CBGBs Festival 2013

Last week the CBGBs festival reincarnated the spirit of the Bowery birthplace of Punk.

CBGBs the movie debuted in New York.

I missed all of it.

Broke and exhausted from my working day.

I fondly remember my years at CBGBs.

And all my friends

Like Excessive aka X aka Jahn Xavier, the guitarist for the Ghost and Richard Hell.

He was a star and still is.

ps we used the toilets for more than their original purpose.

212-982-4052

Former guitarist for the Ghosts and present strummer for the Bowerytones Jahn Xavier posted a New York telephone number on Facebook. 212-982-4052. I can't believe I remember that phone number, but there it is. Anybody out there know where that bell rang? Within two minutes a woman called Dusty recognized the number to CBGB's telephone booth. The legendary punk bar on the Bowery closed October 31, 2006, which was a good run for a club in New York, especially if the owner wasn't paying the rent. I tried the number. As expected it was out of service, but only now. Someone always answered the phone in the heyday of punk. Hopefully it wasn't Hilly's wife.