NYC classic rock locations: Cafe Au Go Go

Cafe Au Go-Go, New York City, NY - March 17 1968 band includes possibly part of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Little Wing - complete - 9m19s During its brief heyday in the 1960s Greenwich Village nightclub scene, Cafe Au Go Go was the venue where the Grateful Dead's first New York show took place, as well as the site of comedian Lenny Bruce's controversial 1964 performance that ended in his arrest, as well as that of the club's owner. Bleecker Street was at the epicenter of the 1960s counterculture, and Cafe Au Go Go opened on February 7, 1964 at 152 Bleecker Street, offering a "varied mix of blues, jazz, folk, stand-up comedy, avant-garde performance and film, and, by the late '60s, psychedelia."

http://ift.tt/1zqzaop