CBGB Hosts Last Concert Before Eviction

AP via Excite News ^ | Oct 16, 6:07 AM (ET) | JAKE COYLE

[weegee]

Sad thing is disco is still here (and it still sucks).

People call hip hop the new rock but actually it is the new 'disco'. Modern trance-house is also 'disco'.

And 70s Disco is still here. ARRRRGGGGHHH!

[To Hell With Poverty]

Jeepers creepers, posting that Patti Smith pic is about as sadistic as the Helen Thomas pics I always see on FR!

[weegee]

CBGB's best days were just before Gen X was able to get in!

Truth. And I never went. I have seen some other vibrant music scenes in my lifetime (I entering high school in 1982).

For those interested in reading about CBGBs, there are 2 recommended books:

This Ain't No Disco: The Story of Cbgb (Paperback) by by Roman Kozak and Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil (of Punk Magazine) Gillian McCain.

Please Kill Me covers the scene from the Velvet Underground to Iggy & the Stooges and the New York Dolls up to Patti Smith's "final" show at CBGBs in the late 1970s. It is very NYC centric but it is well done (with some time spent covering Detroit in the late 1960s and Iggy Pop as he went to LA).

Legs McNeil published Punk Magazine and his sticker campaign "Punk Is Coming" gave the new music its name (although previously Lenny Kaye had commented on the "punk bands" of the sixties on his Nuggets compilation for Elektra Records in 1972).

[weegee]

Please Kill Me also discussed the "Florida years" of the New York Dolls.

[RepoGirl]

I've been meaning to read that for years, and I'm curious now about the NYD's stint in America's Wang (a fine state, actually, and a pretty cool scene way back when.) Never knew the Dolls were down here at all -- must have been Miami.

[weegee]

If I recall, it was north of that. Ft. Lauderdale maybe or possibly as far north as St. Petersburg.

Malcolm Maclaren was their manager at that point (and afterward he created the punk rock Monkees, the Sex Pistols). Malcolm's idea of outrage was to have the NYDolls dress in red and play in front of a big Communist flag.

Iggy Pop lives in Miami these days.

[t_skoz]

Patti Smith rules!

[RepoGirl]

Malcolm's idea of outrage was to have the NYDolls dress in red and play in front of a big Communist flag.

Maclaren always seemed like such a putz. He got lucky with the Pistols, sorta, but every other single fad he tried to exploit failed miserably. Bow Wow Wow, I think, would have succeeded with or without him.

[Volunteer]

"It's just not the same since Joey Ramone died.

Rest in Peace Joey.

[GOP_1900AD]

We may be boomers by the book but culturally we never had anything to do with the dirty hippies and disco clowns. We cast off the largesse and went back to basics, drawing from rockabilly, old Memphis twang bar rock and roll and surf guitar. We cut our hair and thrashed away in the pits of innumerable dives and ad hoc venues. And to think, I still have all my own teeth - it truly is a miracle!

[SupplySider]

Former dirty hippie pro-punk anti-disco bump :)

[tet68]

All past my time, we hung at Reienzies and Cafe Wa but that was eons ago during the pleisto-scene...