| 29th August 2007 02:03 PM |
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| LadyJane |
There will NEVER be another CBGB's!!!
So glad I trekked to NYC a few times in the early 80's!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070829...t_hilly_kristal
LJ.
[Edited by LadyJane] |
| 29th August 2007 02:11 PM |
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| mojoman |
the move killed him.......... |
| 29th August 2007 02:17 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
This just in.
It is with deep sadness and regret that we inform you of the death of Hilly
Kristal, who died on Tuesday, August 28, 2007, from complications from Lung
Cancer. Kristal, 75, founded the legendary rock club CBGB and ran the club
for 33 years. A singer and songwriter himself, Kristal opened the club to
showcase "Country Bluegrass and Blues"; instead the club became a breeding
ground for Punk rock. Among the many acts that called CBGB home were
Blondie, the Talking Heads, Television, Living Color, Patti Smith and the
Ramones. The club closed in October 2006, but CBGB continues, with a retail
store in New York City and worldwide merchandise sales; in addition, there
currently are plans to open new CBGB clubs in several locations.
Kristal is survived by his daughter, Lisa Kristal Burgman, son, Mark Dana
Kristal, son-in-law Ger Burgman, grandchildren Jenny and Adam Burgman, CBGB,
and the thousands of artists and musicians who played the club.
A private memorial service is planned. A public memorial will be held at a
later date. Contributions in Hilly's honor may be made in his name to the
American Cancer Society or to the Hilly Kristal Foundation for Musicians and
Artists (168 Second Avenue, PMB 207, New York, NY 10003). |
| 29th August 2007 02:36 PM |
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| pdog |
this is sad...
long live the spirit of CBGB's and all the great bands... |
| 29th August 2007 02:41 PM |
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| monkey_man |
RIP Hilly!
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| 29th August 2007 03:11 PM |
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| Paranoid_Android |
At least the club went out with dignity...had Hilly gone first, the club would have had a Starbucks concession inside it along w/ a mini Gap by Christmas, with piped in music. |
| 29th August 2007 04:04 PM |
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| Martha |
I just heard the sad news. :-(
RIP
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CBGB founder Hilly Kristal dies
By CRISTIAN SALAZAR, Associated Press Writer Wed Aug 29, 1:01 PM ET
NEW YORK - Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads, has died. He was 75.
Kristal, who lost a bitter fight last year to stop the club's eviction from its home of 33 years, died Tuesday at Cabrini Hospital after a battle with lung cancer, his son Mark Dana Kristal said Wednesday.
Last October, as the club headed toward its final show with Patti Smith, Kristal was using a cane to get around and showing the effects of his cancer treatment. He was hoping to open a Las Vegas incarnation of the infamous venue that opened in 1973.
"He created a club that started on a small, out-of-the-way skid row, and saw it go around the world," said Lenny Kaye, a longtime member of the Patti Smith Group. "Everywhere you travel around the world, you saw somebody wearing a CBGB T-shirt."
While the club's glory days were long past when it shut down, its name transcended the venue and become synonymous with the three-chord thrash of punk and its influence on generations of musicians worldwide.
The club also became a brand name for a line of clothing and accessories, even guitar straps; its store, CBGB Fashions, was moved a few blocks away from the original club, but remained open.
"I'm thinking about tomorrow and the next day and the next day, and going on to do more with CBGB's," Kristal told The Associated Press last October.
Kristal started the club in 1973 with the hope of making it a mecca of country, bluegrass and blues — called CBGB & OMFUG, for "Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandisers" — but found few bands to book. It instead became the epicenter of the mid-1970s punk movement.
"There was never gourmet food, and there was never country bluegrass," his son said Wednesday.
Besides the Ramones and the Talking Heads, many of the other sonically defiant bands that found frenzied crowds at CBGB during those years became legendary — including Smith, Blondie and Television.
Smith said at the venue's last show that Kristal "was our champion and in those days, there were very few."
Throughout the years, CBGB had rented its space from the building's owner, the Bowery Residents' Committee, an agency that houses homeless people.
In the early 2000s, a feud broke out when the committee went to court to collect more than $300,000 in back rent from the club, then later successfully sought to evict it. By the time it closed, CBGB had become part museum and part barroom.
At the club's boarded-up storefront Wednesday morning, fans left a dozen candles, two bunches of flowers and a foam rubber baseball bat — an apparent tribute to the Ramones' classic "Beat on the Brat." A spray-painted message read: "RIP Hilly, we'll miss you, thank you."
Other survivors include his wife, Karen, and daughter, Lisa.
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On the Net:
http://www.cbgb.com |
| 29th August 2007 04:16 PM |
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| fireontheplatter |
i walked by this place a few times when it was in operation and thought...what a fucking dive hole in the wall. and it was. just the exterior of the place fightened me.
if only i'd had the patience to read the sign on the wall that the heads were playing that night.....damn, i curse myself.
ahhh the good ol days.
may the propriator rest in peace
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| 29th August 2007 05:51 PM |
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| Starbuck |
i loved him in "city slickers"!
RIP! |
| 31st August 2007 02:11 AM |
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| GotToRollMe |
Ah fuck
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