#104 CBGB & OMFUG

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2010

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Modern American rock music would have been a whole lot different without the rundown dive mecca CBGB's, a beat-up former flophouse bar that made stars out of young musicians and helped shape the musical edge of downtown Manhattan. Owner Hilly Kristal may have initially envisioned a place for 'Country Blue Grass and Blues', but the music spawned by this little hole in the wall would define the contours of American punk and new wave.The Ramones, Blondie, the Talking Heads and hundreds of others bands would never have been the same without this dank little club with the most notorious bathroom stalls in New York. Tune in to hear a tale of the club's rather inauspicious start and find out why, even as a venerated music icon, it was forced to close its doors.www.boweryboypodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys episode 104, CBGBs.
0:03.9	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys.
0:05.5	Hey.
0:06.5	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
0:10.3	EuroChipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.
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0:19.8	Hello there, welcome to The Bowry Boys.
0:21.6	This is Greg Young with another solo show.
0:23.9	We are going back, well actually we're not going back very far at all actually,
0:27.6	to just over 36 years ago, to a busted old hole in the wall.
0:31.6	It just happens to be one of the most important spots for modern American music history
0:35.6	that would be the nightclub CBGBs.
0:38.1	Now CBGBs stands for Country, Blue, Grass, and Blues.
0:43.0	But very little of those forms of music were actually ever played here.
0:46.6	Instead, the then you bred the stars of American punk rock and new wave,
0:50.2	artists like Blondie, The Talking Heads, and the Ramones of course.
0:54.0	But this isn't just a show for music officials.
0:56.8	I'll give you a little window into New York City during this time period, the 1970s.
1:01.6	A dreary, very uneasy time in the city's history.
1:04.8	It throughout precisely because the city wasn't decline.
1:08.3	During a time when the most creative and innovative people were drawn to the lower side for its edginess,
1:13.6	its cheap rents, and its debauchery.
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