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'CBGB' (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) was a legendary music club located at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became legendary as a forum for American punk and punk-influenced bands like Ramones, Bad Religion, The Misfits, Television, Mink Deville, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Fleshtones, Blondie, and Talking Heads. The club closed on the weekend of October 13 2006. The Dictators headlined the final Friday and Saturday night, October 13 and October 14, and were joined onstage Saturday night by Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, performing an acoustic set. The final concert was performed by Patti Smith on Sunday October 15.[1] CBGB Fashions (the CBGB store, wholesale department, and online store) stayed open until October 31 at 315 Bowery. On November 1 2006 CBGB Fashions moved to 19-23 St. Mark's Place, where it remains today.
CBGB, a little known rock club, was founded in December 1973, on the site of Kristal's earlier bar, Hilly's on the Bowery, which he ran from 1969 to 1972. After that point he had focused exclusively on his more profitable West Village nightspot, Hilly's, until he was forced to close it due to complaints from residents, sending him back to the Bowery. The full name is 'CBGB & OMFUG' which stands for "Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers". ''Gormandizer'' usually means a ravenous eater of food, but according to Kristal here it means "a voracious eater of ... music".[2] The club was also affectionately called simply "CB's".
As its name implied, Kristal intended the bar to feature Country, Bluegrass and Blues music (along with poetry readings), but it became famous as the birthplace of the punk movement. Since the Mercer Arts Center had collapsed in August 1973, there were few locations in New York where unsigned bands could play original music, and a couple of Mercer refugees—Suicide and Wayne County—played one-off gigs in the very early days of CBGB. However, the key moment in the venue's early history is considered to be the Sunday night residency of Television that began on March 31, 1974, the start of a flood of performers of "street music" (especially the Ramones), as punk acts were initially known.
At the third Television gig on 14 April 1974, Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye from the Patti Smith Group were in the audience; however, the band was not to make its CBGB debut until 14 February 1975. Alongside Television, other early performers included The Stillettoes (appearing as a back up vocalist, future Blondie vocalist Debbie Harry), who supported Television on 5 May, 1974, the newly-formed Blondie (under its original name of Angel & the Snake) and The Ramones, both in August 1974.
Mink DeVille, Talking Heads, The Shirts, Steel Tips, Jackson Main, The Heartbreakers, The Fleshtones and many other bands followed in quick succession. The club continued to host many punk and new wave bands over the years.
CBGB's had only one rule for a band to follow in order to play at the venue: they had to write original music. No cover bands were booked to play there. However, regulars like Television and the Ramones sometimes played a handful of covers during their sets.
Though CBGB was utilized as a hot spot for touring bands to hit when they came through New York, the scene that kept the bar alive during the 1980s was New York's underground hardcore scene. Sunday at CBGB was matinee day (also named "thrash day" in a documentary about hardcore skinheads). Every Sunday, a handful of hardcore bands took the stage in the afternoon to dinnertime hours, usually for cheap. Over the years, the CBGB's matinee became an institution, before violence both in and out of the scene caused Kristal to refuse to book hardcore shows. By 1990, CBGB did not book any hardcore punk shows. CBGB's brought hardcore back at various times, and for the last several years of its existence had no rules about what genres could and couldn't be featured.
Bands made famous by matinees include Gorilla Biscuits, the Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Sick Of It All, Reagan Youth, Warzone, and Youth Of Today, NOFX, The Descendents.
In 2005, a dispute between CBGB and the Bowery Residents' Committee began. The Committee billed Kristal $91,000 in back rent, while Kristal claimed he had not been informed of increases in his $19,000 monthly rent. After the lease expired, they reached an agreement for the club to remain for fourteen more months while Kristal dropped his legal battles and his attempts to get historic landmark status for the club.
Kristal planned to move the club far from its roots with a new CBGB's in Las Vegas, Nevada. The owner planned to strip the current club down to the bare walls, bringing as much of it to Nevada as possible.
"We're going to take the urinals," he said. "I'll take whatever I can. The movers said, `You ought to take everything, and auction off what you don't want on eBay.' Why not? Somebody will."[3]
The club finally closed on October 15 2006. The last week featured multi-night stands by Bad Brains and The Dictators, along with an acoustic set by Blondie. Younger groups such as Avail and the Bouncing Souls also performed.
The final concert was performed by Patti Smith and broadcast live on Sirius Satellite Radio. Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers attended the show and even performed on a handful of songs with Smith and her band. Flea turned 44 at midnight, and the band and crowd sang "Happy Birthday" to him. Television's Richard Lloyd also guested on a few songs, including a version of the title track to "Marquee Moon". Toward the end of their set, the band played "Gloria", paying tribute to the Ramones during the chorus by alternating between the original lyrics and the "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" of "Blitzkrieg Bop". In her final encore, the song "Elegie", Smith listed many of the musicians who died since they last played at CBGB.
Hilly Kristal died from complications from lung cancer on August 28, 2007.
★ List of famous musical acts that have played at CBGB
1. Yahoo Music coverage of concert
2. Official CBGB website
3. Stars return in CBGB's last shows:The Dictators, Debbie Harry and Patti Smith are among the artists returning to perform at legendary New York music club CBGB's, ahead of its closure after 33 years, BBC News, October 12, 2006
★ Beeber, Steven. ''The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk''. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1-55652-613-8.
★ Brazis, Tamar (ed.). ''CBGB & OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock'' (1st ed.). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2005. ISBN 0810957868.
★ Heylin, Clinton. ''From the Velvets to the Voidoids'' (2nd ed.). Eastbourne, East Sussex: Gardners Books, 2005. ISBN 1-905139-04-7.
★ Kozak, Roman. ''This Ain't No Disco: The Story of CBGB''. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1988. ISBN 0-571-12956-0.
★ Official site
★ Rekindling the Punk Flame, article
★ The Queen Of CBGB, article
★ CBGB, photos and articles
★ The End of an Era, article
★ Las Vegas Herald story on club's move
★ The Heebie Jeebies at CBGB's, Book
★ Between Punk Rock and a Hard Place
★ Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
★ CBGB Takes Final Bow Before Eviction
★ CBGB's Last Hours, MTV News article from 11/6/2006 about the dismantling of the club
★ Glide Magazine: Notable Acts that have played CBGB
★ Punk's had its day at CBGB
'CBGB' (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) was a legendary music club located at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became legendary as a forum for American punk and punk-influenced bands like Ramones, Bad Religion, The Misfits, Television, Mink Deville, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Fleshtones, Blondie, and Talking Heads. The club closed on the weekend of October 13 2006. The Dictators headlined the final Friday and Saturday night, October 13 and October 14, and were joined onstage Saturday night by Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, performing an acoustic set. The final concert was performed by Patti Smith on Sunday October 15.[1] CBGB Fashions (the CBGB store, wholesale department, and online store) stayed open until October 31 at 315 Bowery. On November 1 2006 CBGB Fashions moved to 19-23 St. Mark's Place, where it remains today.
| Contents |
| Founding |
| 1970s |
| Hardcore punk |
| Closing |
| Famous acts |
| Notes |
| References |
| External links |
Founding
CBGB, a little known rock club, was founded in December 1973, on the site of Kristal's earlier bar, Hilly's on the Bowery, which he ran from 1969 to 1972. After that point he had focused exclusively on his more profitable West Village nightspot, Hilly's, until he was forced to close it due to complaints from residents, sending him back to the Bowery. The full name is 'CBGB & OMFUG' which stands for "Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers". ''Gormandizer'' usually means a ravenous eater of food, but according to Kristal here it means "a voracious eater of ... music".[2] The club was also affectionately called simply "CB's".
As its name implied, Kristal intended the bar to feature Country, Bluegrass and Blues music (along with poetry readings), but it became famous as the birthplace of the punk movement. Since the Mercer Arts Center had collapsed in August 1973, there were few locations in New York where unsigned bands could play original music, and a couple of Mercer refugees—Suicide and Wayne County—played one-off gigs in the very early days of CBGB. However, the key moment in the venue's early history is considered to be the Sunday night residency of Television that began on March 31, 1974, the start of a flood of performers of "street music" (especially the Ramones), as punk acts were initially known.
1970s
At the third Television gig on 14 April 1974, Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye from the Patti Smith Group were in the audience; however, the band was not to make its CBGB debut until 14 February 1975. Alongside Television, other early performers included The Stillettoes (appearing as a back up vocalist, future Blondie vocalist Debbie Harry), who supported Television on 5 May, 1974, the newly-formed Blondie (under its original name of Angel & the Snake) and The Ramones, both in August 1974.
Mink DeVille, Talking Heads, The Shirts, Steel Tips, Jackson Main, The Heartbreakers, The Fleshtones and many other bands followed in quick succession. The club continued to host many punk and new wave bands over the years.
CBGB's had only one rule for a band to follow in order to play at the venue: they had to write original music. No cover bands were booked to play there. However, regulars like Television and the Ramones sometimes played a handful of covers during their sets.
Hardcore punk
Though CBGB was utilized as a hot spot for touring bands to hit when they came through New York, the scene that kept the bar alive during the 1980s was New York's underground hardcore scene. Sunday at CBGB was matinee day (also named "thrash day" in a documentary about hardcore skinheads). Every Sunday, a handful of hardcore bands took the stage in the afternoon to dinnertime hours, usually for cheap. Over the years, the CBGB's matinee became an institution, before violence both in and out of the scene caused Kristal to refuse to book hardcore shows. By 1990, CBGB did not book any hardcore punk shows. CBGB's brought hardcore back at various times, and for the last several years of its existence had no rules about what genres could and couldn't be featured.
Bands made famous by matinees include Gorilla Biscuits, the Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Sick Of It All, Reagan Youth, Warzone, and Youth Of Today, NOFX, The Descendents.
Closing
CBGB after it closed
In 2005, a dispute between CBGB and the Bowery Residents' Committee began. The Committee billed Kristal $91,000 in back rent, while Kristal claimed he had not been informed of increases in his $19,000 monthly rent. After the lease expired, they reached an agreement for the club to remain for fourteen more months while Kristal dropped his legal battles and his attempts to get historic landmark status for the club.
Kristal planned to move the club far from its roots with a new CBGB's in Las Vegas, Nevada. The owner planned to strip the current club down to the bare walls, bringing as much of it to Nevada as possible.
"We're going to take the urinals," he said. "I'll take whatever I can. The movers said, `You ought to take everything, and auction off what you don't want on eBay.' Why not? Somebody will."[3]
The club finally closed on October 15 2006. The last week featured multi-night stands by Bad Brains and The Dictators, along with an acoustic set by Blondie. Younger groups such as Avail and the Bouncing Souls also performed.
The final concert was performed by Patti Smith and broadcast live on Sirius Satellite Radio. Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers attended the show and even performed on a handful of songs with Smith and her band. Flea turned 44 at midnight, and the band and crowd sang "Happy Birthday" to him. Television's Richard Lloyd also guested on a few songs, including a version of the title track to "Marquee Moon". Toward the end of their set, the band played "Gloria", paying tribute to the Ramones during the chorus by alternating between the original lyrics and the "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" of "Blitzkrieg Bop". In her final encore, the song "Elegie", Smith listed many of the musicians who died since they last played at CBGB.
Hilly Kristal died from complications from lung cancer on August 28, 2007.
Famous acts
★ List of famous musical acts that have played at CBGB
Notes
1. Yahoo Music coverage of concert
2. Official CBGB website
3. Stars return in CBGB's last shows:The Dictators, Debbie Harry and Patti Smith are among the artists returning to perform at legendary New York music club CBGB's, ahead of its closure after 33 years, BBC News, October 12, 2006
References
★ Beeber, Steven. ''The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk''. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1-55652-613-8.
★ Brazis, Tamar (ed.). ''CBGB & OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock'' (1st ed.). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2005. ISBN 0810957868.
★ Heylin, Clinton. ''From the Velvets to the Voidoids'' (2nd ed.). Eastbourne, East Sussex: Gardners Books, 2005. ISBN 1-905139-04-7.
★ Kozak, Roman. ''This Ain't No Disco: The Story of CBGB''. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1988. ISBN 0-571-12956-0.
External links
★ Official site
★ Rekindling the Punk Flame, article
★ The Queen Of CBGB, article
★ CBGB, photos and articles
★ The End of an Era, article
★ Las Vegas Herald story on club's move
★ The Heebie Jeebies at CBGB's, Book
★ Between Punk Rock and a Hard Place
★ Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
★ CBGB Takes Final Bow Before Eviction
★ CBGB's Last Hours, MTV News article from 11/6/2006 about the dismantling of the club
★ Glide Magazine: Notable Acts that have played CBGB
★ Punk's had its day at CBGB
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