Inside Former CBGB In New York City - Ramones Tour Of The Bowery / Punk Rock Locations & Radio City
Ramones Locations in NYC
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today's adventure begins the hustle and
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bustle of New York City
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corner
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of 53rd
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and third
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here as the
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recording of this it is Wednesday May 17
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2023 corner of 53rd and third a song off
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the self-titled Ramones Ramones album
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released back in 1976 personal favorite
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punk band of mine I was had the
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opportunity the honor of seeing them in
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1994 1995 at the edge in Orlando and I'm
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going to cover the spots today got a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage so I'm
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just going to roam around but I wanted
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to start here
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I thought this was a good place to study
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to do the intro join me
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shall you now I'm gonna say that this
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street corner has changed dramatically
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70s when that song was written the
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context and reasoning behind that song
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this area a lot of New York it's a
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little bit better condition than it was
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than some of the areas I will not I will
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be going to are probably a little I want
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to say safer but just a little
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a little more gentrified than they were
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when the Ramones were down here and
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writing songs
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as is the street corner from this area
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town I'm going to walk this direction
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over towards Radio City Music Hall where
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the Ramones Ramones album was recorded
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the upper office areas of her Studios
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now I know I've stated this since I've
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been in New York
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Milwaukee and public transit City having
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a car here
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not fun
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I've been I've been through here years
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ago with the vehicle I don't know if
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I'll ever have a vehicle in NYC again
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when I'm visiting it's just easier just
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to walk walk and Subway it and taxi and
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Uber it the iconic Radio City Music Hall
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known for many different reasons but for
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this subject matter it's about an album
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that was recorded on the eighth floor
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now I do not know where the offices of
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Plaza Sound Studio was other than the
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fact that it was eight rows up in one of
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those windows
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reported in early 1976
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february-ish of 76 and it was an album
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that completely
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kind of changed the world if you're into
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punk rock in fact I believe Joey did an
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interview saying how that that was kind
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of the album depending on there was a
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couple different bands that people say
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started the whole Punk movement but I
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leaned towards the remote so in this
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building is where they recorded that
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album for the sum of only six thousand
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dollars well six thousand and change
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and in fact they ended up using the
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wulitzer organ I believe I've probably
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mispronouncing that
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that was Radio City Hall's organ and
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that was used on the cover of Let's
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Dance which was the only cover on on
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that album
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that took place
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happen right here at Radio City and the
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rest as they say is history if you ever
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listen to The Hunk genre
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Modern Age early you know turn of the
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century 80s 90s any any era of that
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genre every single one of those bands
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was influenced by the band that recorded
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right up there on the eighth floor and
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that album and if they weren't
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influenced by that particular album or
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the Ramones they were influenced by a
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band that was influenced by that so we
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kind of let that sink out for me it's
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just uh definitely pretty awesome to
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think about that it all started here
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some would say someone argued that the
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punk movement and the punk genre began
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by an album that was recorded somewhere
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up on the eighth floor of this building
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it's fascinating to think about and yes
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I know the argument could be made that
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there was a couple other bands before
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that but I'm talking about putting it
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into the mainstream here in America yes
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there was a Sex Pistols but that was not
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really like a U.S band per se so just
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kind of that's that's kind of what I'm
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going for I'm gonna I'm gonna lean
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towards the big beginnings of it
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starting right here with the Ramones
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rock and roll radio let's go hey ho
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let's go
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love it
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I'm also using references to the bands
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that may or may not have been on that
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first album
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just a heads up
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this place is a beehive of activity
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I'm a software kind of curious where it
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was though so you look here one
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two
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three four five six seven eight go to
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bed right there before the cusp either
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on this side or indents in and goes up
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or over on that side of the cusp like
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that word cost standing here at this Big
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Apple NYC the Big Apple I also know the
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band had a lot of early ties in their
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early years really early before they
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started getting really popular over in
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Queens but I'm focusing on the New York
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City Manhattan area the Bowery area and
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all that but they you know kind of
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leading each other where they live early
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early on before the band kind of took
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off and really like started was you know
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over one of the other boroughs but I'm
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not gonna go over there this is going to
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mostly be in this general area and I
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decided I would just walk from where I
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just was
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why
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I've already probably walked a mile of
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it already got another couple miles to
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go give or take
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down to Bowery
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always good to stretch the legs
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cutting through Greeley square and gonna
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head down Broadway for a bit
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it's like a little seating area but
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looks like it used to be a thoroughfare
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for vehicles I could hear the subway
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going underneath my feet well on my feet
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just off the feet down to the grates
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below this is the flat iron building
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which looks like it has some scaffolding
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around it I guess you're doing a little
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a little work on the oh there's another
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clock I always like these clocks right
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now is about three minutes three or four
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minutes until 3 P.M but this is the flat
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iron building right here pretty big
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Landmark here at NYC yeah the road I was
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just on ends directly into this Archway
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kind of obstructing the sun just a
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little bit Washington Square we're
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having a graduation ceremony over here
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possibly for one of the colleges in the
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area you can see there's Washington
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there
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and here is Washington right up here as
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well
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over in this park is this Fountain now
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the buildings have kind of changed in
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the background the trees are looks like
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they took it probably during the time of
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year where there weren't a lot of leaves
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on the trees but the fountain Still
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Remains where the four of them were kind
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of sitting on the edge next to the
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little
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a little pylon that kind of protrudes
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upward in the steps in the background
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and everything
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yeah still looks exactly the same many
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many decades later
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four plus decades after the fact all
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right I have now made it over onto the
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of Bowery
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and East Second Street and take a look
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at the sign up here Joey Ramone place
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from what I was reading I don't know if
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it's true or not they said this is one
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of the most stolen
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street signs in the city I don't know if
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I don't know if that's true or not but
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maybe it sounds like it'd be like a fun
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fact it's pretty high up there on the
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top of the pole so this is going to be
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pretty awesome down here on the
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side of the street is a garden of some
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sort with a fence around it
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and unbeknownst probably to most people
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that walk by this this is where the
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photo from The Ramones self-titled album
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that 76 album
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was taken in this Garden known as
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Albert's Gardens he's a sign right there
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Albert's Garden member of the Manhattan
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Land Trust
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but this is where the four of them stood
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in the mid 70s to take their photo
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is it going to be open am I going to get
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lucky with this being open oh my gosh it
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is open holy cow yes I've seen some
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photos online a lot of them showed that
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the gate was locked could have been
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based on the time of the year
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so it is a very beautiful neighborhood
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Garden
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the little seating areas
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beautiful foliage
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brick and cobblestone
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sidewalks through here
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and this is kind of blowing my mind a
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little bit because right over there the
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soothing sounds of the siren going by
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pawns through here and chair ribs
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a little bluebird on the side of here
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and I'm really happy that the gate was
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open because right over here against
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this very wall
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is one of the most iconic punk rock
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album photos of all time
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of them standing against that brick wall
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now the graffiti is gone there it has
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been repainted it's been touched up it's
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been fixed up I believe there might have
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even been kind of a line drawn down here
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that made it look like this protruded
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out but the brick work still
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still looks the same right there so I
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kind of match the photo up and this is
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what I'm referring to this is the album
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cover obviously they put the text across
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there and it has been repainted
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I'm gonna say I am
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97 confident that this is the spot
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I just feel like it definitely is the
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only thing that kind of throws me off is
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the kind of the Hue of the Shadow here
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in the corner makes it looks like the
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the building protrudes out but I think
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it's just kind of a confusing but it is
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said by many different sources
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this is the very spot and it makes sense
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because it's right around the corner
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where
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they would always kind of they had a lot
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of history they're all haunts if you
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will a lot of things happen in this
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neighborhood within a series of like one
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block
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and there's a lot of different like you
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know photo shoots that they utilized
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that right there
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is the wall
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a little wrought iron gate here now
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and these are the very bricks
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legendary
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if you will
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I mean for me it's I would have seen
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that cover of that album
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kind of goes on and lives on and infamy
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or history if you will
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the four of them standing right here
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and the view of the photographer
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as they were standing here
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would have been right over there
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obviously the garden has grown up quite
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a bit and I would imagine the
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neighborhood is probably in a little bit
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better shape than it was
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back in 76 when that photo was taken
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I just need a leather jacket I had a
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leather jacket on me right now
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could be Adam remote I believe that they
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got the name the Ramones from Paul
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McCartney I believe Paul McCartney of
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The Beatles had a hand in that day don't
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quote me on that though but I believe
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that's the case no historical marker no
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placard no info
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again there is a three percent chance
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I'm gonna say a three percent chance it
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might not be factual
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but it really does look like it is and
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just because it is the neighborhood
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I'm gonna kind of go with my gut on that
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one it's like got it and say it's true
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but you never know internet's weird like
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that
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and this is a spot that I've wanted to
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see for a long time I heard about this
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years ago and finally made it to see it
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anyone interested in visiting these are
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the hours for 2023.
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so going outside of the gate now outside
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of the wall Albert's Garden there's the
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wall
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close proximity right up here about gosh
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I don't know six seven
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house entryways in
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was known as The Fifth Ramone he was
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nicknamed the fifth remote and from what
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I was seeing he went to every show The
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Ramones played more than like 2 000
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shows he went to all of them but like
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two evidently there was a reason he
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couldn't make it to those two but he
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went to every show
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more than I guess every member with the
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exception probably of Johnny and Joey
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perhaps and I believe he passed away in
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2013 but he lived right here and for a
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while Joey and Dede lived
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top there and evidently
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he designed a lot of their artwork he
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worked a lot of the lighting for the
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shows he toured with them
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they got their start kind of here on
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this very corner
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and you know a couple of them lived up
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in the Loft with him but he was also the
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one who created the design the eagle
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design like the presidential seal kind
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of kind of emblem that was used in all
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this your shirts you know the shirts
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remote shirts are so popular a lot of
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people probably even wear them and don't
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even realize the history of the band
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kind of like the Misfits or you know
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like Metallica or you know like a
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Yankees shirt stuff like that they're
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just they've gone to the next level of
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what the even what they even are based
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on and their popularity has gone so
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above and beyond that it's just become a
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thing and and the the T-shirt was
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designed
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by the guy that lived here who was known
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as unofficially The Fifth member of the
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Ramon good friend and guy who went to
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every single show would help them out
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dramatically and there's also a sticker
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up above the door the entryway into his
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Loft in honor of them so much placed
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over on the door now that is right there
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but right around the corner less than
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probably 50 yards is
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the very famous punk rock venue CB
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Genies country Bluegrass and blues is
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what that stands for except when it it
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got going it just turned into like a
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punk rock venue there was very little
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country Bluegrass or Blues played there
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as it progressed so right here at the
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edge of Joey remote place so you
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continue around
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past down Bowery and there are new
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buildings here there's also an old news
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stand that's been converted in like a
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little snack area you don't want to see
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too many papers anymore but the old CBG
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Beast is right up here on the left side
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someone's receipt just flew away from
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the former newsstand this house they're
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going down there someone's receipt went
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all the way down there
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front of CB so all this has been
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completely redone I believe this was a
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motel at one point where this janitor is
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coming out of three one five Valerie
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and they have kind of it's now it's
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called John
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Varvatos which I don't know what that is
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maybe like an upscale clothing place I
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see some amplifiers and stuff in there
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one thing Seabees was known for was the
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awning I think there was two awnings one
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of them is at the Rock and Roll Hall of
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Fame in Cleveland when I was there in
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Cleveland last year I got a photo in
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front of it there's a lot of pictures of
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the Ramones here in fact their very
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first show happened here not long
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after my birthday I was born in 1974
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August 10th I think like a week later
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was the first time the Ramones ever
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performed in Seabees right inside here
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the date was August 16 I'm kind of
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standing over in the quarter hiding the
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Sun so you can kind of see this this is
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one of the most famous photos of them in
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front of Seabees too notice the corner
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of Bleaker
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and the battle and there's the
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approximate angle there is a car here in
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front of me so I can't get the exact
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angle
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corner of Bowery and Bleaker they were
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standing right next to that pole
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blows my mind CBGB is just such a
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legendary venue maybe the most legendary
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Punk venue of all time
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Gilman Street from me too A lot of the
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lookout record stuff and the Bay Area
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Berkeley that's another big one but
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those are the two for me I think CB is
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probably a little more a little more
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famous here's a photo of hilly Crystal
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who we have to thank
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for cbgb's
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standing in front of the Palace Hotel
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door and the 315 awning there's a good
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movie made about him but seabeach came
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out a few years ago really good and
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here's another one of the Ramones
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themselves
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in front of the very famous awning very
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famous bathroom too the bathroom was
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like legendary in fact when they made
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the movie they didn't act they didn't do
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it here I think they did it in Georgia
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they could have filmed it in Savannah
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but they recreated this block and they
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even put the Palace Hotel sign up as
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well that Palace Hotel sign hopefully
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that's in a museum somewhere that
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belongs in a museum
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as long as same with the awning that's
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the angle of the photo I just showed
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this is the same building so this
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building up top here is the same
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building just the lower portions have
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kind of changed just a little bit in
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fact
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see the little parts that go into the
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basement are still there too the little
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metal grates so the Palace Hotel sign
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was on the other side right where that
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that same door is
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where hilly was standing in front of
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so it's all connected to 315. a photo of
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him right here in front of this so
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that's also three one five which I never
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really realized that was kind of
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connected there used to be a record
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store next to it what is now a manta
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it's another really good photo from this
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angle so after looking at the photo bus
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we'll show it a minute see the building
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that's next to it so you got
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315 right here this whole building is
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original this building over here
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completely new so the record store was
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here that was very short-lived I believe
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for Seabees but then he got Seabees
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proper and then you got the door here of
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hilly Crystal not Billy Crystal the
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actor hilly Crystal
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uh he always wore overalls he had a
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beard but this building is completely
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new I think this building is original
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but a lot of this over here is all new
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new as well this is kind of the angle I
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was just at
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the record canteen to see this other
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building next to it the shorter building
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that's been torn out
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thankfully this this little section
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Still Remains now there are not a whole
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heck of a lot of Alleyways in New York I
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was hearing that the reason for that is
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just limited space in New York proper
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where instead of having alleys they
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would have to like conserve space that's
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why the garbage is kept on the side of
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the road and picked up instead of
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putting put around the back of the
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alleys this one just so happens to be
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where the you know the infamous punk
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rock venue used to be behind it is an
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alley and there's another famous photo
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from The Ramones that was taken right
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behind that in the alley I walk around
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there now before the back alleys of NYC
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now I can assure you this has definitely
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been fixed up
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quite a bit
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since how it was back in the Ramones
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days quite a bit in fact I'm going to
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show a couple photos of what it looked
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like and what they have done to this so
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this is the original building there and
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the back side of Seabees is that cbgb's
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I call it CBS for short
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it's down there on the far end so here's
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a photo back in the day of what it
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looked like you see the little parking
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thing there in fact the building at the
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end of The Alley so the back side of the
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of the venue is down right over there
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this building has been torn down as well
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and change with the new building and I
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think this side over here also
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completely new as well so I'll match
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that up the parking sign was right there
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you can see this building completely new
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the one in the distance completely new
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the only thing left is right there where
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the parking sign was
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also a really good photo of the Ramones
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in front of a wrecked car that was down
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here in the back of this alley that they
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got a little photo of as well all right
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completely incorrect it wasn't a wrecked
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car it was a dumpster that was in this
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alley
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you could see the building and the
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distance there that's been torn down and
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off to the left behind them they keep
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going straight and walk to the left was
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the back side of the venue as much has
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just been has been repaved back here
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and cleaned up this section really has
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the same Vibe I mean this is like full
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on how it did look even then
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the only difference is
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this door which is the back side of the
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new store has been changed it's now
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nicer glass still has the gates that
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pull down
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was parked your motorcycle back here
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probably a worker but this window is
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still the same all this still looks the
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same it's kind of tagged up a little bit
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of graffiti but the angle
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for rocket to Russia Great album
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was taken right here behind the venue
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itself now you cannot go around this
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side so this here is kind of blocked off
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there's a very interesting Alleyway
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that's tucked away back here and I would
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imagine walking back here at night in
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the 70s I would not have recommended it
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Charles Bronson but right here let me
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match up the photo
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from that album cover another very
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favorite we're getting two iconic
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promotes punk rock albums
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just within a block of each other as
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shown here
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now if you look also like how they
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always use like black and white for the
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photos obviously the text is in pink but
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if you look over here over Joey's
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shoulder notice how the Hue kind of
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changes of the brick itself it almost
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looks like there was a former window way
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back in the day that they bricked over
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even prior to the 70s that you can kind
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of see that still exists to this time
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too so there was just a big open door
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maybe like a metal door I think it was
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probably like a a metal door that was
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closed for the low Den which is another
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interesting thing this is where the
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bands would load in around the back here
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which I didn't even think about that
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until I'm standing there so yeah the
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bands not just the Ramones but gosh
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hundreds and hundreds
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of you know just great bands that have
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played here
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but right over here
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the metal door is gone now it's that
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glass door so here is that kind of
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different hue
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of the indentation here it's been
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repainted so Joey was standing closest
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to that that I was just kind of
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mentioning right there against there and
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if you look inside the window inside the
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store
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there is actually a Ramones poster you
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can kind of make it out there through
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the glare
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the glare and the window Ramones
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yeah you know truthfully this is pretty
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awesome this spot
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I don't know just it blows my mind most
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people might not find interest in this
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I think it's fascinating
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walking to Russia back here
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when the queers covered that album
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a lot of bands have covered that album
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love it just picture all these bands I
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was in a band so I know how it is to
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load in you pull behind the club you
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have your trailer
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on the back of a van pull up here park
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at the end hopefully it'll come out to a
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broken end vehicle if someone stole all
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your personal stuff while you're inside
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playing the show but just think about
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all the famous people here Patty Smith
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Blondie
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I think a Bad Brains Bad Brains of cbgbs
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the most insane live show it just it's
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you can find you can find videos of them
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playing
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and misfits obviously you know just just
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a ton of bands
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drawing a blank on a lot of them and a
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lot of even kind of Main Street bands
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that have gone mainstream now too but I
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definitely think of
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you know Misfits obviously and Bad
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Brains
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but the Ramones number one I mean they
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they defined
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cbgb's along with other bands too a lot
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of other bands got their start in here
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as well and until they until they closed
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their doors continue to play here
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and I would imagine some of them
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probably got their their van broken into
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back here
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and there's no telling these walls could
25:34
talk The Hoot nannies and hullabaloo
25:36
that went on in this back alley
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cannot even comprehend it
25:42
you probably don't even want to know
25:43
honestly I was in a band I know some of
25:45
the hoop now he's at all the blues that
25:46
go on behind behind Phineas I kind of
25:48
don't want to go inside I kind of don't
25:52
want to I mean it just that's a
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legendary spot and I know they've I've
25:56
seen some stuff online that they have
25:57
they've definitely got some nods to it
25:59
so I'm gonna walk through but I kind of
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kind of just wish the original venue was
26:04
still there but progress things change
26:08
nothing stays the same it's probably
26:10
been a song written similar to that too
26:12
so I'm leaving the alley going back
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around the front in this angle you can
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see some of the skyline of Manhattan off
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in the distance the skyscrapers poking
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up
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over the top of the trees
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so I am going in for the first time ever
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and aware Seabees used to be cbgbs used
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to be
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there's an amp right here is a marshall
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right in front
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and here's their store hours
26:42
all right a pretty successful visit in
26:42
there talking to one of the oh look at
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this
26:55
well at least the marking in the
26:55
concrete there is that has that been
26:57
there since 73
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if so that is insane what is this over
27:03
here
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I guess that's a 73 I didn't realize it
27:13
dated back to 73 but maybe it did maybe
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Hillary started it three years before
27:18
the Ramones well a year before that this
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remote played here in 74.
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could be there was a guy in there one of
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the employees there's four or five
27:27
employees that said you're not allowed
27:28
to film the lady on the way it said no
27:29
filming and went to the back and I asked
27:31
about the bathroom so the bathrooms no
27:33
longer exist they've been torn out he
27:35
said they were possibly in the basement
27:36
and the record store possibly next door
27:39
he confirmed that the awning is in fact
27:40
the one that's the Rock and Roll Hall of
27:42
Fame so this awning is a new awning but
27:44
then also he shares some info with me
27:46
very good details about the interior
27:49
where certain things were where the
27:50
stage was so there are some things left
27:52
over they have these glass cases around
27:54
some of the sticker walls that were left
27:56
in there so they preserved a little bit
27:58
of it is an upscale place I mean it's
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still music related it's definitely a
28:02
little more upscale than you would think
28:04
it would be they have the uh the air
28:06
ducts up top with some of the original
28:08
stickers also some people come in with
28:09
new stickers sometimes and put them on
28:11
the only thing the only things that will
28:12
be completely original behind the glass
28:14
up here so this is all original like
28:17
behind this like Plexiglas some of the
28:19
original flyers and original stickers
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from back in the day including this
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again
28:24
faintly I'll see where it says the name
28:25
of the venue there and I was kind of
28:28
looking to see where the stage was and
28:30
thankfully he showed me a photo and was
28:33
able to match up exactly where the stage
28:35
was and I was correct about the load-in
28:37
area being around the back so notice
28:39
this duct work up top there the ductwork
28:41
duct I believe it's Carlos got not a
28:44
duck like Donald Duck this is looking
28:46
back the other way from the stage so you
28:47
think of like all the bands that play
28:50
were looking that direction at the crowd
28:53
so that would be the that would be
28:55
looking from the stage and then looking
28:57
inward well that's actually farther in
28:59
towards the front entrance so that would
29:01
be more where the crowd was as well and
29:03
then towards around the back of the
29:05
station or the load-in area which is
29:06
around the back where the rocket rusher
29:08
photo was taken is the Statue of Liberty
29:11
and this right here is exactly where the
29:14
stage was almost where that like suit on
29:16
the mannequin is and that very fancy
29:17
guitar and the new framed posters and
29:21
whatnot this duct work up here duct work
29:23
I don't know how to say that but the air
29:25
condition vent work
29:28
is uh what I was kind of showing I'll
29:29
get you more of that later he said this
29:31
is actually from Primus that they put
29:33
and you could grab a number and you
29:34
could call if they needed to have
29:35
members of Primus which I guess was left
29:38
I don't know I don't know how they got a
29:39
hold of that but that's in there as well
29:41
so here is the again where the stage is
29:44
more of the angle
29:46
and you can match up if I notice the
29:49
roof line the loaded door was around
29:51
back where I was in that back alley and
29:53
here is a photo a cleaned up version the
29:55
Woodies of the woodwork has been changed
29:58
on the floor so the wood the top the
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wood Down Below had to be replaced even
30:02
though it is a current modern day wood
30:04
floor
30:05
but this is what the stage looked like
30:07
so that's where HR for Bad Brains was
30:09
just going nuts you want to get nuts I'm
30:12
not he wasn't Batman or anything like
30:13
that but yeah I mean one of the most
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insane live shows Bad Brains of CBG I
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think was 82 and there's lots of other
30:20
foot you could find a lot of footage
30:21
tons and tons of footage of like iconic
30:24
bands that played it's iconic punk bands
30:26
and and rock bands have played inside
30:28
there but notice up top there you can
30:30
see you know the air-conditioned Vents
30:32
and all that so that's that's where the
30:33
stage was and here's a another
30:35
plexiglass that has some of the another
30:37
Plexi that has some of the original
30:38
stickers but this just blows my mind so
30:41
that is a cleaned up version before they
30:42
tore the stage out you know obviously
30:44
when there's a show there would be like
30:46
litter all over the ground and you know
30:48
fluids from the body and things like
30:50
that and just you know beer spilled beer
30:52
and snacks and food and trash and ripped
30:55
clothing and whatnot so this is a
30:56
cleaned up version but there is the
30:57
stage and behind it was the load in door
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where the advance would park and that's
31:03
what it looks like modern day inside
31:05
just stored out I totally forgot the
31:07
name of the store but I'll go around the
31:08
awning and show it again but yeah cbgb's
31:11
lives on and uh at a modern store at
31:14
least at least it's being used for
31:15
something and the building wasn't torn
31:17
down that I will say is a good thing
31:18
yeah I just wanted to walk back by and
31:20
get the name they were very nice in
31:21
there but it was
31:23
kind of surreal being in there John
31:26
barbatos
31:27
315 Bowery we got one more spot I want
31:30
to go to that's kind of Italian I'm
31:32
walking through what is known as the
31:35
East Village and look over here
31:37
over here lurking in the shadows
31:48
I wasn't expecting that
31:48
also random thought
31:50
of the moment I love walking around New
31:53
York I love walking around the city it's
31:56
such a pedestrian town a pedestrian City
31:59
it's just so easy the lights only like
32:02
last like a few seconds each for the
32:04
cars and then you're just able to walk
32:06
across and almost all the streets are
32:09
one way so even
32:11
when the there's no traffic coming or
32:13
the traffic is heading one way you can
32:16
easily walk across because you don't
32:18
have two lanes of traffic going I don't
32:20
know if that makes any sense
32:21
but I just love strutting around the
32:24
tabs Trucking around the city I love it
32:26
a completely different vibe that if
32:30
you're driving and trying to find
32:31
parking trust me oh there's a lady over
32:33
there walking uh she's a dog walker
32:34
she's got like a dozen dogs that she's
32:36
taken out for a walk one thing I've also
32:38
noticed is everyone just kind of Minds
32:40
their own business when you're just
32:41
walking around you don't have like uh
32:43
you just get to where you gotta go and
32:46
everyone's got their headphones on
32:47
they're just like doing their own thing
32:50
I don't know just it's just like a
32:52
different vibe here than like La would
32:55
be where you're trying to like walk
32:57
around so the next spot is over on this
33:01
corner of Tompkins Square and East 7th
33:04
Street
33:05
and I was here years ago I was touring
33:07
in a band and we uh came by and got a
33:09
photo I don't even know if I even still
33:11
have the photo over here at the Joe
33:14
Strummer over here against this bar
33:15
restaurant is a mural from Joe Strummer
33:18
or dedicated to Joe schrammer from The
33:20
Clash and this was here back in 2012
33:23
when I came through or actually no it
33:25
would have been no it would have been
33:27
2012 it would have been 2008 2000 yeah
33:30
probably 2007 2008 2009 and it looks for
33:34
what I recall in my memory I thought it
33:36
was actually painted on the brick but
33:38
this appears to be on a block of wood
33:40
that's like into the side of the brick
33:43
but you know over time your memory kind
33:45
of remembers things a little bit
33:46
differently but I'm glad this is still
33:48
if the last time I was here too someone
33:50
had like spray painted some stuff on so
33:52
I'm sure it gets touched up from time to
33:54
time but I'm glad to see this is still
33:55
this is still here there also used to be
33:58
uh Joey Rome mural over by where Seabees
34:01
used to be but it was painted over so
34:03
they pick up painted over a few years
34:04
ago it was Joey wearing boxing gloves
34:07
but it's called and I've just been
34:10
walking a lot today been going for about
34:12
a mile roadside
34:14
beans
34:16
there's a throwback and I'm just walking
34:19
back to my hotel I don't think I'm even
34:20
gonna get at a Rideshare vehicle or
34:22
Subway or anything did I get in the old
34:25
steps in
34:26
walking in NYC and that's gonna do it
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for today from New York City
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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