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KILLED

Episode 8: The Vibe

KILLED

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Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Vice ditches an oral history about the famously lit McCarren Park pool parties in Brooklyn. Featuring Eleanor Cummins and Patrick Sauer.

Transcript

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The venue was, it was just unbeatable.

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If you're trying to picture it,

0:08.0

Macaron Pool had been closed in the 80s

0:12.0

and basically sat there.

0:14.0

But it turned into what spaces like that turn into

0:18.0

skaters and druggies and graffiti.

0:21.0

So it had this beautiful abandoned aesthetic

0:24.0

and then they turned into a concert venue.

0:27.0

The bookings were amazing.

0:33.0

They had everybody from that era of Brooklyn music,

0:37.0

which was, you know, kind of astonishing

0:39.0

when you start listing the bands that came out of there.

0:42.0

They had TV on the radio, the whole steady

0:45.0

and the driving rainstorm.

0:47.0

They had thermals.

0:49.0

They had Matt and Kim.

0:52.0

Ronnie Specter played there.

0:54.0

Regina Specter played there.

0:56.0

All the specters.

0:58.0

I would say the one show I did not see,

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which I cannot believe I didn't go to,

1:03.0

is the only time the Beastie Boys ever played in Brooklyn.

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