CBGB
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- brokenimage0
going to cbgb was one of the biggest let downs of my life. i went to see my roommate's band play and they ended up opening up for some band of 14 yr olds in sevendust t-shirts. then they closed at 12.
what respectable bar in new york closes at 12?
- fake_it_up0
bring me back to 89 when youth of today GB and chain of strength played sunday matinays (my spelling is awsome today).. thats all i want...
- jevad0
fuck yeah!
- prodigalslacker0
lifetime is reuniting at hellfest to raise money for cbgb, and kid dynamite is reuniting for a cbgb show to support the club.
- jevad0
as much as I love them to death....they should either reform and put an album out - or jsut not bother
- mg330
It's too bad that it's reputation appears to have gone down the tubes.
But what do you expect when such a once respectable venue starts making its shirts available at such a whorish trendfest like Urban Outfitters? They should have never sold their shirts anywhere but at the venue.
My ex-roommate/one of my best friends' band played there last year. He's got the shirt and is worthy of it.
But some dumb woman walking down the street in the middle of Chicago with a CBGB shirt on tucked into a tan skirt with a green blazer (all reeking of Urban Outfitters) spells one thing: Sell Out.
- pavlovs_dog0
I agree with mg33.
When the only culturaly relevant thing you've done in the last 20 years is sell shirts to mallternative shit heads at Hot Topic, its time to put your legacy to rest.
- pavlovs_dog0
That part of Manhattan has changed drastically hasn't it?
I know many NY bands (yeah yeah yeahs, tv on the radio, liars) come out of Brooklyn.
Is that part of the city relevant to "indy" music at all?
- CyBrainX0
Who cares where they sell their t-shirts? Should you tear down the Brooklyn Bridge because street vendors sell cheesey t-shirt with it on there?
It's a landmark. You don't casually rip it down and say it had it's day. That's what people in NYC learned the hard way in the 60s after the demolition of the original Penn Station.
Criticizing it for being dirty and run down is like knocking the Leaning Tower of Pisa for leaning.