Re: (TV) Re: Tom pic bargain-bin hunting/bookstore shopping

[Jesse Hochstadt <jesseh58@yahoo.com>]

Yeah, pretty sure it was Mojo. My anecdote would have taken place around 1993 or 
1994.

- Jesse



----- Original Message ----
> From: leif joley <leifjoley@hotmail.com>
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Sent: Tue, May 17, 2011 6:24:50 PM
> Subject: RE: (TV) Re: Tom pic bargain-bin hunting/bookstore shopping
> 
> Not only New Yorkers. The store may have been Mojo Guitar Shop at St  Marks
> Place. Still have their business card here at home. Got it in '99  when
> Swedish-American singer Bibi Farber guided me to this place, apparently  to 
get
> me to see some celebrities who used to hang out there. Sure enough --  Quine
> was inside, bald and with sunglasses. Bibi Farber was somehow a bit  
acquainted
> with him, so she introduced me as a Swedish journalist and we  shook hands. 
She
> then also informed him that I was in town to make an  interview with Richard
> Hell. Quine just said "really?" or something. Outside  the store, she told me
> that she wasn't sure about what kind of reaction this  info would cause, since
> these two men were not on good terms; given Quine's  reputed temper I might've
> got in serious trouble. At this moment, on the  sidewalk, a bicyclist with a
> bike helmet arrived, parked the vehicle and went  inside. "And that was Marc
> Ribot", she told me. So these two may have been  regulars in this place.
> 
> Leif J, Sweden
> 
> -- who just came home from  Pere Ubu's "Annotated Modern Dance" show in town.
> After the performance, the  members sold merchandise from the stage. Bought
> "Long live Pere Ubu" from  2009 and got to shake David Thomas's hand.
> 
> 
> 
> > Date: Tue, 17 May  2011 11:56:54 -0700
> > From: jesseh58@yahoo.com
> > Subject: Re:  (TV) Re: Tom pic bargain-bin hunting/bookstore shopping
> > To: tv@obbard.com
> >
> > One beautiful  spring day, my then-rooommate wanted to go to a guitar store
> in
> > the  East Village; I forget which one. (He was a player; I wasn't.) When  we
> got
> > there, there were two men, one bald-headed, on stools trying  out 
instruments
> > together. After a while they got up, thanked the owner,  and left. He said
> with a
> > smile, "Any day Marc Ribot and Bob Quine  come in is a good day."
> >
> > (I'm sure other New Yorkers here have  similar stories.)
> >
> > - Jesse
> >
> >
> >
> > -----  Original Message ----
> > > From: postitnote <postitnote@sbcglobal.net>
> >  > To: tv@obbard.com
> > > Sent: Mon, May 16,  2011 5:19:03 PM
> > > Subject: Re: (TV) Re: Tom pic bargain-bin  hunting/bookstore shopping
> > >
> > > Yes, I'm commenting on the  pic that I posted. haha The owner of this
> store
> > > did the right  thing. If I owned a record store and Tom came in to buy
> some
> > >  albums for his collection...I would say..."Yeah, for you Tom those are  
>all
> on
> > > the house...enjoy!"
> > >
> > > In that  book I talked about earlier...that Blondie book, I forget the
> title
> >  > sorry. The guy Gary Valentine, after he was no longer in Blondie,  he
> > > eventually moved to England and he said he owned a new-age type  of
> bookstore
> > > there. He said that one time he saw Tom in his  store browsing through the
> > > used section. He came over and  introduced himself to Tom but Tom kinda
> > > ignored him he said. Tom  prob ignored him due to the fact that he had 
been
> > >in
> > >  Blondie...not exactly his fav band.
> > >
> > > D.
> >  >
> > > --- On Mon, 5/16/11, postitnote <postitnote@sbcglobal.net>  wrote:
> > >
> > > From: postitnote <postitnote@sbcglobal.net>
> >  > Subject: (TV) Re: Tom pic bargain-bin hunting
> > > To: tv@obbard.com
> > > Date: Monday, May 16,  2011, 7:23 AM
> > >
> > > ;
> > >  http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0097009/photos/kandykorn/110584676/
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