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PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS CBGB has played host to punk-rock legends such as Patti Smith, The Ramones and Blondie since its opening in December 1973. The club may face eviction if its owner cannot pay $91,000 in back rent. runk-rock landmark losing legendary status By MALCOLM X ABRAM KRT CAMPUS NEW YORK — It’s 10:30 p.m. March 20 in New York City, and down in the Bowery at the seedy looking litde rock club Country Bluegrass Blues & Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers, better known around the world as CBGB, a gaggle of young bands had crossed the tiny stage. The evening was winding down, and only a few music lovers and friends were left to make the remaining musicians’ CBGB experience memorable. Seven bands took the stage this night, did their best to rock the smallish crowd. For this reporter and music fan, the CBGB experience was v underwhelming and a bit disappointing. But going to CBGB is like making a pilgrimage to punk’s holy land and although I’m pretty sure I didn’t see the future of rock that night, I still feel I’ve scratched a long-suffering itch simply by walking through the club’s entrance. CBGB is the acknowledged birthplace of American punk, and during the ’70s it was the headquarters of a scene that can claim Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Ramones and the Talking Heads. It sent a wave of excitement through rock whose reverberations are still being felt. Virtually every punk and punk/pop band on the charts today owes a debt to the owner, 73-year old Hilly Kristal, who opened the club in December 1973 to book the country, folk and bluegrass bands he wanted to hear. That mission changed fairly quickly. A few years later a rock revolution was born as the club was considered home to a host of exciting bands such as Blondie and Patti Smith. But for the last four years the club, so legendary it’s used by New York in ads, has been in danger of becoming nothing but a legend. Its landlord, the Bowery Residents’ Committee wants more than $91,000 in back rent owed to them by Kristal. If they don’t get it, both CBGB and the nicer-looking CB’s Lounge will be evicted, ending 33 years of rock ’n’ roll history. Every time I set foot in the Big Apple I hoped I’d have time to go down to the Bowery, and not for some hot band, because these days the bands are almost secondary to experiencing the venue itself. But as I paid my $3 and walked past the musty curtain that separates the entrance from the bar, I wondered what I expected to see and whether, in 2005, CBGB is really worth saving. I was looking for ghosts. The ghosts of a vibrant scene like no other in American rock history, the walls of the club that always appeared to be on the brink of crashing down from the noise made by the bands, covered in fliers .and stickers from current and long-gone bands for whom playing at CBGB was the zenith of their careers. I was looking for something ephemeral, a vibe, a bit of graffiti from a musician scrawled on the walls of the legendary repulsive bathroom, anything that could take me back to 1977, when the club and the bands that played there mattered. ■ MORRISSEY Continued from page 10 this live recording, but it is simply a question of whether or not you are a big enough fan to require another album with the same tunes from Morrissey. If not, then just stick to the older albums from The Smiths or his previous solo work. If the answer is yes, then you will not be disappointed with this version. Everything is technically solid, and it is the same old Morrissey you’ve loved since the ’80s. 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