Yay or nay on what John Varvatos did with the space?

I am proud and honored to have played a gig there in my lifetime

I played at CBGBs once in the 90s. 7 people were in the audience including the soundman and bartender,

My dad played in his band at CBGB in the 2000’s he met some of the Ramones at the shows he played there

I've played CBGBs many times with various bands. That smell would hit you the moment you walked in. It was the smell of rock & roll.

I worked at a small place called Satellite records in 2001, processing internet orders in the evenings. it was across the street from CBGB. I used to walk past it every day.

Oh CBs, how we miss you. Spent so many nights there seeing SO many bands btwn the late '90s and its closing. (My wife is Blondie's lawyer and did the deal for DH's book that you mention.)

Playing here was always fun! I saw so many great bands and shows here. So many stage dives, high fives, and memories of just shredding around the city an hitting a show! Kids today won't ever understand what that was like!

I would have been honored to have been to this punk rock mecca. I could just imagine the vibe at this place. The walls would be saturated with the aura of the shows that went on here.

Played there many times in the 80s. Made many friends, many girlfriends and lots of laughs. Will remember it forever. Plus it had one of the best sound systems in NYC!

Came over from the UK and played there in 1979 rough old place then but a great vibe👍🇬🇧👍

Never been there but I did see the movie lol. Alan Rickman did a great job portraying Hilly Kristal imo. RIP to Alan, Hilly, and CBGB.

LOVE that you did this story. Managed to see just ONE show there. About a year before they closed the doors permanently. And I'm still convinced that Grunge would have never existed without Punk breaking the ground for it 20 years earlier.

Sunday show were known as the "Hardcore Matinee". They were always epic.

I will for SURE be voting this my fave vid of the week. Hard to top this.

Such a short episode for a club with a huge history

The film may have been a flop but it's one of my personal favorite movies. Just like Death Proof is.

Cosmo Ohms was the soundguy there for a long time. He was later the sound guy at Tobacco Road in Miami. Great dude.

Great video yet again. Thanks for your channel man!🤘🏼😎

Was definitely a hardcore gathering spot before it closed.had the honor of going to so many shows until it closed.

Saw Agnostic Front there in 2005

Harley from Cro-mags was born and raised in that club, just a wild 8yr old growing up around all those cool bands and then went on to play there himself

Those buying $100 T-shirts and $2,000 jackets probably aren't fans of music. The bands that played that venue would've railed against those merchants.

HOWDY!!! I just wanted to leave a comment b4 I watched!!!!

The Runaways played there as well!

I’m so glad I had the opportunity to see a show there (I think it was 1993). Die Monster Die, Truth, Grimskunk and two other bands played. And yes, I did use that bathroom.

One of my favorite venues to go to back in the day, I even got to play there once

I played with my band Code 6 in the mid 90s. I remember that bathroom.😂 The PA sound was amazing. I’m glad some of the original walls were preserved. So happy I played there.

Just one quick thing- the street name is just Bowery, not Bowery St. Great video though! I never played there, but I played CB’s gallery once. Next door, but very different. There were flowers in the bathrooms…

It was another victim of skyrocketing NYC rents.

Anybody eaten at the CBGB lab restaurant?

Did a show there in the 90s. The bathrooms were the stuff of legends.

That landlord was a moron. Raised price just to not get any money from the property for years. They had a nice gig of making money for doing nothing and pissed on it

I was in a side project band with Larry the guitar player from the NJ Oi band Niblick Henbane. He stole the cigarette butt bucket box that was outside of there one night, and he still has it in his driveway in KDH, NC.

My rock band Plunk Fusion also played there, but I forgot which year. It was a fun gig. 😁💖🎶

I had heard so much about this club it was a real iconic landmark way back then.

Closest I ever got was a drive by. Being a Boston kid we had “The Rat” A basement club featuring local and some named punk bands. The Cars for a while were almost a house band it seemed. Also saw the Dead Boys and the Runways there. All torn down now.

Saw a show there in ‘84, Murphy’s Law or Cro-Mags. Small and loud venue!

Do maxxes Kansas city also!!!

Great venue ,history thanks for sharing ❤ from Suffolk UK

I feel blessed to have seen some shows in great venues that are gone. CGBG’ in NYC, The Rat in Boston, and my favorite City Gardens in Trenton.

Loved playing CBs Gallery downstairs

Greatest dive club ever to have existed in NYC. Question though, why the street shots of Chinatown and not actual side streets of the east village?

CBGB's is one of those places that people say they went to when you know they didn't, like Woodstock. Sucks that it's over, end of an era.

thanks for the video

Great club in the 70's !

All the times my family visited NYC when I was younger (my parents used to live there), we never went to CBGB, which I still regret. I think my folks said they saw The Ramones there, and I hear Mick Jagger went there and discovered Living Colour playing one night.

intresting side note, tommy stinson's daughter worked at the varvatos store for a while. he mentioned it in his maron interview.

Thank you! 🤘🏻✌🏼😊

I visited in October of 05 as a teenage runaway from NC and they violated my probation for leaving the state afterward 😂 I didn't appreciate what it was at all at the time I just went at the behest of my punk friend.

Legendary part of music and punk history... but at the sametime I think the idea of a famous Punk venue is not far off from Studio 54 for Disco... it's weird to have a place so associated with a genre of music

There's just nothing like it left. Very sad.

CBs closed for the same reason all clubs close. Landlord greed.

I would love if Bands from the alternative Boston scene got more attention in the channel. Bands like Belly, Buffalo Tom, Letters to Cleo. Thanks!

I played a show there, a few years before it closed. I remember going down to the terlet and there were all these stickers from this obnoxious Fairfield County CT band that put their stickers everywhere (like you go to get gas on the Hutchinson parkway and there's their sticker on the pump.) Then when we were loading out there were kids on the street throwing nerf footballs to the people in the top of the double decker tourist busses.

fun fact: the sound guy there from the 80s opened in 05 a bar called underworld that is basically similar in mission, if you're ever in bucharest make sure to check it out as it's the only punk bar in town with a venue for live performances and pinball. and if he's there he has a ton of cool stories from the cbgb days.

To me,Patti Smith always seemed to look like CBGBs smelled.

A video on Vancouver's The Cobalt soon?

When I went looking for CBGB's post-9/11 it was a Record store. I bought an Autechre/Gescom Minidisc. Also got an Out of Print Copy of BOC - High Score (which is now, no longer out of print).

There was a venue in SF called the pound that reminded me of pictures I’ve seen of CBGBs.

Liverpool Council demolished the Cavern where the Beatles started out. It should have been kept as an English Heritage building.

Worst. Bathroom. Ever.

So glad to have played there. Bathrooms were nasty.

I enjoy all your content. Can you do more Deftones. And Staind.

BTW everyone.... SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON!!!!!!

I worked at cbgbs for ten years and hung out there for 20 and never heard Sundays called thrash Sundays.

CBGB store was on St. Mark's PLACE (East 8th Street) c.2007. I walked by that store every day and it rarely had anybody inside, usually empty. That was a fairly busy block at times but people just didn't care about the CBGB.

One of the original CBGB employees has his own bar/club in the Tampa area. Really awesome guy. If you're ever in thst area look up Born Free.

I played there in 2003. I've played a lot of historical venues but playing CBGB's was a big deal to me.

Went to NYC on a school (theatre) trip in high school before CBGB's closed. Me and my friends were like "Yeah! We're going to see awesome punk at CBGB's!" but they just had a bunch of indie acoustic artists playing. Lmao

Spoiler: It's just t-shirt now.

Have you done a vinnie vincent story yet ?

AC/DC played a short set there during Bon Scott era.

Yo this is corn fed from ultaispank Remember the crazy toilet? You the king of the mountain all high up and having to s*** in front of everybody. Trippiest setup I ever. Seen. Long live CBGB

$19,000 - $35,000 a month rent!?!? Insanity

I played there in the early 2000’s. I wish I would have paid to get the recording…… hindsight is always 20/20, and I thought…… “maybe next time”.

3 decades of history ruined by greed. Classic situation of rich guys profiting off of the integrity and good ideas of the poor.

So it came down to a payment DISPUTE that never got resolved. I still doubt the club would have lasted much longer, because it is still in a gentrified area with the rent skyrocketing. Over in Philly, we have a venue called Dobbs where a lot of acts played on their way up (Nirvana, Tool, George Thorogood and many more). But it’s in an area where the rent keeps going up. And since 2006, the venue has gone through five different owners and some name variations, and it is once again vacant. I would hate to watch that happen to CBGBs, which at least got to have a proper farewell (spin-offs be damned)

I lived an Chrystie st. and would go all the time.

GREAT TOPIC!! legendary club. I MISS THE REAL LOWER EAST SIDE

The New York Dolls never played CBGBs though Johnny Thunders did

The Bashers..Live at CBGB..New Year 1980

Wish I could’ve seen a show there…..

Went there in 92 and was surprised the handstamp they used at the door was a ween “boognish” stamp - they must have made it themselves or got it from the band, as ween was nowhere right about then, before Push th’ Little Daisies even broke, although it had been released recently. Also, I know it’s nitpicky, but every time I hear someone say CBGB’s it drives me up the wall, because the name is just CBGB or CBGB/OMFUG. It was truly disgusting inside, I came out at last call thinking it was 2am and it was really 6am and the sun was coming up.

CBGB was the greatest venue to see a band of all time.

Bad Brains, Bad Brains, Bad Brains!

The Significance and Influence that this Club had in Music History is an Massive Understatement . Very few places (clubs,studios,venues,etc) in the World have the "Resume" of CBGG's in what concerns to gave "birth" to new music genres and Launch dozens and dozens of Bands and Musicians( Artists) to Music Stardom. We need very Urgent clubs like the CBGB's,because this New Millennium in terms of Music is a completely Shitty Vacuum of Ideas Unfortunably seems that Real Music Died.

Ah yes. It closed because the rent doubled when the lease expired. As someone that lives in another major city, that is the story of the demise of all the best independent clubs and restaurants that suddenly close shop.

The club is not named "CBGB's" and never has been. It's "CBGB." Yes, many people call it "CBGB's" but that's wrong. I have never heard the all-ages hardcore show called "Thrash Day." I mean...never. It was called the "Sunday Hardcore Matinee." It should be mentioned that Deborah Harry's comment about the club smelling terrible was really a very brief period in the life of the club. It did not smell any better or worse than any other club, especially after smoking indoors became illegal. There was also a short lived "CBGB theater" at another location,, and the space next door to the club that was actually "CBGB pizza" first, and then it became the Record Canteen, before becoming "CBGB Gallery." There was also a short-lived CBGB Clothing Shop and gift store on St Mark's

Love talking heads but I always heard Max’s was a better venue. I have also seen quite a few interviews with bands saying Hilly shorted or straight up stiffed them.

Hey ho let's go hey ho let's go.

"You are no longer welcome at CBGB's, Comic-Book-Guy's-Bar." - jeff ( comic book guy) Albertson

Ok, I watched. And as always..... NOW I know something about something ELSE (CBGB) that otherwise I would not have known. I never dreamed that some dude from Canada would entertain and "educate" me about things that I always thought I knew about..... But actually didn't know 💩about. Am I rambling? I feel like I'm rambling. I've been told that I ramble. I used to know a guy that we called "Ramble". But that was bcuz he was quiet. Ok. Ya. I'm rambling. 👃😎🤘

I went once to see the great Locksley. They were fantastic. The club itself was the dingiest, smallest POS place I have ever been to. It was disgusting.

it closed...happens to clubs in every city,in every town,,,no matter what part of the country , or country,...you're from..economics...the shitty parts of town become the chic and desirable parts of town, and the occupants cash in or get pushed out...

7:17 We got "666" on a hundred dollar bill, y'all!

I got to play there back in the 90's. Really was a dump.

Beurk, alcohol. I don't miss that depressant type substance. It should be illegal with the same criminal restrictions as fentanyl these days. They are crazier than ever when drunk.

GG Allin took a dump there

Why is there a 3BGB as the thumbnail?