HIP TO BE SQUARE
If, as Huey boy says, it’s hip to be square, then meet the hippest Squares of all. The Washington Squares—Lauren Agnelli, Tom Goodkind and Bruce Paskow—are neobeatniks from that quaint bohemian mecca, Greenwich Village. They wear sunglasses and strum acoustic guitars.
HIP TO BE SQUARE
If, as Huey boy says, it’s hip to be square, then meet the hippest Squares of all. The Washington Squares—Lauren Agnelli, Tom Goodkind and Bruce Paskow—are neobeatniks from that quaint bohemian mecca, Greenwich Village. They wear sunglasses and strum acoustic guitars. They have an album; they call their music rock-folk.
Sure, I know what yer thinkin’, but no, it ain’t Peter, Paul & Mary attempting to relive their past. PP&M never opened concerts for Joan Jett or sang the MTV news. Nor did those ancient dragon puffers ever do a folk version of "In A Gadda Da Vida.” Never had a hit album on the college radio charts (only ’cause there weren’t any in their day) or named Lou Reed and Patti Smith as major influences either.
“We just want to give folk music to another generation,” says Tom Goodkind, who, like the others, left a successful New York new wave band to start the Squares in ’83. “The people who are picking up the album are for the most part college people. They’re looking at it as a totally new sound. I’ve heard it played between hardcore records on the radio.”