They wore ripped jeans because your jeans got ripped. You wore Converse All Stars because they were cheap and they looked good. The Bowery was so rough and CBs was this oasis of wonderfulness — except for the bathroom. He is currently working on a biography of Lou Reed. I lived out in Queens at the last stop on the subway.
I had heard about this group, Television, from a friend. You had to be 18 to get in. I figured if I dressed up, I would look older. I put on a dressy shirt, slacks and whatever constituted getting dressed up in I got there and I was ready to get the third degree at the door.
I had never seen a rock band in a space that small. The fact that you could go see a band in a tiny place like that — people who lived around the corner and played as well as anybody you could hear on the radio — was mind-blowing. It was a cruddy, dank, dark, smelly bar. All my memories of the horrific bathrooms kind of collapsed into one unified field of revulsion.
You had to walk past the stage to go downstairs to get to the bathrooms. I would love to go back and see The Ramones again because they were one of the most thrilling live bands ever. They would come out and play like 20 songs in 30 minutes. It was like — blink and you missed them. It was a wooden, corridor shack with the worst toilets in the world. It was a wooden, corridor shack with the worst toilets in the world — no privacy anywhere.
It was packed with everybody every night that was ever gonna be anybody or do anything. We went over and played three nights and two sets a night.
We played with the Dead Boys. We had never done two shows a night like that. It was incredibly hot and sweaty. I remember all the cool people from the bands at the time came to check out this thing from England that came over: The Damned. But it was no different than any other show we would have done. We went onstage at that point having to prove ourselves.
The first night of the show — never met these guys — we got a telegram from The Rolling Stones and they sent us a dozen cream pies and free hookers. And the pies went out into the audience immediately. Some of the most seedy, horrible places become the most amazing places to see bands. Dazed media sites. The Another Man world has moved to AnOthermag.
Click here to explore. Text Sabrina Cooper. Chris Stein Chris Stein is a writer, photographer and founding member of Blondie. Gallery Point of View by Chris Stein. Kate Pierson Kate Pierson is a founding member and lead vocalist of the Bs. They started a residency in , performing their first gig there on August Sometime after that, they had the idea of playing 20 songs in 17 minutes.
I mean not customers too much, but the musicians…everybody wanted to do their own music. Some of it was terrible, and others worse than terrible, but it was interesting.
Electronic pacesetters Suicide were there. Television, the Ramones, and Mink DeVille were among them. All of which could have made for a very ephemeral story, had it not been for the fact that the reputations forged at CBGB would lead many bands to record deals.
The new wave had a record to champion, and the club had a new heroine. The home of underground rock There would be more. By , the Bowery nightspot already had such a reputation that it fostered an Atlantic Records compilation. Sire signed the Ramones, releasing their self-titled debut set in spring , and another quartet who arrived as an avant garde force on record with the Talking Heads: 77 album. Private Stock scored Blondie , whose eponymous curtain-raiser that December captured them at their most punk.
But they would never in a hundred years have made it to that point without the existence of CBGB. But when the s came, CBGB started to slowly decline. A series of violent acts both inside and outside the club forced Hilly to suspend hardcore gigs. The entrance to CBGB the day after the closing. Hilly refused to pay, claiming that he was never notified about any increase in rent beforehand. A judge ruled in favor of Krystal, saying that the BRC never properly billed the rent increases.
Also, he indicated that CBGB should be declared a landmark and noted that the lease was soon expiring. And with that, CBGB closed for good. The next year, on August 28, , Hilly Kristal died from complications of lung cancer. His family and friends hosted a private memorial in the nearby YMCA. Author: Chrysoula Artemis. CC by 2.
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