I may have overestimated the appetite for this type of thing since posting the first quiz, its spotty answers and the accompanying addendum. Personally speaking, I love this type of trivial nonsense, but maybe not everyone does. In any case, here's another round of photographs. As before, I'm issuing the challenge to (A) name the personages involved, (B) the exact location depicted and (C) the photographer or filmmaker responsible for the image.
As you may remember, the first quiz was a bit of a mixed bag. In some instances, I didn't even know all the correct answers myself, and one picture (that of the Dictators) probably wasn't even shot in Manhattan. With this bunch, I assure you -- they're all from here in New York, New York. Let's see who can pinpoint the details. Some are ridiculously easy, while others are a bit more far-flung. They'll start off simple and get progressively more difficult as they go.
Think you're up for it? Give it a shot.
GO!
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...and for this last one, you'll get a bonus point if you can name where a lovingly framed print of the picture can be glimpsed by the public.
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Answers will come in a little while. Stay tuned.
1. Beasties 6th/50th
2. Kiss, 6th/50th, ie the other side of the road if I'm not mistaken
3. John Cale is it 6th Ave and 54th?
4. U2 5th ave?
5. Bob, Suze and Dave Van Ronk? I know that building, isn't it on Bleecker, out far west?
6. X-Ray Spex 6th Ave and 14th?
7. Monty Python. Crosby St?
8. The Who - NY Public Library?
9. The Cure - Looks like 6th Ave around 3rd St (am I spotting a pattern or am I just completely off)
10. No Idea
11. Lydia Lunch, so it must be LES somewhere
12. Mick Jones, also looks like 6th Ave in the Village
Posted by: Little Johnny Jewel | May 25, 2011 at 12:48 PM
Oops I mis-counted. Insert
11. Firewater
and move the rest down one.
Posted by: Little Johnny Jewel | May 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM
MOTHERHEAD BUG, not Firewater...
Posted by: HF | May 26, 2011 at 12:43 AM
Oh, I'm looking at the wrong number! Motherhead Bug is 10. And to think they used to fit all those people, with two drum kits, trombones, and cellos all onto that little stage at CBs...
Posted by: HF | May 26, 2011 at 12:47 AM
7. Monty Python at City Center, W 55th Street betw. 6th & 7th Aves
Posted by: prunella | May 26, 2011 at 12:49 AM
>7. Monty Python at City Center
That's it! They recorded a live album there.
Posted by: Little Johnny Jewel | May 26, 2011 at 09:47 AM
2. Kiss are on Sixth by those terrific fountains between 54th and 55th.
3. That's the Hilton behind John Cale, but I think he's sitting on the SE corner of Sixth & 53rd.
4. U2 are walking up Fifth at 59th.
5. I've seen that Bob and Suze pic before. It looks like that complicated area somewhere near Bedford/Grove/Hudson?
6. NW corner of Broadway & 46th. I was tipped off by the Howard Johnson's in the background that was at 1546 Broadway. It closed in the late-80s.
http://www.hojoland.com/hojosnyc.html
13. Mick Jones appears to have just made a purchase at Trash & Vaudeville: that wide avenue suggests 3rd/Astor Place.
Posted by: James Taylor | May 26, 2011 at 10:57 AM
#2 - Pretty sure the Kiss photo was shot by Waring Abbott.
Posted by: BKNYCDreamin | May 26, 2011 at 04:50 PM
you should also post this at the new york nobody sings...
Posted by: esquared | May 27, 2011 at 01:23 PM