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and she's threatening to call the police
all the time.
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We used to be out at the bar here
with James Baldwin, the writer.
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And he used to puff smoke:
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"This goddamn Irish music!"
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And the whole place would erupt:
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In Washington Square, early days,
it was just a place...
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for people to hang out on Sundays
and talk and play music...
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and kind of jockey around
and express themselves.
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It was a place where you could put it
together so someone could hear a little bit.
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There weren't many concerts in those days.
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People were starting to play little gigs
in these coffeehouses in the Village.
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We called them basket houses.
:37:19
We didn't get paid a dime but we would
pass a little bread basket around...
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after the set
and people would throw change in...
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and then we'd pack up our guitars
and go round to the next club.
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They'd put the singers on in between
beat poets to turn the house, essentially.
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So you'd get...
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three songs, you could sing three songs.
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And what it came down to is...
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if at the end of your three songs
there was still anybody seated...
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in the house, you were fired.
You weren't doing your job.
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Needless to say, we didn't get fired.
That we could do.