New Jersey Stage January 2015 | Page 13

Well, things change and I’m glad to be alive to see the change. There are some great clubs for their time that are no longer here because their time is no longer here. But I think there’s probably twenty times as many clubs now say in Brooklyn or around New York than there were in the seventies when there were two or three clubs. So, those two or three originators are gone but they’ve left two or three hundred around. I mean, there’s plenty of places to go and plenty of bands to see. Each generation needs their own scene, don’t they? Yeah, I mean I didn’t go to the Stork Club and I wouldn’t actually want to go back to CBGBs today with that same crowd. Things change and I don’t have nostalgia for the past. It was fun to do it, but I wouldn’t want to go back to it. Interview from Gruen’s exhibition in Buenos Aires Read each issue at www.NJArtsMag.com pg 13