V/A feat. Russell Simins / Bob Bert – If We Build The Stage, Can We Play?: Part Two / Three (PRESS, US)

PART TWO – AIDS, Drugs, Pyramid Club and MTV: An Elegant Mess

When Levi Dexter and manager Leee Black Childers landed in New York, Robert Gordon was already a well-established rockabilly star; but it was Levi & The Rockats who really inspired the Stray Cats and gave birth to neo-rockabilly.

Following the success of Studio 54, dance clubs were springing up like mushrooms in NYC: Mudd Club, Pyramid Club, Danceteria, Club 57; never before had New York so much fun dancing… until the AIDS epidemic devastated the art world.

PART THREE – Behind The Green Door: Backyard Curse & Repression:

Early 1990s, all eyes are on Seattle. The record companies’ love affair with grunge frustrates the New York bands.

D Generation is the biggest thing happening in town since The Heartbreakers.
Thanks to Rudy Giuliani, rock clubs and gay clubs are forced to close. The New York City nightlife is decimated. It is the start of an irreversible gentrification.
In the late 1990s, The Mooney Suzuki are the precursors of a new and vibrant New York rock scene. A blessing to start the new millennium.

Featuring:
Johnny DYNELL • Russell SIMINS • Todd RADICT • Curt GOVE • Eleanor WHITLEDGE • Brad WORRELL • Stormy SHEPHERD • TRIGGER • Jesse MALIN • Danny SAGE • Howie PYRO • Johnny T • Nick MARC • Gina VOLPE • Lindsey ANDERSON • Brijitte WEST • George TABB • Eli JANNEY • James CANTY • Sammy JAMES Jr.