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I talked to art rock musician Kim Rancourt and we got into a number of cool topics. We discussed important records from his formative years as a music fan (0:16), what prompted his move to New York (1:44), Cool stories from the 70’s New York music scene (2:46)……
meeting John Lennon and Yoko his first week in New York (3:31),Hanging with punkers during the ’77 punk boom (5:12), When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water getting started (6:07), getting big and lively crowds on the Coney Island boardwalk for experimental psychedelic music (9:34)…..
the art of covering a song in as far as faithfully recreating it versus providing one’s own interpretation on it (10:55), discussing his record Plum Plum (14:16), Walking the Trashline track break down (16:50), Hail track break down (18:45), The New York references on Plum Plum and archiving the Lou Reed collection recently (19:56)……
seeing The Ramones in the early goings of their career (27:44), the influence of Don Fleming (30:28), writing an as of yet unreleased musical with Andrew WK (32:43), and the live performance of John Lennon “Remember” in memorium of 9/11 (33:54), and more!
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