no reason. just wanted a excuse to post this pic.
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?
"the Talking Heads"
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
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.'
NYC ping...
And we should care? Why?
saw the Ramones there but that's all i can say, as most of it was/is still a blurrrrrr... 8^)Noticed the article is from the Boston paper - and absent from the New York media as far as I can see. Boston did and still rocks. In the 70's a fair share of punk rock icons battled at The Rat.
I was a college DJ in Massachusetts in the 70s, played stuff like Ramones, Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Willie Alexander, Richard Hell, The Rings, Reddy Teddy, Robin Lane, Lou Reed, etc. How could I "become" a conservative??????
The answer is, I always was. There was even a 2001 discussion on F.R. about a possible FReeper affinity with punk rock attitudes: "Attention Punks and Metalheads on F.R." http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a82f211341d.htm
The world sucks more now.
For that old geezer, it's time to relax.
...& take a skinhead bowling. ;^)
I visited in 1979 and 1980. The bathroom was memorable.
Alas, I failed to visit this piece of Americana. (I did stay at a Holiday Inn once tho.)