Well hello and welcome, join me in New York. Coming up in this video it's what I
got up to yesterday I used to think New York was really glamorous. Used to love the
Velvet Underground Andy Warhol so yesterday I went for a short tour around
Manhattan looking at some film locations studios of Andy Warhol clubs in
Greenwich Village, just to get the taste of all the places I thought so glamorous
years ago. Anyway enough chatter from me let's go take a look
I forgot to mention earlier it's time for the montage.
Yeah that building behind me you may recognise. It's the ghostbusters
fire station
This is what I love about New York, the everyday things. Look at that crazy parking
behind me. What do you do if your car's on the top?
Just drive it off maybe.
Right, to all the Beastie Boys fans excuse the noise this is New York. Behind
me, that was Paul's Boutique
now it's just a another food place selling anonymous wraps, bit of a shame.
Anyway that's it, classic Beastie Boys album.
Coffee break time, well so far we've done the Ghostbusters fire station.
The Beastie Boys Paul's boutique shop which is now a gourmet wrap place.
Now, we're heading up to Union Square then it's over to Washington Square.
For some Bob Dylan stuff. It's quite good, this an area of New York I've
never seen before.
Well hello, place behind me, the tall building, the second one in. That's 33 Union Square,
it's where Andy Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanas in 1968.
Right
that building behind me, the one sandwiched between the two tall buildings.
That one there, that was Max's Kansas City, a famous venue in the 70s for
Blondie, Talking Heads, The Ramones they all played there and now it's another
generic
diner, what a shame.
Right behind me being redeveloped is the famous Chelsea Hotel.
Shall we quote Leornard Cohen, you have to, you can't mention Chelsea Hotel
without Leonard Cohen 'I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel' as you can see it's being
really heavily redeveloped so it's probably going to end up being some
uber-cool hotel with no character whatsoever. Probably with a Starbucks or
something really bland in it. Anyway that's my rant, onward.
Behind me, that pub on the corner is the White Horse Tavern. Famous for the drunken
exploits for writers and poets in the 50s and one of those was Dylan Thomas.
It's where he had his last drink before he collapsed and died when he was doing
his poetry tour of New York. There's some strange people around here at the moment.
This street may seem quite insignificant but were in Greenwich Village and this
was the street where they took the famous photograph of Bob Dylan for the
cover of the Freewheelin Bob Dylan album.
Right some more facts, I'm full of facts today. Right that club behind me the
original one was where Bob Dylan used to play in the early 60s and where in 1966
Chas Chandler first saw Jimi Hendrix play. And that went OK. Well not so much
for Jimi Hendrix who ended up dead but his career took off.