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Flasshe - 2005-08-03 16:46:20
Someone has gone before you to make sure there is a way.
There's a song lyric if I ever did hear one! What a cool little observation.
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Editrix - 2005-08-03 16:46:34
Not to harsh on your footwear-doffing mellow, but this article may change your mind. Maybe you shouldn't read it. I kind of wish I hadn't. Sorry.
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Editrix - 2005-08-03 16:47:35
Here is a baby panda to make up for that last comment.
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Baby Party - 2005-08-03 17:37:51
You'll get no argument from me on CB's. What irks the hell out of me is that they can't pay their rent, and their landlords are a homeless coalition! I realize they're probably making very little money on the club itself these days, but the merchandising revenue from CBGB's t-shirts - which I see all over the WORLD - must be healthy. I was similarly hard-hearted about the Bottom Line's demise, because it seemed to me that for years I paid outrageous ticket prices ($ 40 or more) to sit crammed elbow to elbow with strangers, eat crappy food, drink overpriced drinks, and be abused by rude staff. Yes, I saw great music on a great sound system, with great sightlines all over the room. But they squeezed every dime they could outta me. Where did all that money go? They still couldn't pay the rent? Cry me a river!
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Baby Party - 2005-08-03 17:40:04
Also, the fact that Hilly Kristal is threatening to take the club to Las Vegas is extremlely amusing to me. And surely says something - I'm not exactly sure what - about just what it's come to.
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2fs - 2005-08-03 21:48:13
Is it just me, or do other people have trouble getting links in these comments to work properly? I can extract the proper URL from the wrong ones...but for example, the panda link above comes up as [ht*tp://pca*rino.dia*ryland.com/comments/%22ht*tp://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html%22] - arbitrary asterisks to prevent it from being read as a link. Or is that a Firefox thing?
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Janet - 2005-08-04 08:20:48
Is it just me, or do other people have trouble getting links in these comments to work properly?
Jeff, it's not just you. I can't remember if it was Diaryland or elsewhere that would post a link correctly if you leave the quotation marks out of the HTML tage, so let's try it with the shoes article to find out.
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amatt - 2005-08-04 09:48:59
I feel the same way about CB's and the Bottom Line. It's not my job to bail out a business. Music is about music, location, although important, should ultimately take second place. I saw dozens of shows at the Bottom Line, and boy did that place suck. I played CBGB's many a time, and I never got paid.
Hey P, let's tour!
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Editrix - 2005-08-04 16:59:49
Thanks, Janet, for saving my soy bacon. I noticed that the links were wonky after I'd posted the second one.
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Editrix - 2005-08-04 17:01:41
Oh, CRIKEY!
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Baby Party - 2005-08-04 17:41:43
Oh, my. That is cute as hell.
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tris mccall - 2005-08-04 18:21:27
i do not like cbgb, and will not be sad to see it go. to me, it epitomizes everything about the seventies and early eighties music that younger nyc rockers have rejected. it is also the high church of the movement that says you have to be totally blitzed on something or other in order to rock. i was bummed when fez closed, and i *do* feel bad about luna, and whenever they finally close the doors on the mercury lounge, i will cry. even though my times at the merc have not always been golden. but my times at cbgb mainly involve trying to dodge grime, beer bottles, and cockroaches. if i never have to go there again to see a show, i'll be *thrilled*.
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tris mccall - 2005-08-04 18:22:15
i do not like cbgb, and will not be sad to see it go. to me, it epitomizes everything about the seventies and early eighties music that younger nyc rockers have rejected. it is also the high church of the movement that says you have to be totally blitzed on something or other in order to rock. i was bummed when fez closed, and i *do* feel bad about luna, and whenever they finally close the doors on the mercury lounge, i will cry. even though my times at the merc have not always been golden. but my times at cbgb mainly have involved trying to dodge grime, beer bottles, and cockroaches. if i never have to go there again to see a show, that'll be *great*.
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2fs - 2005-08-04 19:52:55
Amy, you're making everyone shout! Let's see if this works: Well?
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Janet - 2005-08-04 21:58:53
But that Pandacam is worth shouting about!
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Sharps - 2005-08-05 10:36:52
Good points all around. I'll be sad to see CBGB go because I played a ton of shows there and had a lot of memorable times. It is a great stage to play from with a fantastic sound system, and I really did feel like I was on hallowed ground. That said, it deserves to die, because it sucks for all the reasons above and more. Tris, it started another heinous movement in NYC clubland, packing 7 shitty bands onto the bill with your band, so all your fans and friends can pay six bucks to hear you play for 25 minutes in the shittiest space and then flee before the death-metal act comes on after you. I don't know if it's Hilly or Louise (booker) but they ran the place into the ground by booking terrible music into a place nobody wants to be in. Great point about the merchandising, BP: with a brand-name that valuable, it's inexcusable they can't pay their rent. Hilly should hire the same people Dan Aykroyd hired to run House of Blues. There should be an awesome CBGB in every major city! Corporate schmorporate. Those dopes on Air America were broadcasting from there this morning, saying we should call Bloomberg to tell him to keep CB's just the way it is "because we like it that way". No wonder the Dems can't win an election. Hilly wants to keep things the way they were in 1976, but that system doesn't work anymore - what was the last band they broke, Living Color? Nothing's sacred, they even tore down the Cavern. Then someone built a new one when he figured out how he could make it work.
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Shamey - 2005-08-05 11:31:21
Sorry, everyone.
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2fs - 2005-08-05 11:58:03
Hmmm...I wonder if Amy's making us whisper now... Hey everybody! Party at Paula's place, since she's out of town! Dammit, where does she keep the good liquor? But shhhh! We don't want her to find out...
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Alan - 2005-08-05 14:30:44
It's hidden behind the Wham! boxed set, Fs.
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Flasshe - 2005-08-05 15:54:04
I just hope someone remembers to feed the monkeys.
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