NP: CBGB OMFUG

[Henry]

Only suits, girly-men, handy-capped, the terminally drunk, and the criminally insane used the restrooms. We're talkin' NY FN City, MFug! We got alleys!

Does anyone by ANY chance remember a band that called themselves Mars? Great noise and red/green lights (or maybew they just looked that way to me :-)

While I'm asking about music, has anyone heard of a group that was called Musica Eclectronica Viva? I remember a piece that sounded like an endless freight-train filled with lowing cattle.

HM
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Allonby [mailto:joeallonby at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 08:03 PM
To: 'John Carvill'
Cc: fqmorris at gmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: NP: CBGB OMFUG



Good description. The smell was incredible.

For a while it seemed as if CBGB's and the Rat were in competion to lay claim to the world's most disgusting restrooms. 

On 10/16/06, John Carvill <JCarvill at algsoftware.com> wrote:> Besides the activities that may have occurred in the restrooms, what
> made them so notorious?

A friend and I spent 2 weeks in New York in 1994, Roscoff Hotel just off Times Square, I think it was 43rd St. Anyway we were in our mid-twenties, not generally squeamish, and pretty much constantly drunk, at least during the evenings, yet I still balked when I went for a visit to CBGB's toilets, I've managed to repress most of the details now but they were dirty, dank, fairly dilapidated, and swimming in piss. 

Happy memories!




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