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Punk rock and roll and hip-hop, disco and salsa, the loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists - in the mid-1970s, New York City was a lab where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented, all at once, from one stop to another, by musicians who knew, respected, and borrowed in one another. Offense was everywhere, the federal government was broke, and the city's infrastructure was collapsing; but hire was cheap, and the options for musical exploration were endless. Love Would go to Buildings on Flames is the first booklet to tell the entire account of the era's music scenes and the extraordinary and astonishing ways they intersected. From New Year's Day 1973 to New Year's Eve 1977, the booklet moves panoramically from post-Dylan Greenwich Village, to the arson-scarred South Bronx barrios where salsa and hip-hop were created, to the Lower Manhattan lofts where jazz and classical music were reimagined, to ramshackle clubs like CBGB and the Gallery, where rock and roll and dance music were hot-wired for a fresh generation. Because they remade the music, the musicians at the center of the booklet developed themselves: Willie Colón and the Fania All-Stars booking Yankee Stadium to use salsa to the people, New Jersey locals Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith professing the jungle land of Manhattan as their own, Grandmaster Adobe flash changing the turntable into a musical instrument, and David Byrne and Discussing Heads demonstrating that rock and roll music "ain't no foolin' around". Will Hermes was there - venturing from his indigenous Queens to the small, dark rooms where the revolution was occurring - and in Love Would go to Buildings on Flames he captures the creativeness, drive, and full-out lust forever of the fantastic New York musicians of these years, who knew that the music they were making would change the world.
