Installment Vol.3

New York City was not an expensive place to visit in the seventies. A lot of music journalists here for the Newport Festival stayed over if only from curiosity to attend the CBGB festival. The local newspapers were very supportive. Rolling Stone was here. NME and Melody Maker were here from the U.K.. French, Dutch, and Japanese music magazine writers and photographers came. Some of the more prominent bands who played were: Television, The Ramones, Mink de Ville, The Shirts, Johnny's Dance Band, The Marbles, The Mumps, The Planets, Tuff Darts, The New Harlots, The Fast, The Demons, Orchestra Luna, The Miamis, and The Heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan (formally of New York Dolls) and Richard Hell who had at this time left Television. The Heartbreakers were the best I've ever heard them in that combination.

THE FESTIVAL WORKED!

Rock and roll magazines that had never before paid attention to CBGB, were now giving credence to this new (so called) trend in music. There was a new music scene developing. Max's Kansas City reopened and started to do the same thing as I was doing. So now there were two rock clubs doing original music. Photographers and rock writers were hanging out. Other clubs in other cities started to get wind of what was happening. Among them, The Rat (Ratskeller) in Boston started to promote new rock. This was the beginning of the Punk era. What we were calling "Street Rock", became "Punk Rock."

Orchestra Luna	The Miamis	Tuff Darts	The Planets

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