<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">i believe you might have them switched here... initially glenn was way</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">more the rock guy (he was for certain a big roxy music fan b</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">4 moving down to ny from boston)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></blockquote><br>
<div>@David</div><div>wow! -- that was <i>you</i> on ball peen hammer? that concert totally left me speechless -- one of the most powerful concerts I have ever heard</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>but my friend was indeed in Branca's guitar army (not Rhys) but this was way before even Rhys was known as 'the other' guitar noise guy</div><div>this would have been in the mid to late 70's -- my friend, Chip Duyck, was a painter at Parsons who had gained fleeting fame with his street intersection portraits of Andy Warhol done with masking tape</div><div>he and I were in a little art band and he would tell me stories about his time in Branca's army</div><div>and unless I'm remembering wrong his version was that Glenn knew little of rock 'n roll guitar technique (possibly knew of the music) but would beg Chip to bring in records to listen to</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>also, a club I was trying to remember last post: the Squat Club -- a lesser known but still an amazing club where I saw many great bands including UT, Bern Nix, Lounge Lizards, James Chance, Bush Tetras and Y Pants...</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>but agreed on getting over the NYC 80's scene</div><div>there is too much good music still happening to get nostalgic for something in the past</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>thanks for de-lurking David and nice to meet you!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> </div></body></html>