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CBGB-Gründer Hilly Kristal gestorben

By LemmY | 29. August 2007

RIP Hilly KristalHilly Kristal ist am 28. August 2007 im Alter von 75 Jahren an den Folgen von Lungenkrebs im New Yorker Cabrini Hospital verstorben. Dies wurde von seinem Sohn Mark Dana Kristal berichtet.

Sein 1973 eröffneter Club CBGB OMFUG (Country, BlueGrass and Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers) wurde die Keimzelle des Punkrock in den USA. Aufgrund immenser Mietforderungen von rund 90.000 US-Dollar musste das CBGB am 15. Oktober 2006 geschlossen werden. Am Eingang zum CBGB wurde “RIP Hilly, we’ll miss you, thank you.” geschrieben. Neben Kerzen und Blumen wurde ein Baseballschläger aus Schaumgummi abgelegt, anscheinend ein Tribute an “Beat on the Brat” von den Ramones.

Statements

Marky Ramone: “Hilly was an integral part of the punk scene from 1974 until his death. He was always supportive of the genre. In an era when disco was the mainstream, Hilly took a chance and gambled. The gamble paid off for him and for us. We are all grateful to him.”

Tommy Ramone: “He might have tried to give the impression of being outside of it. But he understood instinctively that what was going on was something special.”

Lisa Kristal Burgman (Daughter): “He wanted the club to survive him. He is survived by the fans and bands that played there.”

Patti Smith: “There was no real venue in 1973 for people like us. We didn’t fit into the cabarets or the folk clubs. Hilly wanted the people that nobody else wanted. He wanted us.”

Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone: “I had a silent moment in a memory of that great man, who deserve so lot of thanks from us fans. Without Him so many things would be so different. Thanks Hilly of all what You did. It was always so big pleasure to meet You.”

Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group): “He created a club that started on a small, out-of-the-way skid row, and saw it go around the world. Everywhere you travel around the world, you saw somebody wearing a CBGB T-shirt.”

Deborah Harry (Blondie): “I am very sorry that Hilly is gone. He was a big help to Blondie and to the New York music scene for many years. His club CBGB has become a part of New York lore and rock and roll history.”

Steven van Zandt (Little Steven): “Losing CBGB meant it was only a matter of time until Hilly followed. It was his whole life… There would be no Ramones without Hilly Krystal. And who would want to live in a world without them? He loved this city and in the end, the city spit in his face… CBGB was a tragic loss New York will never recover from and maybe it’s better Hilly doesn’t have to watch the town that invented personality slowly turn into the Mall of America. Rock and roll will miss him.”

Patti Smith: “I’m not trying to romanticize anything because in some ways it was a shithole. The sound was crappy, there was always things breaking down and glasses breaking and people vomiting and the rats scurrying around in the back, but it was our shithole and that was the greatest thing. I’ve played a lot of places and it was the only place I’ve ever played that felt like our place. He had put the community on the map. It doesn’t matter where I’ve been in the world, people have CBGBs T-shirts. It’s not just some marketing thing. CBGBs wasn’t just about Hilly or the people who played there or New York City, it represented freedom for young people. To me the name CBGBs could be a slang term at this point meaning freedom. Hilly offered us unconditional freedom.”

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