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SaveCBGB campaign website unveiled

Contributed by scottcbgb. Posted by aubin on Friday, June 24, 2005 at 5:22 PM (EDT)

SaveCBGB.org has been launched to organize the moment to protect the legendary CBGB's nightclub. The site promises to provide updates on the status of the project, and provides a petition,. posters as well as tool to write a letter to a few dozen New York City newspapers.

The legendary NYC club which played home to bands like the Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, Television and literally hundreds of others artists through the years may be forced to close its doors. The situation arose due to a dispute with Bowery Residents Committee which holds a 45-year lease on the building. CBGB's is their lone commercial tenant; their rent feud dates back five years, when the committee went to court to collect more than $300,000 in back rent from the club

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Someone (June 24, 2005)

Can we start a campaign to kill all the fashion whores wearing the CBGB shirts they got at hot topic or urban outfitters? That might be just as worthwhile.

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Someone (June 24, 2005)

man, i must be the only person left in the country who's never seen a hot topic.

Someone (June 24, 2005)

lucky guy!!!

Someone (June 24, 2005)

i dont know if that was a sarcastic remark, but he really is a lucky guy

Someone (June 24, 2005)

give it up.

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Someone (June 24, 2005)

seriously. the brc is an organization that provides services for homeless people and people with hiv/aids. i really think they need the space more than an old club that can't put on a good show anymore.

Kenjamin (June 24, 2005)

save ABC No Rio instead.

Someone (June 24, 2005)

Punk is dead. Let CB's die with it.

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Someone (September 17, 2005)

Fuck you...Punk will never die as long as there is people that is unhappy with the system!!

Someone (June 24, 2005)

I guess if you're not from NY or have never been to NYC then you dont really care but it is a part of NYC history and music history in general. it deserves to be preserved.

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Someone (June 24, 2005)

"deserves to be preserved"

Someone (June 24, 2005)

i live 45 minutes away and i go there all the time. i still don't really care.

Someone (June 25, 2005)

Fuck that. Do you know how many great venues have closed down in my hometown, with nothing more than a farewell in the local independant weekly. Good punk venues eventually shut down, then all the people who had never been there can talk about the fact that there are no good venues in town. Point is, I think the charm and original spirit (I've never been there, just a thought) of CBGB's is dead, and it's just a nostalgia thing now.

Someone (June 24, 2005)

never give up. i'll be at a show this summer.

Helliox (June 24, 2005)

I doubt it'll ever happen, but this is the chance, the moment, and the opportunity for bands nation wide, or hell even a good indie record-label nation wide to stand up and show some solidarity. Ok, so they don't want to lease it back to CBGB's in its current state. This is where someone who has made a killing off the name and tradition of punk to give a little back. I am not talking about Iggy, I am not talking about Patti, or any of them, they gave their part already. What needs to happen is for the people who have taken everything from punk, Blink, New Found Glory(Travis especially), Yellow Card and all those other "successful" major label, MTV whoring stadium rocking "musicians" to finally give back. I can not say I have all the answers, or that anyone will in fact do anything, but this is an institution that has all the same marks of things like Motown, the G

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Someone (June 24, 2005)

I can picture Bill Pullman doing this speech in Independence Day...

wallflower (June 24, 2005)

I agree whole heartedly with you, but how long have you been thinking this out? Especially the last paragraph; that is just way too poetic and elegant to be made up off the top of your head.

Helliox (June 24, 2005)

Um, the last part I have been thinking about life in general. I was thinking about the first show I saw, it was in this super dive club (The Reptile Lounge), I got my ass beat by some crazy dude, and then these punks, like from 1980, they had to seriously be 35 pulled me out and removed the crazy dude. Ever since there is an electric current that springs through me when ever places like this are left to die. Especially when the killers are just a bunch of greedy people who deny the relevance of things they don't understand, i.e. CBGB’s. Also, I deal with a lot of high school aged people so I have this thing for the dramatic.... But I seriously did just put this together in about 8-9 minutes, and then a once over to spell check. I am glad that someone agrees with me. Now we just have to convince the world.

Someone (June 24, 2005)

vindicated i am selfish i am wrong, swear i'm right swear i knew it all along so i am flooooored but i am cleaning up so well!! -Dashboard Confessional

Helliox (June 25, 2005)

Pardon me? Sorry, I do not understand your new-speak. would you care to ellaborate your point or are you just posting random tid bits of meaningless drivle?

Someone (June 26, 2005)

Shut up, the building itself doesn't matter; only the things which took place inside it do. Those days are gone, CBGB's is being used as a cheap logo for a plastic punk revival...let it die with dignity and live on in memory as it should for its contribution to the long-gone, golden era of punk.

Helliox (June 26, 2005)

An interesting thought. Thanks.

Someone (June 24, 2005)

It appears to me that Bowery Residents' Committee is less concerned with the history of punk rock than they are providing the homeless with, uh, homes, drug treatment, and jobs. Their cause strikes me as infinitely more worthy than helping Hilly pay his back rent. CBGB's has affirmed it's place in punk rock history, whether it shuts down or not. We certainly don't need to help keep business people in business just because of what once happened there.

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Someone (June 28, 2005)

Same with what happened to the fireside bowl here in chicago. There may not be shows there anymore, but it doesnt change what it was.

Someone (June 24, 2005)

I'm turning 16 tommorrow and hopefully I'll be lucky to see a show there this summer before it closes.

Someone (June 25, 2005)

Hilly is a scumbag. Enough said.

Someone (June 25, 2005)

this entire fucking topic is bullshit, this guy thinks cause his venue is soo 'historic' that he doesnt have to pay rent? fuck you. punk bands are just regular people like the rest of us, and i dont give 2 shits about 'history'. fuck you, pay your bills, ESPECIALLY with cbgb tshirts selling at hot topic cm

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