CBGB's just a state of mind now...

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<p>To all the usual audio thread junkies,</p>

<p>Patti Smith played the final concert at CBGBs. Of special note to Driver, Flea of RHCP fame played bass. </p>

<p>“Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads were on hand, as was E Street Band guitarist Little Steven Van Zandt”</p>

<p>“[Club founder] remains focused on “generating the energy” for CBGB, which he plans to move to Las Vegas”(?)</p>

<p>If there is any place that does NOT say “CBGBs” to me, it is Vegas. What are the odds that a Sturbucks fills that space next?</p>

<p><a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061016/ap_on_en_mu/music_cbgb_finale[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061016/ap_on_en_mu/music_cbgb_finale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>also a slide show link on that page.</p>

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<p>What a shame, I hadn’t heard about this until just this morning. It’s kind of hard to believe that they couldn’t have saved it, if the city had become involved. This is on the order of letting the Apollo theater disappear, which fortunately didn’t happen. The writer must be pretty young…“Gloria” a “punk staple?”</p>

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<p>yeah, i saw something about it on tv… was it SNL maybe? it’s sad… that place is great.</p>

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<p>As a 48 year old mom, I can’t believe I actually set foot in CBGBs. It makes me feel ancient to think of it. I stood out like a sore thumb because I hated the punk style, just liked some of the music.</p>

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<p>Yes, as a 50-year-old mom, I can relate to that. Here’s a fun article on the punk/new wave scene in Philly back in the beginning, with interviews with lots of the players/club owners from that era. I was only at CBGB’s a couple of times, but I was at its Philadelphia equivalent–The Hot Club–quite a bit. I don’t know if it was a conscious emulation, but the two were very similar in their dank, dark vaguely dangerous atmosphere. THC even had a horrible CBGBs-like simultaneously co-ed bathroom, and the entire interior of the club was painted flat black. Anyway, this article includes comments on the tension between new wave fans like me (and, I guess, StickerShock) and the original hard-core punkers who considered us dilletantes, as the line between the two styles began to blur and the clubs mixed them together. It’s a fun, nostalgic read that I think applies to the NY scene as well.

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<p><a href=“http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=562[/url]”>http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=562&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I also didn’t buy into punk as fashion. Just there for the music.</p>

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<p>A mental image to enlighten my day: driver with spiked, orange hair.</p>

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<p>No,no,no,no. No</p>

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<p>" driver with spiked, orange hair."</p>

<p>And piercings & tatoos.</p>

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<p>Lived in the East Village and wore my variation of the punk style–including mildly spiked hair. No piercings, no tats however. As much as would be tolerated in my job at a famous New York architect’s office anyway. We creative types get away with murder!</p>

<p>Love going to the East Village or spotting the punk style in the mall–thinking that I was around for some of the early early stuff.</p>

<p>David Byrne dated a freind of mine.</p>

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<p>I only first learned of CBGB’s this past year when my D called up excitedly, “I’m performing at CBGB’s!” She was 17 and her hot coed a capella group (contemporary rock/pop) had a gig to perform there and she was telling me how it was a famous place and why. I had seen in the news that it is closing now.</p>

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<p>CBGB in Vegas?? The ONLY place, other than NYC, that seems fitting would be London. In the US, nothing but NYC will do.</p>

<p>CBGB Documentary, Parts I & II…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh-dam3wlAI[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh-dam3wlAI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU0X3amTEUA[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU0X3amTEUA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;