Nov 21, 2008

Rock HOF in NYC

Opening Monday, I believe, at 76 Mercer Street downtown, the NYC branch of the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. I'll reserve judgment until I've been there. Here's what the NY Times has to say about it:

"The Clash looked down from a wall-size 1978 photograph at a roomful of workmen sawing, measuring, painting and lugging. Vintage amplifiers were wheeled in from the chill outside, passing by plexiglass exhibition cases, Bruce Springsteen’s tarp-covered 1957 Chevrolet and a 26-foot scale model of Manhattan. Then came the heads-up.

“Here comes the phone booth,” somebody said, and in rolled the wooden phone box from CBGB, plastered with decades-old stickers like a punk sarcophagus. Workers stood it up beside graffitied wall sections from that landmark club, along with two of its loudspeakers and a metal frame for the “CBGB & OMFUG” awning that hung over 315 Bowery until the place closed two years ago."
Continued here.

A slideshow of photos can be viewed here.
The New York Annex website can viewed here.

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