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b'Punk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982\\xa0is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcade\\u2019s first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding up in New York City and becoming immersed in the early punk rock scene. From backrooms of Max\\u2019s and CBGB\\u2019s to the Tropicana Hotel in Los Angeles and back,\\xa0Punk Avenue\\xa0is a tour de force of stories from someone at the heart of the era. With brilliant, often hilarious prose, Marcade relays first-hand tales about spending a Provincetown summer with photographer Nan Goldin and actor-writer Cookie Mueller, having the Ramones play their very first gig at his party, working with Blondie\\u2019s Debbie Harry on French lyrics for her songs, enjoying Thanksgiving with Johnny Thunders\\u2019 mother, and starting the beloved NYC punk-blues band The Senders. Along the way, he smokes a joint with Bob Marley, falls down a mountain, gets attacked by Nancy Spungen\\u2019s junkie cat, become a junkie himself, adopts a dog who eats his pot, opens for The Clash at Bond\\u2019s Casino, opens a store named Rebop on Seventh Avenue, throws up in some girl\\u2019s mouth, talks about vacuum cleaners with Sid Vicious,\\xa0lives thru the Blackout of 1977, gets glue in his eye, gets mugged at knife point, plays drums with Johnny Thunders\\u2019 band Gang War, sets some guy\\u2019s attache-case on fire, listens to pre-famous Madonna singing in the rehearsal studio next to his, gets mugged at gun point, O.D.s on heroin, gets saved by a gentle giant named Bill, lives at night? Never sleeps?'