Good-bye (for now) CBGB's

Sergio Zamora · October-15th-2006, 12:12 AM

GoodSpeak · October-15th-2006, 02:18 AM

Read the article in my local rag.

It seems prophetic since the owner is battling lung cancer.

Still...sad to see it go.

Chris D · October-15th-2006, 08:59 AM

I ain't got time for that now.

Root Doctor · October-15th-2006, 03:49 PM

Mingus, Sisco, and I caught ? and the Mysterians there a few years ago. It was oddly reassuring to find that the men's room was as nasty as I remembered it from the early '80s.

Jimmy Cantiello · October-16th-2006, 06:06 AM

It was a dump. Good riddance............

Henry Mars · October-16th-2006, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimmy Cantiello

It was a dump. Good riddance............

What we refered to in the 60's as a toilet. Can't say I will miss the place.

? and the Mysterians .... I am almost embarrassed to admit that I am old enough to remember them.

steve(thelil) · October-16th-2006, 08:34 AM

I briefly confused ? and the Mysterians with The Shadows of Night. The Shadows of Night, who had a hit with the song Gloria (originally recorded by Them featuring Van Morrison) will be headlining a show sponsored by Little/Miami Steven's/Steve's Underground Garage operation.

Dr Dave · October-16th-2006, 05:11 PM

"Shadows of Knight" but who's counting.

I played one of the Monday night showcases, it was April 1984, just before I left town for a "real" job in Boston. Our lead guitarist had been through something resembling a nervous breakdown (at the time he'd play a gig at Limelight that went until 3:30 am, then he'd go to Mass at St. Anns on East 12th Street. Bizarre.) So we took the stage with some trepidation. We needn't have worried. There were three other bands on the bill, and maybe 50 people in the audience, and we banged through about 40 minutes worth of our stuff, and when we got off the stage somebody with a green mohawk asked if we were being ironic playing "Suspicious Minds." The main thing was we got a nice board recording, and our non-place in history as one of the zillion anonymous groups that filled out the time when the big names weren't playing.

BTW, I had previous history with Hilly Kristal: He'd run a little dive called "Hilly's" somewhere on the Upper East Side in the late '60s, and I'd played there backing some folk duo.