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CBGB was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal in the East Village in Manhattan, New York City. The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a dive bar. [ 2 ] The letters CBGB were for Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Kristal's original vision for the club. But CBGB soon emerged as a famed and iconic venue for punk ...
Feb 3, 2024 · By which point the club had changed as it entered an era more defined by hardcore punk. "When the word punk moved from a small p to a capital P, the vibe changed," recalls Kaye.
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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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- Rocket From The Tombs. Meet Cleveland punk’s Big Bang, Rocket From The Tombs. This band being so radioactive that it subdivided into two of punk’s most glorious outfits—Dead Boys and Pere Ubu—alone make them legendary.
- Mirrors. While Laughner witnessed all but one of the Velvets’ Cleveland shows, his counterpart in Mirrors, singer/guitarist Jamie Klimek, saw them all. He also reportedly recorded them all.
- the electric eels. Cle punk’s second greatest prototype found its genesis in a trio of friends—hulking artist John Morton and his pals Dave E. McManus and Brian McMahon—witnessing a godawful opening act (with a major-label contract, yet) opening for anti-rock heroes Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band in 1972.
- Pere Ubu. Rocket From The Tombs split into two factions in 1975. One could be dubbed the “fuck art, let’s rock!” camp. The other is the “fuck rock, let’s art!”
Dec 30, 2013 · Courtesy of MARK URYCKI. A new movie follows the beginnings of punk and New Wave music in America. “ CBGB ” is about the club in New York City that gave such bands a place to play and launched a revolution in rock. But the first shots in that revolution may have actually been fired in Northeast Ohio. In the early 1970s, Cleveland and Akron ...
Feb 12, 2015 · It was in this environment that the punk scene, such as it was, took shape—first at Max’s Kansas City, then a bit further downtown at a ratty club on the Bowery called CBGB. The venue’s ...
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The club’s full name, CBGB & OMFUG, stands for “Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers,” where “gormandizers” means someone who consumes music voraciously. Despite its initial musical intentions, CBGB became synonymous with the DIY ethos of punk music, characterized by its raw, unpolished sound and ...
