Cbgb Bathroom

Cbgb is a dreadful film.

Cbgb bathroom. Shortly after it opened in 1973 the music club known the world over as cbgb omfug became a new york city icon. Cbgb is the undisputed birthplace of punk. As cbgb s infamy spread its influence lessened and it hosted more vanity shows than cultural groundswells.

Dramatically inert and ridiculously inauthentic the whole thing has about as much punk credibility as an off the rack 30 ramones t shirt from hot topic. Cbgb poster iconic punk rock music club and venue new york city 9 95. Now just a t shirted memory across 43 years cbgb hosted some of rock s most crucial shows.

Chaos to couture the new fashion exhibition at the metropolitan museum of art visitors are immediately confronted with a re creation of a filthy restroom of cbgb. As the east side yuppiefied rents rocketed and when its lease expired in 06 it wasn t renewed. Only 13 left in stock order soon.

As we wrote in the review this thing is a real stinker a mostly turgid boring as hell. From its stupendously inept chronological fuck ups walls are covered with band stickers before any bands have played there to its unintentionally. The letters cbgb were for country bluegrass and blues kristal s original vision yet cbgb soon became a famed venue of punk rock and new wave bands like the ramones television patti smith group blondie and talking heads from the early 1980s onward cbgb was known for hardcore punk.

The trailer for the upcoming film cbgb ends with a tag line promising 50 000 bands and 1 disgusting bathroom in real life that s a slight misnomer the legendary new york punk club. Here are ten that sealed its reputation. The cbgb biopic is out this week and with it the collective sound of every living old punk groaning.

A couple of punks who just won t quit the amazing story of ramones super fans via the ny times. If you think these are the ramones man do i have a movie for you. Sold by beyond the wall and ships from amazon fulfillment.