Vinyl: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly....

No one was very cool. Lester pretty much. Maybe Jaimie. Devon. That's about it.

The inside looks were the thing. Especially Max's and The Factory. The best live musical performance, unfortunately, came in the pilot. The New York Dolls performing Personality Crisis was revelatory. Who cares if the Arts Center didn't collapse during that show; it was better that way. It would have been great if they had ever hit that note again.

I read your article. It's the most in-depth piece on Vinyl to date. Very well written and insightful. I understand your view that the story could have been told without the depiction of the mob's involvement. I had a family member who was assigned to what can be described as the NYPD's organized crime task force from 1968 until his retirement in 1981. He confirmed that the influence of organized crime on the music business, as well as many other aspects of a host of other businesses, was in full swing and quite entrenched in the city of New York in the era depicted in Vinyl. I agree that the story would have blossomed had it been given the chance to grow and become the epic series you described.