Friday, October 17, 2014

The CBGB Band Movement Still Lives On

By Estelle Larsen


Everyone has a style of music that they love. The letters CBGB band refers to country, bluegrass and blues music. This club was opened in the early 1700s on Bowery Street. This was a street in a neighborhood of New York City, Manhattan. It runs from Chatham Square at Park Row to Cooper Square.

This is the oldest thoroughfare on the Island and spans about the entire length. When the Dutch settled they named the path Bouwerij which means farm when translated. The first residents settled in 1654 and them and their wives set up different cabins and started a cattle farm. Some of the bands that play the American Punk and new wave music are Talking Heads, Misfits, Blondie, The Police as well as The Heartbreakers and Green Day. Talking Heads came together in 1975 and broke up in 1991. They made use of punk rock, art rock, pop and world music.

She was born in December 1946 and is a singer and songwriter as well as a poet and visual artist. People know her better as the Godmother of Punk. One of her well known songs "Because the Night" was written with the help of Bruce Springsteen. It was so well liked that it got to number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978.

When the Will was read out he had left nothing to his wife, not even mentioning her at all. He had left his son $100 000 in trust and his daughter was left all of the property he owned. Although they were not married when the club opened Karen had spent every day working next to him and with him. It is said that because there were so many different woman throwing themselves at him day by day that he eventually gave in.

In 1973 he decided to book a concert and booked a local band to play on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It was normally country and bluegrass music that was played but then changed to rock. Bluegrass music was brought to America in the 1600s by immigrants. This included ballads and dance music which originated from England, African American gospel music as well as Scotland and Ireland. The banjo instruments where brought from slaves who came from Africa.

These settlers then spread into Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky singing songs of day to day life as they saw it in the new country. These mainly were about life on the farms and were called "country music", or "mountain music". When the phonograph was invented this helped to let the rest of the United States hear this kind of music as well.

Unlike the other bands The Police came from London and was formed in 1977. They were to be leaders of the Second British invasion of the United States. This refers to the music that became popular in the summer of 1982 in America. It was because of the music channel on television. Later hair metal replaced them on the charts.

There are festivals every year in two separate locations in America and it is one of those that entrance is for free. The original location was later added to the National Register of Historic Places. The kind of music that was played there during the 1970s defined the culture of Manhattan. The club is now used by a retail business and is still an important site for its fans.




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