Posted on 10/09/2006 1:58:33 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
Bye Bye to a great club and a piece of history.
"Ping!" - or for purists, "beat on the brat with a baseball bat!"
What does "OMFG" stand for ???
Something a little odd about being nostalgic for the good old days of punk rock.
Sort of like Jean-Kerri, remembering the golden days of his youth, when he threw his medals over the fence. Or maybe he didn't throw the medals, but the ribbons. Or maybe . . . Well, anyway, those were the good old days!
CGEB? I thought he got banned?
"Ping!" - or for purists, "beat on the brat with a baseball bat!"
LOL!
"the Talking Heads"
The full name is CBGB & OMFUG which stands for "Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers
"This ain't no Mud Club
or CBGB,
this ain't no foolin' around"
Cue Adrian Belew.
I think the OM stand for "Other Music" but I can't remember the rest of it.
Saw the Ramones there many times, RAMONES RULE!
Thank you for that,been wondering that for 20 years
I guess folks will no longer experience the world's second nastiest club bathrooms (after the old Empire club in Philly). You needed waders to go and take a leak. Lord knows what the ladies had to resort to
Heheheh.
Mega-ping!
A famous venue but the reality certainly outweighed the myths.
In the end, any moron with a stick, a trash can lid and a catchy name could play CBGB - they churned through 3-4 bands from the hinterland a night for the sole purpose of perpetuating the name as some sort of hipster mecca. Garage bands from the Midwest would vanpool to 53rd Street and play for nothing in order to get the CBGB name stamped on their resume (not that anyone cared anymore).
The extremely unhygenic toilets eventually provided the aroma and decor for the entire club and if being afraid to touch any surface - including the floor - is your thing then CBGB was the place.
No doubt it will re-open in Vegas and sucker more bands and kids in as it sells 'rebellion.'
Once again NY City 's history gets wiped out to make yet anothe rset f overpriced condos. NY City is now on the way to becoming an island of condos and dwain Reed drugstores. CBGBs isn't the only club closing . The music scene is all but dead in town. Sad for sure.
Where was the Empire Club?
Roosevelt Boulevard in NE Philly.
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