THE PUNK FACTORY

"CBGB: Decades of Graffiti"
2007, Mark Batty Publisher
by Richard Hell / Christopher Slayers

     CBGB have always been a underground venue, but as the time passed by, it became a place of cult! Launching bands like the Ramones, Blondie or Television to a wider audience, CBGB stood as THE place for Punk Rock, until it became a proudly achievement to any band that played there.
     This simple book take us in a trip inside the New York City's venue and we get a close view to what it was like banck in the beginning, the far year of 1973.
     But this trip, this story telling is made by the layers of tells that fullfil the wals and everyhting where a sticker could be posted. Millions of stickers you will see, in walls, stairs, lamps, bathrooms, everywhere! Stickers, ink, graffiti... This is document every Punk rocker should have, is a piece of story.