“Band members from Henry
Rollins to the Goo Goo Dolls
said they really appreciated what
he was doing because there
weren’t many people you could
trust when you were out on the
road for months and months,”
said Tozzi. “They said he was
kind of an oasis for them. Randy
even used to let them stay at his
house.”
People had approached Randy
for years to do a film like this,
but no one ever saw it through.
When Tozzi asked Randy for his
help, he was told, “I’ll help you
out all you like but don’t walk
away from it. Just actually do it.”
City Gardens was a huge club
that could hold over a thousand
people. It was so big that the
property probably would have
been too expensive to be found
anywhere else. In Trenton, the
venue lived in isolation. It wasn’t
an old theatre that came with a
long history, it was a rundown
cinderblock building in an area
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