malcolm mclaren came to new york, and saw the voidoids, and went back and built a boy band, and saidrd: yeah, i don't really look at it that way. i mean, ideas are free. i never resented that. but it was funny and strange. >> anthony: cheap rent brought a lot of people together. it wasn't just living spaces were cheap. there were venues where you could put whatever it was you did out there where -- >> richard: yeah, cbgb's didn't exist until we created it. i mean, we went and proposed that we be the house band there. >> this is terrific. this next number's called "i belong to the blank generation". 1, 2, 3. ♪ >> anthony: and then, your band, the voidoids. what were your expectations? >> richard: i wanted everything that anybody who starts a band wants. but i didn't even quite realize how weird and uncommercial i was. >> anthony: you didn't? >> richard: i thought what i was doing was really, um, catchy. >> anthony: do we over romanticize that period? i mean, was it special? >> richard: i think the creation of the mythology of the '70s kind of began in the mid-'90s. i can see why peopl