View Full Version : CBGB's is CLOSING?!!!!
Lubichev
09-01-2005, 10:11 AM
WTF?!
Listening to my Television, Ramones, Talking Heads, and Blondie records at the same time to get this thought out of my head.
Apparently there is nothing we can do. Except kill the landlord who won't renew their lease.
Bastard. Probably likes that new fangled Nash-Vegas Country sound.
Pepsigirl
09-01-2005, 10:47 AM
Why is everyone making such a big deal out of this? Did you really expect a club that hasn't been relevant in years to stay open forever?
CitizenKing
09-01-2005, 07:21 PM
Why is everyone making such a big deal out of this? Did you really expect a club that hasn't been relevant in years to stay open forever?
So are alot of things that are preserved. That doesn't change the fact that they and CBGB's have made a deep and lasting effect on the landscape of our culture and why throw somehting like that away?
By the way, the owner of CBGB's has been approached to recreate the club in Las Vegas's redo of New York's Village.
Kid Kyoto
09-01-2005, 07:39 PM
Um, pay your rent and you can stay open.
It's a business and so is the building (IIRC the landlord is a non-profit group that needs the rent to keep operating).
I'll miss CBGBs but that's life, all good things must end. It's not like it' the end of punk or downtown.
It's not the end of punk, but downtown is pretty much doomed.
Let's face it, CBGB's is fun as heck.
Oh, and I almost forgot:
Let's lynch the landlord
let's lynch the landlord
let's lynch the landlord man!
Adam Crocker
09-01-2005, 09:08 PM
Um, pay your rent and you can stay open.
They have been. CBGBs claims that they were not billed for a rent increase in 2001, something the BRC has since admitted to. Moreover, a judge sided with them (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/336233p-287224c.html) on the issue and as such they do not owe money but must get a new lease (http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2005/08/judge_sides_wit.html) which the BRC has decided not to renew (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-09/01.shtml).
In any case Krystal should take up the offer in Vegas if it still stands. At the very least he'll make some nice money of it.
Dennis K
09-01-2005, 09:12 PM
In honor of this hallowed institution, I say we all puke on ourselves.
Adam Crocker
09-01-2005, 09:22 PM
In honor of this hallowed institution, I say we all puke on ourselves.
Sounds good to me!
...but we have to do it with the Ramones playing.
Dennis K
09-01-2005, 09:27 PM
Sounds good to me!
...but we have to do it with the Ramones playing.
Why not just ask for Joe Strummer to show up too? Oh, wait, you meant a recording of the Ramones, never mind, my bad.
Adam Crocker
09-01-2005, 09:31 PM
Why not just ask for Joe Strummer to show up too? Oh, wait, you meant a recording of the Ramones, never mind, my bad.
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Just for that I'm not only going to puke on you, I'm gonna smash my guitar over your head after I play the same five power chords over and over again, all lifted from a Beach Boys' "Fun Fun Fun"!
Dennis K
09-01-2005, 09:34 PM
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Just for that I'm not only going to puke on you, I'm gonna smash my guitar over your head after I play the same five power chords over and over again, all lifted from a Beach Boys' "Fun Fun Fun"!
Tell Joe to bring Sid Vicious.
Adam Crocker
09-01-2005, 09:43 PM
Tell Joe to bring Sid Vicious.
Feh. I'll I need to do is scatter a bunch of syringes full of horse on the floor and watch Sid scurry for them.
Dennis K
09-01-2005, 09:47 PM
Feh. I'll I need to do is scatter a bunch of syringes full of horse on the floor and watch Sid scurry for them.
He'll have to battle Cobain for them.
Adam Crocker
09-01-2005, 09:59 PM
He'll have to battle Cobain for them.
Oooooohhhh...then we'll have to charge people to watch! http://www.issue9mm.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif
Dennis K
09-01-2005, 10:04 PM
Oooooohhhh...then we'll have to charge people to watch! http://www.issue9mm.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif
Winner gets Jim Morrison for the Deadweight Championship of the World. With Jimi Hendrix as special guest referee.
Joe Rice
09-01-2005, 10:05 PM
Man, what a shithole. I've seen friends' bands there, and it's just a terrible place. The booze isn't cheap enough for the filth around you, and the music isn't near good enough. Yeah, it was historical, and, yeah, it's a shame, but that's goddam America.
howyadoin
09-02-2005, 03:00 AM
Man, what a shithole. I've seen friends' bands there, and it's just a terrible place. The booze isn't cheap enough for the filth around you, and the music isn't near good enough. Yeah, it was historical, and, yeah, it's a shame, but that's goddam America.I hear it has the nicest bathroom in the world.
Dennis K
09-02-2005, 06:17 AM
I hear it has the nicest bathroom in the world.
They've been favorably compared to those at the old Boston Garden.
howyadoin
09-07-2005, 01:17 AM
They've been favorably compared to those at the old Boston Garden.http://www.alexwright.net/html/portfolio/portfolio_images/contax_120903_0405_printer.jpg
Grant
09-07-2005, 09:00 AM
http://www.alexwright.net/html/portfolio/portfolio_images/contax_120903_0405_printer.jpg
Just think... someone had intercourse with Deborah Harry in there.
Shellhead
09-07-2005, 09:47 AM
Music is a sound, not a place. Screw CBGB's if they can't keep bringing in the talent to keep the place alive.
Dennis K
09-07-2005, 10:01 AM
Just think... someone had intercourse with Deborah Harry in there.
Couldn't one post a picture of just about anyplace where your caption would be applicable.
Adam Crocker
09-07-2005, 10:48 AM
Music is a sound, not a place. Screw CBGB's if they can't keep bringing in the talent to keep the place alive.
Yes music is not a place, but the issue doesn't seem to be so much that they aren't attracting business (irregardless of the merits of who plays there) as that their landlord raised rents on them without telling them and has refused not only to renew the lease, but raise the rent at a rate that would allow the bar to absorb the increased cost.
Slam_Bradley
09-07-2005, 10:49 AM
Yes music is not a place, but the issue doesn't seem to be so much that they aren't attracting business (irregardless of the merits of who plays there) as that their landlord raised rents on them without telling them and has refused not only to renew the lease, but raise the rent at a rate that would allow the bar to absorb the increased cost.
This is what I love about America.
Grant
09-07-2005, 12:33 PM
Music is a sound, not a place. Screw CBGB's if they can't keep bringing in the talent to keep the place alive.
Hey show some respect... Vanilla Ice played there!
celluloid_droid
09-07-2005, 12:56 PM
It had to have happened sooner or later.
howyadoin
09-07-2005, 11:20 PM
Just think... someone had intercourse with Deborah Harry in there.I hope she douched afterwards.
It's one of those things - it would be pretty cool if you could say you were there in the 70's when the Dolls and the Ramones and so on were just local bands, but for me, once it became notorious among music fans all across NA and Europe and anywhere else that listened to the fringes of Western pop music as the birthplace of ground-breaking acts like that, it was just a tourist attraction.
I could be wrong - never been to NYC so I don't really have any idea one way or the other, but that's the impression I'm left with.
Austin
09-10-2005, 07:51 AM
Close it, burn it down, piss on the ashes. That's punk rock.
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