Originally published in 1988 and out of print for decades,
This Ain't No Disco
tells the real story of CBGB, the birthplace and incubator of American punk and new wave music.
The Ramones, Blondie, Television, Talking Heads
and many other rock greats all got their starts there.
Written by a club regular well before the legend overtook the reality (while CBGB was still open and most of its principals alive), this is an honest, opinionated, outrageous, hilarious document of 15 years of late, loud nights at CBGB, with memories, stories and gossip from dozens of people who played, worked or just hung out in the long, dark club on the Bowery in New York City.
This new edition adds a new foreword by
Chris Frantz
of
Talking Heads
, a new selection of photographs by the acclaimed
Ebet Roberts
and archival reporting by
Ira Robbins
about the club's closing in 2006.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH:
Hilly Kristal
(CBGB founder),
Joey Ramone
and
Dee Dee Ramone
(Ramones),
Clem Burke
Chris Stein
(Blondie),
David Byrne
(Talking Heads),
Jim Carroll
,
Willy DeVille
(Mink DeVille),
Annie Golden
(Shirts),
Richard Hell
Richard Lloyd
(Television),
Lenny Kaye
(Patti Smith Group),
Handsome Dick Manitoba
(Dictators),
Wendy O. Williams
(Plasmatics) and many others.