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Handsome Dick

PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:39 pm
by earthdog70

Re: Handsome Dick

PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 7:43 am
by scannest
He has always been an angry dude.
I know he recently announced he was leaving his satellite radio gig to concentrate on his new band, Handsome Dick and the Soul Punk Kings. Don't know what that means for future Dictators shows.

Re: Handsome Dick

PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 4:14 pm
by FlexMyHead
As someone blissfully unaware of things New Yawk, is there a reason this sentence was in the article:

with whom he shares access to a large,inexpensive East Village apartment.


Inside joke?

Re: Handsome Dick

PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:18 am
by scannest
FlexMyHead wrote:Inside joke?

I read that as "so, of course, there's gonna be a huge fight over who gets to stay there." Cuz large, inexpensive east village apartments are as rare as unicorns.
Those old school NYC punkers who managed to stay in the city are mostly in the same apartments they've occupied for 30-40 years. Otherwise they couldn't afford the neighbordhood.

Re: Handsome Dick

PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:45 am
by xxxHunterxxx
scannest wrote:
FlexMyHead wrote:Inside joke?

I read that as "so, of course, there's gonna be a huge fight over who gets to stay there." Cuz large, inexpensive east village apartments are as rare as unicorns.
Those old school NYC punkers who managed to stay in the city are mostly in the same apartments they've occupied for 30-40 years. Otherwise they couldn't afford the neighbordhood.


If I’m not mistaken, rent-controlled apartments have inspired a number of murders and Waking Ned Devine situations over the years.

Re: Handsome Dick

PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 1:26 pm
by scannest
I just read that Richard Hell still lives in the same east village apartment he's had since 1975.

Re: Handsome Dick

PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:28 pm
by JGJR
scannest wrote:I just read that Richard Hell still lives in the same east village apartment he's had since 1975.


Yep; Allen Ginsberg was his landlord for many years, too, funny enough. RH was the first example I thought of when you pointed that out the other day.