{"id":87,"date":"2007-08-31T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatsouthernbrainfart.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/31\/87\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T20:08:57","slug":"87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Hilly Crystal Dead at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"Photo<\/a>If not for this guy, I don’t know that we would’ve ever seen The Ramones! He put up the fight and lost but didn’t go quietly! RIP Hilly!<\/span><\/p>\n

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By CRISTIAN SALAZAR – Associated Press Writer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

NEW YORK(AP) Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace
\nof the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones,
\nBlondie and the Talking Heads, has died. He was 75.<\/p>\n

Kristal, who lost a bitter fight last year to stop the club’s eviction from its home of 33 years,
\ndied Tuesday at Cabrini Hospital after a battle with lung cancer,<\/p>\n

his son Mark Dana Kristal said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Last October, as the club headed toward its final show with Patti Smith, Kristal was using a
\ncane to get around and showing the effects of his cancer treatment.
\nHe was hoping to open a Las Vegas incarnation of the infamous venue that opened in 1973.<\/p>\n

“He created a club that started on a small, out-of-the-way skid row, and saw it go around the world,”
\nsaid Lenny Kaye, a longtime member of the Patti Smith Group. “Everywhere you travel around the world,
\nyou saw somebody wearing a CBGB T-shirt.”<\/p>\n

While the club’s glory days were long past when it shut down, its name transcended
\nthe venue and become synonymous with the three-chord trash of punk and
\nits influence on generations of musicians worldwide.<\/p>\n

The club also became a brand name for a line of clothing and accessories,
\neven guitar straps; its store, CBGB Fashions, was moved a few blocks away from the original club,
\nbut remained open.<\/p>\n

“I’m thinking about tomorrow and the next day and the next day, and going
\non to do more with CBGB’s,” Kristal told The Associated Press last October.<\/p>\n

Kristal started the club in 1973 with the hope of making it a mecca of country, bluegrass and
\nblues _ called CBGB & OMFUG, for “Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandisers” _ but found
\nfew bands to book. It instead became the epicenter of the mid-1970s punk movement.<\/p>\n

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If not for this guy, I don’t know that we would’ve ever seen The Ramones! He put up the fight and lost but didn’t go quietly! RIP Hilly! By CRISTIAN SALAZAR – Associated Press Writer NEW YORK(AP) Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads, has died. He was 75. Kristal, who lost a bitter fight last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[601,600,421],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news","tag-cbgb","tag-hilly-crystal","tag-the-ramones"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}