“[Maureen Tucker] and I were friends but I always got the feeling that Moe disapproved of everything that the rest of us were doing on some basic level. Moe was raised a catholic and she was pretty strict at the time. She always wore pants. She brought one dress with her on every tour and I remember waking up on a Sunday morning after doing a show the night before and being really bleary eyed and seeing a pair of legs go out the door and realizing that was Moe! She was going to church and I’d never seen her in a dress before. She was very consistent about that. She wouldn’t swear a lot, I would say never but I seem to remember occasionally. She was very proper in a lot of ways. She didn’t expect anybody else to live up to her standards but she would occasionally not allow certain behavior. You weren’t supposed to get into any explicit talk about sex with Moe around. She could drink, though.”
— from an interview w/ Doug Yule circa 1994, describing life on the road circa 1969; via JWB


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