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Thanks. Love Goes… and Please Kill Me are two of my favorite books on the NYC music scene in the 70s.

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Nice... that's great to hear, thanks for reading, Dennis

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One of the great repetitive rhyming schemes in all of rock music as employed by David Johansen to great effect on his 1978 self-titled debut: https://youtu.be/Otrt0iH9ubw?si=LMQfu7TlsYfc7ADZ

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The song is “Frenchette”.

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Good piece. Some years ago, I was playing bass in a punk tribute band (no, really), and I spent a lot of my limited political capital as a bass player trying to convince the rest of the guys that we should play “personality crisis,” heh.

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A worthy cause.

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Thanks. Most don't know they started at Mercer.

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Yes, true. That place deserves a book unto itself.

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It does. My friends, the Magic Tramps, built the stage there.

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Thank you.

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You’re welcome C, thx for reading.

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