This one's for Hilly

Hilly Kristal wanted the Bowery club he founded the club in 1973 to draw country music to New York, so he named it CBGB & OMFUG, for "Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers."
It didn't quite work out that way.
Not many musical artists wanted to travel that far deep into a seedy New York neighborhood.
Instead, a weird collection of artists, glue-sniffin' street toughs and neighborhood eccentrics picked up guitars and began creating their own music at CBGB.
I am listening to one such collection -- the RAMONES -- this morning in honor of Kristal, who recently passed away age 75.
In CBGB's early days, the bands not performing on a given night would often form the audience for the band that was on stage. Members of Blondie, Talking Heads, Television and others would be listening to the Ramones, for example.
It was a small but highly influential scene, and by all accounts Kristal gave the fledgling bands plenty of leeway to develop unencumbered by commercial concerns.
The results, as the cliché says, speak for themselves:
"Beat on the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat oh yeah, oh yeah, uh-oh!"