CBGB audio doc gets another spin on WBAI

Written by Paul Moon

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Back in September, we noted that WBAI Radio began broadcasting an audio documentary on CBGB.

This afternoon, WBAI re-aired “This Ain’t No Disco, This Is CBGB-Episode 3 Part 1: The Club Opens.”

“It’s only aired once, in September, so a lot of people missed it,” said Jillian Jonas, senior producer of WBAI’s public affairs show and a former CBGB employee, who is spearheading the project.

Jonas said the episode should live in the station’s archives for about two weeks. You can access it here.

The legendary music venue CBGB closed at 315 Bowery in October 2006.

Paul Moon

H. Paul Moon is a filmmaker based in New York City and Washington, D.C. whose works concentrate on the performing arts. Major films include “Sitka: A Piano Documentary” about the craftsmanship of Steinway pianos, “Quartet for the End of Time” about Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent WWII composition, and an acclaimed feature film about the life and music of American composer Samuel Barber that premiered on PBS. Moon has created music videos for numerous composers including Moondog, Susan Botti and Angélica Negrón, and three opera films set in a community garden. His film “The Passion of Scrooge” was awarded “Critic's Choice” by Opera News as a “thoroughly enjoyable film version, insightfully conceived and directed” with “first-rate and remarkably illustrative storytelling.” Further highlights include works featured in exhibitions at the Nevada Museum of Art and the City Museum of New York, PBS television broadcasts, and best of show awards in over a dozen international film festivals.