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October
13
October
13 - 15: Last CBGB weekend ever: Fri: Dictators, Sic F*cks, Bullys
/ Sat:The Dictators, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein accoustic, The
Waldos / Sun: Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Jay Dee Daugherty, Tony Shanahan
(SOLD OUT)
CBGB goes
out with much of the same cast from its origins three decades ago.
While I think it’s important to mention that this is the last
weekend before they load up the physical location and move it to
Vegas, for me this dump died years ago.
It’s
been more than a decade since any kind of scene crystallized around
the venue. Can you imagine someone that actually lives in New York
saying, “Let’s see what’s going on at CB’s
tonight”? Benefits, nostalgia trips, and other oddities from
the last year or so withstanding, it’s also been some time
since decent bills appeared on a regular basis or the venue in any
way attempted to connect with the local underground music community.
Contrary to the spirit of adventure that made the venue what it
is in our cultural memories, this great room with an excellent sound
system and truckloads of history got the worst bands in the tri-city
area on a regular basis out of sheer cynicism and laziness - making
all of their dough off of tourists, souvenirs and expensive drinks.
There were
a few moments where it looked like it would turn around –
particularly the year or so when Dave Burton began booking nights
around 2000. In that short period, thanks exclusively to the shows
Dave promoted, a number of the acts that actually went on to better
things, from Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Bad Wizard, put in some of their
earliest NYC performances at the sinking ship. Dave soon threw his
hands in the air and, during the last few years, as the sleepy music
scene rose to became one of the finest in the world, CBGB missed
out almost entirely.
All three
final nights are sold out. I was thinking of trying to get on the
list - but I would never miss this last chance to exhibit one of
my three rusty variations on my sneaking-into-CB’s technique
for the last time ever. My eyes are misting over as I close this
and warn you that, whatever you do, don’t take pieces of the
walls or stage or, the golden egg, the men’s room toilet home
with you… That wouldn’t be very punk rock of you at
all…
Friday,
October 13
Charlene,
The Nein, Jacob Pitts, Plan B - Cake Shop $6
Dirty Dozen Brass Band – BB King Blues Club 11PM $16/$19
DJ K. Ross, Pushpush in the Bush(wick) – Goodbye Blue Monday
Earl Scruggs, King Wilkie – BB King Blues Club 7:30PM $35/$40
Festival of India: Sitar & Sarod. Kushal Das and K. Sridhar
– Symphony Space $32
Introducing Victoria Bass – The Stone 8PM $10
Iron Maiden, Bullet for My Valentine – Continental Airlines
Arena
Janus (Amanda Baker, Bridget Kibbey & Beth Meyers) – Roulette
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Town Hall $25
Jimmy Heath’s Little Man Big Band w/ Clark Terry – Blue
Note $20/$35
Kevin Devine, The Jealous Girlfriends - Northsix $10
Matmos/So Percussion ”) – Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony
Space $25
Melomane – Tonic 8PM $8
mon.key.pod, The Duelists, Change the Station, The Fatales - Asterisk
Art Space
Nina Nastasia, Tom Brosseau - Tonic 10PM $10
phil niblock + david gibson + alex waterman + thomas meadowcroft
– ISSUE Project Room $10
Social Distortion, Supersuckers, Blackpool Lights - Irving Plaza
$30
South, Les Sans Culottes - Union Hall $12/$14
Vicarious Consumption – The Stone 10PM $10
Violent Femmes, Little Kitten Space Girl - Warsaw $27.50
Xiu Xiu, Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, Cong For Brums, Dirty Projectors
- Bowery Ballroom $16/$18
Saturday,
October 14
Daniel Spiegel – The Stone 10PM $10
Fun Gallery panel with Patti Astor, Fab 5 Freddy, Diego Cortez,
debut of Fun Gallery, documentary trailer, screening of
Wild Style - The Powerhouse Arena (37 Main Street, Dumbo)
Elephants, Secret Society of the Sonic 6, Tigers & Monkeys -
Knitting Factory Tap Bar $8
EPMD – BB King Blues 11PM $30/$35
Falcon, Silver Rocket – Union Pool $5
Glen Hansard, Doveman - Tonic $15
Growing/ Mammal/ Giancarlo Bracchi – Free 103.9 (97 S. 6th
Street) FREE
Interpretations – ISSUE Project Room $10
Jimmy Heath’s Little Man Big Band w/ Clark Terry – Blue
Note $20/$35
Maxi Geil!, Playcolt – Tonic MIDNIGHT $5
Robin SIwula and Jordan Schanz, Dave Comeuppance for the Lynch Mob
– Goodbye Blue Monday
Rose Melberg, Pants Yell!, Don Lennon - Cake Shop $7
Sarah Carter Solo – The Stone 8PM $10
South, High Strung, Orange Park - Mercury Lounge $15
The Shemps, The Suicide Dolls, Sick Sick Birds, Dead Mechanical,
Lost Locker Combo – Tommy’s Tavern $7
The Spirit of Fes: Sacred Sounds from East & West: Aruna Sairam,
Jamey Haddad,Daqqa of Taroudant,Gerard Edery, and Zafer Tawil –
Zankel Hall (at Carnegie Hall) $30
Sunday,
October 15
Au Revoir Simone - Soundfix Records 4PM FREE
Branch-Riordin-Sexton, Myth of Mitch– Goodbye Blue Monday
Evan Parker Solo – The Stone 10PM $10
Glen Hansard, Doveman - Southpaw $15
Growing/ Mammal/ Giancarlo Bracchi – Free 103.9 (97 S. 6th
Street) FREE
Jed Parish, Brett Rosenberg, The Damien Pratt, Elisa F. –
Cake Shop $6
Jimmy Heath’s Little Man Big Band w/ James Moody – Blue
Note $20/$35
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Eagles of Death Metal - Irving Plaza
$25.75/$26
Odd Appetite: Ha-Yang Kim & Nathan Davis – Roulette
South, Bedroom Walls, Orange Park - Mercury Lounge $15
The Attacca Quartet – The Stone 8PM $10
The Hysterics, The Josef K, Tangents - Northsix $10
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