I think Emmy Jo might have been my first crush.

It might have been mentioned already but the Nasty Bits are being played on camera by Beach Fossils (and Jagger) Here's an article about Renaldo's involvement and the people playing the music behind the scenes.
http://pitchfork.com/thepit…

If you haven't watched Men of a Certain Age, you must. It sadly lasted only 2 seasons but Ray Romano was great in it. It's an underrated (so to speak) gem.

Richard Hell reviews Vinyl
http://www.stereogum.com/18…

Maybe in one sense the nihilism of Blank Generation and Pretty Vacant is a few years away but not the kick out the jams motherfucker attitude. Watch clips of early Stooges concerts. A Stooges' show in 1974 ended in a fight between the Iggy and a biker gang. Listen to Metallic KO. You can hear the angry crowd throwing…

That through me off, too. As did the mention of Lyme disease.

I was thinking more along the lines of My Generation-era Who

Thanks for the tip. Also in case there are newbies out there, a must-read is an oral history of punk rock in NYC called Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil. I also just watched an amazing documentary called Rubble Kings about how a truce among street gangs in the 1970s led to the birth of the hip hop scene. NYC at its…

The lousy CGI effects was why I thought it was a coke-induced hallucination. In actuality I read that the only thing left standing when the building did collapse was the microphone stand. I don't know if that's an urban myth, but that would have played well with the metaphor.

I guess you have to define what proto-punk is. I would include The Who and the Doors as being proto-punk and popular. In any case, The Stooges (1969) album got up to 106 and Raw Power (1973) got up to 44 in the UK. The first VU album peaked at 59 in the UK.

true, but I was thinking maybe it would be another 70s sitcom celeb

They say deaths happen in threes. Who's next?

mauras—I too am a product of NYC of the 1970s-80s. I've lived in the South for the last 25 years and this is more my speed, but looking back on it, you're right about the confidence and awareness you develop. It really was an incredible place to grow up.

I like how the lawyer gave Noah a Jamesons—a shout out to the Wire. That was McNulty's drink of choice.

just catching up now…I thought that was Bob Saget as the mediator.

Hey! That was Richard Masur from One Day at a Time who played Buzz.

I too long for the days of Taxi Driver, The Out of Towners, Prisoner of 2nd Avenue, Dog Day Afternoon, Kojak, Serpico and the Odd Couple

I also found this blurb on The Wrap about violence and movie audiences. You might be onto something with the studio being behind it, with one of the gangs being called the Blue Coats. Nothing about a gang of mimes, though..

I just remember there was a lot of hype, and I don't think anything happened in NYC, but I just found this article in People from 1979 that describes the "wave of audience violence and death" after the Warriors came out.

I remember when this movie came out in NYC, the media revved the city up with predictions of riots and mayhem in the streets after some violence broke out in other cities…This and Escape from New York (1981) would make a great double feature.