Monday, October 13, 2014

Many People Still Love Old School CBGB Band Music

By Estelle Larsen


There are many types of music out there. CBGB band was originally named for its musical styles but became more popular for the American Punk and other new wave bands. These were Misfits, the Dead Boys, The Dictators and Blondie to name just a few. It later became known as hardcore punk.

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.

In 2007 she was inducted into the well known rock and Roll Hall of fame by the French Ministry of Culture. She went on to win the National Book Award in November 2010. She was born in Chicago and her father worked at a Honeywell Plant. This is a global company that makes a variety of different products as well as aerospace systems for many different clients. There are now over 130 000 workers all around the world with about 58 000 in the United States alone.

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.

The band broke up in 1982 but the founder Debbie Harry carried on with her career alone. The band came together again in 1997 and was a huge success in the United Kingdom with the song "Maria". They toured the world and were formally introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They are still very popular today and have sold well over 40 million records around the world.

She married Fred Smith and later they had a son who was born in 1982. Patti was in semi-retirement in the 1980s but then a few years later release an album which was quite popular. A few years later her husband died of a heart attack and then her brother died as well. She moved back to New York where an old friend convinced her to go back to touring.

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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