CBGB awning Influence
CBGB's awning was moved into the lobby of the Rock Hall in Cleveland.
The CBGB Festival produced large free concerts in Times Square and Central Park on July 7, 2012. They also showcased hundreds of bands in venues across the city. The festival premiered dozens of rock-n-roll movies in theaters around Manhattan.
Directed by Randall Miller and starring Alan Rickman as Hilly Kristal, the film CBGB, about Kristal and the origins of the club, was released in October 2013 to harsh reviews
Iconic in American popular culture, CBGB's image remained storied:
CBGB was in a promotional ad aired during New York City's bid to host the Olympic Games 2012
CBGB appears in the 2010 rhythm game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.[42]
Talking Heads' song "Life During Wartime" declares, "This ain't no Mudd Club or CBGB..."[43]
A scene in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters involving Allen and Dianne Wiest watching 39 Steps was filmed at CBGB.
In Bandslam, CBGB is a favorite place of central character William Burton.
In Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, Richie becomes a punk rocker and thereupon a regular patron of CBGB.
The Simpsons' episode "Love, Springfieldian Style" shows a CBGB named "Comic Book Guy's Bar".
Californication opened its sixth season with the first scene of the episode "The Unforgiven" set in CBGB, where Karen, working as a bartender, first meets Hank. CBGB was also mentioned in other episodes of Californication.
In the novel Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Nick and Norah break into the closed CBGB.
In Gilmore Girls, Rory Gilmore's friend Lane Kim's band, Hep Alien, gets booked for a gig at CBGB.
In Joan Jett & The Blackhearts' clip of "Good Music", Joan Jett skips a fancy dinner party to play a gig at CBGB.
In an episode of the sketch-comedy series The State, one sketch shows a kid breaking the record for most time spent standing in front of CBGB smoking cigarettes.
Lana Del Rey tells of a job singing at CBGB in her B-side song "Never Let Me Go".
In Guns n Roses' music video for their 1987 hit "Sweet Child o' Mine", bass player Duff McKagan wears a T-shirt bearing the CBGB logo.
In Green Day's music video for their 1994 hit "Welcome to Paradise", drummer Tre Cool wears a T-shirt bearing the CBGB logo.
In "Losing My Edge" by LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy mentions CBGB as the rock club where he first played Daft Punk to "the rock kids".
In 13 Going on 30, Matt Flamhaff (Mark Ruffalo) is seen wearing a CBGB shirt.
The Bon Jovi track "What's Left of Me" on the album What About Now cries, "Why they sold off CBGB's I don't understand".
In the Broadway musical Rent, Mark recalls the walls of his apartment, shared with Roger, bearing posters having "Roger's picture advertising gigs at CBGB".
In the movie Sex and the City 2, Carrie Bradshaw's flashback finds her first meeting Samantha while Samantha was working as a bartender at CBGB.
CBGB appears as a setting in the comic book Amazing Spider-Man Annual #14, from Marvel Comics, published in October 1980.
CBGB is referenced in the ABC TV show Forever episode 'Punk Is Dead'.
In The Shapers' song "Old School Punk Star", the venue is referenced in the bridge: "...And to rock on at the CBGB ..."[44]
In the video for H2O's "What happened", New York-born actor Michael Rappaport asks "what happened to CBGB"
Sick Of It All's song "A Month Full Of Sundays" reminisces about the matinee hardcore shows at CBGB and features the lines "Now CB's is closed, the building has been sold/They took away the heart but couldn’t kill the soul"
The finale of HBO's new series about the music industry, Vinyl, includes a scene depicting Hilly Kristal creating the concept for "CBGB & OMFUG".
CBGB was highlighted in the pilot episode of CBS's Love Monkey.
Sunderland Punk band Spitfire Bullet's track "New York City" mentions the lyric "Down CBGB'S to see The Ramones them boys are alright Joey's on a roll."
The British band Half Man Half Biscuit sing the line "I've had the CBGBs" in their song "New York Skiffle" on the album Editor's Recommendation.
A door canopy can be seen at the Rock & Roll History Museum in the 2006 film, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.
CBGB can be seen in the background of a cutscene in the video game The Warriors.
In the film Asthma, Gus says "I miss old New York, like the 70s and 80s, CBGB's, the Ramones, mean streets..."
The Waterboys song "The Return Of Jimi Hendrix" includes the line "He did a forty-two minute/Cosmic rise in future shocks/Star Spangled Banner/In the back of CBGBs".
Regina/ Roni wears a CBGB shirt in ABC mini series Once Upon A Time.
Rapper Aesop Rock mentions CBGB in his song "Shrunk", "Telephone uncovered by purveyors of the ouija/Then checked against the CBGB women's room graffiti"[45]
In an episode of The CW series "Supernatural," Dean relates a story where he and Sam convince their father, John, to go to New York City and Dean sneaks out to go to CBGB where John finds him drunk.
In the O.C. season 2 episode 11, actress Mischa Barton who played Marissa Cooper is seen wearing a CBGB t-shirt on loan to her by her love interest Alex Kelly, played by Olivia Wilde.
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