Now that it's officiall closing.....POV: your Top Five Shows attended at CBGB's

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In no real rank:

1. Gavin Friday in the Fall of 1989, promoting Each Man Kills the Thing He Love. "This is the famous CBGB's?" he snarked from the stage, "What a depressing dump!"
2. Cop Shoot Cop circa 1989/90. The band have a spluttering television set plugged in onstage during the proceedings. At the end of the show, Tod swings the business end of his bass into its screen, shattering the tube.
3. The Wedding Present just prior to the release of Seamonsters.
4. The Volcano Suns circa Career in Rock.
5. Murphy's Law/Token Entry circa `88.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, please to do not mistake this as some sort've scenesterish assertion of hepcattery. There is nothing exclusive or cool about having been to CBGB's in 2005, unless you were there in the late 70's, and in the late 70's I was busy drawing pictures of Darth Vader and Gene Simmons on my fifth grade notebooks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I remember seeing Iceburn there in 1995 or so, that was a great show.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

wait - they officially announced it's closing? when's the last show?

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

R. Kelly's Chocolate Factory Revue, mid-August.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I only saw one show there, last August: Blood on the Wall/Measles Mumps Rubella/Sightings/Rogers Sisters. That was a good one, particularly Sightings.

Saw some good jazz in that basement part of the CB's Gallery.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Last I read, they were putting a tour together to help pay the back rent. Quote from Hilly was "We'll be here awhile." Maybe its a smokescreen. I dont know. Alex, where did you get this info?

― jockey, Friday, 10 June 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh, nothing carved in stone, but all indications suggest that it's heading that way.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 June 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to be misleading in my thread title there.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

So it's official that nothing's carved in stone?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 June 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

I've never seen a show there, but I dropped a friend off in front of it. My reaction was the same as most out-of-towner's born in the early 1970's: That's CBGB's?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 June 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

wasn't at this show (was about three years before i was born), but would've loved to have been.
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7802793797/other-music-for-uplifting-gormandizers-lets-take
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo6eivTA5q1qzy30io1_400.jpg

― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:50 (fourteen years ago)

click the link for mp3s of the television/talking heads sets from july 30

― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:50 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

this is sort of awesome/hilarious
http://98bowery.com/punkyears/images/cbgbharry.jpg
http://98bowery.com/punkyears/bettie-visits-cbgb.php

― tylerw, Friday, 6 January 2012 17:13 (fourteen years ago)

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