October 17, 2014

Many People Still Love Old School CBGB Band Music

By Estelle Larsen


There are some who have a very particular taste in music. CBGB band is better known as new wave and American Punk music. Its founder was Hilly Kristal, his birth name was Hillel. He was born in 1931 on the 23rd September and about years later he opened a new club. Not long after this the club had to close its doors as he had an argument with the landlord about rent.

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.

World music is better known as music from the developing world with elements of western music thrown in. Art Rock is a kind of music that came from the 1960s and has stretched the limits of rock and roll. It has a more abstract and untried outlook on music. The lyrics are meant to be imaginative and rational orientated.

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.

In the 1930s the Monroe Brothers were very popular as they sang most of their songs in duet. Later they split up and both formed bands of their own. Billy stayed in his home town and his new band started a new kind of country music.

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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