Hilly Kristal, creator of the now-defunct CBGB in New York,
died at 75 in Cabrini Hospital. It was thanks to Hilly that I got to run sound board for Talking Heads in 1977, before anybody'd actually heard of 'em. CBGB was a great place, if you didn't mind the filth, the crazies and the bums who camped out on the front doorstep
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