Installment
Vol.1
The question most often asked of me is, "What does CBGB stand for?"
I reply, "It stands for the kind of music I intended to have, but not
the
kind that we became famous for: COUNTRY BLUEGRASS BLUES."
The next question is always, "but what does OMFUG stand for?" and I say
"That's more of what we do, It means OTHER MUSIC FOR UPLIFTING
GORMANDIZERS." And what is a gormandizer? It's a voracious eater of,
in this case, MUSIC.
I
can't begin to tell you how many times I've been asked those questions.
Alot of people believe that OMFUG stands for something dirty, but the
truth is, I felt CBGB sounded so pat that I wanted something to go with
it that sounded a little uncouth, or crude.
The
obvious follow up question is often "is this your favorite kind of music?"
No!!! I've always liked all kinds but half the radio stations all over
the U.S. were playing country music, cool juke boxes were playing blues
and bluegrass as well as folk and country. Also, alot of my artist/writer
friends were always going off to some fiddlers convention (blue grass
concert) or blues and folk festivals. So I thought it would be a whole
lot of fun to have my own club with all this kind of music playing there.
Unfortunately- or perhaps FORTUNATELY- things didn't work out quite the
way I 'd expected.
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