August 23, 2006
Tiny Masters at CBGB's
Monday night we co-hosted a show with Product Shop NYC at CBGB's. With hardly any time to organize it, the night went off pretty well! The openers were lil Brooklynites, Tiny Masters of Today. Here's a song from their set:
These kids were awesome, and we definitely suggest checking them out. They play Cake Shop on September 10th, and it's an all ages show - so if you have any kids bring 'em out!
As a side note, CBGB's - which we are very sad to see go, is apparently going with a lot of money made from these shows. As an example, we had a good turnout on Monday yet they left us with a total of $25 to pay the three bands with. That's $2.27 per band member. That's so punk rock.
Addendum: We did ask the venue for the percentage of what bands get paid prior to the show. We just didn't get what they promised.
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I don't see what the big deal is about child bands from Brooklyn. In the late 1970s and early 1980s the NYC scene was loaded with great teen punk bands -- the Blessed, the Whorelords, the Student Teachers (more pop than punk), the Responsible Teenagers (also more pop), Heart Attack, the first incarnation of the Beastie Boys. Yeah, these kids and the kids in the recent New York magazine article are a few years younger, but it was all done before.
All that money saved and they still couldn't pay their rent? Give me a break. Punk is an attitude for musicians, not club owners. When it closes, fumigate it and turn it into something useful. Like a Starbucks.
(KIDDING...just KIDDING)
cbgb's...i am of the opinion that anyone who is hung up about its closing either (a) just loves the venue and the shows that have gone down there or (b) just has the cbgb tshirt and really doesn't know anything about what goes on there
i love hardcore punk and have seen some great shows there, but i can separate the memories and the bands from cbgb's operation..which sucks
"tunrout" ? yikes!
CBGB-isn't that so 1982 (and not in a good way)? CBGBs had it's heyday, now it's time for it to close shop and let the memory fade into legend because the memories I'm having from the place are on the level of post traumatic stress disorder.
As for the music selections on Gothamist, can we get someone else to do them because the person(s) doing them now doesn't seem to have much taste. I love punk but these selections don't have any of the life or fun that punk bands are all about and these kids remind me of the movie Rock School. Not the Jack Black one but the documentary about the guy in Philly that runs a real life rock school and tried to turn the kids into little Frank Zappas. Seems like the life was sucked completely out of the kids and they don't sound like they are having fun.
"In the late 1970s and early 1980s the NYC scene was loaded with great teen punk bands...but it was all done before."
Thats a great point, since teenagers already formed bands 30 years ago they should all go back to watching tv and stop making so much noise.
Thanks Dad
You're so right, Rufus, and unlike these has-been kids, you're completely original in your thinking. Putting on a dismissive attitude and whining about how things suck and aren't punk enough... that's never been done before. You're my hero.
Come see Tiny Masters at Death Disco Sunday matinee. You're in for a treat. 10th of September, 3pm at Annex. 152 Orchard Street.
Dufus and Abe, you idn't understand my comment, I'm not criticizing the bands, I'm criticizing those that are making a big deal out of kids in bands as though it's something new. That said, I don't reacll any of the bands I mentioned playing swing or other big band sounds,paying hmage to the sounds of thirty years earlier, so perhaps today's young bands shouldn't be blindly replicating the sounds and and fashion styles of thirty years ago.
The whole "what is punk" argument is tired and irrelevant--they're the new hippies. Punk no longer means anything remotely transgressive. Being a punk just means you're an aging geezer who's about as offensive and nihilistic as an old granny with a grocery cart. Most punks still grow up and have kids and get married and move to the suburbs just like every other goddamned meat-and-potato-eating American-flag-worshipping piece of shit. The only difference between punks and soccer moms are their music tastes, their fashion choices and their choice of soy versus real milk. Underneath they're all the same. Punks=suburbia. (Pun intended)
you lying pieces of shit
Maybe they're more like the guy from Webster and just can't grow up at all. You have to admit, Tiny Masters has sitcom written all over it. How's that for Suburbia? We are not all lying pieces of shit.