Patti Smith - CBGB's Final Night

CBGB might be set to re-opening as a venue in Las Vegas, but Patti Smith - who played the farewell show at the original venue last night (October 15) - won't be performing there.

Talking to a crowd of reporters - including NME.COM - during a question and answer session held during her soundcheck, the singer admitted she felt more at home with the original CBGB in New York.

"We had a job in Las Vegas four years ago and we sold 85 tickets and they cancelled the show," she explained. "I've never been there. When you only sell 85 tickets out of 2,000, you don't go into that town."


"CBGB is a state of mind" she declared, "and what's going to happen is young kids all over the world are going to have their own fucking clubs and they won't care about CBGB because they're going to have the new places and the new places are always the most important."

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