Meet Me In The Bathroom Book The Strokes
Rebirth and rock and roll in new york city 2001 2011 is an oral history which details the rebirth of the new york rock scene in the new millennium written and compiled by music journalist lizzy goodman.
Meet me in the bathroom book the strokes. C meet me in the bathroom c that s what she said am d7 i don t mind it s true. G g7 yeah they were just two fucks in lust c cmaj7 baby that just don t mean much g g7 you trained me not to love c cmaj7 after you taught me what. The usual rock n roll staples drugs hedonism nervous crackups are here but so too is the overlooked story of the cultural impact of 9 11 and the way it gave thousands of manhattanites the sense of a common generational identity. Drawing on 200 original interviews with james murphy julian casablancas karen o ezra koenig and many others.
Meet me in the bathroom track info. Rebirth and rock and roll in new york city 2001 2011 which has been excerpted in new york magazine and praised by pitchfork spin and rolling stone. A book by music journalist lizzy goodman entailing the history of new york city s rebirth of rock and roll from 2001 to 2011 was named after this song. Anecdotal magic is sprinkled through lizzy goodman s recently published meet me in the bathroom an oral history of the new york rock milieu that included the strokes the yeah yeahs yeahs and interpol.
This is the backdrop of meet me in the bathroom an oral history by lizzy goodman who arrived in new york from her native new mexico in 1999 and was evidently immersed in everything that happened. The resulting 600 page tome meet me in the bathroom is a thrilling hilarious gossip fueled account of the city s musical renaissance post 9 11 from the rise again of rock n roll on the lower. Drawing on 200 original interviews with james murphy julian casablancas karen o ezra koenig and many others. Meet me in the bathroom.
The strokes in 2001 the 2000s new york indie scene is going to be the subject of a new four hour documentary series. Lizzy goodman s meet me in the bathroom. Meet me in the bathroom charts the transformation of the new york music scene in the first decade of the 2000s the bands behind it including the strokes the yeah yeah yeahs lcd soundsystem interpol and vampire weekend and the cultural forces that shaped it from the internet to a booming real estate market that forced artists out of the lower east side to williamsburg. It will be based on lizzy goodman s recent 600 page oral history of the bands of.