So Charles Manson found a group of troubled insecure followers, told them they were special, he loved them, and that race riots and mayhem were about to happen and that he was the only one who could save them.
Trump fans don't even take acid
I remember being in Japan for the first time and seeing people in masks on the street and was told that they had colds and were being respectful. THIS WAS IN FUCKING 1978
I took this from in front of my building on Greenwich street that day. I watched it all in real time. Anyone who thinks Rudy Giuliani was a hero is just mistaken. He was exploiting and doing photo ops as soon as he was able. He was garbage then, garbage now.
So Debbie went to the SNL 40th anniversary party in 2015. When I talked to her next day and said
"Wow Prince, McCartney, Miley, every celeb in the world! How was that?"
She said "You can't imagine what a sleaze Sarah Palin is in person"
Tony Jr Sirico grew up in my Brooklyn neighborhood. He was a local legend even back then. He hung around Artie's Pool Hall on Ave J.
He ripped off my squad and me for 50 bucks for weed. True story. RIP
We were in Rome in our hotel. We got a call from producer Mike Chapman saying to meet him in the hotel bar, we were surprised.
We all went down and he told us the song was
#1
in the US. He’d flown to Italy to tell us in person
By some quirk Blondie arrived in Akron the day before DEVO shot their Satisfaction video. They invited us and we watched from the front row in the big old empty theater they were using. I took this image which I like. I guess 1978
My grandmother and parents had those big ass round vaccination scars on their arms and I never heard them carrying on about it being the mark of the beast or about Truman and Eisenhower being dictators
I'm kind of amazed I only now figured out that we played with the Ramones at their first CBGB's show Aug 16 1974.
First of only two shows we did with the name Angel and the Snake pre Blondie.
This is them from around then at the bar
Wherever we post anything vaguely political on Blondie Facebook or Instagram, trolls arrive with right wing talking points and misogynist bullshit and I happily block and erase comments. I used to worry about alienating 🤣
"Stick to guitar playing"
I met Tom Verlaine when he just arrived in NYC I guess '72. He had long hair and came to my apartment with an acoustic guitar and played some songs he'd written. Both Tom and Richard Hell have told me that I auditioned for the Neon Boys but I don't remember.
When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story. I thought he was nuts.
Not to forget that when Trump Tower was built the Bonwit Teller building was demolished and after initially promising to preserve the deco carvings for the Met, Trump didn't want to spring for an extra 9 grand to save them. (The construction cost 100 million)
Out of all the Blondie tracks, this is the ONLY one I knew before hand would be a hit. The original is amazing and we were in a position wherein I knew if we released a decent version it would succeed.
I had no idea I'd be hearing it in CVS forty years later