Scene machines – three musical instruments
CBGB was, from a structural point of view, a perfect, self-actuating, self-organizing system. A biological system, in a way: a coral reef, a root system, a termite colony, a rhizome, a neural network. An emergent entity governed by a few simple rules […] established at the start, rules that made it possible for the whole scene to emerge, and, subsequently, to flow and flourish with a life all its own. Of course I didn’t know that at the time—it’s not like there was a policy statement or flyer with rules on it posted anywhere.
(Byrne, 2012, pp. 270–271)
Making a Zine 