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10-15-2006, 08:20 AM
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CBGB is really closing
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Deborah Harry plays last gig at CBGB By Christine Kearney
2 hours, 14 minutes ago
In a vibrant farewell to the legendary punk-rock venue CBGB, Blondie singer Deborah Harry played a final show on Saturday in a tribute to the club that was a launching pad for her career, but is due to close at the end of the month.
Taking the tiny stage at the dank, crumbling club wearing red gloves and swaying her now strawberry blond hair, Harry sang many of the hits that made Blondie a wildly successful band in the 1970s an 80s.
She kicked off with "Hanging on the Telephone" and the 1980 hit "Call Me.
"This is a little weird, you know, but anything for old CB's," she told the capacity crowd that included young musicians, Blondie groupies and aging rock fans.
"What are we going to do now? Where are we going to go?" she asked before launching into "Tide Is High."
Harry, 61, played the acoustic set with Blondie guitarist Chris Stein that included "One Way or Another" and a cover of the Ramones song "I want to be your Boyfriend."
Rock poet Patti Smith -- another regular at the club after it first opened in 1973 -- will give the last show on Sunday.
The club in Manhattan's East Village -- its full name is CBGB & OMFUG, or Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers -- became the epicenter of the punk-rock scene launching bands like the Ramones and Talking Heads.
It is closing after a rent dispute with its landlord.
With lead pipes and chords dangling from the peeling ceiling, Harry gazed at the walls filled with posters and graffiti scribbled over three decades.
"CBGB's, oh my God what are we going to do? This is terrible. I think they should make wallpaper like this right?" she told the crowd after it urged an encore performance of "Heart of Glass."
After the gig, the crowed spilled onto the sidewalk taking photos of the facade bearing the club's name.
"Deborah Harry is like the queen, she is awesome," said Greg Adsluf, 44. "To see her play at CBGB's is like watching her in her backyard, this is her home."
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It's a sad day for rock'n'roll for sure.
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10-17-2006, 01:12 AM
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What's happening, brother
Join Date: May 2005
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Wow, only a month more and I would've made it over there. Definitely going to stop by and check out what's left of it when I'm in New York, hopefully it won't be torn down or anything. They're playing "You Can't Put Your Arm Around a Memory" by Johnny Thunders on their myspace, it fits. R.I.P. 
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10-17-2006, 01:24 AM
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Back in the day and back when the place still mattered, I saw many a show there. It's been living off it's reputation for about 15 to 20 years.
A lot of people have been putting in a lot of effort to keep it going, but without a lease there was no way this wasn't going to happen. The landlord BRC (which happens to be a Charity (that was started by those who were homeless) helps homeless people) gave Kristal a 14 month repreave, and he failed in trying to get a historic landmark status for the club.
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10-17-2006, 01:26 AM
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Originally Posted by jazzfromhell
Wow, only a month more and I would've made it over there. Definitely going to stop by and check out what's left of it when I'm in New York, hopefully it won't be torn down or anything. They're playing "You Can't Put Your Arm Around a Memory" by Johnny Thunders on their myspace, it fits. R.I.P.
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Kristal is going to gut the inside and possibly start a new club in Vegas.
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10-17-2006, 03:13 AM
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What's happening, brother
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Yeah, I know they were gonna gut it out and move to Vegas eventually, I'm just hoping they haven't destroyed it by the time I get there in late November. Going to it in Vegas doesn't really appeal to me.
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"He has become obsessed with blocks of sound, with sequoias of sound, and if he could not produce on the piano what he hears in his head, he would do it by other means. He would gather about him whales and jets and cascades, and make them sing and roar and crash." - Whitney Balliett, on Cecil Taylor
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10-17-2006, 07:17 AM
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10-17-2006, 09:43 AM
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We Let The Madness In
Join Date: Aug 2003
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I didn't realize Deborah Harry was 61...damn I am getting old...
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10-17-2006, 07:16 PM
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I didn't realize Deborah Harry was 61...damn I am getting old...
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I saw Blondie two or three years back and voice is really holding out pretty well.
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10-17-2006, 08:42 PM
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We Let The Madness In
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I had planned to go on that tour when they came to Seattle, but I didn't have the $40 at the time. I probably could have scraped up $20..maybe, anyway.
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10-17-2006, 09:26 PM
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Saw them back when they were actually still a Punk band. Even if you could afforid it, you all couldn't pay me to see them since they went Pop.
Of course, Lady Satchmo was a fan....which is about the only reason that you can find to get me to go to a show. 
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