Final Days For CBGB

New York CBGB final concert played out Sunday night featuring Patti Smith Television's Richard Lloyd and Red Hot Chili Pepper's bassist Flea.

After a 33-years in downtown New York hailed by many as the birthplace of punk. The club will close Oct. 31. CBGB's closure has prompted endless protests, tributes and vigils for more than a year, a cycle which ended when CBGB's owner, Hilly Kristal, gave up his legal fight to stay.

A homeless advocacy group that owns the property, the Bowery Residents Committee, is not renewing CBGB's lease, which expired in August 2005.

CBGB, opened in December 1973 and over the years helped spawn the careers of such acts as the Ramones, Blondie, the Talking Heads and Television. Though the club's glory days are long gone, it has remained a symbolic fixture on the Manhattan music scene.

Blondie singer Deborah Harry performed at CBGB on Saturday, part of a weeklong send-off for the club.

Kristal plans to move the club to Las Vegas, and its store, CBGB Fashions, will move on Nov. 1 to a nearby location at Broadway and Bond Street.