CBGB's..museum or condos???
batmon
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CBGB's has been getting alot of NYC media attention due to its lease running out this month. Some cats want it to be landmarked. Some cats say could care less.Anybody out there give a fuck? Should it become the Hard Rock Cafe of Punk? When I walk by it, some of the kids remind me of Renaissance Fair geeks. 
Just Sayin...................I went to high school w/ some real heads.
Just Sayin...................I went to high school w/ some real heads.
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Now, that's some hardcore Frank Miller Batmon ish!
eh, the "world of punk"?
"that dump" should not be turned into more hideous condos. But that figures, coming from New Jersey...
Listen bucko...I played there a couple of times back in the day. It is a dump. I'm guessing there's still vintage 1975 poop on the walls of the restroom.
I agree that condos (and gentrification in general) are a bad idea, but what becomes of it otherwise? A bistro with caricatures of Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell on the walls? A Brass plaque on the wall outside? Punk Walk of Fame?
Blecchhh....
that place is just a t-shirt stand now... might as well let it go... they have expensive drinks and do not pay bands well at all... that's why i find it hard to believe hilly is claiming he's broke... let it go, before it becomes the Cafe Wha of the east village...
no one would waxng poetic about Max's or Mudd Club or Danceteria if they were still open and sucked as bad as CB's does...
lol I'm just fucking with you. I know it's a dump, but it's an historic dump. Fuck man, there's three tenement museum buildings just blocks away. It's like, certain LES history can be preserved and other shit gets turned into condos.
Fuck, have you seen the new monster on Houston/Bowery? There's gonna be a whole foods and a gym... on houston and bowery...
Honestly it should be kept in state. I mean, that's the history of it. I'd throw eggs at it if it ended up being some hard rock or something
seriously
FECAL RAER!
Unrelated to CBGB's, but we live on the same block as Hale House so those New York Sightseeing buses always pass right by our brownstone. I hate going outside to throw out the trash or smoke and seeing these tourists gawking. I imagine the guide narrating the tour on some Animal Kingdom-type steez: "Here we see Homo sapiens in its native habitat...Take note of the dark color and markings."
Not to mention their "flexible" attitude to fire laws. I've been in there more than a few times (and have heard from others with the same experience) where they were waaayyyyy over capacity, to the point where you felt like you might die in there. It was like one of those Japanese subways where the guy is outside stuffing people in with a stick...
are those subway tokens in her hair???
CBGB childrens fund raiser to "KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE"
I live right around the corner from it for the past 15 years and its ready to be turned into whatever. They can build condos on the top but who wants pay $3000 a month to live next door to the Bowery Mission and across the street from the Sunshine Hotel, no matter how cutting edge it is.
It always did have the grossest bathroom in the city.