How do you feel about the naming of Joey Ramone Place right here on the corner?
Bob Gruen: Well, I think it’s fantastic that they named this place after him. I think the Ramones, like we were saying before, really deserve all of the attention they got and of course they got it way late. But I think it’s fantastic they got the city to honor him like that. Thirsty: I like the quote in front about rock n’ roll being a lifestyle, and not something you dip in and out of. Obviously this is a display that proves that. Bob Gruen: Well, that’s what I tell people. I didn’t visit the rock n’ roll lifestyle as a journalist, or just a reporter. I live it. This is my life. And that’s why I didn’t go out to make friends with musicians. I am friends with musicians. They call me sometimes. I’m not trying to get into their scene. It’s very much a mutual thing, the way anybody has friends. People always ask me, “How’d you get to be friends with John Lennon?” Well, I met him, and I liked him, and he liked me, and we had a similar sense of humor, and as time goes on you get to be bett
