Live at CBGB's [LIVE]

Various Artists - Alternative

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 1976
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Atlantic / Wea
• ASIN: B000005J61
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #192,341 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. All for the Love of Rock & Roll - Tuff Darts

2. Operetico - Shirts

3. Cadillac Moon - Mink DeVille

4. I Need a Million - Laughing Dogs

5. Poe - Shirts

6. Let Me Dream If I Want To - Mink DeVille

7. Head over Heels - Tuff Darts

8. Over, Under, Sideways, Down - Manster

9. I'm Really Not This Way - Manster

10. Sun - Sun, Sun

11. Everybody's Depraved

12. We Deliver

13. Change It Comes - Mink DeVille

14. A.V.M. - Shirts

15. It Feels Alright Tonight - Laughing Dogs

16. Slash - Tuff Darts

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars All for the love of rock'n'roll, February 26, 2004

By	M. Bromberg "BellemeadeBooks" (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Although none of the best-known NY bands are heard here (oh, the record contracts flying around CBGB's in 1976...) cult favorites Tuff Darts (Robert Gordon), Mink DeVille, and the Shirts sound like they're having a great time. This collection, recorded over three nights in July, 1976, shows the New York rock scene going in all different directions, while that same weekend the Heartbreakers and the Ramones were staging their own first British blitz of London. It's surprising how "radio-friendly" most of this music seems now. In the days of multi-platinum Peter Frampton and Fleetwood Mac, though, Manster's sped-up cover of the Yardbirds' "Over Under Sideways Down" was absolutely radical. Imagine that. And though it's true there's no real missed opportunities here, its a terrific snapshot of a time, a place, and an energy that's likely not to happen again.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A typical evening of music at CBGBs, February 17, 2001

By A Customer

Actually, Dale, some of the performers did go further than this album. Mink DeVille may never have become a household name, but the band and its leader, Willy DeVille, released a slew of terrific albums. DeVille still records a new album every couple of years with exceptional quality stuff on every outing. Tuff Darts had a pretty decent first release that got loads of airplay in NYC, but the band's lead singer on Live at CBGBs was none other than Robert Gordon who spawned the rebirth of 50s rock and roll revival bands like the Stray Cats, the second coming of Link Wray, and many others. Gordon released several very strong albums and was a real critical favorite at the time. The quality of recording here is fair at best, but the youthful energy pours out of every song. This is a document of late 70s NYC New Wave which, at its best, was every bit as good as the British counterparts of Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, et al. Would've been nice to get a couple of other CBGB bands who did make it bigger on this disk --Blondie, Ramones to name a couple. Work the money, though.

5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect thread from Rocks Rich Tapestry:, April 29, 2009

By	Patrick Sean (Atlanta) - See all my reviews

This gem of an album captured CB's at a point in history where it was still an outside place to go to hear music in NYC. In order to listen to this music you had to run the gauntlet of Bums. I don't actually think there was a cover charge: The Shirts classic closer POE and the amazing Tuff Darts :All for the Love of Rock n Roll, thirty three and a third years later these tracks can stand toe to toe with the any rock n roll ever made.Its gritty its raw it's real:

Bit of Trivia : the fuzzy image on the cover ARE the Talking Heads but they don't appear on album. Why? Because at the last moment SIRE had signed them to a contract.