…of the Ramones and CBGB to see how their iconic creative partnership came to be. The Ramones in front of CBGB. Image credit: CBGB Website The Beginning of the Ramones…
Read More…demise, the Ramones would play at CBGB hundreds more times over the next decades, as punk broke through to the mainstream. CBGB following Joey Ramone’s death, image via Village Preservation’s…
Read MoreThe former marquee of CBGB’s CBGB, the legendary rock club on the Bowery and Bleecker closed its doors on October 15, 2006, due to lease issues, 33 years after it…
Read More…for the Ramones, CBGB had been operating for two years. The venue was opened in 1973 by Hilly Krystal as CBGB’s & OMFUG, which stood for “Country Bluegrass Blues and…
Read More…leading to the closure of CBGB on October 15, 2006. Kristal passed away on August 28, 2007. CBGB After Joey Ramone’s Death in 2001, via our Historic Image Archive www.villagepreservation.org/image-archive…
Read More…played at CBGB. 1) they must carry their own equipment, and 2) they must play mostly original songs. The precursor-to-punk music being played at CBGB in its early days varied…
Read More…CBGB – 315 Bowery From 1973 to 2006, CBGB’s was an influential incubator for underground groups in the punk rock scene. The venue remains an extraordinary icon of the East…
Read More…time. Gone but not forgotten In 2003, the corner of the Bowery and East 2nd Street, outside what was then still CBGB’s, was named “Joey Ramone Place.” Sadly, CBGB’s closed in 2006….
Read More…2003, the corner of the Bowery and East 2nd Street, outside what was then still CBGB’s, was named “Joey Ramone Place.” Sadly, CBGB’s closed in 2006. …
Read More…Sadly, on October 15, 2011, CBGB’s, the legendary rock venue o n Bleecker and Bowery, closed for good. Opened in 1973, its full name, CBGB’s & OMFUG, stood for “Country…
Read More…which were the basis of many early songs she and Stein produced. During this time the Stillettoes played locally, including at CBGB’s, which Harry describes as a biker bar at that…
Read More…a small portion of the building. Yet, despite their commitment to the community, they nearly demolished the entire building in August 2009. CBGB’s On October 15, 2011, the legendary…
Read More…album, Leave Home, with the crowd singing along. Flowers for Joey Ramone following his death outside CBGB, 315 Bowery from Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive The man we knew as…
Read More…wave scene of the 1970’s, with their very first gig as the Talking Heads opening for the Ramones at CBGB’s on the Bowery on June 20, 1975. Unlike some of…
Read More…with the group and with one of their earliest and most frequent concert venues, CBGB. The band’s first performance at the Bowery club was on August 16, 1974, and the…
Read More…Blocks, reminding us how many unforgettable musicians made their mark on these humble streets. East Village Music Venues Tour on Building Blocks. CBGB CBGB after the death of Joey Ramone….
Read More…the immortal invocation “Hey, ho, let’s go,” grew straight out of the ferment of the downtown music scene, particularly that of CBGB’s. Inspired by fellow downtowners the New York Dolls,…
Read More…for themselves with the East Village venue with which they were most closely associated, CBGB’s. In fact, after Joey died in 2001, the corner of 2nd Street and Bowery was…
Read More…was a hub of rock n’ roll counter culture during the 1960s and 70s. One of the most recognizable names in this music scene is CBGB’s, which was located on…
Read More…they continued to perform at venues like CBGB’s, Max’s Kansas City, and the Mudd Club. Manic Panic was a favorite shop of Cyndi Lauper, The Ramones, The Dictators, Cher, Sid…
Read More…for two of the Ramones’ most beloved album covers. The cover of 1978’s “Rocket to Russia” was shot on anachronistic Extra Place, the back alley off 1st Street behind CBGB….
Read More…the East Village was a hub of rock n’ roll counter culture during the 1960’s and 70’s. One of the most recognizable names in this music scene is CBGB’s, which…
Read More…encouragement and began learning and playing the instrument. They formed the Talking Heads which opened for The Ramones at CBGB for the first time on June 5th, 1975, and the…
Read More…is made more Village-like by a near-by espresso house.” The famed music club CBGB that opened in 1973 By the 1970s, the term “East Village” had become widely accepted, and…
Read More…street at 315 Bowery is the former home of CBGBs. From 1973 to 2006, CBGBs was an influential incubator for underground groups in the punk and rock scene. From the GVSHP Image…
Read More…1970s, punk was born in this neighborhood at nearby grungy Bowery bar CBGBs. That stripped-down musical movement then migrated to England, where it exploded in popularity, splintering into multiple strains….
Read More…the 1950s to the iconic rockers of the CBGB scene in the 1970s like Blondie, Patti Smith, and Debbie Harry. See photos, too, of the beloved Footlight Records, located at…
Read More…in 1976 on the Lower East Side. The band enjoyed regular gigs at well-known nearby venues–CBGB, Max’s Kansas City, Irving Plaza, and the Continental Divide at 25 Third Avenue off…
Read More…had an unusually broad impact upon the larger cultural landscape, including CBGB’s, the Mudd Club, Area, and Danceteria, of which Pyramid is the sole present-day survivor….Legend has it that in the early…
Read More…fixture on the Village scene, often found at places like the San Remo Café or CBGB‘s. He once criticized author and Greenwich Village legend Jack Kerouac’s work, saying “That’s not…
Read More…about each business to share. White Horse Tavern CBGB James & Karla are extraordinary photographers who focus on storefronts and architecture. They have captured and preserved scores of Village locales…
Read More…“I certainly am no Peggy Guggenheim, and this ain’t no Mudd Club, or CBGBs. But if we can create an interesting little gallery in our ratty throwback of a building,…
Read More…1989. In the 1980s, the Pyramid Club and its peers, including CBGB, the Mudd Club, Area, and Danceteria, were a generation of performance venues that had an unusually broad impact…
Read More…streets anywhere in Manhattan. But it was well-known to performers at CBGB’s, located at 313 Bowery, which had a rear exit that led out onto it. It was there that…
Read More…for Joey Ramone outside the former site of CBGB, on Bleecker and Bowery. Gathered together, these pieces of ephemera constitute contemporary poet Brenda Coultas’ The Bowery Project (published in the…
Read More…other theaters and music venues along the Bowery, including CBGB’s, the Bouwerie Lane Theater, and the Bowery Ballroom. The Amato Opera operated for sixty-one years, until 2009, nine years after…
Read More…poetry readings, dance performances, experimental film and video showcases. But it became perhaps most famous as a mecca, albeit fleetingly, for the burgeoning downtown early-punk scene, when CBGBs was still…
Read More…a coincidence! (video) (event description) Tour Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo (from east to west): CBGB after the death of Joey Ramone. From Meredith Marciano Collection, archive.gvshp.org. The…
Read More…scene at CBGB between 1976 and 1979 – including Blondie, Patti Smith, the Ramones, Talking Heads, and Richard Hell — Mr. Godlis will discuss that series of photographs, as well…
Read MoreThe critically-acclaimed Isle of Klezbos debuted in 1998 at CB’s 313 Gallery (the folk club offshoot next to punk rock CBGB in the East Village), where they also performed some…
Read More…the advantage of learning from a strong mentor. He came to New York in 1986 as a drummer, playing with underground bands in places like CBGB but paid the rent by working…
Read More…Tavern all have music nightly. If you still want to take a nostalgia trip, you can always read these past Off the Grid posts on CBGB’s and the Fillmore East….
Read More…Joey Ramone lived for a time at 6 East 2nd Street and it was around the corner from CBGB, their second home. The garden’s volunteers sometimes host jazz nights and…
Read More…10th Street & 2nd Avenue) and will end at 315 Bowery (between E 1st and E 2nd sts) at the spot where CBGBs made a lasting impact on music and culture in…
Read More…East Village’s departed Mars Bar, CBGBs, and Frutti di Mare, as well as NoHo’s sadly no-longer-extant Peace Pentagon and Jones Diner, click here. To view our entire historic image archive…
Read More…world, along with The Cavern and CBGBs, the latter also a Village icon similarly no longer with us. The Greenwich Village music scene has always stood as a testament to…
Read More…the first play by an African American woman produced on Broadway. Debbie Harry — Singer, songwriter and actress who helped usher in the CBGB punk revolution and profoundly shaped popular…
Read More…her to fame) in his studio at 24 Bond Street, and had early residencies at CBGB’s on the Bowery and the Bitter End on Bleecker Street which helped launch her…
Read More…Vice, the Quietus, Interview Magazine, and Fodor’s Travel. Prior to his work as a historian, he spent twelve years touring the country as a working musician, playing at CBGB, Lincoln…
Read More…the many music and literary icons that called the Village home. Influenced by her musically driven family, she grew up wishing she were old enough to attend shows at CBGB…
Read More…Streets) at the spot where CBGB made a lasting impact on music and culture in New York and beyond. There will be a few stops in between featuring a classic Ramone’s…
Read More…CBGB biopic in the works (Bowery Boogie) The Villager gives a little history of Yiddish Theater in preparation for our lecture tomorrow Gothamist has pictures HERE and HERE of the…
Read More…the Sun” was the first play by an African American woman produced on Broadway. Debbie Harry — Singer, songwriter and actress who helped usher in the CBGB punk revolution and…
Read More…the first play by an African American woman produced on Broadway. Debbie Harry — Singer, songwriter and actress who helped usher in the CBGB punk revolution and profoundly shaped popular…
Read More…in the early 1990s was simply unparalleled, with a roster of iconic locations such as the Pyramid Club, Webster Hall, and CBGB. Live music, specifically rock, had been a staple…
Read More…at Abe Lebewohl Park (corner of 2nd Avenue and East 10th Street) and will end at 315 Bowery (between East 1st and East 2nd Streets) where CBGB made an indelible…
Read More…3 Punk: Keine Zukunft im CBGB’s, ORF-Radiothek, February 1 Village advocates side with city, challenge NYU rezoning lawsuit, NYU News, January 27 Marte, community groups file motion to stop NYU’s…
Read More…Traveller, Vice, the Quietus, Interview Magazine, and Fodor’s Travel. Prior to his work as a historian, he spent twelve years touring the country as a working musician, playing at CBGB,…
Read More…store almost closed, but was saved by punk rock. Kids would come over from CBGBs and ask for shaves, mohawks, colors, and spikes. The shop was known to have a…
Read More…club CBGBs was forced to shutter its doors and was replaced with an upscale boutique. To the east, the character of the formerly gritty Extra Place has also been significantly…
Read More…were a part. The two frequented the famous Max’s Kansas City and CBGB nightclubs and were also musicians. During the 1970s, the two were backup singers for the band the…
Read More…music venues in the world, along with The Cavern and CBGBs, the latter an East Village icon that is similarly no longer with us. Folklore Center 110 MacDougal Street Dave…
Read More…was the hippest East Village hangout in the 60’s (Ephemeral New York) The Local East Village looks back at CBGB circa 1977 The Hurricane Irene line outside of Trader Joe’s…
Read More…Bowery Poetry Club & Café, CBGB/OMFUG; Angelo Bruno; Raffetto’s; St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund; the Village Community School Addition; The Villager Newspaper; The Washington Square Arch Restoration. 2003: Bayard Condict…
Read More…Square Library about her new exhibition, “Goodbye to the Brick and Mortar,” a celebration of the life and memory of some iconic but no-longer-extant local storefronts, including CBGB, Mars Bar,…
Read More…widely known, their song “Time for Livin’” was later covered by the Beastie Boys on their 1992 album “Check Your Head.” Frontline performing at CBGB in 1982. From the Noah…
Read More…CBGB (Villager) Stretch of East 14th Street Becoming Foodie Heaven (DNAinfo) Mars Bar May Rise Again (NY Post) Workers Remove Iconic Chow Mein Sign on 2nd Avenue (EV Grieve) Before…
Read More…East 9th Street (NY Daily News) Will There Ever be Another Mars Bar? (NY Press) 3rd Victim of PA Shooting Dies (The Local East Village) Legendary CBGB is Now Just…
Read More…outside CBGB, 315 Bowery From Meredith Jacobson Marciano Collection: New York in the 1970s through 9/11, Part 2 Her photographs focus on the architecture, signage, and street life of neighborhoods…
Read More…Thunders, would reputedly get his sugar fixes there in between sets at CBGBs). Artists Robert Mapplethorpe and Jean-Michel Basquiat were also fans. As would befit an establishment that has catered…
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