About me: I was the birth place of punk. I was where rock n roll belongs... a small dirty, beer soaked, dark pit of a club with the best stage sound in the city. My walls were held together by years of layers of flyers and stickers. My uneven wood floors were caked with dried up booze, blood, sweat, and who knows what else.
CBGB closed at 315 Bowery on Sunday October 15th, 2006. As a long time member of the CBGB staff, Hilly Kristal allowed me to run this page as the club's official page. Now with the club closed, it is a continuing tribute to the greatest rock n' roll club that ever was.
I welcome any feedback and encourage anyone with their own CBGB story to share to do so.
Back when I was in the Navy, I would go to CBGB when I was in NYC for Fleet Week. In May of 2005 I went to the Gallery and watched a girl play on stage with a piano and herself. I ironically sat beside her parents and her sister and watched her set. Her mom had a lengthy conversation with me at which she later gave me her business card and said I was always welcome whenever I came back to NYC. I later hung out with the girl playing, had some drinks and kissed her when I left. We sent a few email back and forth for about 6 months and then stopped. I still have the business card her mom gave me that had the last name Germanotta on it. I looked up the name on google a few weeks back and realized it was lady gaga I had saw and her mom that I had talked to the whole time. Freakin nuts. . .
