Patti Smith at CBGBs Oct 15 2006

[schwenko]

It's my understanding that this will be broadcast live on Sirius radio.
In addition, I've heard that you can get a free 3 day subscription to Sirius.
Can anyone confirm? If so, do I need a special radio to hear it ?(I think I do).

[Crescent Fresh]

You can listen online if you have an account....you can also get a 3 day online trial.
However, not all channels are available online (talk, news, comedy, sports, etc).

[schwenko]

Live video NOW!!

http://cbgb.com/livestreams.htm

[schwenko]

from the NY Times
By RICHARD HELL
Published: October 14, 2006

CBGB’S shuts down this weekend.

There’s not too much left to say about the character of the joint. It’s the most famous rock ’n’ roll club in the world, the most famous that there ever has been, and it’s just as famously a horrendous dump. It’s the archetypal, the ur, dim and dirty, loud, smelly and ugly nowhere little rock ’n’ roll club. There’s one not much different from it in every burg in the country.

Only, like a lot of New York, CBGB’s is more so, way more so. And of course, for three or four years in the mid-70’s, it housed the most influential cluster of bands ever to grow up — or to implicitly reject the concept of growing up — under one roof.

On practically any weekend from 1974 to 76 you could see one or more of the following groups (here listed in approximate chronological order) in the often half-empty 300-capacity club: Television, the Ramones, Suicide, the Patti Smith Group, Blondie, the Dictators, the Heartbreakers, Talking Heads, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Dead Boys. Not to mention some often equally terrific (or equally pathetic) groups that aren’t as well remembered, like the Miamis and the Marbles and the Erasers and the Student Teachers. Nearly all the members of these bands treated the club as a headquarters — as home. It was a private world. We dreamed it up. It flowered out of our imaginations.

How often do you get to do that? That’s what you want as a kid, and that’s what we were able to do at CBGB’s. It makes me think of that Elvis Presley quotation: “When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times.” We dreamed CBGB’s into existence.

The owner of the club, Hilly Kristal, never said no. That was his genius. Though it’s dumb to use the word genius about what happened there. It was all a dream. Many of us were drunk or stoned half our waking hours, after all. The thing is, we were young there. You don’t get that back. Even children know that. They don’t want their old stuff thrown away. Everything should be kept. I regret everything I’ve ever thrown away.

CBGB’s was like a big playhouse, site of conspiracies, orgies, delirium, refuge, boredom, meanness, jealousy, kindness, but most of all youth. Things felt and done the first time are more vivid. CBGB’s is where many things were felt with that vividness. That feeling is the real identity of the club, to me. And it’s horrible, or at least seriously sad, to lose it. But then, apparently, we aren’t really going to lose it.

CBGB’s is going to be dismantled and reconstructed as an exhibit in Las Vegas, like Elvis. I like that. A lot. I really hope it happens as intended.

It’s occurred to me that Hilly’s genius passivity is something he has in common with Andy Warhol. Another trait of Warhol’s was that he fanatically tried to keep or record everything that ever happened in his vicinity, from junk mail in “time capsules” to small talk to newspaper front pages and movie star publicity shots to 24 hours of the Empire State Building.

We all know that nothing lasts. But at least we can make a cool and funny exhibit of it.

I’m serious. God likes change and a joke. God loves CBGB’s.

[Ollie Stench]

I played there once in October of 1988. For a schmo from the middle of nowhere that was pretty exciting.

[schwenko]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Ollie Stench[/i]
<br>I played there once in October of 1988. For a schmo from the middle of nowhere that was pretty exciting.
[/quote]

Tres cool!!
Was it your band, or solo? What name were you billed as? Who else was on the bill? Are you on the CBs web site?

[schwenko]

Set List:

Piss Factory
Hunter Gets Captured by the Game (Smokey Robinson/The Marvelettes)
Kimberly/The Tide is High (Blondie)
Pale Blue Eyes
Marquee Moon (Television)
We Three
Distant Fingers
Without Chains(?) (new song about Guantanamo)
Ghost Dance
Birdland

(break)

Sonic Reducer (Dead Boys)
Redondo Beach
Free Money
Pissing in a River
Gimme Shelter (Stones)
Space Monkey
Blitzkrieg Bop/Beat on the Brat/Rock and Roll Radio/Sheena is a Punk Rocker (Ramones)
Ain't it Strange
So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star
Babelogue/Rock and Roll Nigger (with a little bit of Little Johnny Jewel thrown in)
For Your Love (Yardbirds)
My Generation

(Encore)
Land
Gloria
Elegie



The spirit of the early days of CBGB was very much present. There were acknowledgements to/for Tom Verlaine, Television, Blondie, Dead Boys and Ramones, plus her brother Todd, Jane Friedman (her original manager) and Michael Stipe of REM.


The show ran nearly 3 hours long, closing finally with Elegie....which fades out with her quoting Jimi Hendrix "I think its sad, its much too bad, that our friends can't be with us today" followed by the names of many from the early days who have now passed on, including Robert Quine, Lester Bangs,Greg Shaw, Terry Ork, Jerry Nolan, Lance Loud, Peter Laughner, Joe Strummer,Johnny Thunders, Stiv Bators, Richard Sohl, and Johnny, Joey and Dee Dee Ramone.

"Well, goodnight everybody. Farewell CBGB's. Thirty-three years. It's the same age as Jesus. Thank you Hilly. Good night everybody. Goodnight.Remember, drink plenty of water, brush your teeth,be happy."

[Ollie Stench]

[quote][i]Originally posted by schwenko[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Ollie Stench[/i]
<br>I played there once in October of 1988. For a schmo from the middle of nowhere that was pretty exciting.
[/quote]

Tres cool!!
Was it your band, or solo? What name were you billed as? Who else was on the bill? Are you on the CBs web site?
[/quote]

We played a Sunday Matinee. We were called Iron Fist, we played with Bugout Society. It was their 3rd or 4th show. I'm not on the CBs board but I've checked it out a few times.

[schwenko]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Ollie Stench[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by schwenko[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Ollie Stench[/i]
<br>I played there once in October of 1988. For a schmo from the middle of nowhere that was pretty exciting.
[/quote]

Tres cool!!
Was it your band, or solo? What name were you billed as? Who else was on the bill? Are you on the CBs web site?
[/quote]

We played a Sunday Matinee. We were called Iron Fist, we played with Bugout Society. It was their 3rd or 4th show. I'm not on the CBs board but I've checked it out a few times.
[/quote]

Sorry I missed this...but I was in Minneapolis all of '88 ..true!

[Mechi]

Would love to have seen Patti in the closing of CBGBs.
Too bad the place is being closed... it was like a dream to see it if I ever got the chance to go to NYC.

The dream is gone...

At least they re-open it at some point in the future.

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[schwenko]

Here's Saturday Night Live's take on CBGBs closing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO4zfNga1_E&eurl=