Last wave.
Any surfer even vaguely aware of music has, at the very least, heard of the New York venue CBGB. The bar, which opened in the Bowery district in 1973 and named “Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers,” or CBGB & OMFUG for short, quickly became the place for the hot New Wave and punk sounds of the time.
A veritable who’s who played on its cramped, darkened stage from Elvis Costello to Patti Smith, The Ramones to The Misfits, Reagan Youth to Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
CBGB became an iconic Mecca but closed in 2006, becoming occupied by designer John Varvatos and environmentally conscious surf brand Patagonia.
An odd fit?
Maybe as Patagonia feels more… I don’t know… not Phish but maybe something like Phish to me. Journey?
Allman Brothers?
In any case, according to the local Bowery Boogie newsletter, Patagonia is no more. Per the report:
The Patagonia Surf shop on the Bowery rode its last wave.
Corporate pulled the plug on the Lower East Side outpost at the end of October, leaving a retail vacancy in an area that has been upscaled in a big way over the last decade. Store signage was pried from the facade, and the interior scraped bare.
Ready for the next occupant.
Patagonia signed a ten-year lease on 313 Bowery back in 2012, but Hurricane Sandy postponed the launch by a year. In its prior life, this address housed the CBGB Record Canteen, the annex which later morphed into CB’s Gallery in the late-1980s, hosting shows of various genres.
And there we have it.
Coldplay?
Dave Matthews Band?
I’m really struggling to musically cast Patagonia.
Can you help?
Patagonia is a far left wing nutter company
Patagonia do make some of the best ski outerwear going. And the repair policy is unreal. We have a shop here and its great. No surf stuff though and i’ve never really even thought of them as a surf brand.
You’re the monkey man!
Patagonia woke…never more
I’m writing a pitch for a book on shark attacks right now.
Ever seen this?
Gnar.
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Golly gosh, why would bitchgripe.com be slagging on Patagonia?
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I was gonna say 150 but lets give him the bene of the doubt
And that is why trance is so popular!
How much did the haircut cost?
Sam Fender? Never listened to him but he seems a class conscious tool like Billy Bragg so he probably fits the job spec. Fuck conscious rock, I want unapologetic dumbness, beer and volume – in inverse order.
hellen ready. “I am woman hear me roar!”
Sadly and weirdly, Enya is way more psychedelic than Styx ever was. Also when I hear Styx I just imagine men with perms doing cocaine. But Mr Roboto was my jam when I was 7.
overrated and bland. yeah, cold play is a fair call.
Tim McGraw?
Where do you buy those dmt pens?
I thought he was joking but here you go: https://www.google.com/amp/…
That stuff is heavy
Yeah I screwed up.
We were fishing the Kispiox which is one of the most famous steelhead rivers in the world. If you go into the Pioneer Saloon in Sun Valley there’s a world record steelhead mounted on the wall that was caught in the Kispiox.
This is the guy and the fish: https://www.pioneersaloon.c…
Thirty seven pounds of piss and vinegar.
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I’m a decent trout and salmon fishermen but farking awful when it comes to steelhead. I’ve fished some of the best steelhead rivers in the world – Gualala, Garcia, Klamath, Meziadin Junction, Rogue – and been skunked.
Completely.
Steelhead aren’t easy. You can’t just throw whatever at them like you do with trout and hope for the best.
Wrote a story called The Lost Boys about the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz which used to be the fourth best steelhead river in California and the best south of San Francisco.
http://www.benmarcusrules.com/the-lost-boys-uncut
Fished the Cable Hole behind Greg Noll’s house – with Da Bull bellowing at us: “YOU CAN’T FLYFISH THE SMITH!!!”
And he was right although I’ve seen drifters and salmon-eggers pulling HOGS out of the Cable Hole.
Speaking of Da Bellowing Bull.
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So, I suck at steelhead but around 2001 I drove the Cassiar south and passed through the Bulkley Valley in northern BC returning from one of my trips to Alaska.
It was fall.
The Skeena branches off into the Bulkley and the Kispiox and Babine and those rivers are to steelhead fishermen what the Mentawais are to surfers.
Yvon Chouinard dirtbags for a month at a time up there. In fall it’s spectacular.
There were some Swedish guys who had great equipment – they machined their own reels, because they say the Swedish are the best machinists in the world.
So I was flogging the Kispiox worried a bit about bear, when I actually hooked a steelhead.
I was so shocked I went to reach for my funky floppy disc camera before I had landed the fish, and snapped the rod.
Paid him $300 for it. They weren’t too pissed. They had all snapped rods.
Oh well.
Noll’s house is to steelhead what Gerry and Herbie’s house was to Pipeline.
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Earnest like a hippy but also strident. Pearl Jam.
And on the super positive side – Snowball Mendes won’t ever win another under this format.
Punk was BORN at CBGB’s. Television, Blondie, Talking Heads and the Ramones started it all.
The Who and The Kinks inspired and arguably started punk but does it really matter?
Tool, try the Dead Boys the first punk band.
You obviously havent heard of the Saints
Patagonia is Surfline Man and whatever his playlists are