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>> joe: the lower east side at that time was a destination for me. there was something, you know, that compelled me to just be there. and i would paint it. squeeze in. >> anthony: yup. wow, wow! oh, yes, you were telling me about this guy. >> joe: and here, if you want to use this. >> anthony: its beautiful. ♪ >> joe: you know, all of the paintings are novels, so its a dense story, and the more that you look, the more that you learn. and its in non-linear time, you know, like youre exploring a...

I mean, i really did. i would practice for two hours every day but i would like -- i wouldnt tell people. so, these are eggs. which you can get, you know, at the store. if you live in a good neighborhood they will even deliver them to your house. and then, you take water. which, i know you go to all these exotic places, but they used to say that new york had the best water. >> anthony: that is true. >> john: you think its still true? >> anthony: i havent heard anything to say otherwise. >> john:...

Oh my god! im impressed. can you verify exactly what straight means in -- >> anthony: [ bleep ] if i know. >> lydia: no way, honey. even when youre straight, youre not straight. ♪ >> anthony: did you expect to make a living from art? >> lydia: no, of course not. >> anthony: i mean, at no point? >> lydia: no, i just was happy i didnt have to suck [ bleep ] in an iranian shoe store. first of all i thought i would come to new york to do spoken word, but spoken word didnt really exist. so i starte...

>> anthony: there were a lot of freakish, never couldve happened at any other times, it seems to me, bands who had a readymade audience. okay, and you did the same. you can basically say, "i am a rock star." >> lydia: well hey, hey, hey. no, no, no. first of all i never said i was a [ bleep ] star. >> anthony: no, but i mean but not by word, but by deed and deportment. >> lydia: i didnt walk into any place thinking im a star, i walked in thinking, "i got shit to do." i wouldnt say i was a cataly...

Me to the lower east side, and to connect with -- >> anthony: i guess you met glenn obrien. >> freddy: glenn obrien, yup. >> glenn: hi, and welcome to "tv party". fred, why dont you tell us a little about what the holy land looks like? >> freddy: i want you to know. that ive been to the holy land. and the holy land is so funky. its funky. and through that connection is where i met all these people that listened to all these ideas i had, and that was david byrne, chris stein, and debbie harry, an...

>> anthony: do we over romanticize that period? i mean, was it special? >> richard: i think the creation of the mythology of the 70s kind of began in the mid-90s. i can see why people who werent there wish they were there. but it goes against all my instincts to think that way just because, the idea is, we didnt like the way things were, so we decided to change them . >> anthony: have you ever considered writing a dishy memoir? i mean, my god, it would be 800 pages long. >> danny: i cant. you kn...

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Contemporaries, the people around you who werent doing as well. letting each other sleep on each others floor. >> debbie: there was nothing at stake. >> anthony: there was nothing at stake. i just think a lot of people had low expectations, you didnt, you had a plan, right? >> chris: well, no, if we had a plan we wouldve made more money, and not got so completely [ bleep ] over by the industry, as it were. >> debbie: we had a plan to survive. >> chris: yeah, ongoing. >> debbie: we had a plan to ...

Financial success has come from? "hey, ho, lets go!" sung in football and soccer stadiums around the world. and the ramones estates are gathering in more money from five seconds than they ever made -- is that the measure of greatness? or eternity? thats one of them. ♪ >> anthony: so many people died, so many people didnt get recognized. richard hell is still living in the same apartment he lived in 40 years ago. >> danny: who likes to move in new york? youve got a good deal, the neighborhood g...

>> chris: yeah, those guys were sampling stuff. >> debbie: rapping was always just scratching and sampling, so we, you know, made it viably commercial. >> anthony: and then, you know, another earth shattering event, "wild style". >> freddy: i had an idea, if we could make a movie, and show that this rapping, this dancing, and this deejaying was one thing. so i was on a trip to germany not long after the film had aired, and i see these kids break-dancing. im like, "what the hell is going on?" as ...