I didn't know whether I should thank Patti or kill her for it. People talk about you as being one of the last ties to both the beat movement of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, and also of the Andy Warhol's Max's Kansas City, Factory and Velvet Underground scene. The counterculture is all over. I was in Seattle about two weeks ago, and there's still a lot of terrific bands there. And it doesn't have all that in fighting of, like, bands hating each other.
Bands work with each other.
I mean, even bigger bands. I saw Peter Buck from R.E.M., and those guys are the sweetest guys. I don't really make the scene in New York that much anymore. Yeah, he was having a show of his still photographs, and I saw Lou there. And the whole Andy scene really wasn't an underground scene.