Hilly Kristal, 75, Founder of CBGB, R.I.P.

[DudeAsInCool]

The NY Times reports that "Hilly Kristal, who founded the punk-rock club CBGB and ran the legendary Bowery institution for nearly 33 years until it closed its doors last October, died on Tuesday at Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 75.

...The club — its initials mean Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers — was a hangout in a dire location,” Jon Pareles, The Times’s pop-music critic, wrote in October, when the Lower East Side club closed. “But its owner, Hilly Kristal, agreed to book artistically ambitious, high-concept, generally primitivist bands that defied the commercial imperatives of early-1970’s rock.”

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[vernarial]

I was pretty pissed when CBGB closed. I bet it was more of a broken heart than lung cancer that killed Hilly. RIP

[Warflower]

Really....what a friggin' dive but an ass-kicking good time. R.I.P. Hilly