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(as you know) Patti Smith played the last show at CBGB's Sunday night, October 15th, 2006. I figured there'd be a bunch of special guests -- at least for the encore -- or maybe a secret opener. Nope. There was no opener. She dedicated "Space Monkey" to Michael Stipe, but he wasn't there like he was in 2005. And though Television's Tom Verlaine was a character in many of her on-stage stories -- including one about her recording with him "LAST NIGHT" -- he was nowhere to be found (actually she told us he sent his regards). Television guitarist Richard Lloyd was there though, as was sometimes-Patti Smith bassist Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
PATTI STARTED THE SHOW WEARING THIS
There was a roughly 25-minute painful intermission at this show. I say painful because it just meant more time trapped in place at this extremely crowded, long, bathroom-less show. I say bathroom-less because they closed the downstairs bathrooms - you had to go next door. The show was great - don't get me wrong, but it wasn't exactly comfortable.
SHE CAME BACK DRESSED LIKE THIS
Audience members worth noting: Talking Heads' Chris Franz & Tina Weymouth, Jesse Malin (who helped close out Continental, but not CBGB), Rolling Stone Magazine's David Fricke, Jim Carroll (who Lenny Kaye also played/plays guitar for), Michael Azerrad (This Band Could Be Your Life), CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, Little Steven Van Zandt (who tried to save the place) and The Dictators' Andy Shernoff (who played the night before), and the guy in the picture below...
"At the end of a three-and-a-half hour show, on the last night of music at the New York club CBGB, Patti Smith read a list of the fallen, just a few of the musicians and spirits who were so important to the room's legend but couldn't be there for the October 15th wake. They included the Cramps' Bryan Gregory, the critic Lester Bangs, singer Helen Wheels, guitarist Robert Quine, Johnny, Joey and Dee Dee Ramone and Smith's original pianist Richard Sohl. As her band played at soft funeral-march volume behind her, someone in the audience yelled out, "You missed one." Smith smiled. "We remember everything," she said with maternal assurance. Then she pointed out that CBGB was expiring at thirty-three -- the same age as Jesus." [David Fricke in Rolling Stone]
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Posted on October 16, 2006 7:05 PM
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if you're going for celebrities there - i saw both Ed Burns and Elijah Woods. along with a lot of great musicians most people wouldnt know, but were around back in the day.
Posted by p | October 16, 2006 8:18 PM
"along with a lot of great musicians most people wouldnt know, but were around back in the day."
I'd love if you'd list them. thx!
Posted by brooklynvegan | October 16, 2006 8:24 PM
Jesse Malin a celebritiy??? Please....Try a wannabe.
Posted by Anonymous | October 16, 2006 9:16 PM
Um... who's the guy in the picture "below"?
Posted by ignoramus | October 16, 2006 9:20 PM
They all missed a great Mets game.
Posted by joly | October 16, 2006 9:27 PM
"if you're going for celebrities there" & "Jesse Malin a celebritiy???"
I wasn't comfortable with the word celebrity. I changed it to "Audience members worth noting"
"Um... who's the guy in the picture "below"?"
Oh yeah, I was actually hoping someone would ID him (the bald one). He was signing a lot of autographs.
Posted by brooklynvegan | October 16, 2006 9:37 PM
Is that John Malkovich?
Posted by BK | October 16, 2006 9:48 PM
Wouldn't be Brian Eno, would it? :-)
Posted by The Enabler | October 16, 2006 10:07 PM
The night was bumpy, but well worth attending. I am happy I made my way up front. Check out some pics/vids I shot here: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=29926787&blogID=181268033&Mytoken=862E13FD-5919-405B-A57F13BD219CC4C917721073
Posted by Qbertplaya | October 16, 2006 11:08 PM
I have some pics/vids (albeit crappy) on my myspace blog. Good times.
Posted by Qbertplaya | October 16, 2006 11:55 PM
The guy in the picture is Al Burgo, he's an actor, also a swell guy.
Posted by KF | October 17, 2006 8:48 AM
this may sound obvious... but this show was broadcast on Sirius... where is the bootleg of it that I excepted to be easily available the next day???
Posted by Anonymous | October 17, 2006 10:12 AM
this may sound obvious... but this show was broadcast on Sirius... where is the bootleg of it that I excepted to be easily available the next day???
Posted by Anonymous | October 17, 2006 10:14 AM
Michael Eisner
Posted by Arya | October 17, 2006 1:53 PM
Is that YOU, BV?
Posted by ignoramus | October 17, 2006 2:55 PM
The best thing about Ed Burns is that he was denied entrance TWICE, and told he had to get in line with the rest of us.
Then he made a phone call, and someone let him in. Fair enough.
I have good photos and a writeup on my site as well.
see above.
Posted by jg | October 17, 2006 3:21 PM
The best thing about Ed Burns is that he was denied entrance TWICE, and told he had to get in line with the rest of us.
Then he made a phone call, and someone let him in. Fair enough.
I have good photos and a writeup on my site as well.
see above.
Also, Verlaine is a notorious recluse. To expect him to show up was optimistic at best.
The "soft funeral march volume" is actually a PSG song entitled "Elegie".
Posted by jg | October 17, 2006 3:22 PM
Does anyone know where I can find a setlist for this show?????
Posted by Anonymous | October 17, 2006 5:04 PM
if you like patti smith, can you please explain why? i'm not being sarcastic, i'm asking because i never understood the appeal. imo, the only good song she ever had was the one springsteen wrote for her. i never got the whole patti smith thing... anyone agree? disagree? i'm curious about this..
Posted by Anonymous | October 17, 2006 8:25 PM
CBGB has its place in history. But clearly the lack of people willing to pay tribute by making live performances shows that not many still care about the place. It will be missed, but cmon... this is life.
Posted by Anonymous | October 18, 2006 2:01 AM
"if you like patti smith, can you please explain why? i'm not being sarcastic, i'm asking because i never understood the appeal. imo, the only good song she ever had was the one springsteen wrote for her. i never got the whole patti smith thing... anyone agree? disagree? i'm curious about this.."
disagree. you're an idiot.
Posted by sn | October 19, 2006 12:30 AM
Listen to her first album. 'nuf said.
Posted by Anonymous | October 19, 2006 1:07 AM
Bald guy is almost certainly Charlie from "Empty Nest."
Posted by Amanda | October 19, 2006 6:18 PM
I had a punk clothing store on St. Marks Pl. in the late 70’s & 80’s. I did clothing for Blondie made Joey Ramones leather jacket among others. I was a regular at CBGB’s and now an era is gone. But all is not lost. I have just resurrected my look with a new website www.natashanyc.com. Come visit and view the old and the new. Natasha
Posted by Natasha Adonzio | October 27, 2006 4:34 PM
I had a punk clothing store on St. Marks Pl. in the late 70’s & 80’s. I did clothing for Blondie made Joey Ramones leather jacket among others. I was a regular at CBGB’s and now an era is gone. But all is not lost. I have just resurrected my look with a new website www.natashanyc.com. Come visit and view the old and the new. Natasha
Posted by Natasha Adonzio | October 27, 2006 4:34 PM
I had a punk clothing store on St. Marks Pl. in the late 70’s & 80’s. I did clothing for Blondie made Joey Ramones leather jacket among others. I was a regular at CBGB’s and now an era is gone. But all is not lost. I have just resurrected my look with a new website www.natashanyc.com. Come visit and view the old and the new. Natasha
Posted by Natasha Adonzio | October 27, 2006 4:36 PM
isn't that lou reed. i was there...why didn't i see him? i was mainly in the back room. I saw danny fields and he didn't say Lou was there. Well... what the fuck
Posted by Billy Wolfram | July 4, 2007 4:21 PM
isn't that lou reed. i was there...why didn't i see him? i was mainly in the back room. I saw danny fields and he didn't say Lou was there. Well... what the fuck
Posted by Billy Wolfram | July 4, 2007 4:21 PM
This is Danny Fields, re the ridiculous comment that I was seen in the "back room" (of what? CB's didn't have one), and why would I tell anyone about people who WEREN'T there? (Unless asked, by I cannot imagine whom.) It's the people who ARE there, anywhere, that matters, not those that aren't.
So, this is one of my many thousand Google mentions, and it's wrong, and makes no sense.
Hey, could you Google guys change my basic bio? I was never "based in Detroit." Always in NYC.
Posted by Danny Fields | December 18, 2007 4:42 PM
This is Danny Fields, re the ridiculous comment that I was seen in the "back room" (of what? CB's didn't have one), and why would I tell anyone about people who WEREN'T there? (Unless asked, by I cannot imagine whom.) It's the people who ARE there, anywhere, that matters, not those that aren't.
So, this is one of my many thousand Google mentions, and it's wrong, and makes no sense.
Hey, could you Google guys change my basic bio? I was never "based in Detroit." Always in NYC.
Posted by Danny Fields | December 18, 2007 4:42 PM
Ever heard patti live ? Then you'd get the appeal.
Posted by To Anon | May 22, 2008 11:04 PM
cool!!!
Posted by louis | October 17, 2009 1:08 PM