Re: (TV) Please Kill Me. No, not me. The Book.

["MICHAEL CARLUCCI" <subterraneannyc@mindspring.com>]

    One of the funniest paragraphs in Please Kill Me is that Legs
McNeil actually had the balls to say that Patti Smith wanted him!
She put her hands down his pants and he had to tell her to back off.
Patti found this sort of amusing. She was hanging out with guys like
Tom Verlaine, Sam Shepard, & Alan Lanier, why would she want to go to bed
with a troll like Legs McNeil.(BTW, not my words). So yes, there's alot
of B.S. and self congratulatory shoulder patting going on. Marty Thau was
then and still is a sleaze. He's figured out 3 different ways to package
and repackage "Songs Of The Naked City" and still not pay the artists.
He's such a pig. He more recently tried to put out the NY Dolls "7 Day
Weekend"
CD/LP. Initially was a bootleg. Then Sylvain took that CD and made into a
legit CD. Marty's argument was that the band was his in those days so
he should be entitled to put it out. He was up against a founding member
and really hadn't a leg to stand on. So he took whatever he could get
out of it and made a vinyl pressing of it for here and also licensed
it in Europe for vinyl only. Knowing all the while that Sylvain would
never be able to sue him for the few $ that he made from the LP. Ask
Marty if he ever paid the band their royalties for that LP. I bet not.
Once a pig, always a pig. I could go on, but I better stop. Certain names
just bring out the anger in me. Thau is one of them. M T C
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>From: "Jeremy Smith" <jeremy_ni_smith@hotmail.com>
>To: <tv@obbard.com>
>Subject: Re: (TV) Please Kill Me. No, not me. The Book.
>Date: Fri, Feb 18, 2000, 11:27 AM
>

>Actually, I thought "Please kill me" was quite good in a tabloid sort of
>way. Its certainly a better read than "from the Velvets to the Voidoids".
>It's also much less sordid than Go Now which made me think a lot less of
>Richard Hell.
>
>Carburettor dung is great but a bit long. What is really sad is that Hunter
>Thompson never wrote a rock book. If he could bring a campaign trail to
>life, then I think I would have enjoyed his description of say, a Led
>Zeppelin tour.
>
>A great fictional rock book is "the Tale of Willy's Rats" by Mick Farren.
>It's still a little sordid but a great read.
>
>Regards
>
>Jeremy (UK)
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Philip P. Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>
>To: <tv@obbard.com>
>Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 4:12 PM
>Subject: Re: (TV) Please Kill Me. No, not me. The Book.
>
>
>> Ok ok ok OK OK OK ok OK OKAY! We get it, you didn't like the book.
>>
>> --- jpg@sirius.com wrote:
>> > It's just a bunch of junkies talking shit.
>> >
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