More On Jim Carroll
Marty Benjamin sent along these photos from Jim Carroll’s Nippertown performances. Here’s the Jim Carroll Band blasting away at J.B.Scott’s:
And at a solo appearance at QE2, where he read a number of times:
(Photos by Martin Benjamin.)
I saw Jim at JB Scott’s — one of my first concerts, ever.
Saw him again in 2008 at the Iron Horse, and met him, asked him to autograph my tattered copy of Basketball Diaries., to which he kindly obliged.
His reading, The Day I Shot My First Deer, orig. printed in GS magazine, will remain forever memorable story telling.