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CBGB's closes. Punk is dead. You are old.

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by 2muchcoffeeman, Oct 14, 2006.

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  1. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Well done. Sad but true.
     
    Huggy, Oct 15, 2006
    #25
  2. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    Hilly Kristal says he's taking the urinals from CBs to Vegas.
    But it can't be the same with out the famous CBs stench.
     
    spnited, Oct 15, 2006
    #26
  3. Fenian_Bastard

    Fenian_Bastard Guest

    Coming through Kansas sooon -- a state-of-the-art Urinal Transport Van.
     
    Fenian_Bastard, Oct 15, 2006
    #27
  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    You have that right. Let's face it. The place was a dump. I am too young to remember the Ramones/NY Dolls days, but I had friends' bands play there in the 90s. And going was usually a chore--one of those things I had to do before heading off to somewhere more fun. By then, it wasn't a very fun place. I understand the nostalgia. Wish I could have seen what it was like in the 70s. But by the late 80s, there were two dozen better music venues in the East Village and Lower East Side. And over the last 20 years that area of the East Village has changed. It's too shi shi for what CBs was in its heydey.

    Anyhow, your post made me laugh. That was one nasty bathroom. Maybe not in the bottom ten in Manhattan (of which just about all are in the East Village), but damned close.
     
    The Big Ragu, Oct 15, 2006
    #28
  5. Killick

    Killick Well-Known Member

    Count me among the jealous. Saw the Ramones out here in the midwest, twice. Awesome. Could only imagine CBGBs. Pistols. Exploited. Stiff Little Fingers. Adolescents. Sigh. Goddamn. Pass the Geritol.
     
    Killick, Oct 15, 2006
    #29
  6. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    I don't think the Pistols played New York on their US tour. The reunion one maybe, but not the late-70s one.
     
    Huggy, Oct 15, 2006
    #30
  7. Killick

    Killick Well-Known Member

    Wasn't saying they did. Just remembering some good music/mourning my lost youth. Sorry for the confusion.
     
    Killick, Oct 15, 2006
    #31
  8. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Probably the first band I'd think of as "punk" today. ...And Out Come The Wolves was the best Clash album the Clash never made.

    Dookie was a terrific album and I'm a fan of Green Day but I wouldn't classify them, or any of the "kiddie punk" types who followed like Blink 182 as "punk".

    Bad tattoos, spiked hair and saying "fuck" every other word doesn't exactly make you Joe Strummer.
     
    Huggy, Oct 15, 2006
    #32
  9. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Fair point. I read an interview once with Steve Jones (might have been Paul Cook) who said that fans were always telling him how much they loved their New York show on that infamous US tour. He thought that was amusing because they never played New York.

    Great call on Stiff Little Fingers, one of the great bands of that era.
     
    Huggy, Oct 15, 2006
    #33
  10. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    24 US servicemen died in Iraq in the past week and yet the "death" of a nightclub that hasn't made one iota of difference in American culture in at least a decade gets a two-page thread and lots of columns in the media.

    Joe Strummer is rolling over in his grave.
     
    TigerVols, Oct 15, 2006
    #34
  11. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    quote author=spnited link=topic=32924.msg855486#msg855486 date=1160922745]
    Hilly Kristal says he's taking the urinals from CBs to Vegas.
    But it can't be the same with out the famous CBs stench.
    [/quote]

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    NIMBY. Route that motherfucker through the south.
     
    Bubbler, Oct 15, 2006
    #35
  12. HoopsMcCann

    HoopsMcCann Active Member

    that's one of the sutpidest non-michael vick posts ever made on this site

    yeah, 'cause the war in iraq has never been covered. as long as there's a war in iraq, we should cease to have entertainment sections in our newspapers

    and really, a 2-page thread on the closing of a business? jesus, must be really upset on a 20-page terrell owens thread
     
    HoopsMcCann, Oct 15, 2006
    #36
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