NYC Clubs 1976 - 1986

Comment (paste embed code to include video)

Comment by Paul Roper on August 9, 2010 at 5:08am

Hey JB, I remember Beirut, my favorite place to chill was the Park Inn on Ave A, right next to the Odessa.

Great jukebox ("Roots Train" by Junior Murvin), GREAT bartenders, especially Ade McSpade, and a Missle Command game.

It was a "Ukie" (Ukranian) bar until 7:30, then the freaks came in...$1.50 for a Bass mug...

Comment by Mr. Fuzzboxman on August 8, 2010 at 11:26am

Those names sound familiar. What about "The Subway Inn" (next to Bloomingdales)I think it's still there and last time I saw, gulp.....actual hipsters and preppies mixed in with the really old drunks. What about the club Berlin, now that was scary. Very Clockwork Orange. S&M, strong drinks and leather.

Comment by Jon Bard on August 8, 2010 at 10:52am

Not live music venues, but anyone remember King tut's wah Wah Hut or Downtown Beirut? Two great drinking/jukebox joints in the Tompkins Park area.

Comment by Mr. Fuzzboxman on August 8, 2010 at 7:37am

This isn't about a live music club. But it is about dancing your ass off to slamming 80's dance tracks at a very overlooked and interesting look into NYC nightlife during those wild 1980's years.

Check out this story I had published in the NYpress a few years ago
http://www.nypress.com/article-15824-new-york-stories.html

Comment by Mr. Fuzzboxman on August 8, 2010 at 7:28am

What was the name of that club (early 80's?) that was somewhere in Midtown near the east side. It was on the ground floor and was like a huge townhouse, reading room, lots of couches and little rooms. I saw Regina Richards and Red Hot there. Great club.

Comment by Mr. Fuzzboxman on August 8, 2010 at 7:23am

I played so many great clubs taking the slot of lead guitar with the Revelons in 1980 for a while. Amazing stories, great audiences. Also that audition night at CBGB's I was there with my band Radio City. I lent the art school female guitarist of Mad George my marshall Stack. She had it up to 11, blew the speaker and Screaming Mad Geroge started splattering day glo green and yellow paint all over the stage, and my amp. I was not a happy camper.

Comment by Dee Meyer on August 7, 2010 at 10:22am

Of all the clubs I played at during that era with the Billies, Max's KC was probably my favorite. We played pretty much all of them - Max's, Gildersleeves, Trax, Hurrah's, Trudy Heller's, Mudd Club, the 82, the Ritz. I know there were more but I can't remember some of them, only where they were!!! Anyway....Max's will always be my fave.

Comment by Paul Roper on August 6, 2010 at 7:12pm

@Jon: my Stones connection was a lesser light, I was roadie for Toots and the Maytals at the Ritz, the Road Manager asks me to have a spare guitar ready because Ron Wood wants to play with Toots, oh, and he needs some cigarettes... so I have to leave about half a pack for him on the amp, I meet him and show him the guitar, and then start tuning it, while I'm doing this Ron's about 10 feet away and I can smell the blow from the huge vial his friend has opened, do they offer? Not a chance... ah the life of a roadie...

Comment by Paul Roper on August 6, 2010 at 7:06pm

Ok, Max's memories: I went there to see The MAD, never was a group more appropriately named, and Screamin' Mad George was on the ball, from the bizarre animation before the show, ending with the "forced" birth of a "child" at the end...30 years ago and I can still remember it as if it were yesterday....

Comment by Jon Bard on August 6, 2010 at 11:01am

Max's. went to go see one of my fave NYC bands there -- The Senders. Between sets I'm looking at the jukebox when I see a hand on the glass wearing a giant skull ring.

I follow the hand up the arm to the face and -- Keith Richards.

I manage to croak out "good band, eh?" Keith says "great band." And thus, I had my conversation with Keef.

Just another night at max's KC.

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• 2
• Next ›
• Page