Ultimate-Guitar is reporting that venerable New York bar, CBGB's is moving to Las Vegas? That's what owner Hilly Kristal is saying:
"[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."
The new location will most likely be downtown Las Vegas says Kristal and it could open as soon as Spring 2007. But New Yorkers don't get too sad, the bar owner says he could reopen in the Big Apple whenever he can get a good rent price.
Sounds like the going rate of $125,000 per month on Broadway is too much for him at this point. Maybe he could sell that urinal.
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