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Down in the Scuzz With the Heavy Cult Figures
by: Charles Shaar Murray
CBGB is a toilet. An impossibly scuzzy little club buried somewhere in the section of the Village that the cab-drivers don’t like to drive through.
It looks as if the proprietors kick holes in the walls and piss in the corners before they let the customers in; fo’ the atmosphere, you dig. None of the low-budget would-be elegance of Max’s Kansas City in the final agonies of its death throes but carefully-choreographed movie-set sleaze.
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by: Charles Shaar Murray
published: April 16, 2008
in column: Classic Vantage
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