alas, CBGB is finally closing

[atreidesny]

The last show will be October 15 and the last song is supposed to be sung by Patti Smith... [:(]

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[MARV]

.....[V]...*sniff*...[:(]...*sniff*...[V].....

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[Frau_Blucher]

Dead Kennedys there tonight! (9/22) I'll likely be there. [^]

[Spit]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>Dead Kennedys there tonight! (9/22) I'll likely be there. [^]
[/quote]
Never been there but still stinks to hear that. I guess a lot of great bands started out playing there. Does anyone know if there's a best of CBGB dvd or anything like that available in stores or online ?
Blir , how do you get to go to so many shows . Man , you must travel away from home alot . Do you write the shows off as a business expense ? [:p]

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Tom D.[/i]
<br>Blir , how do you get to go to so many shows . Man , you must travel away from home alot . Do you write the shows off as a business expense ? [:p]
[/quote]
The beauty of still following our crap bands is that their shows are cheap - usually $7 to $18 tops. I travel a little around the northeast b/w Boston & NYC, so it's just a matter of a little discipline to always check out what might be playing when I'm passing through rather than just sit in a hotel room watching Spanktervision. [:0]

PS. What the company does pay for is this sweet wireless card. I'm writing from the train heading into the city...browsing NWO while listening to Spaz's Songs that KROQ Forgot is a great way to kill travel time! [:p]

[Spit]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Tom D.[/i]
<br>Blir , how do you get to go to so many shows . Man , you must travel away from home alot . Do you write the shows off as a business expense ? [:p]
[/quote]
The beauty of still following our crap bands is that their shows are cheap - usually $7 to $18 tops. I travel a little around the northeast b/w Boston & NYC, so it's just a matter of a little discipline to always check out what might be playing when I'm passing through rather than just sit in a hotel room watching Spanktervision. [:0]

PS. What the company does pay for is this sweet wireless card. I'm writing from the train heading into the city...browsing NWO while listening to Spaz's Songs that KROQ Forgot is a great way to kill travel time! [:p]
[/quote]
Well don't WORK [:D] too hard and have a good time at the show tonight.

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Tom D.[/i]
<br>Well don't WORK [:D] too hard and have a good time at the show tonight.
[/quote]
Uh, heh...I suppose...

But back to the point! The final run looks like this...not much there really:

09/21 - Dead Kennedys
09/23 - Agent Orange
09/28 - Fishbone
10/04 - The Metrosexuals
10/13 - The Dictators
10/15 - Patti Smith...the appropriate finale!

[atreidesny]

Bush Tetras are playing Friday Sept. 29! [8)]

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[Spit]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Tom D.[/i]
<br>Well don't WORK [:D] too hard and have a good time at the show tonight.
[/quote]
Uh, heh...I suppose...

But back to the point! The final run looks like this...not much there really:

09/21 - Dead Kennedys
09/23 - Agent Orange
09/28 - Fishbone
10/04 - The Metrosexuals
10/13 - The Dictators
10/15 - Patti Smith...the appropriate finale!
[/quote]
Getting back to the point . Love to be there for the Dictators and also the Patti Smith shows .

[waldnorm]

They are trying to relocate, but yes it's less than a month away for the demise of the original. [V]

[manekineko]

Maybe some bored and nostalgic celebrities will buy the rights to the name CBGB's and start a chain of touristy restaurant/fern bars (ala Hard Rock Cafe), decorated to the hilt with CBGB's memoribilia. To be truly authentic the decor will have to be spray paint, graffiti, and layers of band stickers, and they'll have to have really gross bathrooms and Bowery bums lying about outside. But they'll have a killer soundtrack! [8D]

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[newwavepunkgirl]

I didn't realise it was still going! Oh that is a blow for punk roc/newwave, one mor enail in the coffin methinks, I mean I was devasteated when my local punk bar changed hands recently it sucks now, punk is dead ians't it? (But we can keep it alive in spirit I am sure!)[:(][|)]

Devolution is real

[Frau_Blucher]

Well folks, I say save your laments for something more worthwhile. The place was a shallow husk last night. First we got raped for 35 bucks at the door...ouch! For has-beens at a has-been place?! Sheesh. Then you starkly realize that the DKs just ain't the DKs without Jello. The Green Day-channeling new lead was just annoying frankly. I mean, it was fun regardless, especially seeing East Bay Ray and Klaus Fluoride for the first time in 24 years since a UCLA gig. But instead of feeling like a nostalgic final closeout of the place, I felt more like a victim of Hilly's final money-grab before getting outta Dodge. A wise man once said to me [ahem, Schwenko, ahem], "it was never about the place but about what happened there." ...and it hasn't been happening for a long time, so why hold on?

But again, it was fun. Great mosh pit going for awhile [my friends dove in; I pussed & just took pictures...to follow [;)] ]. It had lots of energy, the songs were still fun to hear [I got a video snippet coming up later of Viva Las Vegas], and lots of drink was had. A fun night out but certainly no feeling that any era was passing.

[marie3]

Blir, you do go to a lot of shows. Do you think it is better in the smaller venues now or back then when the musicians were in their heyday?
I wish you could have come to L.I. to see some of the shows with us at the now defunct Downtown.

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by marie3[/i]
<br>Blir, you do go to a lot of shows. Do you think it is better in the smaller venues now or back then when the musicians were in their heyday?
I wish you could have come to L.I. to see some of the shows with us at the now defunct Downtown.
[/quote]
How 'bout the smaller venues back then? I used to see the local bands in pretty small venues: X, Sparks, Oingo Boingo at medium to big clubs, The Plimsouls at a frat party, and 20/20 played my high school!!!

But right, we did have to contend with some pretty huge venues and that actually wasn't nearly as fun as getting stagefront right now. Call me crazy but it is more fun now...who knows, maybe because it is actually "now" rather than then or maybe it's seeing them in the full context of history...not nostalgia mind you but hindsight. Sure some of these acts have been hollow husks of their former selves, but I really honestly haven't cared. The DKs are a bit of an exception...come on, you can't have the lead guy be gone, right?