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it is now a shoe shop
My favorite music in the world was born inside CBGBs. I hate that I never made my way there before it closed down. This book is a phenomenal time capsule of that historic venue and the culture it unleashed upon the world.
people of a certain age will get all warm & fuzzy perusing this book. (& rightly so!) wonderful, gritty photos of pre-legendary musicians from an age long gone. a pure, visual joy for youngsters & oldsters alike.
Great shots, could use a few more stories.
Like watching a movie of the club that started. The ramones, the new york dolls, and many more bands.
I think this was an interesting book about how the punk scene was along time ago. I find this book interesting to read because it shows pictures of the bands that used to play there and they had a summary about them. For example the Ramones would play at CBGB.
good pictorial history of modern music's last great shrine.
Hermoso recorrido en fotos que va retratando año tras año la historia del lugar más emblemático del under. Una joyita.
Excellent. Sorry I never went there. Sort of.
It's a great little nostalgia book, full of photos, and little stories of famous musicians and their first time at said venue, but that's about it. Great as a catalog to remember the venue by.I am interested in seeing the layout of the venue in it's prime, as everyone in the book points out to the 'great sound' it had. I visited the former CBGB's recently (where I bought this book), it is now a clothes shop, but they still kept some original CBGB's things. I was confused whether the stage was ac...
Great pictoral essay of a lost era.