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- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- jevad0
as much as I love them to death....they should either reform and put an album out - or jsut not bother
- 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
fuck yeah!
- 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...
- 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?
- MLP0
aren't they developing that block anyway? i thought someone said that the building would be torn down over to the NYU dorms on that block to make way for whatever
- JazX0
it's a dump and poorly kept
JazX
(Jul 22 05, 08:38)Thats what i liked about it.
danthon
(Jul 22 05, 09:25)you must be a small minority, 'cause it don't make no money... :(
- mynameisgod0
It's part of history and there is less and less of that being represented of that in the world. I don't want to see it go and have everyone say "oh man, i wish i could have seen that." Like the blue note or the village vangard, it's a venue that shouldn't go.
I will admit that i'm not huge on they're business practices. There's a lot of reason that big bands don't like to play there. Part of it is they gouge bands that play there. Big bands are pretty much donating to them by playing there anyway. It's cool to play cBGB's. On the other hand, as a band you will take home more money playing at another place.
They could do well if they'd potenitally get another booker, try to adapt to some newer music, and quit making who ever plays there feel like they are getting screwed.
- jevad0
* slow hand clap
- danthon0
it's a dump and poorly kept
JazX
(Jul 22 05, 08:38)Thats what i liked about it.
- anzelina0
this is news, indeed.
cbgb is such a part of ny. it would be sad to see it turn into something else. it'd be better if it was completely destroyed.
- anon0
anyone up for a burncbgb.com?
- usrper0
word to the trendy lounge bit.
- JazX0
lol anon
- Mimio0
Let it go.