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

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/13/cbgb.closure.ap/index.html

Patti Smith will play the last show.

 

Should've closed it in the 80s.

 

Isn't it reopening in Vegas? I seem to remember reading that. If true, that, more than anything else, signifies the death of punk.

 

a sad day indeed. i saw blondie, the ramones and talking heads there in the '70s. good times. :'( :'( :'(

 

I was going to start a CBGB thread myself because, seriously children, tomorrow is a sad day for rock music in this country when a place like CBGB has to close because the rent is too high.

If you're not from the NYC area or have never been there, you can't appeciate the impact this place and its owner, Hilly Krystal, had on rock music in America.
Maybe this will help:

http://www.cbgb.com/history1.htm


Debbie Harry is part of the show tonight, Patti Smith does the finale tomorrow and then CBs closes its doors forever. It will be totally cleaned out by Oct. 31 and Krystal says he is saving everything to open a new CBGB in Vegas on 2008.

R.I.P. CBGB...OMFUG

 

Well said, spnited. Even if you weren't in New York at that time you knew about CBGB's and Max's Kansas City because that's where some of the most exciting music being made in the US in the mid-to-late-70s came from.

Can't be too many legendary rock and roll places left. The Fillmores are long gone, even the good old El Mocambo, a legendary joint here in Toronto where everyone who was anyone (and plenty of acts who never became anything) played and the Stones recorded part of Love You Live has been gone for years.

 

What? Punk is better than ever. :

 

And to think Green Day's "Dookie" opened the pop-punk floodgates.

 

Hey, I shop at Hot Topic, dammit!

Good Charlotte is about as punk as Jessica Simpson. Course pop-punk has sucked for years. I can remember a girl I worked with going on and on about Sum 41 and how much she loved punk. I almost left her along the side of the interstate between Indy and the Haute as punishment for her stupidity.

I think Nirvana's as much to blame for the current state of punk as Green Day. Record companies always sign up a buncha sucky copycats when a band hits big.

 

green day rocks. 8) 8) 8)

 

I don't mean blame like I hate them or anything. I adore both Nirvana and Green Day.

It's just that their success is why the record companies went out and signed up a buncha sucky copycats.

And record companies suck donkey balls for that tactic.

 

Rancid.