SO LONG, CBGB
Even if you've never been there, you've probably been touched by CBGB.
Even if, for whatever inexcusable reason, you don't own any albums by Television, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, The Ramones or Blondie, chances are you own music by artists who have been influenced by those acts, all of which honed their chops at CBGB and helped establish the Manhattan club in the mid 1970s.
All great things must come to an end, and after nearly 33 years and countless shows, CBGB is scheduled to close its doors for good this coming weekend following a lengthy landlord-tenant battle.
CBGB will go out swingin', though, with several blasts from its glorious punk past set to rock the Noo Yawk club this week. Tonight through Wednesday, it's the Bad Brains. Then on Friday and Saturday, it's the Dictators, with Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein also on the bill for the latter show. And the aforementioned Smith is among the familiar names scheduled for the grand finale on Sunday.
Tickets for these shows surely will be hard to come by, but that shouldn't stop anyone from going to 315 Bowery and soaking up the atmosphere outside. It will be the next best thing to being inside.
Hilly Kristal plans to open a new CBGB in Las Vegas, but it almost goes without saying that nothing will ever top the original, as grimy and claustrophobic as it was.
Visit the official CBGB site for more about the club and its final shows.
Even if you've never been there, you've probably been touched by CBGB.
Even if, for whatever inexcusable reason, you don't own any albums by Television, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, The Ramones or Blondie, chances are you own music by artists who have been influenced by those acts, all of which honed their chops at CBGB and helped establish the Manhattan club in the mid 1970s.
All great things must come to an end, and after nearly 33 years and countless shows, CBGB is scheduled to close its doors for good this coming weekend following a lengthy landlord-tenant battle.
CBGB will go out swingin', though, with several blasts from its glorious punk past set to rock the Noo Yawk club this week. Tonight through Wednesday, it's the Bad Brains. Then on Friday and Saturday, it's the Dictators, with Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein also on the bill for the latter show. And the aforementioned Smith is among the familiar names scheduled for the grand finale on Sunday.
Tickets for these shows surely will be hard to come by, but that shouldn't stop anyone from going to 315 Bowery and soaking up the atmosphere outside. It will be the next best thing to being inside.
Hilly Kristal plans to open a new CBGB in Las Vegas, but it almost goes without saying that nothing will ever top the original, as grimy and claustrophobic as it was.
Visit the official CBGB site for more about the club and its final shows.
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