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As the mid-80s rolled in, CBGB had firmly established itself as a musical landmark, but the changing landscape of the music industry and the gentrification of the Bowery posed new challenges. Despite these shifts, CBGB remained a vital spot for emerging bands and continued to host performances from a wide array of genres, including hardcore punk, indie rock, and emo.
- Ramones/Angel And The Snake (16 August 1974) The Ramones made their first public appearance as a quartet (prior to Tommy joining, Joey would sing from behind the drums), crowded onto a 10’ x 10’ stage, playing to an almost empty club.
- Patti Smith/Television (23 March 1975) The uncrowned Queen of CBGB, Patti Smith was first introduced to the venue by Richard Hell. Upon placing her poetry in a modern rock setting alongside Lenny Kaye, Smith’s ascent was swift.
- Heartbreakers/Talking Heads/Blondie (15 August 1975) Another pivotal night, as the NYC scene (latterly marketed as punk) gradually took shape. Richard Hell’s Blank Generation joined ex-Doll Johnny Thunders’ Chinese Rocks in The Heartbreakers’ set.
- Damned/Dead Boys (7-10 April 1977) Pioneering UK punk missionaries the Damned were the first to take the 100 Club’s version of the three-chord gospel to the colonials, who lapped it up.
Apr 16, 2023 · The birth of punk in New York City. The punk movement can be traced back to the late 1960s and early 1970s in New York City. It was a time of social unrest, political upheaval, and cultural change. The city was experiencing an economic crisis, and the music scene was dominated by the excess of corporate rock.
- Damned/Dead Boys (April 1977) “The very first one that comes to mind is The Damned and The Dead Boys, and I think that was probably 1977. It was the first time The Damned came to America as far as I know.
- Swans (1982) “I think it was in ‘82 when I first saw Swans – everyone was sort of like, vomiting afterwards. It was so loud and the low end – we’d just never heard anything like it.
- Suicidal Tendencies (1984) “This blew my mind – I went nuts on this show. That was sort of the beginning of hardcore – okay, this is something different, we knew punk rock but this different – a change; there was something new coming around.
- The Ramones (1977) “I think I was in maybe my first year of high school, and we’d get on the subway and wait on line for like three hours to get into CBs on the early Ramones show.
- The Emergence of Hilly Kristal
- Teething Trouble on The Bowery
- Twenty Songs in 17 Minutes
- The Home of Underground Rock
- Punk Before Punk
By 1973, native New Yorker Kristal had been an important player on the New York club scene for more than two decades. From 1959, he ran the renowned Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village, a mile uptown from what became CBGB. A fixture in the Apple from the 1930s onwards, the Vanguard had been a jazz mecca since the 50s that hosted John Coltrane, Mi...
“When we came over here, there were a lot of artists on the Bowery, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, a whole lotta people,” Kristal said in Mike Evans’ Waking Up In New York City, published in 2003. “I knew a lot of people who played, so that was my intention. But…there weren’t really enough people to make it work, enough things to keep it going day aft...
Ork persuaded Kristal to give Television another chance, with the addition to the bill this time of an even more raucous and ragged bunch from Queens. Their equipment didn’t work properly, they too had no real fan base, but there was something in their sheer bravura that changed Kristal’s mind about whatever this defiant new music was. The group we...
There would be more. By 1976, the Bowery nightspot already had such a reputation that it fostered an Atlantic Records compilation. The Live At CBGB’s — The Home of Underground Rockdouble album featured Mink DeVille as well as Tuff Darts, the Shirts, Laughing Dogs and others. As Kristal said in his sleeve note: “This record album is an anthology of ...
With hindsight, CBGB can be seen as a complement to the punk movement that was growing in the UK, except that it was yet to be called “punk” in New York. Bands there generally exuded a considerably more imaginative, less monotonous spirit, in which no two regulars at the club sounded quite the same. As Kristal kept the club flag flying from one mus...
Nov 15, 2018 · CBGB’s was the brain-child of Hilly Kristal, and in the 1970s and 1980s, if you wanted to see the next wave in music, this little hole in the wall in the Bowery in New York City was the place to see it. Hilly Kristal, owner of CBGB’s photographed in front of his club in New York City by Charlie Samuels. Photo by Charliesamuels CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Aug 1, 2019 · Nearly every night between the mid ’70s and early ’80s—sometimes more than once— Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong lugged television video cameras and lighting equipment around Lower Manhattan. They caught hundreds of performances from bands who defined the era—think Dead Boys, Talking Heads, Blondie, Richard Hell, Bad Brains.
