is CBGB a store or what?? if it is a store what can you buy there?
2007-03-02 15:39:40 · 10 answers · asked by The Answer 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
It stood for "Country, Blue Grass and Blues" but ended up making a lot of punk bands famous like the Ramones and Talking Heads. Patti Smith was one of the last acts. It was a great place and it's a bit of history now closed. The owner lost the lease and couldn't keep up the rising rent in the neighborhood.
Supposedly, there's going to be a CBGB store opened in Vegas. Not sure what I think of that.
2007-03-02 15:46:06 · answer #1 · answered by elf2002 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CBGB (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) was a legendary music club located at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became legendary as a forum for American punk and punk-influenced bands like The Ramones, Television, Mink Deville, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, Blondie, and Talking Heads. The club closed on the weekend of October 13, 2006. The Dictators headlined the final Friday and Saturday night, October 13 and October 14, and were joined onstage Saturday night by Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, performing an acoustic set. The final concert was performed by Patti Smith on Sunday October 15.[1] CBGB Fashions (the CBGB store, wholesale department, and online store) stayed open until October 31 at 315 Bowery. On November 1 CBGB Fashions moved to 19-23 St. Mark's Place.
2007-03-02 23:44:23 · answer #2 · answered by Shanda 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh, my god. You don't know what CBGB is. You must not be into punk. CBGB is the birth of punk rock. That's where the Ramones started out. It was a landmark club in NYC until the evil landlord kicked them out by hiking the rent up to high.
They were moving to Las Vagas but I don't know if they are open there yet. If it's not in New York it's not the same.
2007-03-02 23:45:49 · answer #3 · answered by vampire_kitti 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What the first guy said. It was all kinds of famous for being a big place fronting the punk rock and new wave scene in the mid 70's onward. Blondie, the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Voidoids all got a start there.
Oh and Patti Smith too.
2007-03-02 23:45:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
CBGBs is the greatest punk rock venue ever built. the Ramones, Television, the Talking Heads, and Richard Hell all started there, plus thousands more. recently moved from NYC to LA, unfortunitly
2007-03-02 23:43:53 · answer #5 · answered by sgt. pepper 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cbgb was a club where bands performed. cbgb doesn't exist because it got shut down.
2007-03-02 23:43:20 · answer #6 · answered by shih rips 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a famous bar in NY that is closed now but many famous acts came out of there in the 70's like Blondie, Talking Heads, Ramones etc.
2007-03-02 23:42:58 · answer #7 · answered by H-vaker 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
WAS a punk club in New York. Recently closed. Blondie, Talking Heads and many other classic acts debuted there, or played.
2007-03-02 23:43:12 · answer #8 · answered by Step into the Freezer 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it was a popular bar in NYC where Blondie, Ramones, etc. started. My teacher flipped out on me cause i didn't know what it was, and he played there. Thought that story might make this answer a lil better. lol
2007-03-02 23:46:46 · answer #9 · answered by Stonehead Gorilla. 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is a fashion line
2007-03-02 23:43:05 · answer #10 · answered by sweetnsour 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋