Relive the gross, gritty glory of CBGB in thist installment of '1973: Shaping the Culture,' a new series from 'Rolling Stone' and HBO's 'Vinyl.' Get the full story at: rol.st/1pIqqHq Subscribe to Rolling Stone on RU-vid: bit.ly/1uGwgGg
These bands were the first to play Hilly's bar: Queen Elizabeth (featuring Wayne County), The Stilettos, The Magic Tramps and The Miamis. Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads and The Ramones came along later... in '74 / '75.
damn, i used to live at the White House Hotel across the street from CBGBs .. $10 a night................. The hotel lobby was just a little cleaner then CBGBs .. good times...............
All I can say is... it was cool being part of the CBGB's scene early on with The Magic Tramps w/Eric Emerson & Alan Vega (Suicide)...also a thrill having 2 'Magic Tramps' songs (My Reflection & Magic In The Moonlight) in the HBO series VINYL...- Sesu Coleman
of course Rolling Stone gets it wrong....CBGB's did open on December 10, 1973, so technically you can make a case for placing this in 1973, but Television didn't play there until early 1974, the Ramones August, 1974, and Patti Smith February, 1975...so 1973 is quite misleading
The floor was sticky everywhere. The sound was terrible. Often the audience was just standing around. It was really dark. The mood was this weird place between total crap, self-importance, and commercial aspirations. All that music is much better in retrospect, having been cleaned up and filtered out by the music industry and selective memory. The sound track on this video is completely dishonest.
Couldn’t agree more on the crap soundtrack for this video. Who the hell at Vinyl thought Frankenstein by Edgar Winter would be an appropriate backing track for a video on the rise of punk at CBGBs?? This shows that RS and Vinyl represent all the shit about the music biz that Hilly and CBGB went against.
In 1973 Byrne, Harry, and The Ramones were NOT playing at CBGB's. Two or three years later, sure - but this video is very misleading. In 1973 punk didn't exist, even in it's infancy. Rolling Stone has no one on staff old enough to know this? Wow. Who's the creative director on Vinyl, Oliver Stone?
**With the exception of MC5, The Stooges, and some fringe acts - punk didn't exist in 1973. Hell, were the Ramones even old enough to get in the bar in '73?
SUICIDE advertised PUNK MUSIC beginning in 1970. Legs and Holstrum labeled the scene, PUNK in '75 or early '76. They also appointed themselves arbiters of who was and wasn't 'punk'. They got a lot of it wrong.
My band THE THE was privileged enough to play there regularly after we signed a management contract with THE WARTOKE CONCERN, NYC (John Cale/Pattie Smith/Television/Lester Bangs) because prior to that, it was very difficult to get a gig there. We opened for all the "greats" back then including a star-studded night of celebrities & all the press who came out to see NICO during a record-breaking snowstorm in 1979. The venue had the absolute best sound system in the Tristate with two 24-track recording machines on board, which is as rare as it gets! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dldNpUbs8zo.html
