This Ain’t No Disco: The Story of CBGB

Photographs by Ebet Roberts. Foreword by Chris Frantz of The Talking Heads.

Originally published in 1988, “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 at the famed CBGB club in New York City. Complete with memories, stories, and gossip from dozens of insiders who worked, played, or just hung out in the legendary long, dark club on the Bowery – the oldest street in Manhattan. This new edition includes a foreword by Talking Heads’ member Chris Frantz. Also included is a new selection of photographs by the acclaimed Ebet Roberts and archival reporting by Ira Robbins about the club’s closing in 2006.

INCLUDES:

Exclusive interviews with: Hilly Kristal (CBGB founder), Joey Ramone and Dee Dee Ramone (Ramones), Clem Burke and Chris Stein (Blondie), David Byrne (Talking Heads), Jim Carroll, Willy DeVille (Mink DeVille), Annie Golden (Shirts), Richard Hell and Richard Lloyd (Television), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Handsome Dick Manitoba (Dictators), Wendy O. Williams (Plasmatics) and many others.

Blurb on Author/Artist

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 legendary long, dark club on the Bowery – the oldest street in Manhattan. CBGB’s time was brief in comparison to its location’s history. Sadly, Roman Kozak passed away before the original version of the book was released.

Pricing:

$22.95 Price for paperback (Use code RC2026CB at checkout to receive 15% off.)

$8.75 Price for PDF digital eBook (Use code  RC2026CBE at checkout to receive 15% off.)