Comments on: RIP CBGB: Hey, Ho, Let It Go

By: push-back

push-back — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:43:44 +0000

BLOGSPAMMER ID: Natasha Adonzio / Steven Velozo / natashanyc.com

Unfortunate, in several ways, but mostly sad to me that someone is compelled to tag websites talking about personal experiences with CBGB (good and bad) with their newly “resurrected” punk clothing store. Today’s blogspammer came to you through Google,…

By: natasha

natasha — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:10:17 +0000

I had a punk clothing store on St. Marks Pl. in the late 70’s & 80’s. I did clothing for Blondie made Joey Ramones leather jacket among others. I was a regular at CBGB’s, and now an era is gone. But all is not lost. I have just resurrected my look with a new website http://www.natashanyc.com. Come visit and view the old and the new. I have some great photos from the 70’s & 80’s on the site, that have never before been seen. Natasha

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:52:59 +0000

In Manhattan you had CB’s and in Brooklyn you had Lamours. Both were the places to be for true rock, metal and punk. Now places like Club B and now the Bitter End is pushing industrial and punk. Hopefully the legacy will continue.
Viva Las Vegas CBGB’s!

By: BGA

BGA — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:07:33 +0000

Never heard of the place…don’t really give a damn…New York get over yourself.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:21:06 +0000

To Dan:
It’s Monday, I’m at work, and I try everything in my power to forget that, let me have my fun.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:43:03 +0000

To Ed, Somehow you worked in a shout-out to Lexi Featherington in both this thread and the Bill Murray one. Why stop there? How about how Lexi would look in a mohawk, or how she used party to the late hours with Freddie Fender. Popwatch is a celebration of popculture but twice in a row feels like you’re trying too hard.

By: ABW

ABW — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:06:51 +0000

CBGB posed an unusual problem for those who desperately wanted to give it historic landmark status: How do you preserve and maintain an entity that to a great extent achieved its renown because it was a decaying, decrepit s—hole?
A lot of ink has been spilled this week about CBGB’s role in the origins of the punk movement. That movement came to furious life with the mission of tearing down all the old institutionalized aesthetics. Now the wrecking ball is all too appropriately aimed right back at one of its foundations. With the utmost respect, that sure sounds like blissfully bloody punk karma to me.

By: mark in nyc

mark in nyc — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:05:16 +0000

Not really sad to see it go, it has been dead long before it was pronounced.
So with CBGB’s and the Bottom Line now closed we can officialy say that rock is dead, again.
That leaves us with only Justin Timbercrap music now. so in twenty years when someone says “remember the music of the 2000′s?” We can all say no.

By: Ep Sato

Ep Sato — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:10:48 +0000

Doesn’t NYC still have Arlene’s Grocery and a few dozen other haunts for checking out local bands?
I’ll personally be more bummed if Minneapolis’ First Avenue shuts down. Prince, Moris Day n Soul Asylum got discovered there, and the place has a decent vibe.
Besides NYC reigned in the punk era, brought us hip hop, merged carribean sounds together into salsa music, and helped ska music make it’s 3rd revival, so maybe it’s time that a different city started up a music scene for once…

By: Been There - Move On

Been There - Move On — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:40:47 +0000

Ya know, I’ve been to CBGB’s, I’ve even played on the stage when I was in a “not so good but definetly not bad rock band”. Honestly, the place was a crap hole. No love lost at all. If Hilly and the club was making money and had paid the back rent he could still be there. It was a business not a charity.
Why didn’t all the “big” stars who started there dig into their deep pockets to keep it here if it was that important?
If it’s the same money losing venture in Vegas as it was here in NYC it’ll be gone long before the next 33 years.
It’s time had come. Yawn.