Listened to the first episode of Season 6 of I Miss… Radio on Apple Podcasts today. Season 6 is devoted to the punk scene and this episode was a glorious romp through the 1950s and 1960s music scene that led to punk music in New York in the early 1970s.

My family moved to NYC in the mid-1970s when I was in my teens. By the end of that decade, punk and its adjacent genres, New Wave and electronic pop, were a huge part of my life. I played in a number of bands with friends and had the pleasure of being able to say that I got paid for a Tuesday night gig at at CBGB’s (I think it was $50).

It was a glorious time to be part of that music scene.