Chelsea Portraits - This Ain't no Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980-1995 - page 192

Then they went to Greece and stayed at this really chichi resort. There, he
ripped this door off the wall. He could be totally totally nuts. I think he was forty
forty-two at the time.
One time Scott was going to go down to the South and do grave rubbings of
the great blues artists. My friend Yves Bevais, a producer at Atlantic, hooked me
up with Robert Palmer, who wrote Deep Blues, 109 an awesome book. So I called
RobertPalmeronthephoneandhetalkedtomeforanhourortwo,justasniceas
hecouldbe.HehookedScottupandtoldhimwheretogoanddograverubbings
of all the Blues singers down south. Then, on the same trip, he did Martin Luther
King's grave. Evidently, the Martin Luther King monument is on the other side
of this huge fountain. So he had to go there in the middle of the night, and wade
across this huge pool, and there were overhead lights he had to avoid. It turned
out to be a huge, huge rubbing.
I would buy one of Scott's paintings from him for about three-hundred-fifty
dollars. And then I had this picture framer who would frame it for me for one-
hundred-twenty-five dollars. He would come in from Brooklyn. He did a great
job, and then I would turn around and sell them for eleven hundred dollars. But I
never really tried to make a whole lot of money that way.
STEVE HOUSE
It was great hanging out with Scott when he was fine. But when people were
way too high, it would be awful. People would be yelling at each other, “Get
out!”There'dbetheseweirdgayfights.StuffwhereI'dtakemytallboyandsay,
“Okay! I'll see ya!”
I was around sometimes when Scott was doing his paintings, though, which
was absolutely great! He did the cover for one of our cassettes, a grave rubbing.
Heinspiredmetodoit.IwentouttoQueensandfoundJohnnyThunders'grave-
stone. It took me hours to find the grave. I walked up and down every row and
found his situated at the bottom of some other family member It said 'Johnny
Genzale, aka JohnnyThunders,' and it was onthe same stone as Bobby Genzale.
And I filmed myself rubbing it.
ROBERT CAMPBELL
Somehow through his connections, once Scott got these two silk Donna Karan
suits. One of them was off-white, and the other was dark blue—both made of
beautiful silk. He would wear them with flip flops on his feet, which back then
was unheard of. He'd go to these graves and use these big rock-like pieces of
crayon. He would get these crayon marks all over these beautiful jackets.