![]() Her mom worked with Bernard at the general post office across from Madison Square Garden. I met Bernard Edwards through the mom of my then-girlfriend. Listen to Jody Rosen’s New York Pop Playlist In just three short years, I already learned how to play guitar because I was a good music reader and applying music theory, and that made all the difference in the world. By 19, I was working professionally with Sesame Street. Guitar was the instrument of the hippie era, and I’m a hippie. But because of the politics of the time, nobody wanted to date a clarinet player. I started with the flute, and then the clarinet-I was a classical musician. ![]() I didn’t pick up the guitar until I was 16. They moved here because Greenwich Village was the place to be. ![]() They were mega-bohemian-and heroin addicts. I’d walk down the street and I thought I was in an adventure every day because the only people around were adults, and they were Beatniks and were cool and fascinating and wonderful-you would see very, very famous people all the time. ![]() I grew up in the West Village, in the late fifties and sixties, when this area was light-industry manufacturing and butchers. ![]()
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