- Hi I'm Michael Bacon, one half of the Bacon Brothers.
- And I'm Kevin Bacon, the other half of the Bacon Brothers.
- And you're watching Coffee With New York.
(jazz music)
(glasses clink)
- I came to New York in 1976.
When I first got there I was 17.
And I literally came to New York City
with a suitcase and a dream.
Our mom was born and raised in New York.
There was always a little bit of a message from her -
our father was like a Philadelphian, you know?
His life's blood was that city.
I think our mom was always secretly whispering
in our ear, you know, you really should get to New York.
- I got married in 1972 and my wife and I moved
to Nashville and we were there for eight years.
And the Today Show, every morning, they would
always have an exterior camera on the streets
of New York and the longer I was in Nashville
every time I would see these things
I would go that's where I'm supposed to be.
I decided that I had to go there
and I arrived in New York with a suitcase,
but also a wife and a child too.
And an apartment had opened up right
above Kevin's apartment on the third floor.
- They were both really small one bedrooms.
You know, I was single and he had the wife and a child
and his son slept in the closet, right didn't you put him -
- That is a complete myth my wife perpetuated.
(Kevin Laughs)
I never put our son in the closet.
- So I get to New York, and I'm working
as a bus boy and I'm in acting school
and I'm sleeping on my sister's couch
and I saw this sign that said actors,
dancers, musicians, artist high rise.
So I went to this building -
to call it a flop house is really being generous.
They called it the Hotel Bretton Hall
and I walked into the rental office
and I had decided that my budget -
this is 1976 - was 150 dollars.
The guy said, we don't have any available right now
but we do have a two bedroom -
what he described as a two bedroom.
I don't have a roommate and I'm sitting
on the couch and he points at the
guy next to me and said what about this guy?
And I looked at the guy and I went, you wanna?
And he went, okay.
And it was not even close to being
a two bedroom, it was a one bedroom.
I slept on the kitchen on the floor.
In order to get to his bedroom,
he had to walk through my room
and in order for me to get to the bathroom
I had to walk through his bedroom.
It was always very awkward, you know in dating situations.
(jazz music)
Both of us are back from the days
when these were covered with Greek statues.
I loved the Greek diners and the coffee.
And being able to go into a Greek coffee shop
or a bodega and say dark and sweet
or whatever it is and they just immediately get it.
It was a different kind of coffee shop and
there's less and less of those.
I have to say I sort of I miss those,
I don't want them all to go away.
- Sensuous Bean, 70th and Columbus.
Little tiny place, been there for years.
Fantastic coffee.
- [Kevin] Mom and Pop joint?
- Yeah, definitely.
- Which is, you know, cool.
I really liked grind my own every morning
and we're always like bouncing back
and forth between a new bean.
And at this point I'm 100 percent,
like I like really good coffee
and I'm always a little bit disappointed
when I get coffee out, it's never
as good as the coffee we make at home.
(jazz music)
From the first time I moved to New York,
I started to explore Central Park
a lot of times on roller skates - it's pre roller blades.
And I was really super into roller disco dancing.
And in the exact same spot, just south of 72nd street,
sort of like smack dab in the middle of it,
Bethesda Fountain, is still on the weekends
a spot where people roller disco.
So as a result of that exploration,
I really know, I think, almost every inch of Central Park.
And one of my favorite spots, it's about 103rd street.
There's a pond up there with a beautiful
path through the woods, it's like breath taking.
- The first thing that pops in my mind
is 79th street Boat Basin, it's very popular.
It's getting really really crowded,
really difficult to get into.
But that's - in the summer - that's to me
it's like living on the beach.
- It's pretty amazing, I mean when there's
so many of us walking down the street,
riding the subway, navigating between the cars
and the cyclists, that we're able to just sort of
like do this like dance all day
and not just beating the shit out of each other, you know?
- Taking off of what Kevin is saying,
if you go to any other city - Philly, Denver -
people go into a store people don't gotta line up.
(Kevin laughing)
In New York you walk into a coffee shop -
there's the line and it works perfectly.
- It's like everybody understands that that's the deal.
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(tambourine)
- [Man] Okay.
- Alright.
♫ (Bacon Brothers music)
- Our motor is our song writing and if we have
new songs we want to record them to get them out.
I think we had nine songs ready to go.
- It's really good to tour with a song.
You just learn a lot playing it over
and over and over again.
Playing it night after night.
Playing it for people, seeing the reactions people have.
You just find stuff groove wise and tempo wise.
- Six months ago I don't think we even thought
we'd have another record, but now it's, you know,
it's gettin ready so we're pretty excited about that.
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