Cafe Wha? may not have much going for it these days, but it's one of the few legendary clubs that has survived the West Village's upscale progress. Having launched the careers of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Kool and the Gang and others, you'd think the MacDougal Street Beat Generation hangout would get a reprieve from corporate music greed. But BMI and ASCAP are after the club, which is named in a "pair of copyright-infringement suits charging unlicensed performances of Billy Roberts' 'Hey Joe' and more than a dozen other hits," according to a Post story, for playing songs written by James Brown, Prince, Lenny Kravitz and Tom Petty.
