Famed Punk Bar CBGB's Faces Eviction
via Drikoland
I was going to say this marks the end of an era, but I caught myself....it was the end of an era in something like 1979....
Sunday, March 20, 2005
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All things come to an end, and the punk movement was seriously over a long time ago. CBGB's would never have survived this long in another city.
It was a sadder day (in my opinion) when the Bottom Line was up for closure because that club had a more important history and impact on music and changing politics.
But, don't listen to me...I think punk rock now is just noise made by angry middle class white kids anyway.
I understand and respect what punk came out of...but just like anything else that gets picked up by mainstream it ends up being mangled by pissed off over indulged suburban kids.
I think you're right Radmilla. By the time most people knew what punk was, it was all over.
It seems to me that in the early 80s I saw Sun Ra and his 21st Century Omniverse Arkestra at the Bottom Line, doing a tribute to Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson
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