But before he did, he told me to lose his number, like he never wanted to speak to me again, because I was such a hippie and way out. I was putting together a band and she said, “There’s this guy at the post office, I’ve never heard him play, but I think you guys should meet.” We met over the telephone, and when I described the type of band that I wanted to put together, he slammed the phone down. Bernard was married with a kid I was just 19, 20 years old, and in full-on hippie-party mode, living with my girlfriend and her mom.
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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