Save CBGB's

[Ravensong]

Please Hurry!! Time is running out!!Everyone who's anyone has played CBGB's including the Runaways. It is on the verge of being closed because a bunch of yuppies have moved into the neighborhood. They are trying to charge CBGB's $20,000 a month rent, and $300,000 back rent which wasn't charged legally in the first place.
Time is running out. Please go to www.savecbgb.org to sign the petition. It's not just a club, it's an icon, a big part of music history. They've already managed to close history making recording studios, we can do something about this. Please help, and pass it on to everyone you know.

[gus danger]

Good evening my friends!

GRREAT punk laced response there Reved! [img]wink.gif[/img]

But I'm such a sentamental case, I would hate to see CBGBs come to an end so I high-tailed it over there and signed that there petition as fast as my fingers could carry me!

Thanks for the heads up Ravensong! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

More later,

Gus

[Tard]

F uck NYC. It's already a gawd-**** parent-friendly Disney Land compared to what it once was in the mid-70's.

The seediness of late-70's / early-80's grindhouses & drug-scams & yeah CBGB's too, is just something which can never be attained again.

Heh, like an online petition is gonna deter a multi-million-dollar buyout from taking over the property..? Let it go, an start another experimental musical breakout club in the midwest.

[Tard]

Can you tell I despise the city now? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[charlie c]

Country Blue Grass and Blues...
Many famous land mark clubs have gone bye the wayside in the name of "progress".

There will always be another "scene" happening somewhere

[Ravensong]

Revved, a HOMELESS Not-for-Profit is trying to kick them out. WHY do you even read or post about something you hate? It makes you look like an arsse to those of us who do care. (Spelled wrong for no censorship)

And, no there won't be a new "scene" it's been 16 years since anything new has happened in that kind of magnitude, and with all the pretty, clean, digitalized music, with everything having already been done,there will never be something as big again. Don't post if you hate it,or don't like it. Why even read it??? Apathy kills as well.

Gus, Thank You for your support.

Club wins round in court

BY GLENN GAMBOA
STAFF WRITER

August 11, 2005

CBGB's battle to stay alive received a major boost yesterday, as Manhattan Civil Court Judge Joan M. Kenney ruled that it does not owe its landlord, the Bowery Residents' Committee, any back rent and declined a request to evict the club. However, the club's future is still uncertain until the BRC grants it a new lease.

In her decision, Kenney wrote that granting an eviction would be "unjust and harsh especially when, for over three decades, this tenant has been a pillar of the community." She also made a point of singling out CBGB, the birthplace of punk rock, as "the anchor of what has become the 'renaissance' of the Bowery."

"CBGB has had both a local and worldwide impact that continues to reverberate today," she wrote.

Officials at the club said they were pleased with the decision. "As we've said all along, the lease negotiations have nothing to do with these issues," said CBGB spokesman Scott Goodstein. "Now that these issues are fully off the table, we hope that we can move on to a fair understanding and get a lease signed."

Muzzy Rosenblatt, executive director of the not-for-profit homeless aid group BRC, said he had not seen the judge's ruling and declined comment last night. He has said previously that before his group would consider offering CBGB a new lease, the club would have to pay its back rent and settle any building code violations.

The judge's ruling does not guarantee the club a new lease, however. The BRC has the right to set its own terms in a new lease. And CBGB's owner Hilly Kristal is worried the BRC will seek to more than double his current $19,500-a- month rent to $40,000 in the new lease - an increase he said he cannot afford.

Save CBGB Coalition, a group headed by Steven Van Zandt, of "The Sopranos" and the E Street Band, issued a statement saying they "see no reason as to why talks should be stalled any longer."

"This is far from over," Goodstein said. "The problem is that we're running out of time and that for months, the BRC has been unwilling to negotiate with Hilly."

CBGB's 12-year lease expires on Aug. 31. Talks with the BRC are continuing, as the club works on offering a new lease proposal that addresses issues raised in the BRC's counterproposal last week. Supporters of the club are in the middle of a month of concert benefits to raise funds and awareness of its fight for a new lease.

One for CBGB's, but miles to go..... Don't forget to sign the petition www.savecbgb.com !!


Copyright (c) 2005, Newsday, Inc.
This article originally appeared at:
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/...0,177245.story
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[Ravensong]

In the origional post I said $20,000.I meant $20,000 more than the current rent.
Also,it doesn't make sense that the yuppies don't mind the homeless, but mind a punk icon.

[CCfan]

I signed!

[NewYorkJettster]

What I have been trying to express to the people at CBGB's is to try and have some of the people that got THEIR start there, example Joan Jett and The Blackhearts/Cherie Currie/Sandy West/Blondie and so on to do a few benefit shows to raise money to save CBGB's all the proceeds to go to saving the club tho. That's my idea anyways. Would love to see that happen. I doubt it will happen but, I can always dream. It would be an awesome sight to see. [img]graemlins/music.gif[/img]

[gus danger]

GRRREAT idea NYJ! A concert with some of the original PUNKs from CBGB's
is just what the doctor ordered, so to speak!

A highlight could be the NEW Stiletto's with
Debbie Harry, Cherie Currie and Joan Jett!
I could dig it!!!!!

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Gus