Rock Junket - Greenwich Village Rock Tour

Pittsburgh Larry was our tour guide and knew just about everything you could want to know about Greenwich Village music scene.

Bobby was such a fun tour guide. He knew so many intimate details behind the history of the NY Rock and Roll scene. I took my mom for her birthday and she had such a great time. Bobby shared personal stories and took us to so many places with such rich history of rock and roll. Definitely recommend Bobby and Rock Junket to anyone who wants to enrich their mind and spirit with rock and roll history.

Dylan, Hendrix, the Beat Poets and much more! I'd highly recommend to both locals and tourists alike...and will probably go on Rock Junket's other offerings (East Village, Union Square) as well at some point.

love the tour. told my daughter (loves B.D.) she wants to go on tour when she returns.

whatever you do, DO NOT allow Pittsburgh Larry to slip through your fingers. He made the whole day worthwhile

On every corner in Greenwich Village you can breathe history: Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Stones etc. etc. Wow!! This tour really has it all! Thanks to our wonderful guide for the perfect walk through the sunny Village. We really enjoyed it and will come back soon.

I'm from Norway and I've never actually fancied The Big Apple at all (My prejudice is more in tune with Henry Miller's "An airconditioned nightmare" than Sinatra's New York). But growing up with Dylan and the mythology of Greenwich Village I always knew that if I ever should cross the Atlantic and land in NY, Greenwich Village must be the place to visit. One sunday in march I finally landed - in a bulidingblock at Times Square!! (Novotel, called). And after the first disneyshock - there wasn't even a cracy clown or a wildlooking streetsinger around, just plasticpushers - I went to the Village. And met an overentusiastic streetpoet from Brooklyn, Larry Germack. And although it was quite obvious that the Village had changed - probably for the worse (but then again, who hasn't?) - that streetstrolling down the holy boulevards of broken nostalgia with The Magican of MacDougal street restored my faith - in vinyl and visionary villains of the past. Ok, Cafe Wah? was as outdated and commercialised as expected, The Gaslight was closed, Garric Theatre had become a bank and Zappa is dead, Gerde's Folk city has turned into a synagogue!!, The Bottom End looked like an antiseptic horror from Dante's Inferno, designed for spoiled and richy retrokids (By the way, I actually spotted a whole park nearby Lincoln center dedicated to Dante! - I never knew he took the trip to NY. But then again, I didn't knew either that Schiller used to hang out in Central Park, and Garibaldi used to do his tricks for free in Washington Square Park!). But in Blue Note - another overexpensed, overregulated and shabbyshiny maniachole - I at least met George Duke and showed him my t-shirt from our Yellow Snow Festival in Larvik/Norway. Sorry for you, George, that you had to be marionettemanaged into dealing with us dollarpilgrims! But I still love your music, though, and the concert with you and Stanley Clarke was a hightligt!) And more ups: I found some welequipped record-stores, talked to the look-a-like-Lennon Roy in the amazing Lebowsky-boutiqe in Thomson-street, bought a Horus' eye-ring at the Jokers in Bleeker street and a leather jacket in a gipsyvintage in the same street, and drank lots of decent pints in some charming waterholes - Peculiar pub and The White Horse tavern. But first and foremost, my wife and I spent a golden afternoon with Lightning Larry, the walking Village-quotemachine. The two hour-tour "gravitated" - Larry's favourite-expression - into an inspired four-hour long and lovely learned lecture. We loved every second of it!! Thanks to Larry and the rock junket-entusiasts. The Village has a history and you keep it alive. I've already decided that I will go back sometime. When the trees in Jones Street has put some colors on. In summa theologica: to all you desillusioned vinylfreaks and overeduacted rock'n roll-shitheads out there: Hope has a name: He's called Larry and you find him in The Village on a sunny sunday! Cheers! Kjeld-Willy-The-Pimp-Hansen

Enjoyed every minute of this tour and would like to give special thanks to our guide Larry who's a really great guy with great sense of humour. On the tour itself we saw former residences of Dylan, iconic music venues, the Electric Lady recording studios and places where several album cover shots were taken. The tour lasted around 2 and a half hours and like all good tours ended at a bar. Thanks & best regards, Joe Lowry (Liverpool)

Pittsburgh Larry was a fantastic guide. Tour was awesome, saw many landmarks where certain events took place in the 60s & 70s, many venues and ex-venues, where musicians lived, where album covers were photographed, and heard MANY great stories about the era, that took place in the West Village. Would definitely recommend!

Having done the East Village Tour twice we decided to try out another area of the city. We were not overly familiar with the Village music scene, Larry was a great host, very informed and we could have listened to him all day.