Installment Vol.1 Page 6

THE YEAR WAS 1974, the middle of a recession.
It was a struggle just to keep going. People had no money but at least rents were cheap,and living was pretty easy. I lived in the back of the club and worked day and night trying to support the place by doing art and household moving jobs.
The drinking age was still 18 in N.Y. so a lot of young people got involved in rock.
The city was in decay. These were drab uninspiring years. Coming to an end was thegreat social upheaval of the sixties.

And here we were :

1973 Roe verses Wade(last socially significant achievement)
1974 Nixon impeached(scandal... big time)
1975 End of Vietnam War (clump)

It was a period of dismay for young people. They were disoriented. They were trying to find something of their own to hold on to.
The world was in flux, a transition period. CBGB to many became a place where they could express frustrations, desires, anxieties and maybe even dreams.

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