LEGS MCNEIL is co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, and is the coauthor (with Jen Osborne) of The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry. He was the former Resident Punk at Punk magazine, and a senior editor at Spin.
In my ongoing attempt to rebuild my vinyl collection, I was recently perusing a Brooklyn hipster record store and came across the new David Bowie album, The Next Day. I've been enjoying quite a few lesser-known Bowie cuts lately, so I decided to throw caution to the wind and really get wild. I bought the record.
This is a real feat for me, as I've never bought a record on faith alone. I'd been hearing good things about the record, and I was curious to hear what an artist like Bowie had to say at the end of his career or—if the rumors are true about his having cancer—at the end of his life.
April 25 – 8pm 
FRIDAY NIGHT
April 12 9pm
La Cita Bar
336 S. Hill Street
Downtown
Los Angeles, CA 90013
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Interview by Chris Ziegler
There's no single definitive history of punk, just like there's no single definitive punk record. (Although trying to find one is lots of fun!) But Leg's McNeil's book Please Kill Me has probably pulled in at lease as many people toward the Ramones and Iggy Pop as the music itself. Published with co-author Gillian McCain in 1997 Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk has become McNeil's best-known work, a touchstone of music history that's even taught in certain universities, where good students get to learn in detail just how depraved rock 'n' roll could be.
WEDNESDAY, JAN 30TH 2013
The Star Community Bar
437 Moreland Ave
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30307
http://starbaratlanta.com
Creative Loafing Atlanta interview
Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
Rebus Works
301-2 Kinsey St., Raleigh
Jan. 26, 7 p.m.
$5
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