Whats the basic difference between New York and Los Angeles besides the palm trees?
Well, that’s a big difference there. Take some of those laboratory experiments of rats living too close together. When they get irritable it changes the personality of the rat. There’s not enough terrain for them to have any kind of individualism. And whenever you jam that many people close together like in New York, that’s a horror show. Did you start getting into the stage atrocities in New York? Yeah. Is atrocities your word for what you were doing? Yeah. What were some of the most atrocious things you did onstage? Most of the things were based on the idiosyncrasies of the audience. Remember, we were working in a place that was in the middle of the Village when it was a tourist attraction for weekend hippies from Long Island. We were there six nights a week, two shows a night between Easter vacation and Labor Day and our business ranged anywhere from lines doubled around the block to three people in the audience and it didn’t make a difference, we still played. About July the air co
