our Lady Peace, and then it was over (say by 2005/2006). Guitar music thrived, and still thrives, but it's mainly in Metal (and in other places OTHER than the USA) and is very much underground/non-mainstream.
'MTV still attracted large audiences' - possibly because they still played music videos back then? Who was the other band Gordon wanted to work with, when he first met The Strokes?
Never really "got" what this movement was selling. It repackaged 60's garage rock without the off the wall lyrics and bizarre arrangements that made garage rock fun.
You look at songs like Dream On, Barracuda, Stairway, Gold Dust Woman. All from the same era and all loved even today half a century later. Now look at anything form the 2K NY scene all the way up to today and tell me what is missing. Music has no soul today. There is very little from the last 25 years that would really grab a persons spirit and take it on a wild journey like the timeless classics do. The 2000's might of been a wild and exciting time yet nothing lasting ever came from it.
you're looking in the wrong places. there's insanely good music being made, it's just not what's popular and what you hear on the radio anymore. we live in an age where there's such an absurd amount of music being made that there's something for everyone if you look hard enough
Been playing more or less constantly for 50+ years. Not famous,never wanted it. Sideman is the life for me without the Bolloks! Well that’s my two penneth, Don’t chase the lottery,be nice, be cool and just do your job as best you can. Hope y enjoy yr career. Thanks. P.S. good luck trying to keep a family together,but that’s another subject!🇬🇧
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During the summer of 1993 after my freshman year at NYU I purchased an Ibanez bass in a futile attempt to teach myself how to play. I took it with me at the start of the new school year to the dorm. By the 2nd semester I gave up trying to learn it and sold it my neighbor across the hallway who happened to be Daniel Kessler, the future guitarist of Interpol. Just thought I’d share that funny tidbit. Great video as always Mary.
Would’ve been fucking crazy if you sold it to Carlos
Holy shit
@@VFuzball dude yea
@@VFuzball you’re cute
@@kxndela thanks?
You've found a niche. No doubt about it. You're really good at this kind of little mini-documentary. They're vastly entertaining to watch, and very informative. Your voice and presentation style suit the form very, very well. Just terrific stuff.
very interesting videos, I love watching these and learning about relevant music history
The Strokes and LCD Soundsystem have one thing in common, exquisite songwriting.
also rich parents
They were just Ok
Mary please tell your Mum and Dad thank you. Thank you for the wonderful girl/teen/woman you raised for all of us! She is a joy and brings joy to so many. Cheers!
Weird
Mary, this is your type of work , you are very good at it , and having a musical background yourself is what makes it go.
I moved to NYC in 1999. There was an energy in the air that might be hard to imagine now. It wasn't just rock music, or hip hop, it was everything, jazz, free-jazz, country, bluegrass....everything was happening. The city was a creative cauldron. Sad to me personally what it is now.
[namedrop alert!] I knew Brian Chase in college -- very good guy, soft spoken and an amazing musician. He was a jazz percussion major, and I heard him do a lot of very avant-garde kind of stuff. So, it was a surprise, when he graduated and moved back to New York, to hear that he was playing in a hard rock band. I was a bit skeptical at first, but the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are amazing!
You have a unique talent for sharing the insight you have gained by being a musician yourself to tell the stories of other musicians.
she really does, Very engaging and I always take away more information and facts than I ever anticipate.
As always you are very on the spot and very good at your profession. I’m getting your CD for sure. I was born and resided in NYC. Fond memories of what it Was. Lived around the corner from the Philmore East. It’s sad toe my home degenerate isn’t a place I recognize. I’m ashMed of it has become. I used to ride the subway to Coney Island for fun alone with my twin brother and pals. At 12 years old. Now a subway ride may do you in.
Anyway I’m a big fan of yours. It’s good to see smart talented young people like you.
You are a beautiful talented woman.
You might want to add guitar lessons to your channel. Been playing for 55 years but I always learn something new.
Keep it up. ❤
Wow, that interview with Gordon Raphael was great! RUclips is rife with content in which the presenter does the bare minimum/basically just reads the wikipedia page for a topic. The effort you put into digging up new and worthwhile info is appreciated.
You’re getting very good at these historical retrospectives 👏👏👏🥂
Thanks for the education! I'm a bit older, I've heard some of this music on local radio stations, but haven't taken the time to check them out. I will soon...
Great Bands, great scene. I also can’t understate how special / fun it was to be in Toronto / Montreal early 2000’s. Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars, Apostle of Hustle, K-Os, The Dears, The Stills, Arcade Fire, Death From Above 1975 etc… So much music, amazing artists and Labels and just straight up Indie Magic 🔥 🔥🔥
grew up in this era, so much fun and possibility. so many bands creating new things :)
Great video. That resurgence of indie guitar rock was such a nice treat after the drudgery of the late 90s butt rock that lasted well into the 00s. I was in the final years of college at the time when those bands really started making waves (2002ish), and it was really cool to see and hear. Those albums still resonate with me today.
Great Video Mary! Love the music history lesson from back then.
Really love this format. Please do more. And thank you for being in general.
Awesome video Mary! I thought I was well rounded considering I'm 69. But you really gave me an education on how much I don't know. Thank you so much!!!
The Brian Jonestown Massacre was doing this before the Strokes were even a thing. Strokes we’re t indie. They were major label rich kids.
As always... wonderful. Thanks Mary!
Mary, I just started my journey on guitar at 62 years young. What an inspiration you are. I have to say the 70's was the best era for guitar music. My first introduction to rock n roll was through my sisters boyfriends eclectic album collection from Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Sabbath to Billy Connelly. I remember to this day, putting on the Piledriver album by Status Quo . It was the sleeve that hit me instantly. To this day i have seen all the above mentioned bands and no-one has come close to the atmosphere and the way audience reacted to the QUO and 3 chords.
Reliving my youth here, as I turned 21 11 days after 9/11. So many great bands and venues that are gone now. CBGB, especially the separate basement venue accessed via the CB’s Gallery next door were my favorite spots. My friend was bass player in a local band called The Realistics, they did a benefit show on my birthday after 9/11 in the basement. Very down-note night as you could see the lights from the work on “the pile” downtown when you went outside.
JOHN VARVATOS KILLED PUNK.
@@503punxoioioi9 I would argue whomever knocked down The Continental was even worse.
Right, nepotism had nothing to do with The Strokes's rapid success lol
Yo. Mary. Huge fan of your channel for a few years now, and from a fellow musician, just wanna say.... That album title gave me a lovely little smile. Great name. (Great vid too)
Excellent video Mary and glad I stuck around to the end as I am excited for the debut release!!
Another excellent episode. Thank you!!!
Having played in many of those clubs in the 90's not sure if NYC still has the capacity for the same scene we enjoyed for so many years.
Great video, Mary - thank you!
It felt like an eternity but Im happy to finally see Mary wearing her good old leather jacket again
Great interview and video as always. You have a great talent for these kinds of videos. Love your makeup and wardrobe 😊
THIS, is a great episode. So interesting, inspiring and well researched. Thank you.
ur releasing an album on my birthday!! can't wait to hear it!!!
I went to see The Strokes in London in 2001. Remember it was hot and sweaty in the venue and some girls singing Last Night on the tube on the way home. Don't remember anything else 🙃 Nice piece Mary - enjoyable and professional as always.
Not music that I'm familiar with but another phenomenal video by Mary, nonetheless 🔥🔥🔥
wow your channel is amazing
You do a great job Mary....thank you
Thanks for another great video. I wkill definitely check out this documentary.
Didn't realise there was a book! I'll have to get it now. The film was extremely influential for me. It's given me the idea to get involved with my local music scene and see where it leads as I'm in Wrexham and it's going through a big growth at the moment.
I played the NYC scene from 2002-2004. We sounded and looked closer to A7X than The Strokes or The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s so we had no shot.
This was interesting, thank you Mary. For me, anything after April 1994 is ‘the new stuff’. I don’t listen to the new stuff, so I’m happy to learn a little more about this time. Nice interview.
That's a specific date.
Anything after Cobain's death, perhaps?
@@howtorad2463 Yeah, pretty much. Been finding some great stuff recently on KEXP studio sessions though.
@@amandacatherine793 wow... likewise here!: anything after 1994 is "new stuff era" for me. Kurt's death being a factor but not the only one.
man, I wish for the old PBS days that your brought here.
I remember as a teen staying up late getting stoned and playing guitar watching TV and catching old school documentaries.
One that really stuck with me was the New York Post Punk scene that caught on in the early 80s. The story was a woman ended her own life and how a lot of the people in the scene felt bad about it especially when her close friend was trying to get a hold of her. I forgot what episode this was, but man. PBS did a hell of a job documenting certain time periods and showing what they looked like.
I found day jobs keep me creative, and I sometimes get ideas, and when things get boring, give me the drive for my art, in hopes of escaping. On the downside, I might be tired when I'm home, or have to make sacrifices of other things I want to do.
Wonderfully interesting video, I wish it had been a little bit longer. Thanks Mary!
I remember this erav I recorded a couple of stroke songs & I mean just after 911 got bored with 'rock n roll" began cover song recording foreign language pop/house music & my own writing anyways tks much for this nice video trippy looking back that far I used to play a strat in those days
I started one.
Hey, Mary! I got a big kick out of "Pastacolypse" and recognized your voice immediately!
Rent wasn't cheap at the time. I remember it because I lived in NYC for awhile and then moved to Chicago. In 2000 I was 21 years old. You have to back to the 1980s to find cheap rent in any major American city. I mean, I hate to say this, but it's not like The Strokes were coming from working class backgrounds.
Love this Mary, thank you 🙏🏻
A friend gave me that demo advance to listen to at the time. I was a music writer working a small gig writing for the Village Voice playing/hanging in music scene in Brooklyn (which was much cooler than Manhattan's young college/Strokes scene musically - and the Strokes never played there once that I saw. Yeah Yeah Yeahs worked/paid dues in BK). "What do you think"? "It's o.k.. Pretty Good." "There gonna be the biggest thing in the world". they were set up to be big by the industry make no mistake, they were from upper East Side. They were not like the New York 70's Punk bands they emulated or some real stuff that was going on in lofts of Brooklyn.
I saw Yeah Yeah Yeahs play at the Brisbane Livid Fest in 2003 and they went off! B)
I love the leather!
Thank you for your hard work and dedication to sharing research and musical interests and experiences you have lived thru, completely enjoyed your content absolutely fascinating and brilliant 🎵🎶💜
I love your video, but I gotta say I was a little peeved when I saw you released this video. I was working on a very similar video myself.
TV on the Radio FTW
Hello Mary, Love Your Videos
Holy crap I know Gordon from my Seattle days when I was know. As Dani DSML.
Gotta thank Strokes for Pacifica ❤❤❤
love the punk leather jacket, but it doesn't cover up your sweet innocence persona
Thank'YOU Mary❣️
Those bands brought back hope during a really depressing era in music where commercial media pushed nu metal and "buzz" noise. And thank god for Napster, iTunes, and the internet back then because my local radio stations in Houston still play nu metal and crap rock. Just to give you an idea of the crowd down here, they mosh to Coldplay. (-_-)
Moshing is fun
I was playing Leeds university in 1985 and the top Hi Hat screw failed and the Hi Hat sounded like a couple of dust bin lids. Hahaha. Murphy's Law. Guitar will never die because it's too exciting an instrument.
Also, Mary, don’t forget the influence bands like TV on the radio had on current world beaters FOALS! Best band live and on record at the moment. Collab more with RKC again. You all have something synergistic. KMac
Seeing the bands of that era play live was what made me pick up a guitar. Sad that two of the iconic (for me anyway) London venues, the Astoria and Mean Fiddler, were demolished to make way for a rail project.
All venues are replaced in time. One closes down and another springs up.
A rail with good planning can be very good for a city, very efficient stuff
Here's one for you, so one night a long time ago I went to see my friend Andrei and his band The Black Olives play at The Monarch, (now the Camden Assembly I think), on Chalk Farm Rd, a venue I'd played many times before. I rock up, pay my money, only to find that for some bizarre reason, (still never worked out why), they'd got kicked off the bill for some band called 'The Libertines' 😄...so yep, by pure fluke, I saw the Libs at The Falcon...and yes, it was absolute mayhem. But life changing ❤
Ahhh, loved this era of music :)
Ohhhhhhyeeeaaaaah you never stop amazing me. Keep the signal 📶 going strong 💪🇺🇸😎
In the case of the Strokes... At least a few of them studied at LeRosey (julian and albert, if i recall correctly ) and Julian's dad was the founder of Elite model agency. I mean they had the means to dedicate their time, cash, and connections) .
great video!!!!!!!
The strokes went for future retroism, when folks were doing retro futurism , it seems
I love these videos
How have you not come across Samantha Fish? Female singer songwriter, created her own label, seems a perfect fit for some of your themes. 😊
Not unlike Ani DiFranco (and her Righteous Babe Records) who started doing the same thing about the time Samantha was born, and who opened way for record-company-knockoffs like Alanis Morrissette (now *that* is ironic, unlike the song itself).
As "The Warning" brings back the Power Trio, with a vengeance, so might 'The Guitar' be resurrected from Rocks' Roots, and we'll all be singin' "The Bluest Blues" (Alvin Lee), as the future unfolds ...
There are several excellent trios. The Warning is just one.
@@ChrisPage68what are the other ones of the modern era
I wonder how long it will be until you discover the Flamin' Groovies and NRBQ ? The Strokes are lightweights.
Some of these dark-haired rockers remind me of Brian Cox, who Miss Spender might find to be an interesting interview. He was the keyboardist for the band Dare but quit the band to get a job (at least, a more traditional job): he's now a well known and very well spoken physicist at the University of Manchester. I'd be interested, anyway.
I cant find anybody that wants to make fresh original rock type music, where i am in Southern California. The musicians here are obsessed with genre and fitting into a genre. Metal, punk, post punk, desert rock, classic rock covers... Its sooooo depressing. I cant even get people to jam with me and see what happens. They all want to make the voring stuff that turned people off and drove them to hip hop. Sheesh.
Thank you.
This wave of bands never resonated in my town. Local radio never played them. Even today, when I mention the Strokes, people who are of the right age to have been their fans at the time don't know who I'm talking about.
Not a fan of any of the bands you described, the video itself is, as usual, quite well done. Thanks, Mary.
Bet were older 😊
@@johngraydon506 Indeed…
It did not save the guitar. If anything, this LES/NYC garage rock 'scene' helped kill guitar music in the mainstream. The music industry will exploit anything that can be given an angle as 'fresh', in order to create a trend and to make $$$. This garage rock stuff just happened to be it in the late 90's/early 00s. It was the apex of the music industry and, another angle to work. In hindsight, that sound was the antithesis for what modern music was and would become, in terms of sound and production. Unfortunately, guitar music never was the same in the USA mainstream. There was Nu-Metal, Nickelback bands, and Guitar "Boy-Bands" like Hoobastank & Our Lady Peace, and then it was over (say by 2005/2006). Guitar music thrived, and still thrives, but it's mainly in Metal (and in other places OTHER than the USA) and is very much underground/non-mainstream.
This is a sign
look at the spin magazine article about "the rise and fall of williamsburg".
I would like to hear you do a video about the club CBGB'S and The whiskey A go go.
I intend to
I saw the strokes play with rhcp recently, and they sounded great. I dig the jacket mary, and it looks great on you.
I knew her!
When are you doing E books?
Lol. Being in the music biz can be work sometimes
'MTV still attracted large audiences' - possibly because they still played music videos back then? Who was the other band Gordon wanted to work with, when he first met The Strokes?
Never really "got" what this movement was selling. It repackaged 60's garage rock without the off the wall lyrics and bizarre arrangements that made garage rock fun.
You look at songs like Dream On, Barracuda, Stairway, Gold Dust Woman. All from the same era and all loved even today half a century later. Now look at anything form the 2K NY scene all the way up to today and tell me what is missing. Music has no soul today. There is very little from the last 25 years that would really grab a persons spirit and take it on a wild journey like the timeless classics do. The 2000's might of been a wild and exciting time yet nothing lasting ever came from it.
Pretty myopic view. There is plenty of music from the last 25 years that “ grabs people’s spirit”. It’s just likely music that has no meaning to you.
you're looking in the wrong places. there's insanely good music being made, it's just not what's popular and what you hear on the radio anymore. we live in an age where there's such an absurd amount of music being made that there's something for everyone if you look hard enough
Love these historical snippets.
I saw the Strokes last September open for the Chili Peppers. I expected way more. They were really just ok.
I can see you heading a music scene resurgence
Any idea what happened to the other band Gordon offered to record that same night?
I wish I could. Richie Sambora are you available? 😂
Been playing more or less constantly for 50+ years. Not famous,never wanted it. Sideman is the life for me without the Bolloks! Well that’s my two penneth, Don’t chase the lottery,be nice, be cool and just do your job as best you can. Hope y enjoy yr career. Thanks. P.S. good luck trying to keep a family together,but that’s another subject!🇬🇧
If given the opportunity, anyone can do this.
I love you
Your content just keeps getting better and better. Gotta track down this music.....😮
2nd comment
Love your videos and voice..
One of the persons who motivate me to play guitar..
-Big fan