
Jess Harvell's piece on The Misfits' relationship to New Jersey earlier this week sparked some debate from out-of-state residents over which musicians deserved to be elevated to bard status as far as their respective homelands went. I wouldn't try to speak for all of New York, because, well, doing so would be just silly (plus I think that as someone who still calls Rockland County "upstate" from time to time I'd be disqualified from that particular panel by anyone living north of the Bronx). But I do have one nominee for Long Island's most mythical artist... and [...]