:00:24
"It was the late seventies,"
:00:25
and Everybody was in the middle of it
:00:27
"The recession, the mile-long lines
to the station"
:00:30
The hostage crisis in Iran
:00:33
"When I look back at it now,"
:00:34
it is amazing I can remeber any of it
:00:36
It feels like snap-shots from
someone else's life
:00:39
All connected by one man...
:00:47
"A guy named Steve Rubell,"
:00:48
...had a dream...
:00:49
to throw the best damn party
the world had ever seen
:00:52
And to make it last forever
:00:54
He built a world that was offered up
as reality
:00:57
Where an eighty year old Disco Queen
could play until dawn
:01:01
"Where models mingled with mechanics,"
:01:03
...plumbers danced with princes
:01:05
It was a place where all labels
were left behind
:01:09
A place where there were no rules
:01:26
In 1979 I was nineteen years old
:01:28
And I had nothing
:01:30
"Now my Dad would say I had more
than he did at my age,"
:01:32
but you know what?
:01:33
"To me,"
:01:34
filling gas tanks at a
Jersey City station...
:01:37
"going to the same dingy bar,
with the same guys"
:01:39
"trying to pick-up on the same chicks,"
:01:41
...was not tons of fun
:01:51
I can't believe you came already!
:01:53
Sorry
:01:56
I'm sorry
:01:59
It was just an...