The Eternal, Sonic Youth’s latest album hit stores today, June 9. Check out their old classics performed at CBGBs.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Talking Heads - Psyco Killer - CBGBs
David Byrne will be performing tonight, June 2, with Ani DiFranco at the Constellation Brands Performing Arts Center in Canandaigua , New York . To celebrate his latest NY performance we have chosen a classic performance of the Talking Heads - “Psycho Killer.”
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Bruce Springsteen - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
CBGB hopes everyone had a cool Memorial Day Weekend. To celebrate Bruce playing in NJ over the weekend we put up this video: "I Wanna Be Sedated" by The Ramones -- He's been doing covers on this tour, even played the Clash!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Lucero
On September 15, 2006, Lucero, hailing from Memphis, performed at CBGBs. This video intersperses band commentary into a live performance of “Tonight Aint Gonna Be Good.” The band said they felt like a “real rock ‘n roll band” after playing CBs, and they weren’t the first to say that. The club was a rite of passage for thousands of bands for over three decades.
Band members include:
Ben Nichols - lead vocals and guitar
Brian Veable - guitar
Roy Berry - drums
John Stubblefield - bass
Lucero recently signed a 4-album deal with Universal Music Group. They’re in the studio now putting the finishing touches on their major label debut due this summer!
Monday, May 4, 2009
January 31, 1997 - The Jesus Lizard headline CBGB
Then Comes Dudley / Gladiator (The Jesus Lizard)
New Year’s Eve 1997 started out like every other NYE party we had. The staff came in for what was early for us to set up the bar –
Aside from the usual nightly set ups -- cooling beer, getting ice, and restocking, we had to decorate. Balloons had to be filled, streamers hung and plastic champagne glasses assembled.
Ridiculous as it sounds, decorating CBGB like a Sweet 16 party was an event of its own. Everyone was on call that day, but that didn’t mean we didn’t party and have a great time. Hilly would inhale helium and make prank phone calls. Jackie the bartender would make pitchers of Bloody Mary’s while the rest of us would drink and throw streamers.
We probably drank too much and ran out of time because by the time the Jesus Lizard showed up to load in, CBGB looked more like a dethroned beauty queen, than Miss
As the band brought gear in, balloons were popping and streamers fell. We slapped the stuff up the best we could and we kept partying. To be honest I’m not sure if a countdown to
The Jesus Lizard controlled the chaos. You can see from the video that the band is fearless and fierce. I love where vocalist, David Yow is swaying in front of the “no stage diving” sign and goes into the crowd. At the end of the clip, you can see him revert back to a ‘regular” guy giving the crowd “high fives.”
It certainly was a New Years to remember, even if I can’t remember all of it…
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Experience it: 2001
After attending the California Music Awards, sponsored by BMI in NYC, Green day, from Berkley, CA, headed down to CB’s to see their old friend, Jesse Malin and his new band “Bellvue". Greenday performed crowd pleasers such as “She” “Longview “and who can forget The Eye Of The Tiger?
Gibby, from High Speed Chase, put the night together. Since he worked at SST sound, he also had the good fortune to get a good deal on a backline consisting of some Marshall amps and DW drums. The fact that no one had to reset up the gear, except for just a little tweaking, made the night run smoother, and not too late.
Coerced by all their friends in the audience, Greenday took the stage. It was after midnight, and they were a bit buzzed, which probably explains their abbreviated songs. When you check out the clip, it’s interesting to see people passing the stage and going to the toilets, totally unfazed by what is happening on stage. At first I thought, “jaded New Yorkers,” but then I realized that the band were just their friends and this was the norm.
In a recent interview Billy Joe said that he went to CBGB to see a band and ended up actually playing on stage, and found that was the ultimate way to experience CBGB.
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