For a little over a year, I worked with Legs McNeil, co-author of Please Kill Me and legendary writer who was part of the New York City punk scene in the '70s. I've known Legs since I was a teenager, though it wasn't until I'd written a birthday message to him on PopMatters in early 2011 that we cooked up the idea of working together on a project. That project, Resident Punk, was Legs' autobiography, combining his own writing about his life with my biographical passages. The project is currently on hold, though I'm hopeful we'll pick it up again soon.
Link to: Connect Savannah article.
(Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain will be reading at
the Bay Street Theater on Tuesday, January 29)
Click HERE for other Reading Tour DatesLive through this: A conversation with Legs McNeilPunk music's articulate scribe visits Savannah Jan. 29
“You doing alright Legs?” Joey Ramone asked me one night, shortly after I’d gotten dumped by Billie Bartlet. We were hanging at out one Monday night at Arturo Vega’s loft, the Ramones’ creative director, right around the corner from CBGB’s.