But the turn-of-the-century Brooklyn rockers TV on the Radio won’t sugarcoat it: Things really were better back then.
“It was better,” said the multi-instrumentalist Jaleel Bunton, 50, over dinner in Greenpoint last week, without even a moment’s hesitation.
“It was way better than this,” the singer and songwriter Tunde Adebimpe, 49, concurred.
“Not going to lie.”At the time, starting a scrappy rock band in nearby Williamsburg, where Bunton and the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kyp Malone, 51, have lived since the Bloomberg era, was the practical thing to do.
Hermès and Chanel had not yet set up shop, and artists of all sorts took advantage of the neighborhood’s cheap rent and feckless enforcement of the building code.
Persons:
”, Jaleel Bunton, Tunde Adebimpe, “, Bunton, Kyp Malone, Chanel
Organizations:
TV, Bloomberg
Locations:
Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Los Angeles
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