Well, folks, a major part of rock and roll history will soon come to an end. After over 30 years, NYC\'s own legendary CBGB will be closing its doors on September 30th, and taking one of rock\'s richest legacies to the grave with it.

:sigh:

That is what happens when you don\'t pay your rent for multiple months. Hilly stiffed his landlord and then tried to play the victim. I think he has been looking for an excuse to bail out and move to Vegas ever since he got offers.

Still, Kristal says he\'s not about to let the mythical club go the way of the dodo.

"We want to take a lot of this stuff with us, and I think we\'re going to move to Las Vegas," Kristal said, adding that he\'ll start disassembling parts of the club as early as September. "I have some developers who have some really great space in the downtown area. So, I\'d say sometime in spring we\'ll be in Las Vegas. It\'s a big undertaking, and these developers are putting the money into it, and I want to make sure that, for my benefit and theirs, we make this work."

Of course, Kristal, who wouldn\'t name the developers he\'s working with, knows it won\'t be the same in Vegas. "I don\'t have any choice," he explained. "I have been looking for space in New York and the rent\'s $125,000 a month on Broadway." He said he came close to securing a space downtown on Essex Street, but the deal didn\'t make it past the negotiations phase. So, it\'s "Viva Las Vegas" for one of New York\'s most revered rock and roll attractions.

"[The Vegas CBGB] won\'t be the same size or the same shape, but I am going to have all the things that matter there," Kristal said. "I am taking the bars with me, I am taking the stage — I\'m taking the urinal that Joey [Ramone] pissed in with me. I\'m going to take a lot of things — anything that makes this place CBGB.

"I\'ll make it CBGB, and even more so," he continued. "I think we can do better, starting in a new place, where the city\'s for it. It\'s more important to try to keep things going and moving up."

No, he has no money. He does have a marketable brand name though.

I was hoping they would reconstruct the whole club inside one of the casinos. Put up plexiglass in front of the walls, ceiling and floor so nothing could be touched but people could walk through it. Make the whole thing look like some weird archaeological dig.