First up I’ve got some kickin’ vintage footage of the B-52’s in 1978 performing “Rock Lobster”. Thanks to Boing Boing for posting this. I’d embed it, but unfortunately it’s been disabled. You can see it here. Makes me miss playing music. They’ve got quite a few other videos of the B-52’s on there if you’re interested. I also dug up a great collection of other vintage stuff, like The Buzzcocks:

some Wall of Voodoo

and Joey Ramone covering “What a Wonderful World”

Egads, links abound. Just for the hell of it, read the Wikipedia article on CBGB’s