Just after 1 on Monday morning, the last notes of live music rang from the stage of CBGB & OMFUGThe bar opened just a couple months after my birth in 1973. How strange for it to close on my birthday 33 years later. For me, it has always been THE punk rock bar. I visited in July of 2000, purchased a t-shirt that is now falling apart, and was heart broken when I saw the same shirt for sale at Hot Topic last year. But I shed no tears for the place. The venue long out-lived its eventual purpose as flagship of American punk rock. Perhaps with CBGB gone all those weird, disenfranchised kids can stop humping the rebellion of the past and create something new, harder, and weirder.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Underground
The home of underground rock, CBGB, is no more.
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