I can’t believe this! I used to love CBGBs when I was younger. I used to go there all the time with my friends from high school. I can’t even count how many bands we saw play.I even remember the first time I went to the bathroom there. I was so SHOCKED to find no door and crap everywhere! I had two of my girlfriend shield me from the rest of the room by using their bodies. By the third time, I would go it alone. And now, some greedy bastard wants to up the rent to like a trillion dollars a month. So it shall be no more. So sad! So sad!!
New York’s revered CBGB club will close its doors for the last time at the end of September (06). The venue, famous for nurturing the US punk scene in the mid-to-late 1970s by hosting early shows by BLONDIE, TALKING HEADS and the RAMONES, will become part of rock history on 30 September (06).
Owner HILLY KRISTAL lost a battle to keep the venue open in 2005 after a much-publicised fight with landlord, the Bowery Residents’ Committee, over a new lease. Kristal refuses to confirm reports he plans to set up a new CBGB’s club in Las Vegas, Nevada.
