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...felt this way about Neil since I was ten–my favorite song of his is “Sweet Caroline.” My favorite part is his booty-shaking onstage. I’ve got a thing for older guys in general. Kristal B.Y. Young ‘06 I’d really like Van Morrison to come…I’d be willing to overlook the fact that he’s a wife-beater. My favorite songs are “Gloria” and “Hey, Domino...
...She’s doing pretty well,” said roommate Kristal B. Young ’06, who visited her at the hospital yesterday. “She just has three minor fractures on her pelvis...
...Hilly Kristal opened the place in '73 and had trouble drawing a crowd. The space had formerly been a typical Bowery bum bar, one of dozens in the neighborhood, opening at 10 in the morning with a few guys from the flophouse standing anxiously at the door. The original hippie concept was to fill it with "Country, BlueGrass, and Blues" (hence the initials appearing on the club's tattered canvas awning) and other American genres that only become exotic when they show...
...stop on their way to a Chinatown rehearsal. As Hell says in "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk": "Where is a bar where nothing is happening? With nothing to lose if we tell them to let us play there one night a week?" They approached Kristal with the idea of doing a series of weekends at CB's, so the band might connect to the space like the Dolls had connected to the Mercer Arts Center. Kristal went...
...official CBGB web site for pictures and Hilly Kristal's own serialized testimony. Link from there to an online edition of Mojo Magazine from the U.K. for the most coherent and well-written history of early punk that I've seen anywhere...