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Excerpts from This Ain't No Disco, This IS CBGB

Produced by: Jillian Jonas / WBAI Radio

Excerpts from This Ain’t No Disco, This IS CBGB, a multi episodic audio documentary, from WBAI Radio in NY; An amalgamation from episodes about this legendary club filled with music and interview clips featuring an array of people who were there during whats considered both the first wave of punk rock as well as the creation of a new kind of music through the mid 1970s. It also gives insight into why and what was occurring in NYC historically and at the time to permit such a cultural movement to develop.

Featuring an array including the clubs first sound engineer, members of bands from Talking Heads; the Shirts; the Tuff Darts; Television; Orchestra Luna; Tish & Snooky, from the Sick F*cks and founders of socially-conscious beauty brand, Manic Panic; photographers David Godlis and Eileen Polk, who is also a former Revenge Girl.

Additional music by the Dictators, the Ramones, Television and Blondie and more. 

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