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Think I'll start collecting now for a Ft. Tryon Park bench nameplate...
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"Listen, I know you don't know me but my name is Jim Carroll and I have a band called The Jim Carroll Band and I am on Rolling Stones Records and Tapes. I have a single coming out next month called "People Who Died". I just this minute got back from England and what I have here in my hand is a copy of the new Rolling Stones album called "Some Girls". This THE ONLY COPY THAT EXISTS IN THE UNITED STATES. I haven't even heard it. Nobody has heard it, not one single person in the U.S. has heard it, but YOU can be the first. My only question to you is: DO YOU HAVE A STEREO?"
Now wait a second, yes I had a stereo, a very nice one as a matter of fact. More importantly I also had a fair amount of drugs in my room that took a whole day of hustling to get and I wasn't about to let this trio of losers bust into my room and take my shit.
The album did look authentic though with the Rolling Stones logo and what have you so I let them in.
As everyone knows the first song is "Miss You" which begins the that opening line "nah nah nah nanana" in falsetto. We all had a hard time figuring out if I had the turntable set at the right speed but of course I did.
We listened to both sides of this fabulous album. On the way out Jim flipped a paper back book to me which of course was "Basketball Diaries" and said:
"Check it out, this is the story of my life. One day you can say you met me."
Now I am glad to say that I did.
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I saw the Jim Carroll Band on SNL and bought the first album the next day. Only later did I discover his writing.
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R.I.P.
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Nothing was ever really the same after that.
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