Saw the Ramones at cbgb's in 77 and they blew me away. Hard driving I couldn't resist and I was a jazz fan at the time. Interesting era for a college student. Punk sure beat disco for excitement.

Good documentary.I saw live the Ramones twice, Black Flag twice , Plasmatics twice., Fear, & the Cramps.

I had a subscription to Cream magazine and in this one issue Andy Warhol said, 'The best album I've heard this year is, Talking Heads 77'. That day, I bought it. I loved it. Andy was right.

CBGB should have been given historic landmark status from NYC.

Even though I was a tunnel kid I still managed to go to cbgbs and Max's Kansas City at least 3 times a week between 1977 and 1979. Saw the Dead Boys at least 40 times, Ramones maybe 20 times, nearly every band mentioned plus many not mentioned were on my radar. Not enough room here for even half my stories but I do have some proof since I can see myself in many photos and videos right at the front of the stage. I don't get the arguing going on in the comments, if you were lucky enough to be a certain age at a certain time it should be celebrated, shouldn't be trying to one-up each other. We all have our own stories if we were there, and they're all valid if true 😎

Max’s Kansas City was just as important to the birth of NYC music scene as CBGBs.

I heard my first punk rock song on kxlu FM here in Los angeles. My mind was blown and it changed my entire life! I mean seriously changed my life!

Once I discovered Iggy and the Stooges as a teenager they opened me up to so many great bands that as a brittish kid I wasn't all to familiar with. I mean I was brought up on the Dammed, Sex pistols and The Buzzcocks but I never paid as much attention to where it all started. For me the LAMF album turned me into an obsessed Johnny thunders fan that wanted to know everything about him and the bands he played in. I never get bored of documentary films of how Punk Rock came to be.

I've always felt like the Detroit area started punk...The Stooges, MC5...Death....All influenced their predecessors...

Very lucky to say I played there frequently in the 2000s right up to the close🥲. Remember watching the Toasters and looking over and who’s standing right next to me. Mr. Gotta Look Sharp himself, Joe Jackson! I just stayed shut and enjoyed the moment. So many wonder surprises at Cb’s……..especially that famous bathroom lol!

In 1979 I got up onstage at CBGB as an announcer for my NY friends awful band. Never saw any of the famous acts there as most had moved on, though backstage there were still stamps on the walls: “You’ve Been Arrested by the Police”. Two years later backstage at the Paladium got pictures of David Johansen with his friend Joe Perry.

Interesting. I was introduced to what I thought of as early punk (sex pistols, social distortion, black flag, the misfits etc) but didn’t realize it started out a lot earlier than all that.

I cannot believe this video just ended that way mid sentence

Man, Johnny Thunders was the coolest cat around there ever so briefly ...

This was a great video! Growing up in the late 70’s/early 80’s listening to Punk was not mainstream for sure. You almost had to listen it to it “underground”. Living in Canada we cut our teeth on bands like The Forgotten Rebels, The Diodes and DOA to name a few. I was fortunate to see a concert at CBGB’s before it closed down in the mid 80’s. I saw China Crisis there. I’m in my mid 50’s now and still wear my Doc’s. Oi Oi Oi.

Even though it maybe wasn't in its prime, our band from Cincinnati , The Drumbones, played at CBGB's the week before Christmas, 1985.

Bad Brains-Unforgettable !!!

i love Punk Attitude the Don Letts documentary...they cud have included a few other scenes that happened in other countries...here in Melbourne, Australia we had a cool punk/post punk scene that gave Nick Cave and The Birthday Party onto the Bad Seeds, The Saints, Radio Birdman, Go Betweens, Triffids and on and on....

I went to a few CBGB shows in the mid 2000s. That's the last time New York punk really felt like a scene in my opinion. This is fantastic

Wow, quite a few ghosts in this documentary. RIP to all.

I was a punk in the 70s and 80s, and I wish with all my heart I had gone to NYC.

1980 in a small town south of Atlanta I met one of the coolest kids who had just moved there from California. God rest his sole he was not long to this world, but his punk rock and new wave influences totally shaped the soft young malleable minds of that town. Len Todd you were the GOAT and I truly miss your fun loving free spirit. 😮

Awesome! Thank you!

N.Y. Dolls at the whistle test is still very LETHAL...it's KILLER ! 📢🎼🎵🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🖖👍🤙🏻

This is really cool Many were alive and well still looking fabulous when this was put together. My God it hurts growing old Cannot believe David is the only Living Doll... stay with us David Jo

I miss hanging out at CBGBS !!! Philadelphia USA

So freakin' amazing where the influences later on for The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and The Ramones both singing tones came from The New York Dolls. Creepy how it all sounds alike now, but it's awesome.

I was a raving fan of the Ramones, back in the 1970s- galvanizing music! That said, just read a biography on the Ramones, written by one of the Johnny Ramone. It had some sobering facts. 1. Joey was a manic-depressive with a lot of clinically weird manias 2. Dee Dee Ramone, who wrote most of the songs, was hooked on drugs and died young because of same 3. Marky Ramone was deeply alcoholic and was fired because of it So, if the music was that good (and it is), did it require that the band members be that mentally disturbed? Makes a person think.

Went to CBGB’s in 2003 and have some AMAZING pictures of the inside… saw New York Dolls with Kiss and Motley Crue at Pine Knob in ‘12… love this… I should add I’m only 39

This Clip is from the film Punk:Attitude .

Until you discover the Stoogies. Your not looking for the First so called punk music. Try 1969 By the Stoogies. Ann Arbor based band. Detroit Grit 🇺🇸

would love to see a feature length doc about this scene

My band The Klitz played there in August 1979🎸 long live CBGB'S 🧷

This video is just a section from Don Letts Punk Attitude documentary.

MUY BUENO!!!

On my honeymoon September of 82… Virginia Beach.. We walk into a bar , the Rocks I think..with about 13 total people in it.. I grab a drink at the bar and the band comes out on stage… it’s David Johansson… he could’ve given a shitty performance since it was so dead… instead he and his band blew my socks off.. it was what a consummate professional would do.. I swear he was playing for me.. thank you David!!

Remember going to New York 96, the only place I wanted to go was CGgb's..got there was stoked.saw band, no idea who..was not the point..it was a real s hole..you could feel the history ,smell it..brilliant

Oh how I loved Television

Awesomeness ❤️

Thanks

The band that made arena rock look damn silly. Sad that they didn't all realize that they were the kings of early proto-Punk. You had the Velvet Underground, Iggy & the Stooges, and the NY Dolls. Even early Alice Cooper were related. It was a small scene that never thrived at the time, but left an awesome scar!

RIP Arthur

Just a kid from 99’s but love 70’s era, specially the ramones was my fav band and shoutout to new york dolls , jhonny thunders and the heartbreaker also the clash 🔥

Watching from Greece.hi everybody. Great video. PUNKS NOT DEAD.

I was a bit too young to get to see the Dolls live, but as soon as I could, I'd take the train into the city, find my way down to the Bowery and get myself into CBGBs - I was 14, but they didn't seem to mind. All those Ramones clips? The kid you don't see at the foot of the stage was me...

The Country Blue Grass Bar!

Weird! David Johansen doing a Mick Jagger impersonation started punk or was it Iggy Pop impersonating Jim Morrison?

Played at both Max's and CB 4 or 5 times in the early 80's with various bands. CB was tiny and Max's medium. Dressing rooms in both had a flophouse bathroom vibe. CB was much better because it was ground floor. Schlepping drums and amps up Max's stairs was a killer.

These guys are so New York City!

CBGB was integral--that's beyond dispute. But Suicide (the first group to self-identify as punk) and Wayne County were performing at the Mercer Arts Center before CB's had even opened.

Got my CBGB’s tee on right now. 🤓

Back in the day in 1978 we listened wxrt in chicago punk rock was really under ground I love a lot of these tunes .✌️🤘😎

Something very French about television I'm not sure what it was..... Couldn't have been the French lyrics or Arthur rimbaud references or anything like that I just I don't know they were so French!

Rock n Roll baby

CBGB did not birth punk, try a few blocks north at Max's

Ah, yes, CBGBs. I actually sang in that club with my brother's band. They played there twice; once as opening act for The Dictators; once to open for The Ramones. I can't quite remember which show it was, but after one of them, I went out front and peed into the gutter right in front of the club. I just discovered a few minutes ago that Bon Scott once did the same thing; ahh, not at the same time, of course.

The New YorK DollS did not play at CBGB. The one who did play was Johnny Thunders but with the Heartbreakers once they separated, the already named NYD. I tell you this for your group from the beginning and the title of your video ☺😉

Interesting documentary, but it misses out on one of the main protagonists in the shaping of the early Punk and Underground sound and that was John Cale. Not only was he the main architect of the Velvets then revolutionary sound, but he also produced the debut albums by The Stooges, Patti Smith and The Modern Lovers. Furthermore he produced (the latter two) and arranged Nico's lp triology The Marble Index (1968), Desertshore (1970) and The End (1974), laying the foundations of what was later to become Postpunk and Goth. I can't think of anybody else being so influential on the future sounds to come. Yet his role as a musical pioneer and influence are still so overlooked, it beggers belief. Possibly only when he eventually dies someday (may that be far in the future), will his story be retold and he'll be credited as one of the real Godfathers of Punk and Alternative music. Without his musical genius the music we all love would sound so much different.

Boy, the Dolls are really full of themselves.

I was a Dead boys fan. Sonic reducer. Classic stuff.

i did a giant rail off the bar on the right in its final days of closing

Man 73-78 might be the absolute peak of rock. Some of the most influential music came out in those 5 years, from glam to punk I think overall New York was the most important scene and that 5 year run is the most important 5 years in rock history.

I gave Richard Hell advice when he was in high school,that to get anywhere with his band they'd have to move to nyc to get discovered 1975-76 and gave him the name Television,and his tag line"Love comes in Spurts".He married Patty Smyth.1987 I ghostwrote Patty Smyth a whole album.It came out 1992.1995 Ramones played w firecrackers at Delaware club Stone Balloon.I told them I was ghostwriting Private Parts movie for Howard & told them they have "carte Blanche" on Stern show & tell him you want to be in his movie.

Very interesting but I prefer the LA bands: X, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Los Lobos, The Blasters, Social Distortion. But love the Ramones. Saw them numerous times. Just the best of all time.

The album bloodbrothers by the dictators is classic punk

The Dolls ended my interest in Classic rock the first minute I heard them.

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All the popular music of today came from the 1970's New York Detroit and England. Hip hop, electronic dance, punk, and metal

Punk was never really big in the USA , but for 2 years in the UK 76/77 punk was massive but then sold out to the safer more lucrative New Wave. A lot of the original punks died from Heroin as this drug really took off on the UK punk scene.

dude at 1:20 was so freaky almost shit my pants

Television rules.

So many talk so much nonsense concerning the times, band like The Stooges, Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Slade, T. Rex, etc, never get the credit they deserve. Although The Ramones were always honest enough to state them as influences. There was a media backlash, and many later "punks" rejected the actual history of what led to 70's "Punk" which has its roots firmly in the late 50's. People like John Lydon became so egotistical to think they invented it all from scratch. It's so petty. For most of us, "Punk" was natural, it's what we were before there was a music scene.

Is the dwarf from game of thrones a rockstar? I never knew that !!

Please no comments cause you will loose ! I'm delco to the core a real punk but keep it up it's just about having fun oh Patti Smith has delco roots also .

David Johansen looks like a punk Joe E. Brown.

The Misfits are Punk and played often in Max's. I think you have to talk about that if you want to show the History or Birth of Punk Rock.

Glen Branca looks like Nick Kent

The world misses Sylvain Sylvain!

When I heard the early Punk bands who covered the Stooges, I had to go to the source and listen to who actually influenced Punk, The Stooges.

While most punk bands in the 70s were menacing, the Ramones were oddly loveable. Sweet guys trying to be tough & nobody buying it. ❤

Listen to early Hawkwind ....The spitting, anarchistic raw punk was born in the UK...

The dolls were the best dressed band ever

Max's birthed Punk not CBGB. They came onto the scene after Max's Kansas City. Other imp small venues like the forgotten Mother's, 171A and TR3 were vital. CBGB gets all the attention tho from those who prob weren't around during these pivotal times for Punk developing in NYC.

I wonder. If financing wasn't an issue, and I had about 7-10 bands that do actually rock well, whether getting club space would create lightning in a bottle again? Like #Starcrawler #Avoid #skatingpolly and a few others.

Syd Barrett was one of the great pre-punk innovators but never gets credited.

Luigi at 9:00 My dude

Same footage as ‘Punk: Attitude’ (2003)

That $20 wig almost looks like real nylon!🤣🤣🤣

RAMONES!!

Punk US style was just hard glam rock, bands who chose their live clothing carefully, got their hair seen to, and producers who, at least these days, go on about the """meaning""" of it all and how profound things were etc. In the UK it was a flash in the pan, it was a piss take and only the fashion houses made any money, and maybe Malcolm McClaren!. In the UK it was spontaneous, rough and ready, in the US the scene had a contrived and image conscious feel to it. When it was over here in the UK a very few bands survived and went on to change their style pretty rapidly because punk just `stopped` it didnt fade away. I have in mind The Police, The Damned and The Clash. The Stranglers were never a punk outfit. They had too much talent. Siouxsi too.

Anyone remember Teenage Head & Forgotten Rebels?

Thunders forever

Pretty funny him announcing that the Dictators were first in 74. Fine with that but, what's funny is what do they show them playing but an Iggy Pop song from about 6 years earlier! Good choice.

Don letts rules

Where do you put Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren on the history of punk?

Patti sounded best with BOC Vera Gemini (no more horses, horses)

NYC attracts better Artists than it produces. Bohemian privilege by association.

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you a skreemen ballarena on a spring afternoon

Oh oh Buster Poindexter romancing how bad they suck and the overdoses why isn't he.