I picked up my copy of Hello! on vinyl at my first show at the Odd Rock Cafe in Milwaukee in 1989. I been listening to the live clips from the MTV News bit, and I was blow away by the show so I was majorly disappointed when I put on the LP and found that it sounded nothing like the band that I had just seen. I didn know at the time that over half the songs they played at that show wouldn even be recorded until Scumdogs came out a year later..DAVID: Is that an understatement about the technological masterpiece? Because this is, whatever else it is, not a very well made film. You have to say that. I mean, I know that they are inexperienced, Sunny is inexperienced, but it is basically not much more than a home movie.

By the time I reached high school, the "Tonight" show struck me as somehow too phoney, too Establishment. My ardour had cooled. But as a child, I loved it, not just for Carson, but also for the version of New York it signified: glamorous, witty, grownup