Is there much nostalgia for the punk / New Wave era? It was thirty years ago, a bridge between the grim 70s and boomtown 80s, but it doesn't seem to loom large in the cultural imagination outside of elderly hipsters and others who have a dim memory of hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time and thinking well, this is different. They can't play but they do seem to be on to something. Now we're going to get a movie about the era and the smelly famous dank bar that started it all:
And much, much more. As students of the era must know, it was CBGB & OMFUG, meaning "Country, Blue Grass, Blues, and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers." The music was available in the rawest form possible - if you listen to the early Television, for example, they're horrible, and the early Ramones lacked the intricate, delicate sound they would later perfect. Just kidding, they sound like the Ramones.
It's not a documentary; they've already done that. The heirs to the CBGB brand have their own YouTube channel, if you want to revisit the glory years. A tribute:
