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High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City
With a foreword by Lou The definitive oral history of Max’s Kansas City, favorite hangout of the most outrageous and notorious characters of New York’s 1960s and ’70s underground cultural scene
From its opening in December 1965 on Park Avenue South, Max’s Kansas City, a hybrid restaurant, bar, nightclub, and art gallery, was the boisterous meeting spot for famous—or soon-to-be-famous—figures in New York’s underground art, music, literary, film, and fashion scenes. Max’s regulars included Andy Warhol (and his superstars such as Viva, Ultra Violet, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Holly Woodlawn, and Candy Darling), Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan, Jane Fonda, and dozens more. A hotbed of drugs, sex, and creative collaboration, Max’s was the place to see and be seen among the city’s cultural elite for nearly two decades.
With reminiscences from the likes of Alice Cooper, Bebe Buell, Betsey Johnson, Leee Black Childers, Holly Woodlawn, and John Chamberlain, along with Max’s owner Mickey Ruskin and several waitresses and bartenders, this vivid oral history evokes an unforgettable place where a spontaneous striptease, a brawl over the meaning of art, and an early performance by the Velvet Underground were all possibilities on any given night. High on Rebellion dazzles with rare photos and other Max’s memorabilia, and firsthand accounts of legendary nights, chance encounters, romances sparked and extinguished, and stars being born.
From its opening in December 1965 on Park Avenue South, Max’s Kansas City, a hybrid restaurant, bar, nightclub, and art gallery, was the boisterous meeting spot for famous—or soon-to-be-famous—figures in New York’s underground art, music, literary, film, and fashion scenes. Max’s regulars included Andy Warhol (and his superstars such as Viva, Ultra Violet, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Holly Woodlawn, and Candy Darling), Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan, Jane Fonda, and dozens more. A hotbed of drugs, sex, and creative collaboration, Max’s was the place to see and be seen among the city’s cultural elite for nearly two decades.
With reminiscences from the likes of Alice Cooper, Bebe Buell, Betsey Johnson, Leee Black Childers, Holly Woodlawn, and John Chamberlain, along with Max’s owner Mickey Ruskin and several waitresses and bartenders, this vivid oral history evokes an unforgettable place where a spontaneous striptease, a brawl over the meaning of art, and an early performance by the Velvet Underground were all possibilities on any given night. High on Rebellion dazzles with rare photos and other Max’s memorabilia, and firsthand accounts of legendary nights, chance encounters, romances sparked and extinguished, and stars being born.
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June 2, 2018
I'd heard of Max's Kansas City, but being from Chicago had never been to it. No wonder he went bankrupt. He hung artists' work there and let them eat/drink free or on a tab they never paid. But he seemed to always get the "in" crowd to come, whether it was at Max's or one of his other places, until they didn't. Drugs and sex were apparently always happening, whether at tables or in phone booths. Andy Warhol and his crowd took over the back room. Upstairs was for tourists.
This is an oral history compiled by his ex-wife and the friends and acquaintances who hung out in h his various bars/saloons/clubs. Many of these people I'd heard of, others I haven't. A lot of talk about the punk scene and that wasn't really my scene. But Max's is one of the places it developed.
This book varied between entertaining and boring, partly because I didn't always know who they were talking about and maybe it just went on too long. But it was okay in the long run.
This is an oral history compiled by his ex-wife and the friends and acquaintances who hung out in h his various bars/saloons/clubs. Many of these people I'd heard of, others I haven't. A lot of talk about the punk scene and that wasn't really my scene. But Max's is one of the places it developed.
This book varied between entertaining and boring, partly because I didn't always know who they were talking about and maybe it just went on too long. But it was okay in the long run.
March 1, 2017
This is more like a 3.5 but I'm rounding up.
Anyway if 60s and 70s New York and the culture surrounding Andy Warhol's factory and other artsy stuff like that going on at the time interests you then this is a good pick. It's an oral history, so there are quotes from all kinds of people who were hanging around back in Max's heyday. The fact that they were all on drugs at the time means you get accounts that don't always line up perfectly with each other but since memory isn't perfect I think that's excusable. There are also lots of great pictures of icons like Candy Darling, Alice Cooper, Patti Smith, John Waters, etc. There is some editorial framing by the author, Mickey Ruskin's widow, but it's mostly just the words of people talking about what it was like to be there. Because of that, I feel like it left me wanting more and maybe I would have enjoyed just a straight up history more, where the information was curated and synthesized a bit better.
There were also some typos in my edition, which because of the nature of them I suspect are artifacts of the conversion to e-book and aren't really the kind of thing that bothers me anyway.
Anyway, this is the kind of book that is probably only good if you're interested in the topic. If you don't care then you probably won't be into it.
Anyway if 60s and 70s New York and the culture surrounding Andy Warhol's factory and other artsy stuff like that going on at the time interests you then this is a good pick. It's an oral history, so there are quotes from all kinds of people who were hanging around back in Max's heyday. The fact that they were all on drugs at the time means you get accounts that don't always line up perfectly with each other but since memory isn't perfect I think that's excusable. There are also lots of great pictures of icons like Candy Darling, Alice Cooper, Patti Smith, John Waters, etc. There is some editorial framing by the author, Mickey Ruskin's widow, but it's mostly just the words of people talking about what it was like to be there. Because of that, I feel like it left me wanting more and maybe I would have enjoyed just a straight up history more, where the information was curated and synthesized a bit better.
There were also some typos in my edition, which because of the nature of them I suspect are artifacts of the conversion to e-book and aren't really the kind of thing that bothers me anyway.
Anyway, this is the kind of book that is probably only good if you're interested in the topic. If you don't care then you probably won't be into it.
September 13, 2020
an absolute must! the birth of the NY underground when Max's opened in 1965.. Warhol/ Velvet Underground/Lou Reed/ New York Dolls Jayne(Wayne) County and so much more.. alternative culture started at Max's when it opened in 1965 and the world changed forever..
October 8, 2020
The artist must maintain his swagger, he must, he must
He must be intoxicated by ritual as well as result
Look at me, I am laughing, I am laughing
I am lapping cocaine from the hard brown palm of the bouncer
~ Patti Smith, “High on Rebellion”
High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City by Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin is a memorial to the bar that started and sustained so many careers. Sewall-Ruskin is the wife of the late Mickey Ruskin, the original owner of Max's Kansas City. She started as a waitress at Max's Kansas City.
High on Rebellion reads like an online memorial page -- Remember that time... It is not set up in chapters and paragraphs as such, but rather groupings of comments from patrons and employees strung together to form a coherent story. Leee Black Childers also inserts short biographies throughout the text. The big names hung out at Max's and there is no shortage of name-dropping throughout the book. An employee tells how Mickey told Janis Joplin to leave because she looked dirty and unkempt. That was the same reason Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were not allowed in. Mickey allowed a lot of things but being physically dirty was not one on them. Lou Reed was even interviewed or contributed to the book; but unfortunately, many of the big names are no longer alive. Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, Jim Morrison and many others have not survived and live as memories in this book.
There was also two personalities of Max's. In the daytime, it was a nice restaurant with monied clients. One story is about a lunch customer that happens to enter Max's at night. The next day she returns and asks Mickey if he had any idea what went on in this place at night. Night brought out the artists, poets, and musicians and with them came the drugs, drunken debauchery, and wild times. There were times of chaos. The reader will feel this chaos as the story moves from storyteller to storyteller. The reader will almost feel like he or she is in the backroom amongst the mayhem and celebrity.
Artist's would trade their work for credit which kept many of them fed. Musicians got their first taste of New York there. Bruce Springsteen played there with Bob Marley opening. Aerosmith's first New York show was at Max’s. Deborah Harry waitressed there. The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Led Zeppelin visited Max’s. Iggy Pop and Lou Reed were regulars. Max’s was the starting place for many and the hangout for the famous. Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin has put together a piece of music and art history in what feels like a living record. Rather than just documenting she allows the survivors to reenact the history in their own words with little narration. A great history told in a unique way.
He must be intoxicated by ritual as well as result
Look at me, I am laughing, I am laughing
I am lapping cocaine from the hard brown palm of the bouncer
~ Patti Smith, “High on Rebellion”
High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City by Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin is a memorial to the bar that started and sustained so many careers. Sewall-Ruskin is the wife of the late Mickey Ruskin, the original owner of Max's Kansas City. She started as a waitress at Max's Kansas City.
High on Rebellion reads like an online memorial page -- Remember that time... It is not set up in chapters and paragraphs as such, but rather groupings of comments from patrons and employees strung together to form a coherent story. Leee Black Childers also inserts short biographies throughout the text. The big names hung out at Max's and there is no shortage of name-dropping throughout the book. An employee tells how Mickey told Janis Joplin to leave because she looked dirty and unkempt. That was the same reason Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were not allowed in. Mickey allowed a lot of things but being physically dirty was not one on them. Lou Reed was even interviewed or contributed to the book; but unfortunately, many of the big names are no longer alive. Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, Jim Morrison and many others have not survived and live as memories in this book.
There was also two personalities of Max's. In the daytime, it was a nice restaurant with monied clients. One story is about a lunch customer that happens to enter Max's at night. The next day she returns and asks Mickey if he had any idea what went on in this place at night. Night brought out the artists, poets, and musicians and with them came the drugs, drunken debauchery, and wild times. There were times of chaos. The reader will feel this chaos as the story moves from storyteller to storyteller. The reader will almost feel like he or she is in the backroom amongst the mayhem and celebrity.
Artist's would trade their work for credit which kept many of them fed. Musicians got their first taste of New York there. Bruce Springsteen played there with Bob Marley opening. Aerosmith's first New York show was at Max’s. Deborah Harry waitressed there. The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Led Zeppelin visited Max’s. Iggy Pop and Lou Reed were regulars. Max’s was the starting place for many and the hangout for the famous. Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin has put together a piece of music and art history in what feels like a living record. Rather than just documenting she allows the survivors to reenact the history in their own words with little narration. A great history told in a unique way.
July 20, 2009
An accurate picture of those days . Confusing , conflicting . . . Open drugs , open minds .
July 23, 2022
This was an interesting window into New York's art and music scene in the late 60s/early 70s. The book is structured like a VH1 special. The whole thing is made up of interviews with people who used to go to Max's. I only really knew the rockstars before reading this, so with the sheer number of people interviewed I had a hard time keeping them straight sometimes. That might be easier for someone who is more familiar with the artists and journalists of the day though.
November 19, 2016
This review originally published in Looking for a Good Book. Rated 1.5 of 5
This may be one of my shorter reviews as, really, there isn't much to review in this book. This isn't so much a book about Max's Kansas City bar in New York, as it is a series of mini-memoirs/reminiscences by some of the former patrons and workers at the club.
I had not heard of Max's before this book ... I thought the idea of reading about a popular club during the 60's and 70's would lend some insight into the culture of the day. It does, I suppose, but not in the best of light. There are moments, quite scattered, that are like little nuggets of interest, but there aren't enough of them.
Max's was a popular hang out for artists of all kinds. The man behind Max's, owner Mickey Ruskin, appears to have been a generous, mostly tolerant man who allowed many starving young artists to get on their feet and served dinner and drinks at Max's. As Larry Zox writes:
But this is the 1960s/70s. It's not just an era of peace and love, but an era of outrageous sex and drugs. And drugs. And more drugs. Were there drugs at Max's? Derek Callender writes: "There were enough drugs in that back room to cause genetic defects. That was pill city." Night Manager Ritty Dodge said, "One good thing about working the back room is when the lights came up, you could pick up enough pills to last you the week."
And if it wasn't drugs, then it was sex. Rampant, flaunting sex or naked cavorting among the other guests.
Most of the memories/memoirs included in the book talk either about the drugs, the sex, or all the famous people who came in and did drugs or had sex in Max's. When one person writes
it actually makes me think more highly of Jackson Browne. (The comment was made by a former bartender at Max's ... someone whose name means nothing to this reader.)
And it wasn't just the patrons at Max's who were out of control.
We had to deal with not only impatient customers, but Izzy, Max’s insane cook, who was constantly grabbing at your boobs and freely swinging the butcher knife. He was actually hired by Mickey out of jail on a murder rap. But, as Mickey always reminded us, “good cooks were hard to come by and waitresses were not.”
I was pre-teen in the 1960's, but the era has fascinated me and I usually really enjoy reading about the artists and their lives during this turbulent ("rebellious"?) time. But this book really was nothing more than memories of hedonism and illegal pharmaceutical use with a whole lot of name-dropping to boot. There's nothing really to get here, other than that a bunch of famous, some not so famous, and many not at all famous people had a ton of (illegal?) fun at Max's.
Looking for a good book? High on Rebellion is a series of reminiscences about the sex and drug culture at Max's Kansas City bar in New York during the 1960's, by Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin, a former waitress and wife to the owner.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
This may be one of my shorter reviews as, really, there isn't much to review in this book. This isn't so much a book about Max's Kansas City bar in New York, as it is a series of mini-memoirs/reminiscences by some of the former patrons and workers at the club.
I had not heard of Max's before this book ... I thought the idea of reading about a popular club during the 60's and 70's would lend some insight into the culture of the day. It does, I suppose, but not in the best of light. There are moments, quite scattered, that are like little nuggets of interest, but there aren't enough of them.
Max's was a popular hang out for artists of all kinds. The man behind Max's, owner Mickey Ruskin, appears to have been a generous, mostly tolerant man who allowed many starving young artists to get on their feet and served dinner and drinks at Max's. As Larry Zox writes:
It was the beginning of all our careers at that time, from Stella for abstract painting to Lichtenstein or Warhol in the Pop world. We were all there. Someone would come over to your studio and you’d hook up and go over to Max’s and have a late lunch, and you’d make deals.
But this is the 1960s/70s. It's not just an era of peace and love, but an era of outrageous sex and drugs. And drugs. And more drugs. Were there drugs at Max's? Derek Callender writes: "There were enough drugs in that back room to cause genetic defects. That was pill city." Night Manager Ritty Dodge said, "One good thing about working the back room is when the lights came up, you could pick up enough pills to last you the week."
And if it wasn't drugs, then it was sex. Rampant, flaunting sex or naked cavorting among the other guests.
Most of the memories/memoirs included in the book talk either about the drugs, the sex, or all the famous people who came in and did drugs or had sex in Max's. When one person writes
It was sort of common knowledge that Jackson Browne couldn't stand the heat in the back room, and that was why he moved back to California. ... He was really not equipped to handle that scene. He had to go to California where it was easier to deal with life.
it actually makes me think more highly of Jackson Browne. (The comment was made by a former bartender at Max's ... someone whose name means nothing to this reader.)
And it wasn't just the patrons at Max's who were out of control.
We had to deal with not only impatient customers, but Izzy, Max’s insane cook, who was constantly grabbing at your boobs and freely swinging the butcher knife. He was actually hired by Mickey out of jail on a murder rap. But, as Mickey always reminded us, “good cooks were hard to come by and waitresses were not.”
I was pre-teen in the 1960's, but the era has fascinated me and I usually really enjoy reading about the artists and their lives during this turbulent ("rebellious"?) time. But this book really was nothing more than memories of hedonism and illegal pharmaceutical use with a whole lot of name-dropping to boot. There's nothing really to get here, other than that a bunch of famous, some not so famous, and many not at all famous people had a ton of (illegal?) fun at Max's.
Looking for a good book? High on Rebellion is a series of reminiscences about the sex and drug culture at Max's Kansas City bar in New York during the 1960's, by Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin, a former waitress and wife to the owner.
I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
July 3, 2016
Max’s Kansas City sounds like a name for a steak house, and up front, that’s what it was. On the first floor in the front area, they served surf and turf and had a well-stocked bar. But it was a lot more than that; it was ground zero for the changing arts and music scene of the 1960s and 70s and saw the birth of glam and punk. Owner Mickey Ruskin liked artists, and the club became their hangout. If he thought their work had promise, he’d let them run up unpaid tabs or take artworks in lieu of payment. Soon Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, and the Factory regulars were ruling the arts scene from Max’s back room; the drag queens were welcome there when they weren’t in many other places. Lots of musicians started coming in, and it soon became a place where anything could- and did- happen. Sex and drugs in the bathrooms, peeing in the phone booths because the bathrooms were taken, blow jobs under the tables, fights, and waitresses in crotch high skirts were all common. Beat writers were there. Amazing new music started showing up as well as visual art; Bowie, Springsteen, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Aerosmith, Tim Buckley, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith (both she and Janis Joplin would be turned away at the door the first time they showed up, Ruskin saying they were too dirty), Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, and the New York Dolls were all there regularly- Debbie Harry was a waitress there before achieving success with Blondie. Ruskin had a talent for working the door; he could sense who would fit in and who wouldn’t, and would turn lots of people away. It was high art and low life, and it was deeply mourned when it closed down because of the debts Ruskin had and his increasing drug use. Everyone spoke highly of Ruskin, even though he was an anti-Semite, a bigot, and a misogynist.
The story is told in snippets from all sorts of people who’d been there. Everyone from Lou Reed to Ed Koch to Halston to ex-waitresses to Abbie Hoffman to Holly Woodlawn have short bits of recollections in the book. It’s all loosely held together by memoirs of Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin, a former waitress who ended up marrying Ruskin and having children by him. There are lots of photos. I found it mostly an interesting, if uneven, read although I did get bored a couple of times. Given my interest in pop culture I’m not sure how I got to be this old without knowing about Max’s.
The story is told in snippets from all sorts of people who’d been there. Everyone from Lou Reed to Ed Koch to Halston to ex-waitresses to Abbie Hoffman to Holly Woodlawn have short bits of recollections in the book. It’s all loosely held together by memoirs of Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin, a former waitress who ended up marrying Ruskin and having children by him. There are lots of photos. I found it mostly an interesting, if uneven, read although I did get bored a couple of times. Given my interest in pop culture I’m not sure how I got to be this old without knowing about Max’s.
May 18, 2016
The creatives of the thirties had the Algonquin Round Table. Those budding into their creative careers in the late sixties had a similar place to go where they could be themselves and let loose—that was Max's Kansas City. In High on Rebellion: Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City readers discover what was special about this restaurant and how many of the world's famous artists, writers, musicians and fashion designers all cut their teeth on the atmosphere at the bar and in the back room at Max's.
What readers will notice about this first is that the format of the book lets the patrons of Max's speak in their own words without paraphrasing. That, along with clippings, ads and photos, reader can get a sense of how wild and crazy the place could get. The other thing that readers may notice about this book is that it is a namedropping extravaganza. You can't read more than a few paragraphs without someone's story containing a long string of people they were hanging out with at the time. There are many names that are easily recognized such as Warhol, Patti Smith, Jane Fonda and others, but many of the artists and self-proclaimed freaks are not as well known outside of their particular late sixties social circle. Even if you don't recognize all the names (the 130 Fabulous Faces By Leee Black Childers at the end of the book is somewhat helpful, along with the Cast of Characters pages), you do get a sense of a special atmosphere that Mickey Ruskin created at Max's and at some of the other restaurants he had a hand in.
This is a true love letter to Max's Mickey Ruskin, who seems to have been an angel for most of these up-and-coming creatives, letting them eat and drink for free, trading artwork for bar tabs and giving these people the space to congregate without having to conform. There aren't places for artists and musicians like this anymore (and if there is, please let me know. I'll pack a bag). It is a one-of-a-kind experience that a select few are able to hold in their hearts and memories.
*Received a copy of this book through NetGalley
What readers will notice about this first is that the format of the book lets the patrons of Max's speak in their own words without paraphrasing. That, along with clippings, ads and photos, reader can get a sense of how wild and crazy the place could get. The other thing that readers may notice about this book is that it is a namedropping extravaganza. You can't read more than a few paragraphs without someone's story containing a long string of people they were hanging out with at the time. There are many names that are easily recognized such as Warhol, Patti Smith, Jane Fonda and others, but many of the artists and self-proclaimed freaks are not as well known outside of their particular late sixties social circle. Even if you don't recognize all the names (the 130 Fabulous Faces By Leee Black Childers at the end of the book is somewhat helpful, along with the Cast of Characters pages), you do get a sense of a special atmosphere that Mickey Ruskin created at Max's and at some of the other restaurants he had a hand in.
This is a true love letter to Max's Mickey Ruskin, who seems to have been an angel for most of these up-and-coming creatives, letting them eat and drink for free, trading artwork for bar tabs and giving these people the space to congregate without having to conform. There aren't places for artists and musicians like this anymore (and if there is, please let me know. I'll pack a bag). It is a one-of-a-kind experience that a select few are able to hold in their hearts and memories.
*Received a copy of this book through NetGalley
June 1, 2017
Music scenes are usually synonymous with places – in particular, clubs. Mersey Beat with the Cavern in Liverpool, Indie pop with Leeds during the noughties and Punk with New York – in particular clubs like CBGBs. One club that I didn’t know a lot about was Max’s Kansas City. I had heard about it, sure, any self respecting fan of music will have come across it in the annals of history but I didn’t know its diverse and fascinating history.
When I came across High on Rebellion on NetGalley I knew I had to jump at the chance to read it. Wow. Part biography of owner Mickey Ruskin and part biography of the club, High on Rebellion makes me so sad that I wasn’t part of that music scene. That I was born 30 years after it took place. If the walls of Max’s Kansas City could talk then they probably would have written this book. The book gives you insights from the people who frequented the club, people who grew up, who loved and who lived there. It has a level of truth because it isn’t written from a third party perspective.
High on Rebellion is a fascinating read and is a staple text for anyone with a love of music and the scenes in which they encapsulate.
High On Rebellion by Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin is available now.
For more information regarding Open Road Media (@OpenRoadMedia) please visit www.openroadmedia.com.
When I came across High on Rebellion on NetGalley I knew I had to jump at the chance to read it. Wow. Part biography of owner Mickey Ruskin and part biography of the club, High on Rebellion makes me so sad that I wasn’t part of that music scene. That I was born 30 years after it took place. If the walls of Max’s Kansas City could talk then they probably would have written this book. The book gives you insights from the people who frequented the club, people who grew up, who loved and who lived there. It has a level of truth because it isn’t written from a third party perspective.
High on Rebellion is a fascinating read and is a staple text for anyone with a love of music and the scenes in which they encapsulate.
High On Rebellion by Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin is available now.
For more information regarding Open Road Media (@OpenRoadMedia) please visit www.openroadmedia.com.
July 9, 2016
I’d never heard of the legendary Max’s Kansas City bar and restaurant which flourished in New York in the 1960s and 70s under the equally legendary leadership of Mickey Ruskin, so this book was a fascinating glimpse into a world that has long gone but which at the time was the epicentre for all that was happening in the arts. It was a regular meeting place for all the big – and not so big – names of that era, from Warhol to Bowie, Lou Reed to Ginsberg, Jane Fonda to Bob Dylan. The list goes on….and on. Anyone who was anyone was there, and it’s a fascinating document of social history. Ruskin’s ex-wife has compiled a whole series of reminiscences from those who spent time there and this oral history approach works really well, as each is allowed to speak in his or her own voice, with narrative supplied when necessary by the author. There are lots of photos, too. I did find myself becoming a little bored occasionally at yet another memory of a drug and/drink fuelled episode but overall this is a really vivid insight into an exciting and innovative time and place.
April 28, 2016
Loved loved loved this!!! Hanging out at Max's was all the rage in NYC!!! Eddy Sedgewick reciting poetry on the tables in the back room...Warhol just hanging...all the rock n rollers..thank you Netgalley for the perusal..and Open Road Media...what a terrific read..it brought me back to a great time living in New York!!
February 4, 2017
Oral history of Max's Kansas City, which I only knew from the Velvet Underground live album.
October 9, 2007
too many burn-outs spoil the soup.
August 25, 2010
Its still just a book about a bar. I didn't find much to hold on to.
January 10, 2014
Fantastic pictures with brief stories. I can look at the photos over & over & have. If your interested in that time, Max's, artists, The Factory this is for you.
August 14, 2007
I wish I could have hung out at Max's...
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