When I first met y'all for that Public Access TV shoot we did with Guy R. in that winter of 1987, you could not have convinced me that you were not rock stars. I was a painfully introverted and insecure kid who'd just moved from the suburbs into a transient hotel, taken acid for the first time and dropped out college a month shy of graduating, and you all seemed to me to be to bona fide rock stars. Even after getting a job at the Reader and working with Baird, my idea of the music business didn't fully change until the day when I drove up to the Musicland on Randolph with a van full of papers and saw a giant Atlantic Records window display with all of your faces on it. There was Baird, up on display looking all soulful and intense, who I had seen only an hour earlier when we'd both loaded our shitty battered delivery vans with newspapers. Oh, duh.... *that's* how it works.
Very cool to hear this, Jeff, and I have to admit that having a window display kind of felt like “making it”. And being on cable tv was seriously amazing at the time. I’m serious. But it was probably the acid.
I’m interested in hearing more of the Jeff Economy story!
Can always rely on Doug to keep it real 😂
When I first met y'all for that Public Access TV shoot we did with Guy R. in that winter of 1987, you could not have convinced me that you were not rock stars. I was a painfully introverted and insecure kid who'd just moved from the suburbs into a transient hotel, taken acid for the first time and dropped out college a month shy of graduating, and you all seemed to me to be to bona fide rock stars. Even after getting a job at the Reader and working with Baird, my idea of the music business didn't fully change until the day when I drove up to the Musicland on Randolph with a van full of papers and saw a giant Atlantic Records window display with all of your faces on it. There was Baird, up on display looking all soulful and intense, who I had seen only an hour earlier when we'd both loaded our shitty battered delivery vans with newspapers. Oh, duh.... *that's* how it works.
Very cool to hear this, Jeff, and I have to admit that having a window display kind of felt like “making it”. And being on cable tv was seriously amazing at the time. I’m serious. But it was probably the acid.
I’m interested in hearing more of the Jeff Economy story!
Thank you... I'm certianly digging yours, ears peeled for the next chapters
I wish I still had my Lived To Tell tee.