After catering my sushi craving, it was time to satisfy my rock music hankering. I grew up listening and liking the music of The Police, The Clash, and Blondie; and had always wanted to visit CBGB, a live music club in NYC that hosted these artists.

Brian and I arrived at CBGB at around 9:30pm. After paying $10 for the cover charge, we went into the club. I was actually quite surprise how big the place as I am too used to the live music clubs in Boston/Cambridge, which are typically smaller than their counterparts in NYC. Not surprisingly, the inside was dark, which is what I would expect from a club. While smoking is now banned from all bars and restaurants in NYC, I still feel an indisputable smoky aura (it's just the presence, there was no smoke inside) from the place. The walls are filled with band stickers, decals, and graffiti. Of course, the performing stage takes center stage in CBGB. Yep, there is definitely a presence of iconoclasm in the walls of CBGB, as well as buzz of energy from the stage.

That night, several of bands took stage with each band playing for 30 minutes starting from 7pm. You'll see band members jamming their musical instruments hard and songs bursting at the seams with riffs and drum beating. I seen a number of punk live performances before and all the craziness associated with them; nonetheless I am still amazed how these rockers while jumping and banging their head senselessly don't collide with one another on stage. Of all the bands who played that night, there were two who left lasting impression on me. An all-women band whose name I forgot and The Mercurial whose the lead singer's dynamic vocals and stage presence energized the audience and brought the music performance that night to a whole new level. Yeah, CBGB has live up to its name that night. Needless to say, I wasn't disappointed. I definitely going back to CBGB in a not-so-distant-future.

The outside of CBGB	The band The Mercurial

6/6/2006 1:55:24 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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