It wasn’t free. It was incredibly restrictive, even in NYC or LA.

You know, I probably have a broader knowledge of both music and film than you do, considering I have studied each fairly extensively, and don’t restrict my tastes to a mere two decades of sound or cinematic style. Culture must get pretty repetetive for you.

And without worrying!

Tell me about it! What I wouldn’t give to go on a walk all ‘luded up right now...

I liked the part about walking everywhere.

So what’s your job on the show?

I’m 27 and I know all those songs and more. Just being young doesnt mean we cant have a comprehensive musical education and interests.

I saw a promo for this and I assumed it was going to be glorifying everything that was sexist and awful about that time. How disappointing.

Cool story.

Well, they can’t all be “derp” and “butthurt” can they?

It really was and that’s being generous. Personally, I found it less than mediocre. It was a dull, bloated vanity project full of anachronisms.

This is how I imagine a script for Vinyl looks:

Record Exec 1: Fuck fucker fuckin’ fuck [Insert random 70's band/musician…

You seem to be really insanely emotionally invested in this terrible show.

Oh how white males are weeping for their past. Oh wait, it is still awesome to be one, they just can’t get away with doing as many business deals with the hookers and blow laying about. So sad.

Thanks for this. I am so sick of the Scorcese circlejerk but I know he is talented, I was wondering about this show.

I guess the question is, then, why did we need a bug-budget Scorcese/Jagger show, since we’ve seen all this shit before? I get that we shouldn’t necessarily expect much more from the team-up, but why did the team-up need to happen?

You need to accept that your show was mediocre at best, Martin Scorsese.

Are you a publicist forthe show or something? You seem oddly defensive and dickish about a show that’s only aired one episode.

I saw a promotional picture of this a couple of days ago and it just looked so fucking terrible, like an Obviously Cheap And Not Historically Accurate Mad Men. Hard pass.

Networks keep trying to make the next Mad Men, and aside from the fact that the next anything rarely matches up to the original, they also seem to have an inherent misunderstanding of what made Mad Men so great.

Somehow I already knew this in my gut just from the commercials. Just a bunch of old white rockers jerking off to how amazing everything was for them back in the day. I’m sure someone will love it but certainly not my cup of tea.

So much is wrong. The reactions to coke — way over the top. Also not that big of a thing then. The timing is off. A leather-clad punk band before the Ramones formed? Totally wrong. You’re right about the dialog being terrible. And record companies did completely suck. Just like now!