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(A Kinda Album Review of Bowie’s The Next Day) ORIGINAL EDIT OF LEGS McNEIL’S VICE COLUMN FOR 6-5-13: While I was perusing the records in the Williamsburg hipster record store, in my on-going attempt to rebuild my vinyl collection, I...
1977- the hipster
SEEDS OF DISCONTENT
The way that I met Greg Ginn was through his younger sister, Erica, while I was working at this record store, Rubicon, on Pier Avenue in Hermosa Beach in 1975. The gentleman who owned the record store, Michael, had a mad crush on Erica. So Greg Ginn would walk down to the record store with his sister—and Erica and Michael would go off to do whatever young lovers do—hold hands and watch the seagulls fly or the surfers on Hermosa Beach. You know, they’d get lunch or beer or cigarettes, and I would be left to run the record store while Greg Ginn hung around, waiting for his sister.
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