These bands were the first to play Hilly's bar: Queen Elizabeth (featuring Wayne County), The Stilettos, The Magic Tramps and The Miamis. Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads and The Ramones came along later... in '74 / '75.

damn, i used to live at the White House Hotel across the street from CBGBs .. $10 a night................. The hotel lobby was just a little cleaner then CBGBs .. good times...............

Was lucky enough to get to see a gig there in the mid 90’s.

played there countless times starting 76 including The Blitz Benefit all these years later not a day goes by that I don’t flasback!

ROCK!!!! EN ROLL!!!!!

Hilly told me that u was for uplifting....that's my memory

Went there twice just before it ended NYC will never be the same again 😔

More of a problem was Bators bat flying off the stage and wrestling you to the floor...I always kept one eye open..ahhh

All I can say is... it was cool being part of the CBGB's scene early on with The Magic Tramps w/Eric Emerson & Alan Vega (Suicide)...also a thrill having 2 'Magic Tramps' songs (My Reflection & Magic In The Moonlight) in the HBO series VINYL...- Sesu Coleman

Oh wow “ Hilly “ was “ the guy “ up on the stage with the Talking Heads when they got inducted into the Rock n roll Hall of Fame , bless him 🙏

FUN!

I love how the backing track is "Frankenstein" by the Edward Winter Group😮😂

We need something like this to happen again to bitch-slap corporate, disposable auto-tuned pop into it's proper place

1:42 not bad at all

Last album recorded live at CBGB's by Hilly Kristal's favorite band: kzfaq.info/sun/OLAK5uy_mYhimNr2D5t1gXzON2fwAK0ABv9041aSI

I'm just glad I've been there before it closed. I've seen the Ramones (Johnny, Joey, Richie, DeeDee) three times but not at CBGBs.

Legs McNeil "please kill me" the punk rock Bible

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well punk might have been breaking but not really 1973 - more like very late 1975/or 1976 and it gained a following in 1977 at CBGB's

The floor was sticky everywhere. The sound was terrible. Often the audience was just standing around. It was really dark. The mood was this weird place between total crap, self-importance, and commercial aspirations. All that music is much better in retrospect, having been cleaned up and filtered out by the music industry and selective memory. The sound track on this video is completely dishonest.

of course Rolling Stone gets it wrong....CBGB's did open on December 10, 1973, so technically you can make a case for placing this in 1973, but Television didn't play there until early 1974, the Ramones August, 1974, and Patti Smith February, 1975...so 1973 is quite misleading

In 1973 Byrne, Harry, and The Ramones were NOT playing at CBGB's. Two or three years later, sure - but this video is very misleading. In 1973 punk didn't exist, even in it's infancy. Rolling Stone has no one on staff old enough to know this? Wow. Who's the creative director on Vinyl, Oliver Stone?

MANster

Epic Years 💉💉🎸🎸🎵🎼 sex drug e rock n' roll 💉🎸🎷🎻🎸 yeah,,,,,

Wasn’t vinyl that craptastic hbo show?

My band THE THE was privileged enough to play there regularly after we signed a management contract with THE WARTOKE CONCERN, NYC (John Cale/Pattie Smith/Television/Lester Bangs) because prior to that, it was very difficult to get a gig there. We opened for all the "greats" back then including a star-studded night of celebrities & all the press who came out to see NICO during a record-breaking snowstorm in 1979. The venue had the absolute best sound system in the Tristate with two 24-track recording machines on board, which is as rare as it gets! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtKUgdOGx9mcqqM.html