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A grungy dive in the bowels of New York City CBGB was the home of underground rock and a music Mecca for more than three decades.

Few music venues can claim the kind of reputation that New York’s CBGB enjoyed. In its 33 year history thousands of bands performed for the hoards that packed the tiny club every week. And when it closed its doors in 2006 a chapter in the evolution of live music ended with it.

When the Club opened in December 1973 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan its owner Hilly Kristal intended to feature Country Bluegrass Blues...

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