this be a great and atmospheric and you might say cinema verite film of a selection of the band that make up the mid 70 cbgbs new york punk scene . it be shoot on a single 16mm camera and largely live at the club and but also with some out in the street sequence and and be a vital and rare document of excite and vibrant music . and ok and let me get this over to ya now and the film doesn not have the benefit of sync sound . i would guess the audio and which be a mixture of live tape and commercially available record and be dub on later when the film maker have cut their footage together . so it all pretty jumble up and and the visuals do not match up a lot of the time and but i reckon that a feature and not a fault . it all just add to the rough n ready quality . maybe those negative imdb review come from folk who just do not get it and expect something more slick and more mtv ( yuk ) . well isn not that ironic and since mtv and it nauseous ilk be forever try to ape old school underground film maker and and they usually fall way short of the mark simply because unlike these guy and mtv be clueless . some of the band you will see here go on to commercial success ( check the very early footage of talk head and blondie ) and some be still prop up the influential list thirty year on ( television and patti smith just play sell out painfully hip gig in london last month ) and some verge on performance art ( wayne or jayne county ) and some be just plain forgotten ( marble and tuff dart ) . but none of the 12 or so segment here be over long and the ramones footage be worth the price of admission alone . music fan should be happy someone bother to capture the cbgbs scene while it still be a scene . essential and x10 .