Mcneil legs6/20/2023 Cigarettes are, after all, his last remaining vice, or at least they were. McNeil doesn’t live in Los Angeles he’s only passing through, staying in a smoking room in the Standard Hotel. McNeil knows the joint he and Dee Dee Ramone lunched in the hotel restaurant the day of The Ramones’s final show in 1996. Scott Fitzgerald allegedly suffered a heart attack decades earlier. Add to that list the Chateau Marmont, the spot where we’ve chosen to meet and the only hotel with a claim to fame that involves John Bonham riding a Harley through the lobby where F. Here is a slightly longer list of things Legs McNeil likes: Eggs Benedict, Cream (the band), Gary Oldman, and Chloe Webb’s performances in Sid & Nancy, The Dictators, noir, lavish if now-extinct press parties funded by record companies, Hubert Selby Jr.’s Last Exit to Brooklyn (originally recommended to him by Roberta Bayley, who informed him that anyone who hadn’t read it was an asshole), and the history of the 101st Airborne. Here is a brief list of things Legs McNeil hates: needles, The Grateful Dead, the Hardy Boys series, heroin, Robert Christgau (who he claims never truly understood punk), and reality TV.
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