"[Audience cheering]" "And right now..." "Right now..." "Right now it's time to..." "Kick out the jams, motherfucker!" "[Mc5's kick out the jams]" "Yeah" "I" " I-I I'm gonna" "I'm gonna kick out- [record scrapes, music stops]" "[Music, high-pitching whining]" "Dude, come on, man." "Take this horrible shit off." "What the hell?" "I'm listening to that." "If mom comes home, she'll make me shut it off." "All right, well, I'm doing her a favor then." "[High pitched whining, screaming resumes]" "Dude, you know what?" "This is really, like, making me crazy." "Then leave." "WhatI just got here." "What are you doing, by the way?" "I'm starting a magazine." "Like..." "like "nineteen" instead of sixteen?" "Or "twenty-one"" "Or, no, no, no, wait." "We should totally go younger- thirteen." "Get in on the newbie chicks." "No." "It's a magazine for fuck-up kids." "Like kids who have parties when their parents are away and destroy the house." "Cool!" "I could be, like, the editor or something." "No." "I'm the editor and the illustrator." "Well, what does that leave me?" "You're just a punk." "Guess I am just a punk." ""Punk." That's a great title." "Yeah." "That was my idea, dude." "I thought of that idea." "What?" "No, you didn't." "I just said, "that's a great title."" "Who gave you the idea for "punk"" "Who said it was a great title?" "[Talking heads' life during wartime]" "Heard of a van it's loaded with weapons packed up and ready to go" "Heard of some grave sites out by the highway a place where nobody knows" "The sound of gunfire off in the distance" "I'm getting used to it now" "Lived in a brownstone lived in a ghetto" "I've lived all over this town" "This ain't no party this ain't no disco this ain't no fooling around" "This ain't no mudd club or CBGB" "I ain't got time for that now" "Heard about Houston heard about Detroit..." "[Music box playing]" "[Crying]" "Ow!" "[Rock music]" "[Cow moos]" "[Woman screams]" "Hillel, where are you?" "Hillel?" "!" "Hilly!" "Kidnapped?" "Bertha, no one kidnaps from the poor." "What?" "Hilly's missing." "Get your truck." "Go, go, go!" "Run!" "[Brakes squeal]" "How did he get here?" "He must've walked?" "Three Miles?" "It's two and a half." "That's not normal." "[Man] Hillel Kristal." "You currently reside at 21 east 2nd street?" "And what is your marital status, Mr. Kristal?" "My wife and I are split." "Separated or divorced?" "Divorced." "Yep." "Children?" "Two." "And this is your... second failed attempt to run a bar." "A club." "Divorced and two bankruptcies." "Perhaps you should try something else." "I'm sick of the parties" "I'm sick of the ravers" "I'm sick of the dogs and my noisy neighbors" "I'm sick of the subways and I'm sick of the crowds" "I'm sick of hot water always running out" "I'm sick of the crap I gotta take in this town" "If I didn't love it" "I swear I'd burn it to the ground" "I'm sick of the tourists" "I'm sick of their stares" "I'm sick of all the girls who ain't showin' their wares" "I'm sick of the queens and I'm sick of the whores" "I'm sick of bad lovin' and those raconteurs" "I'm sick of the crap I gotta take in this town" "I'm sick if I didn't love it" "I swear I'd burn it to the ground" "You know I'm sick if I didn't love it" "I swear I'd burn it to the ground" "I'm sick of the crap I gotta take in this town" "I'm really sick" "you play?" "Used to." "Me too." "Mother required it." "Hilly Kristal." "They call me Idaho." "Why's that?" "I like potatoes." "[Scoffs]" "Buy you a drink?" "The palace bar." "I like the irony." "What'll you have?" "Whiskey." "Brandy and Fresca." "No Fresca." "Soda." "Anyone play music in here?" "No." "Nobody'd complain about the noise this far downtown." "They'd complain, but no one would listen." "Think what a coat of paint could do." "Or a bulldozer." "I wanna buy this bar." "Got any money?" "[The velvet underground's heroin]" "[Clock ticking]" "Look around, hillel." "You know that I'm not made of money." "This rugelach looks amazing, Mrs. Kristal." "Oh, you're such a good boy, Merv." "Take some more." "Merv, are you gonna be working with, uh, hillel on the new club?" "Only if he pays me." "He'll pay you." "Am I correct, hillel?" "All the boys, they're putting me down..." "I know what they say when I ain't around" "He can't make it..." "Can't play with broken strings, Idaho." "Thanks, hilly." "Hilly's on the bowery." "Very nice." "Another promising investment opportunity for your mother." "This way to the kitchen." "And lose that phony accent, Merv." "Two more blasts of ketchup." "How many is that so far?" "Uh, fifteen." "It's a trainwreck." "What a surprise." "Nice to see you too." "I'm dropping out of school, dad." "Well, you shouldn't." "Well, I can't afford it." "So that's my fault?" "Yeah." "Look, I need a place to crash." "Just for a couple of nights until I get things back on track." "You leave that boyfriend yet?" "You consider getting a real job yet?" "[Rock music]" "Well, it's a start." "We have a stage." "Now we need an income." "I was thinking 50 cent beers and topless waitresses like that joint down on..." "Look, the music'll do it all for us." "You start playing that disco shit, I'm gone." "Country and blues." "In New York City?" "This club's gonna be different." "Country and blues." "Country, bluegrass, blues." "I shoulda never left my other job." "The place was a shit hole." "This place is a shit hole." "Idaho, come on." "I'm locking up." "It's the only bar in the city with Fresca on tap." "Yeah, but that shit'll kill ya." "[Rock music]" "Uh, hello!" "We hear you have a stage." "We have a band." "The perfect band to perform on your stage." "What kind of music do you play?" "Uh, new music." "Uh, what does "CBGB" stand for?" "Country, bluegrass, blues." "They play a little of that." "A little rock, a little country, a little bluegrass, a little blues." "Hey, didn't you used to manage the village vanguard?" "Hundred years ago." "One moment." "Get a load of him." "[Country music playing]" "Terry Ork." "I manage the band television." "Oh." "Uh, you just met the guitar players, Richard and tom, outside." "It's a win-win." "CBGB gets new customers buying drinks and we get to play for an audience." "They any good?" "They are... raw, man!" "They're primitive." "They are going to be huge." "I bet they stink." "But maybe if they perform..." "They'll get better." "All right." "You've got some vision, man." "Only original music." "You got it." "Ah, that way you get to avoid paying ASCAP fees." "It's a philosophy." "You might wanna consider an exterminator." "Just..." "You got a good sound engineer?" "You're talking to a man who sang at radio city." "[The stooges' 1969]" "Oh my and a-a boo hoo" "hilly Kristal." "My hands are dirty, okay?" "What's your name?" "Taxi." "I'm not much of a dog person." "But you're mechanical." "You musical?" "Yeah, I played in a band once." "My guitar was stolen." "I have a position at my club." "Are you paying?" "Yes." "Oh my and a-a boo hoo hey, what- how do I" "Shit." "This is taxi." "My sound engineer." "Hey, man." "You're gonna wanna crank it." "You play too loud, I'm walking out." "Hey, whenever you're ready!" "You know I I jump outta bed" "I pull down the shade" "I used to have such sweet dreams" "Now it's more like an air raid" "I see the opposition clear" "I see them glare" "I don't care it doesn't matter to me" "I don't care" "I never think about it" "I don't care" "slip out of myself like a shadow" "Second verse is a lot better." "And somersault through walls" "I can't tell, it's really so odd" "Is it spring or fall?" "I thought it was good." "Not very country." "Going to have to change that name." "False advertising." "What do you think?" ""I don't care." ""It doesn't matter to me." ""I don't care." ""I never think about it." "I don't care."" "There's something there." "I can see it." "There is something there." "[Stomach gurgling]" "Jonathan, your stomach's growling." "Do you wanna go get a bagel?" "Lisa, you want something to eat?" "No." "I ate your chili last night." "So..." "If you're not going to school, are you getting a job?" "It's 7:30 in the morning." "You gotta have some plan." "What is it?" "To not be here when you get back." "Ugh." "Shit!" "[Richard hell and the Voidoids' blank generation]" "I was saying let me out of here" "Before I was even born it's such a gamble when you get a face" "It's fascinating to observe what the mirror does" "But when I dine it's for the wall that I set a place" "I belong to the blank generation and" "I can take it or leave it each time" "'Scuse me." "I have to open up." "He's dead." "I've been watchin' him for you, hilly." "Has anybody informed the police?" "Nah." "Cops don't care too much about dead guys in the bowery." "Where'd he come from?" "Upstairs." "[Telephone ringing]" "[Man] Somebody answer that?" "Hey, answer the phone already!" "There's a dead body outside." "You wanna come see if it's one of your guests?" "Not particularly." "Had a guy stabbed in the shower here last month." "Big mess." "Had to call the cops three times." "Pain in my ass." "What?" "You want a room?" "What's going on, Stan?" "I'm arresting this man under suspicion of murder." "Whose suspicion?" "Look, Kristal." "Let me do my job, okay?" "What about the body?" "Welcome to CBGB, gentlemen." "Compliments of the house." "And who the hell are you?" "Hilly Kristal." "Police took a guy for murder today." "Yeah, we heard." "He didn't do it." "Plays the violin." "We call him Idaho." "Yeah, he's a little guy." "Yeah." "He's that junkie." "I'd like to help him, but I need some guidance on that." "What do we get out of it?" "I'm your neighbor." "Got lots of neighbors." "You treat me right," "I'll treat you right." "I'll make a call." "Merv!" "Another round of beers for our neighbors here." "Hey, hilly." "Hello, Idaho." "I'm sorry about this." "[Groans] Jail's not so bad." "At least they got heat." "[The velvet underground's I can't stand it]" "Why'd you come?" "'Cause you needed me to." "You read much?" "I'm a junkie, hilly." "Do I look like I read fucking books to you?" ""Small is beautiful:" "A study of economics as if people mattered."" "Just came out." "Talks about how economics has become the dominant ideological force in society." "How we need to re-think that." "With art." "Music." "You're out of gas." "It's only a few more blocks." "He's got vodka?" "I can't stand it anymore-more" "I can't stand it anymore-ore" "I can't stand it anymore-more" "[Engine starts]" "I remember ooh how the darkness doubled" "I recall lightning struck itself" "I was listening listening to the rain oh, shit." "That's not good." "Damn shower." "This place is..." "Cool, man." "I told you not to..." "Hey!" "Hey!" "2.50!" "Aw, Jesus!" "Hey!" "You're blocking the drain!" "Good working with you." "Yeah." "I'll see you tomorrow?" "Yes." "Seven dollarsHow am I supposed to live on this?" "Hey, man." "Art sucks." "Not a bad night." "Nearly electrocuted a guy." "Doubled the attendance." "[Rock music]" ""OMFUG?"" "Other music for uplifting..." "Gormandizers." "Oh, yeah." "Well, that explains it." "Your mother called." "She wants to know when you're paying her back." "Did you tell her we need a little time?" "I did." "And that things are picking up." "So what's the problem?" "I lied." "I am working on some other financial opportunities." "Excellent." "Watch it!" "You book any country yet?" "Closest I got was some guy named Wayne county who's thinking of becoming a jayne county." "I was hearing "country," he was saying "county."" "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "Good day." "Thank you." "[Groans]" "W- w-w-wait." "I gotta pee." "Hold it!" "I can't!" "You are not going!" "I'll be back." "Aah!" "Maybe it was a mistake to hire a junkie as the third hand." "Hurry up!" "Excellent." "So much for the lucrative world of piano delivery." "See?" "I was quick!" "Uh-oh." "[Nixon] In all of my years of public life" "I have never profited- never profited from public service." "I have never obstructed justice." "Because people have gotta know whether or not their president is a crook." "Well, I'm not a crook." "I've earned everything I've got- [man] All right." "Right there." "No way, man." "[Laughter]" "If you guys weren't neighbors," "I'd put that chair on your bill, Bert." "Bert fuck you, hilly." "This table, it tilts." "They shorted us on the hard liquor order." "If we don't pay the bill, they'll cut us off." "Lisa." "Hi." "You leaving that rotten boyfriend and going back to school?" "No." "If it's money you came for- you seen this?" "No." ""The great thing about this band, television," ""is that they have absolutely no musical" ""or socially redeeming characteristics and they know it."" "Who wrote that?" "Josh Feigenbaum." "Who's he?" "He's important." "So people are gonna read this and they're gonna start talking." "And bands are gonna start showing up wanting to play here." "And all bands have fans, even the shitty ones." "And everybody wants to be in a band and have fans, so new bands are gonna start up and show up." "You have no idea what's about to happen here." "So..." "Gimme a job." "The pay sucks." "The music sucks." "But far be it from me to refute the words of Josh Feigenbaum." "What do you expect to do around here?" "Well, what do you do around here?" "Do you want a job, or do you want to fight?" "I asked you for a job." "Fine." "Okay." "To start with, bands will sound-check from 4:00 to 6:00." "Yeah." "I'll post the lineup at 7:30." "And bands don't get to decide the order." "They fight, they're out." "Got it." "Anything else?" "Yeah." "Bikers don't pay for their drinks." "When?" "A lot." "Ever." "Why not?" "Policy." "CBGB." "Collection services." "Hilly Kristal?" "Hold on." "Bill collectors." "You're hired." "Clean up on aisle 10." "Oh, he is not talking to me, is he?" "Yes." "He is." "Uh, fourteen." "Thirteen." "[Coughs]" "Eleven." "Twelve." "Idaho." "Hey." "Where's the beer?" "There's no beer." "What do you mean?" "Hilly didn't pay the bill." "Same reason there's no phone." "We don't need a phone." "We have a payphone." "We're a bar." "We need beer!" "Jesus Christ." "Look at this!" "Will you-Look at the size of that rat." "Don't point at him." "Why?" "It upsets him." "Who?" "Bert." "Bert." "Bert the rat?" "We have a deal." "What are you talking about?" "He doesn't bite me if I feed him." "Hilly spent a fortune on exterminating cockroaches and you're feeding the fucking rats?" "Shh!" "He's listening." "You're gonna make him mad!" "How's the chili?" "Bert likes it." "If Bert doesn't eat it," "I know can't feed it to anybody else." "Well, as long as Bert likes it." "Get rid of Bert." "Right now." "And find some beer." "I like Lisa." "I like Lisa a lot." "Hey!" "Here you go." "Television." "Check 'em out." "Right around the corner." "Here you go." "Television." "CBGB's." "[Woman] I prefer the term underground rock." ""Underground" implies secretive." "There's something precious about that to me." "Punk, on the other hand, it's in your face." "It's sarcastic, ironic, cutting." "So you're a punk." "Yeah." "I am too." "I'm an illustrator, and I'm starting a magazine." "Yeah, it's called punk." "And your punk magazine is going to hold forth the losers as winners." "Deify the freaks and outcasts of the underground" "I mean downtown music scene." "Yes." "Thou shalt keep no gods, especially fossils like Eric Clapton and zeppelin." "You wanna write for the magazine?" "What's a degree from Oxford for anyway?" "To impress your parents' friends." "I'm John." "Mary." "Hey." "Eddie Mcneil." "Hi, Eddie." "Nice to meet ya." "A. K. A. "Legs."" "All right, legs." "[Telephone rings]" "CBGB." "[Man] Yeah, how late you open tonight?" "Until 4:00." "In the morning?" "A. M., right." "[Telephone rings]" "CBGB." "Hey, you got that TV set band on tonight?" "Yes." "Television." "David bowie says that television is the most original band in New York." "[Telephone rings]" "CBGB." "If that's what you want," "I can take care of it for you." "Coming to you from the bowery of New York City..." "Television!" "You know I I jump outta bed" "I pull down the shade" "I used to have such sweet dreams" "Now it's more like an air raid" "I see the opposition clear" "I see them glare" "I don't care it doesn't matter to me" "I don't care" "I don't care" "slip out of myself like a shadow" "Somersault through walls can't tell, it's really so odd" "Is it spring or fall?" "I always thought a punk was someone who took it up the ass." "They said they met at art school." "Looks like they sniffed some fumes from all that paint and glue." "Tell 'em to wait." "Okay." "Why?" "I'm going to see if I can increase the size of the house." "Chief!" "Just a minute." "We're gonna see if we can get more people to..." "Come in and listen to you." "Okay?" "Stan, I'd like to invite you into the club to hear a band I think you will appreciate." "I'm working here, Kristal." "How about if I buy you a beer?" "Look at that!" "Off duty." "Two beers." "The name of this band is talking heads." "We live across the street." "I can't seem to face up to the facts" "I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax" "I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire" "Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire" "Psycho killer qu'est que c'est fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa" "Better run run run run run run run away oh psycho killer qu'est que c'est fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa" "Better run run run run run run run away oh a-yi-yi-yi-yi!" "Television." "The shirts." "Orchestra luna." "The magic tramps." "The fast." "Tuff darts." "Dorian zero." "The mumps." "The miamis." "The planets." "Leather secrets." "Manster." "The dictators." "Blondie." "Blondie!" "You're so fuckin' hot." "You're so fuckin' hot." "You're so fuckin' hot." "You're gonna kill." "You're gonna kill." "Right." "Stop it." "All right, clem?" "Hi." "We're blondie." "You're gorgeous!" "Thank you." "[Cheers and applause]" "You like my shorts?" "New York has gorgeous garbage." "Oh denis, ooh-be-doo [man] Gotta get your ass down there!" "Fuck!" "Get your ass down there right now!" "I'm in love with you denis ooh-be-doo" "I'm in love with you bowery?" "I know there's stuff happening down there." "It's just such a fuckin' shit hole." "Oh, with your eyes so blue" "Denis denis, I got a crush on you" "Denis denis, I'm so in love with you" "All right." "All right." "I'll go." "Oh, when we walk it always feels so nice" "And when we talk, it seems like..." "Becky!" "[Becky] Yeah, Mr. Gant?" "Becky, get me a..." "Moist towelette." "You're my king and I'm in heaven" "Every time I look at you" "It's called a cover charge." "All right." "You gotta pay to enter." "I don't have any money." "Let 'em in, Lisa." "Let 'em in." "Thanks." "Fuck Max's." "This place has dog shit." "This is for all you drunks and rednecks and punks." ""As long as the blade has not yet pierced this brain, this fat and greenish package of listless vapors..."" "[Audience groaning]" "Shut the fuck up!" "This is art." "This is rimbaud." "And it's the only sustenance life might ever give you." "So eat up, motherfuckers!" "All right, I'll start again." "[Audience groans]" ""As long as the blade has not yet pierced this brain..."" "Take me now, baby, here as I am" "Pull me close, try and understand" "Desire is hunger, is the fire I breathe" "Love is the banquet on which we feed" "Can I get through, please?" "Could I get through?" "Let me in." "Let me in." "Let me in." "I'm Nicky Gant." "I produce records." "You want me in your club." "[Retches]" "Nice." "I hate the bowery." "Because the night belongs to lovers" "Because the night belongs to lust" "Because the night belongs to lovers" "Because the night belongs to us" "Have my doubts when I'm alone" "Love is the ring, a telephone" "Love is an angel disguised as lust" "Hey, Iggy." "Hey, Ork." "Let's go downstairs." "I'll give you head." "Why don't you just lick my stomach?" "Everybody wants to suck my cock." "All right." "They can't touch you now can't touch you now can't touch you now because the night belongs to lovers" "In you go." "Dad, is there or isn't there a cover charge?" "Someone's gotta pay." "Hey, John." "John." "Isn't that the guy that made that awful feedback album?" "John, it's Lou Reed." "That's Lou Reed." "Oh, shit it's- that's Lou Reed." "We have to interview him." "Yeah." "Hi, Lou." "Um, we would like to interview you for the first issue of Pun magazine." "We'd like to put you on the cover." "Cover of the first issue." "If you agree to do an interview." "Your circulation must be enormous." "Do you like Patti Smith?" "Oh, yeah." "Yeah, yeah." "What about Bruce Springsteen?" "Oh, I love him." "Y- you do?" "Oh, yeah." "He's one of us." "Thank you." "He's a shit." "What are you talking about?" "What kind of stupid question is that?" "Okay- do I ask you what you like?" "Who gives a fuck what I like?" "I don't even give a fuck what I like." "Well, you're a rock star, man." "Oh, yeah." "I keep forgetting." "Sontag called it the sensibility of failed seriousness." "What's their name?" "The Ramones." "Look like they were raised under police lamps." "[Hilly] What do you guys have for me?" "We got four songs:" "I don't wanna walk around with you," "I don't wanna be learned," "I don't wanna be tamed, and I don't wanna go down to the basement." "Lot of things you don't wanna do." "Yeah." "Anything you wanna do?" "We're working on something now." "Something positive?" "Yeah." "It's-it's called I wanna sniff some glue." "Good to have a point of view." "One, two, three, four!" "[Dischordant music]" "What the fuck are you playing?" "Ah, fuck!" "You guys wanna try it again?" "Yeah." "Is Johnny coming back?" "[Glass breaks]" "What are we playing?" "Johnny!" "Johnny?" "[Johnny] Fuck!" "Lively!" "One, two, three, four!" "Sittin' in a hospital bed" "Sittin' in a hospital bed sittin' in a hospital bed" "I" " I want life" "I want my life" "I want my life" "I got knocked down, but I'll get up" "Nobody is gonna like you guys." "But I'll have you back." "The city's going bankrupt." "It's like a disease." "Which I would prefer not to catch." "Meaning?" "We have to get our affairs in order." "I'm working on it." "Your working isn't working, hilly." "[Hilly] Coming to you from the bowery of New York City," "Wayne county." "Hello, sex kittens!" "Eat my pussy!" "Wish I had one." "Oh!" "[Cheers, whistling]" "Here we go!" "Here we go." "Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready!" "One, two, three, I'Chaim!" "Wanted nothing more" "I know you wouldn't go..." "No, no, no, no, no!" "C'mere." "I'm Nicky Gant!" "Nicky fuckin' Gant!" "I produce records!" "Hilly told me this was on the house!" "No money." "We cool?" "You were a marksman told me that law, like wine, is ageless" "You got any-any chips or something?" "Gonna have to do something about that stage." "Well, you might want to think about having fewer" ""guests of hilly" and more paying customers if you want to pay for it." "I'm with Lisa on this one." "You gotta spend money to make money." "You gotta have money to spend money to make money." "And since you spend all the money you make, you don't have any money to spend." "So you might want to think about saving the money you make instead of spending the money you make!" "All right." "We're gonna try that one again." "[Audience cheering]" "What are you doing?" "Damn it, dad." "What, two bankruptcies wasn't enough for you?" "Why not go for three?" "Stop." "No, I'm taking over the finances." "No, you're not." "You're fired." "You're firing me?" "Yeah." "Get the hell out." "I want my life" "I want my life things are not gonna work out with her." "Everything all right, hilly?" "[Man] Hey, so, Debbie, who were the people you, you know, idolized as an artist?" "Fuck, you know, I always really liked Brigitte Bardot." "Uh-huh." "I thought she was sort of a continental punk, you knowYeah." "I always thought sex was a cool thing to sell." "A sure thing." "I wish I'd invented sex." "You like sex?" "God, look at this!" "I'm sick of the goddamn fleas from hilly's dog." "Have you considered boots?" "Boots?" "Can I describe what it's like" "To have sex with the light on?" "And would you feel right if I did you tonight and put the bite on?" "All this and more little girl" "How 'bout on the floor little girl?" "Time to implore you girl" "I'm just a dead boy you know that I'm just a dead boy" "I wanna be a dead boy" "I'll die for you if you want me to got a feeling in my knees" "That tell me the degrees I been loved on" "Ya got dents in your head" "That tell me all the beds you been shoved on" "All this and more little girl" "How 'bout on the floor little girl?" "No time to implore you girl" "I'm just a dead boy you know that I'm just a dead boy" "I wanna be a dead boy" "I'll die for you if you want me to" "Look out!" "Don't tell me." ""There's something there."" "There is definitely something there." "The dead boys." "As long as they don't take their name too seriously." "Hilly Kristal." "Cheetah chrome." "That was good." "It was really good." "Thank you, sir." "That means a lot, you know?" "Your dog is crapping on the floor, sir." "Yeah, he does that." "I piss in ice machines." "Where you guys from?" "Cleveland, sir." "Well, I'm impressed with the youth of Cleveland." "Oh, you shouldn't be." "Why not?" "Lotta losers." "Well, you seem awfully polite." "Yeah, well, we were altar boys." "That was a while ago." "Look, Mr. Kristal, do we get the gig here or not?" "Yeah." "No shit!" "Holy fuck." "Spoken like a true altar boy." "[Woman] Some say punk promotes a message of violence." "I mean, what we're doing is not really destructive, you know?" "So it's not a statement of aggression?" "We're just letting out a little energy and frustration." "And where better to do that?" "Here or on the streets?" "Good point." "Hi, mom!" "Uh, yeah." "It's actually really healthy." "So what kind of girls do you like?" "All kinds." "I like the ones that like to fuck and leave in the morning." "Stiv, she just wants to give you a blowjob." "Cut." "I dare you." "You know better than to dare me." "Hot flashes burning my brain" "Your tongue lashes drive me insane" "From New York City to LA" "You're known as the hottest lay" "And ya pink canopy gonna shackle ya down" "You crossed every back in town" "From a cherry runaway to a bowery queen" "Used up before your sweet sixteen" "Everyone knows you were caught" "With the meat in your mouth" "Said everyone knows you been caught with the meat in your mouth" "Whoo!" "Look for love on a one-way street" "Bedding down with every- a- stripping and a-dancing and a-buying some downs" "See?" "It's not all about violence!" "Cut!" "Cut!" "Yeah, stiv!" "Gettin' his dick sucked." "Oh, shit." "Fresca." "On the house." "Stan." "You know I got nothing against you, right?" "I like to think anyone who shares a drink in my club is my friend." "Well, as your friend, we've had some complaints." "About what?" "Hey, hilly." "Uh, excuse me." "Now, I'm just the messenger here, all right?" "But I understand the complaints are about the..." "Element your club attracts." "Are you kidding me?" "If anything, I'm cleaning the street up." "I am just the messenger here." "I mean, people bigger than you and I are tugging the strings and stirring the shit." "And I also understand that you're three months behind on your rent." "Now that kind of thing just doesn't help." "Pay your bills, Kristal." "Pay your fuckin' bills." "I don't like that guy." "I got a spirit in my house and I know it ain't no..." "I know you got more junk, man." "Come on." "Give me the fuckin' drug." "Come on, Idaho." "Give me the fuckin' drug." "Not in... my club!" "[Idaho] Come on, hilly." "Be cool, man." "Like I was saying previously, Stan, these two gentlemen were not abiding by the rigorous code of ethics" "I strive to maintain in my establishment." "Well, that's not very good, now, is it, boys?" "In my house, in my house" "What are we stopping for?" "Joey fell off the stage, John." "Fuckin' think I didn't fuckin' notice?" "!" "Ah, fuck!" "I know a girl from a lonely street" "Cold as ice cream but still as sweet" "Dry your eyes Sunday girl" "Hey I saw your guy with a different girl looks like he's in another world" "Run and hide Sunday girl [feedback whines]" "Hey, all you wannabes, I'm fuckin' Iggy pop!" "Let's play some real fuckin' music!" ""I wanna be your dog." Fuck you, Iggy!" "One, two, three, four!" "So messed up" "I want you here" "in my room" "I want you here" "now we're gonna be face to face" "and I'll lay right down in my favorite place" "now I wanna be your dog now I wanna be your dog now I wanna be your dog" "fuck the bogus claims." "I'm the pioneer of punk." "Stage dive." "I was the first." "See the bands are not political, but their disavowing of politics in and of itself, it is political." "I belong to the blank generation." "And relevant!" "And timely!" "John, hilly is a modern-day salonist!" "Like a drug I never did before." "Ooh, no no no, I like that!" "It's true, uh, yeah, modern-day mabel dodge, right?" "Gertrude Stein!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Picasso painted gertrude Stein sitting in her chair in her salon of old." "You should draw hilly sitting on his couch at CB's." "The grand curator of punk!" "Mother always said," ""you have to listen to hear."" "50 cents, please." "Thank you, Annie." "You're up first tomorrow, Annie." "Shirts, then Ramones, then dictators." "You scare them." "Yeah, probably." "This place is starting to happen." "It's still shit-ass music, you ask me." "It's not the Grand Ole Opry." "It's hard to get Conway Twitty down to the bowery." "One day." "Maybe me and the boys'll hang back till then." "Stop scaring the kids." "Let you grow this place into a, uh, something." "Then when you're famous, and old Twitty shows up," "I'll be back and I'm bringing all my friends." "Admission on the house." "Don't forget, we're right down the block." "Thanks, Leslie." "Nobody calls me that." "Except my grandma." "All right, boys, let's get the hell out of this punk-ass excuse for a bar." "You want a re-match, you know where to find me." "Oh..." "One more thing." "Clean those fucking toilets." "They just- you can't- it's the sm" "they're disgusting." "Cool." "Fuckin' cool." "Fuckin' fuckin' cool." "Hilly!" "Sire records." "This is the contract." "Congratulations." "You pissed?" "I'd be fucking pissed." "You're always fucking pissed." "Are you kidding me?" "I'm proud of you guys." "Can't believe we got signed." "We suck." "Now you gotta make a good record." "You think we're gonna be rock stars?" "You already are." "All by myself all by myself all by myself like everybody else" "Happy Birthday." "You're not gonna sing?" "If you wanna apologize, I accept." "If not, then shut up." "Yes, ma'am." "[Phone rings]" "CBGB." "...what time we're going on tonight." "Zeke wants to know what time they're going on tonight." "I don't know yet." "Bastard won't tell me." "Yep, see you tonight." "This is good for you." ""The Ramones are the apotheosis of punk."" "Frank rose again." ""They are an acknowledgement of the failure of glitter."" "That they are." ""Brevity is the soul of wit," ""and it is right at the heart of the Ramones' music." "They cannot be accused of dragging out a number."" "You just gotta hope they don't kill each other." "Call Leslie." "Number is on the wall." "Hilly Kristal?" "My understanding is that there is a, uh, problem with the rent." "And when the rent doesn't get paid, it comes to me to collect." "But, you see, I'm forced to double it to cover my overhead." "So now we have a compounded problem..." "How many are there?" "Three." "They packin' Yeah." "The rent check's on its way, but I'll just..." "Need to think about the doubling part." "There's nothing to think about, Mr. Kristal." "You guys thirsty?" "Cut the shit!" "You have a strong business that operates to full capacity almost every night." "So let me explain something to you." "I'm not a very patient man." "So I suggest you give me what I came here for." "How you been, Leslie?" "I haven't been feeling so good." "Think I got a tapeworm." "Quit calling me that." "Do you guys know who you're dealing with?" "Get in the fucking car!" "Go, let's go!" "Scooch over." "What was that?" "!" "A shakedown." "New York style." "I don't understand." "You paid the rent, right?" "Everything all right?" "Why wouldn't it be?" "I wrote a rent check last week." "So it was a misunderstanding?" "Well, I didn't send it." "What?" "!" "Why not?" "!" "I forgot." "Dad!" "What?" "I am taking over the books whether you like it or not!" "Because if I don't, someone is going to come here and kill you!" "Okay." "Okay?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Hello there!" "Kristal, this your truck?" "You know it is." "I'm gonna have to write you up." "Why?" "Did you read the sign?" "You and I both know how long this truck has been parked here in this exact spot without getting a ticket." "Well, New York is going bankrupt." "There's pressure to bring in some revenue." "Well, this car has been here all day." "Move the truck." "City's cracking down." "You're not telling me the whole story." "What's that supposed to mean?" "Where does the cash go at the end of the night?" "After I count it?" "Stop it." "What?" "What happens to the cash at the end of the night?" "I put it in the freezer." "What?" "In my apartment." "You got an apartment?" "I can't sleep on a mattress when bands are getting signed right and left." "'Kay, I'm going to go through all this paper." "And then we will know where we're at." "Terrific." "You go to the freezer in your apartment and get the money now." "Pay the rent, now, and take the rest to the bank, now." "I don't know how this is going to work out with you ordering me around." "I don't know how it's gonna work out if I don't." "[Rock music]" "Hilly!" "Damn it, hilly!" "Ah, shit!" "Goddamn it!" "Turn the water off!" "There's water everywhere, man!" "Jesus Christ!" "Okay." "You know, Bert, I've been thinking" "I should start managing some of those bands." "And Jonathan shit in the front room here!" "The dead boys." "Talking heads." "The shirts." "Punk isn't about decay, it's about the apocalypse." "It's about annihilation." "Nothing works, so let's skip right to armageddon." "If the world is ending, you might as well do away with pretense and say what you think." "Uncensored sex!" "And drugs!" "And violence!" "Just everything." "Decadent sounds great right now, compared to what's happening in the real world." "Yeah!" "I don't need anyone don't need no mom and dad" "Come on, Genya, they're charming!" "Hilly, they're punk, and they're charming?" "I got some news for you" "I want you to produce them, I think they're special." "I got my devil machine got my electronic dream sonic reducer, ain't no loser" "Sonic reducer, ain't no loser" "I've been waiting for you in the office!" "In a minute, Lisa." "People out on the streets they don't know who I am" "I watch them from my room" "Mrs. Kristal!" "Oh, Merv!" "So good to see you!" "Mother, welcome to CBGB." "Hillel." "Uh, listen, I need a drink." "On the house!" "Glenlivet with a twist." "Coming right up." "Okay." "We don't have any glenlivet." "We'll take care of it, go talk to Lisa." "Come this way, Mrs. Kristal." "I have a special spot for you right over here." "Excuse me!" "Watch your backs!" "This is what you're spending." "This is what you're making." "I have to get back out there." "Give her a minute, hilly." "You're spending too much." "You cannot afford to personally take on a band." "I agree with Lisa on this." "Oh, this is about the dead boys." "Ye- before we branch out, we need to get our primary business in order." "And we need to put proper vendor agreements in place." "We need to have billing cycles." "Look here, okay?" "This is what you're spending on toilet paper." "I don't believe that." "You're getting it from the deli, a lot of it!" "If you buy it in bulk, you can get it for a fraction of the price." "This is what you're spending on beer." "This is what you are bringing in on the bar in general." "Hey, too many customers are drinking for free!" "This is bullshit." "Hilly, cut it out!" "Why are we talking about toilet paper?" "!" "I have Genya Ravan out there ready to produce the dead boys album!" "You're wasting my time!" "Fine." "Goddamn it, hilly." "This is quite good!" "Hilly's chili, huh?" "Word is, Stiv Bators jerks off in that chili." "I've had worse in my mouth." "Everything okay, mother?" "Delicious!" "What are you doing?" "Trying to light a cigarette." "You shouldn't smoke." "That shit'll kill ya." "I don't smoke." "You know, your old man is really not such a bad guy." "Well, you obviously don't know him very well." "Oh God, zip, Idaho!" "Please!" "Excuse me." "Sometimes you hurt the ones you love the most." "What fortune cookie did you read that in?" "Nah." "I got it from a poster in the subway across from this bench I kinda like." "I prefer rachmaninoff, hillel." "Yeah, I prefer Beethoven myself." "That punk rock shit gives me a headache." "No shit." "Mom was right to leave you." "You're an asshole." "Lisa what?" "In my capacity as asshole," "I am promoting you to vice president of business affairs." "Is that supposed to be some kind of apology?" "The dead boys are gonna change things for me, Lisa." "I am gonna get them a record deal, and they are gonna be big!" "I'm so sick of TV you know I'm getting bored of the tubes" "And I'm so sick of romance" "I refuse to chase you, Lisa!" "I've had it, hilly." "I can't take it anymore!" "The fleas and the shit!" "Your dog is crapping everywhere!" "It's disgusting, this is not a kennel!" "Either Jonathan goes, or I go!" "Taxi, you don't like it, you don't have to work here!" "I don't play my stereo too" "Just wanna get out on the street fights" "Just ain't nothin' to do" "I get on out of here find somethin' to do yeah get on out of here just ain't nothin' to do" "so, is that your real hair color, or do you just dye it that way?" "Who wants to know?" "Me." "It's real." "So, now you know." "Yeah, we're good." "So, they vomit, they drop trow, they slash themselves, they bleed, they hang themselves, and that's just on stage." "I think their on-stage antics are evidence of commitment." "Hilly, I don't want to produce a shit album for a flash-in-the-pan band." "Fine, I'll find somebody else." "We're gonna need money." "Yep." "And we're gonna need to take them out on the road." "Yep." "Cheetah doesn't trust me." "Cheetah takes too many drugs." "Sire is interested in signing you if we can show the band is reliable and people will pay to see you." "We are the definition of reliable." "What'd I miss?" "Let's make a demo and get out on the road." "Hilly, how much money is this?" "We are gonna rock and shock." "Don't screw this up." "Scouts honor." "Yeah, I heard she fucked bowie at... at CB's." "In the bathroom." "Fuck in a bathroom at CB's, that's not sanitary." "What the fuck is that?" "What?" "Get rid of those fucking things." "They're just stickers." "Hilly, your manager- hey!" "Hilly, your manager, the guy who is footing the bill for all of this, he's Jewish." "Me, your producer, I'm Jewish." "And the guy who owns this studio, who is doing us a favor by letting us record at these ridiculous prices, he's got numbers tattooed on his arm." "Do you know what that means?" "Not really." "Auschwitz!" "Hitler!" "Nazis!" "Now get rid of the fucking swastikas!" "Okay, fucking lighten up." "I'll get rid of them." "Look, you guys, you're not Nazis, okay?" "You're punks." "And anything bad, anything wrong, you wanna do it." "I get it." "Now let's go have a bagel." "What's a bagel?" "What's- what's a bagel?" "What part of Cleveland are you from?" "Cleveland, Germany?" "[Hilly] What is punk rock?" "Well, call it street music." "Look, all I care about is originality." "These kids have something to say." "We really should listen." "We're the dead boys!" "I" " I don't want you to hang around yeah, I don't need you to drag me down" "I" " I don't really wanna dance hello, Poughkeepsie!" "I just wanna get in your pants" "What's up, Cleveland?" "Fuck you, new haven!" "Fuck off, Boston!" "Suck my balls, bridgeport!" "You cry and cry you know I'll prick you in the end" "Ya look at me that way, bitch" "Your face is gonna get a punch" "Hello, white plains!" "We're the dead boys!" "I swallowed my gum." "What the h" "I mean- what the h- do you want a record deal?" "!" "Said sorry, you know?" "Go!" "Go!" "Have a nice day." "May I help you?" "Why would you save for your dreams?" "Why not live your dreams?" "Absolutely." "Hilly Kristal." "How much do I have in my account?" "$312.17." "Keep the 17 cents." "I'll take the rest." "What are you doing, hilly?" "Were you following me?" "Me?" "Follow you, no, why would I follow you?" "Yes, I'm following you!" "What are you doing?" "Investing." "In what?" "Treasury bills?" "I'm taking the money out of the CBGB account to float the dead boys development fund." "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." "You can't." "You watch me." "We got bills to pay!" "You have no vision, Merv." "Well, I quit!" "I'll call you later!" "I won't answer!" "Oh, yes you will!" "No, I won't!" "I went to a pawnshop." "Sold everything." "My father's watch." "They destroyed your truck." "And their equipment." "They're gonna need equipment." "Why are you doing this?" "I believe in them." "Hey." "Thank you." "Why are you thanking me?" "Somebody should." "This is not the end of the world." "I mean, this could be good for us if we manage it right." "We are punks, after all." "Blitz might be dead." "The last thing I care about is publicity for a band who's about to cost me my club." "How is he?" "He's, um- he's critical." "Fuck." "Do you still have the money?" "Yeah." "Blitz is gonna need it." "Make sure he gets good medical care." "Where you going?" "I'm not your father!" "I'm just your manager." "I can't do this anymore." "[The Velvet Underground's oh!" "Sweet nuthin']" "Jersey." "Hightstown." "Say a word for Jimmy brown he ain't got nothin' at all" "Not the shirt right off his back" "He ain't got nothin' at all" "And say a word for ginger brown" "Walks with his head down to the ground" "Took the shoes right off his feet threw the poor boy right out in the street" "And this is what he said oh sweet nothing..." "Can I help you?" "I'm sorry." "I grew up here." "Uh-huh." "Hilly Kristal." "Hilly Kristal." "Hilly." "Are you the kid that started that rock 'n roll club?" "Unfortunately, that's me." "My nephew's band played there once." "Teenage Jesus and the jerks." "Coffee's inside, come on." "I saw a little bird sitting in a tree who wanted to start a family" "He went tweet, tweet, tweet tweet" "He were looking for a she" "He couldn't wait to find a mate" "Sat in a tree and sang a plea" "He went tweet, tweet, tweet tweet" "He were looking for a she" "Where the hell are you?" "!" "Everybody is worried about you!" "I'm done." "It's over." "No, no way." "I won't let you." "I can't even pay the rent." "Yeah, you can." "And yes, you will." "Look, you may be a lousy businessman, dad, but, damn it, you are the father of underground rock and OMFUG, whatever the hell that is." "And it's not all about you." "Okay, there are kids out there in bands or forming bands hoping to play at CBGB one day." "So stop feeling sorry for yourself right now and get over here." "Lisa, stop shouting and feed Jonathan." "[Phone rings]" "CBGB." "No." "I don't have the lineup for tonight." "[Man] All right." "[Phone rings]" "CBGB." "Hey, hilly!" "Hilly." "I just don't get it." "Why did you risk everything on the dead boys?" "Was it the auto-asphyxiation or the self-mutilation?" "They could've been a bellwether." "That's debatable." "I'm going to law school." "Really?" "How come?" "Cause I know you're gonna need me to." "Even though I know you'll never admit it." "Your friends have been waiting out there for you all fucking day." "Get your ass out there!" "I really don't appreciate all the swearing." "Um..." "I know you all counted on me, but the thing is, I'm broke, and I think we're gonna have to close the club." "Oh, God!" "How many years have we listened to your shit?" "Lisa and I made a few calls." "A lot of calls." "And people wanted to help." "Yeah, like people that you helped even when you didn't have the money." "But, uh..." "Lisa's gonna take care of this." "She's gonna pay the bills." "She's gonna get the place back on track." "I want you to have this." "It's all I got." "I have-I have a- I have a..." "Don't tell anybody." "I have a gold filling in my tooth, in the back." "You could probably take it out like this." "Thanks, Idaho." "Looks like I'm not gonna need either of those." "Okay." "When you're ready." "Thank you, sir." "It's an honor to be here." "You play too loud, I'm walking out." "All right, guys." "Anytime." "Roxanne you don't have to put on the red light" "Those days are over you don't have to sell your body to the night" "Roxanne you don't have to wear that dress tonight" "Walk the streets for money you don't care if it's wrong or if it's right" "Well, there is something there." "You don't have to put on the red light" "Roxanne..." "There is definitely something there." "Roxanne put on the red light" "Roxanne put on the red light" "Roxanne put on the red light" "Roxanne put on the red light" "Roxanne put on the red light" "I opened..." "CBGB because..." "I thought country music was gonna become the next big thing." "And it did." "In Nashville." "Know my mind is made up so put away your makeup told you once, I won't tell you again" "It's a bad way [talking heads' life during wartime]" "Heard of a van it's loaded with weapons packed up and ready to go" "Heard of some grave sites out by the highway a place where nobody knows" "The sound of gunfire off in the distance" "I'm getting used to it now" "Lived in a brownstone lived in a ghetto" "I've lived all over this town" "This ain't no party this ain't no disco this ain't no fooling around" "No time for dancing or lovey dovey" "I ain't got time for that now" "Transmit the message to the receiver hope for an answer some day" "I got three passports a couple of visas you don't even know my real name" "High on a hillside the trucks are loading everything's ready to roll" "I sleep in the daytime" "I work in the nighttime" "I might not ever get home this ain't no party this ain't no disco this ain't no fooling around" "This ain't no mudd club or CBGB" "I ain't got time for that now" "Talking heads, get the hell up here please." "We wanna start by thanking hilly Kristal." "We'd to invite hilly up here." "Hilly is the reason that we're here, that the Ramones are here, that blondie are here." "He kept us alive." "He fed us and he supported us in every way possible." "He told us we needed to expand our sound, and he taught us a lot about ethics, about how to treat people." "I'd like to thank hilly again." "When we were starting out, there really weren't clubs where bands could play their own material, and, uh, poor hilly wanted to have a bluegrass bar on the bowery, and to have some other music as well." "I guess the road didn't go that way." "The road took another turn." "And, uh, thanks to" "I mean, we thank him, because he went that direction and didn't mind." "It was just extraordinary, the fact that bands came out of the woodwork." "They were everywhere." "They were coming from out of state." "Nobody knew they were there." "They came out because there was somewhere to play." "Hilly brought the music into existence in many ways." "[Applause]" "I saw a little bird sitting' in a tree who wanted to start a family" "Who went tweet, tweet tweet, tweet he went lookin' for a she" "He couldn't wait to find a mate" "Sat in a tree and sang a plea" "He went tweet, tweet tweet, tweet he went looking for a she" "There was a little bee a- feelin' mighty free some honey, he said is good for me" "He went a-buzz, buzz a- buzz, buzz he went looking for a she you love me, I love you" "Let's both do what the birds and bees do" "Buzz, buzz, buzz tweet, tweet, tweet that means I love you, love you, love you" "I love you all the time" "isn't it a pity that the lady from the city" "Went inside a pen and was taken for a hen" "Turned her back on a rooster" "And when he promptly goosed her" "She received such a bruise to her" "More than she was used to that she went back to the city" "And never came here again isn't that a pity isn't that a pity that means I love you, love you, love you" "I love you all the time that means I love you, love you, love you, love you" "All the time that means I love you, love you, love you" "I love you all the time"