THE OFFICIAL HELLA CLIQUES HISTORY OF CGBG
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THE START: Opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal.  Located in Manhattan's East Village - 315 Bowery

THE HISTORY: The full name is CBGB & OMFUG which stands for Country, BlueGrass, Blues & Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers (from gormandizer - having a voracious appetite... for music).  However, Kristal, compromising his initial vision started booking the local rock bands and forever changed music history.  The club became the forefront of the hardcore punk scene.

THE END: After a messy lease problem, CBGB closed it's doors forever on October 15, 2006.  Patti Smith, one of the club's original acts, was the last show.

THE AFTERLIFE: While Kristal really is in the afterlife... He passed away in 2007 from lung cancer... CBGB Radio was launched in 2010 and CBGB Music Festival began in 2012.

LIST OF ORIGINAL BANDS TO PLAY CBGB:

1. Squeeze
2. The Revelons
3. Suicide
4. The Fast
5. Magic Tramps
6. Dina Regine Band
7. Stilettos
8. The Mad - Screaming Mad George
9. Television

LIST OF BANDS THAT WERE CREATED/AND OR ARGUABLY LAUNCHED BECAUSE OF CBGB:

1. Ramones
2. Blondie
3. Patti Smith Group
4. Wayne County
5. Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
6. The Talking Heads - played their first gig opening for Ramones at CBGB
7. B-52s - after their song Red Lobster was an underground success, they performed it at CBGB
8. Misfits - they played their first two performances at CBGB in 1977
9. Bad Brains
10. The Dead Boys - they moved to New York at the encouragement of Joey Ramone and played out frequently at CBGB

LIST OF BANDS THAT BECAME IDENTIFIED WITH CBGB:

1. Sick of it All
2. Gorilla Biscuits
3. Agnostic Front
4. Murphy's Law
5. Youth of Today
6. U.S. Chaos
7. Cro-Mags
8. Warzone
9. Avail
10. Bouncing Souls
11. Dictators
12. Richard Hell and the Voidoids - first rock band to play CBGB
13. Beastie Boys - first CBGB gig: November 20, 1982 as a hardcore punk band
14. Reagan Youth