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Legs McNeil

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“Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!”
― Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

tags: allen-ginsberg, patti-smith, please-kill-me, punk-rock

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“Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)”
― Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

tags: penny-arcade-art-drugs

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“The old sound was alcoholic. The tradition was finally broken. The music is sex and drugs and happy. And happy is the joke the music understands best. Ultra sonic sounds on records to cause frontal lobotomies. Hey, don't be afraid. You'd better take drugs and learn to love PLASTIC. All diffrent kinds of plastic- pliable, rigid, colored, colorful, nonattached plastic. - Lou Reed (1965-1968)”
― Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

tags: lou-reed-music-plastic

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“Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare.”
― Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me

tags: punk, sex-pistols

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“Rock & Roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back the beat so you could dream. A whole generation running with a Fender bass...

The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?

Perhaps I should die. After all, all the great blues singers did die. But life is getting better now.

I don't want to die. Do I? - Lou Reed (1965-1968)”
― Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

tags: lou-reed-music-rock

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