Posted on 08/03/2005 10:34:23 AM PDT by weegee
BUMP
I wonder if the talking heads/TomTom club will get involved. They played there a bunch.
Just because punk wasn't shoved in our face like grunge was doesn't mean it's dead.
Don't see them listed:
http://www.cbgb.com/save_cbgb_benefit_shows.htm
AUGUST
8/2 JOKER 5 SPEED
8/3 RANA / SOUND OF URCHIN (co-headline) with Big Machine [buy tickets]
8/4 CHEVELLE [buy tickets]
8/5 BUSH TETRAS
8/7 AWKWARD THOUGHT, URBAN RIOT, STEP2FAR, NUTS & BOLTS, THE TURNPIKE WRECKS and STATE of DISGRACE
8/9 APHASIA, SHORTIE
8/10 AGAINST ME, THE EXIT, WORLD INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY
8/12 MISFITS [buy tickets]
8/13 VANS WARPED TOUR AFTER PARTY
8/14 GORILLA BISCUITS, BLACK TRAIN JACK
8/15 RAW POWER
8/19 LIVING COLOUR
8/20 THE VANDALS
8/22 KID DYNAMITE, GREYAREA
8/26 DEAD BOYS, FLIPPER, PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES, ADRENALIN O.D. ,
FURIOUS GEORGE [buy tickets]
8/27 DEAD BOYS, ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE, NIHILISTICS, SFA [buy tickets]
8/28 SHAM 69, FLIPPER, CHEETAH CHROME & THE BLACK ANGELS [buy tickets]
8/29 SMAM 69, YOUTH BRIGADE, THE RADICTS [buy tickets]
ALSO PLAYING IN AUGUST IS YOUTH BRIGADE, FANG, BILLY CLUB AND MORE TBA LATER.
SEPTEMBER
9/1 CONFLICT, VERBAL ABUSE, LOST CHERREES [buy tickets]
9/2 CONFLICT, LOST CHERREES [buy tickets]
9/3 TODAY IS THE DAY, CIRCLE OF DEAD CHILDREN, ADOLYNE
9/4 SICK OF IT ALL, FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD
9/6 DR. KNOW, DAYGLO ABORTIONS, THE ACCUSED
9/7 DR. KNOW, DAYGLO ABORTIONS, THE ACCUSED
9/8 THE EXPLOITED
9/9 CIRCLE JERKS, ADOLESCENTS, D.I. , CHANNEL 3, ZERO BOYS, ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN [buy tickets]
9/10 CIRCLE JERKS, ADOLESCENTS, D.I., CHANNEL 3, ZERO BOYS [buy tickets]
Considering the bands that have played there in the past and bands that exist today, the booking for these shows just isn't there (and that is acknowledging the Stiv-less Dead Boys reunion).
Opening night fundraiser sounded like it had better bands but only 2-4 songs each.
It was dead by 77. Lester Bangs wrote an essay about it, and THAT was the 3rd movement of punk by his reckoning.
Bummer.
I only hope she does better at this show than she did the last time I saw her. She shuffled around like a sixty year old confused stoner. Which she probably is, but it was rather embarrassing to watch.
Perhaps I'll just stick to cd's.
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Speaking as one who has christened the bathroom (notice I didn't say toilet) at CBGB on a few occassions, I can honestly say that, while it was a great place to hang in my youth, its time has come and gone. The death of NY's hardcore scene (and live music in general in the big apple) has meant that it was only a matter of time before that little hovel on Bowery & Bleecker became a Starbucks or Sushi stand.
New Wave bands (lots of good ones) took over in the 1980's, and punk receded. The good punk rockers broke up (Sex Pistols), joined other bands, or got a little more mainstream (Blondie is a classic example).
My fave punk essay by Bangs. He was right about the fact that Punk was an AMERICAN phenomenom, rooted in garage rock (the Sonics, Count Five, and even early Paul Revere). I also liked his essay "the White Noise Supremacists" about the creeping neo-Nazism in the punk scene.
I care to remember her how she jammed in the 80's.
I still remember watching the original American Band Stand when she performed Heart of Glass. Loved it. Love it. (yes I know all of ABS was lip synced. It was still cool to dance to in front of the t.v.!) LOL.
'Til this day I will get up and dance with no one around and love hearing Blondie songs.
My mom still waxes emotional about all the old dance halls in the Seattle area that were torn down. I think the last one went down 25 years ago.
Life goes on. There is a little too much romanticising about this building going on. "That's the hallway where we got really high and me and this really f***ed up chick got it on during a Ramones concert. Man I'm going to miss that building."
Rapture is my favorite. But all of her songs force me to get up and move.
A sad indicator of my age is I judge music by whether or not it is good to clean to.
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