― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
bands like the replacements went through reacting to it hallowedness
― danh (danh), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
um, i wasn't trying to.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I thought that at first, but then I realized the Mozzer's rider demands are probably in line with what the Apollo's staff are used to, so it fits.
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― danh (danh), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 June 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― SexyNYer, Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
The good shows at CB's proper seem to have dried up around 1997 or so. I think the last time I went there was 1998 to see a friend's band play. The thing is, though, that CB's booking policy has always been uneven at best. There are rarely less than five bands on an average bill, and at least one or two will be audition-night refugees. It's therefore not only possible, but almost inevitable, to see the best AND worst bands in the world on the same bill. Judging from vintage ads I've seen, this has been true since Television discovered the place.
If Hilly's trading on CB's supposed "cred," maybe that's a smart business move - I hear the club's having hard times paying the rent these days. But to me, there's no better tribute to "punk" than for CBGB to function as a regular concert venue, a place where today's best bands can play and feel comfortable. Otherwise, it's just a shitty bar-cum-'70s mausoleum with ugly T-shirts. Why bother going?
― mike a, Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike a, Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― common_person (common_person), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
...there's this Jon Stewart Daily Show book coming out soon called "America". I won't get into the specifics, but the punchline to a joke that starts "Favorite Punk Band" is "Does Pavement count?"
― Mike Dixon (Mike Dixon), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link
And then suddenly, Punk was all cool again, so who knows, that might have changed.
― He wants to be me (kate), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link
It's a venue. They had some cool bands. They prob still do. Don't get precious.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Friday, 25 June 2004 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link
So OTM, Stence, so OTM.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Friday, 25 June 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 June 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
talking heads to thread.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
good shows i saw at cbgb in the mid '90s, none of them remotely punk: magnetic fields, the frogs, guided by voices
crappy shows by bands trying to capitalize on the name that i (and, as often as not, matt dillon) saw in the mid '90s: j mascis, x, meat puppets (all of whom probably played there when they were younger and weren't doing crappy shows)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 25 June 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
thank god someone said something
― slojas, Friday, 5 August 2005 01:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― broseph, Friday, 5 August 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link
i guess, then, that no band has been found by a record company since 1977. no wonder it's been so quiet around here the past few decades!
even Newcombe's annoying antics could be included in the slew of reasons to keep CBGB standing.
i suppose this has something to do with "irony," but what on earth does this sentence mean?
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 5 August 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link