CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread CYAN Customer: JUNGLE MAGENTA YELLOW Catalogue No: FREUDCD121 BLACK Job Title: MAX'S KANSAS CITY 1976 AND BEYOND Page 20. Page 1. D N O Y E B & 6 7 9 1 CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread CYAN Customer: JUNGLE MAGENTA YELLOW Catalogue No: FREUDCD121 BLACK Job Title: MAX'S KANSAS CITY 1976 AND BEYOND Page 2. Page 19 , opening in NYC in 1965, in the midst of twist clubs and discotheques playing 19. SID VICIOUS & THE IDOLS ‘Take A Chance’ (live) (Lure/Nolan) Jungle Music/Bucks Music Group. SID VICIOUS – Motown and British invasion records, wound up becoming the first landmark ‘underground’ nightclub in vocals; STEVE DIOR – guitar; MICK JONES – guitar; ARTHUR America. It served as a gathering place for poets, sculptors, writers, artists, actors from the worlds of theater KANE – bass; JERRY NOLAN – drums. Recorded live at Max’s Kansas City September 1978. Previously unreleased; taken from and film, and musicians, songwriters and performers all sharing a new found ‘hipness’ that had emerged from the forthcoming DANNY GARCIA film: ‘Sad Vacation – The Last the Beatnik scene of the 1950’s. The world was changing, and when one of those world changers, Andy Warhol, Days of Sid & Nancy’ Licensed courtesy of Danny Garcia (p) 2017 Jungle Records www.chipbakerfilms.com brought his gaggle of musicians, speed freaks, male hustlers, junkies, drag queens and groupies downtown Sid Vicious, bass player for The Sex Pistols, became the from his East 47th Street ‘Factory’ (later moving the factory to Union Square in order to be closer to Max’s), face, the icon of Punk Rock; he became the poster on the wall, the face on the tee shirt, and the cover of so many thereby placing the seal of ‘in’ on Mickey Ruskin’s hip steakhouse. magazines ... he embodied the outrageous and chaotic appeal of the genre, and by dying young, he took on the mythic aura that young death brings to the music business. Max’s became the place to play, and the place to get signed. Warhol’s creation, The Velvet Underground with While The Sex Pistols never played NYC during the late 70’s Lou Reed, created the musical idiom that would lead to glam/glitter, punk, new wave and beyond. Eric Emerson punk era, Sid as a solo did play Max’s Kansas City, his last gigs before his death, backed by The Idols – Steve Dior, The & The Magic Tramps, Ruby & The Rednecks, Suicide, Queen Elizabeth starring Wayne County, and The New Dolls’ Arthur Kane and Jerry Nolan, and on this night, The Clash’s Mick Jones. As a huge fan of Johnny Thunders & the York Dolls all became Max’s bands, via The Mercer Arts Center, and the Club 82. Bob Marley & The Wailers Heartbreakers, Sid did quite a few covers of their songs, including Jerry Nolan’s ‘Take A Chance With Me’. This track is taken from Danny Garcia’s Vicious documentary, “Sad Vacation – the Last Days of Sid & Nancy”. JL. shared a night with a young man from New Jersey who showed up by bus with his guitar in a brown shopping In my opinion, his notoriety far surpasses his ability. Here’s a chance for you to decide for yourself. PC. bag; that young man was Bruce Springsteen, and he was signed to his lifelong Columbia Records deal at Max’s. Aerosmith, who were part of the NY Dolls/ Wayne County crew also were signed at Max’s, as were Cheap Trick a bit later on. Due to a lack of space, many worthy max's bands didn't make it onto this record/cd. Here's a partial list: NY’s ‘girls’, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry and Cherry Vanilla all played Max’s, as did Television, The Fast, Talking The Blessed, Student Teachers, The Most, Spicy Bits, The Poppees, The Sorrows, Another Pretty Heads, and any other name to emerge from the scene that you could think of; The Ramones played Max’s as Face, The Ramones, Reagan Youth, Heart Attack, Just Water, Day Old Bread, The Planets, Mink well, although they downplayed that fact a few years later. Mickey Ruskin had to close Max’s in 1974, and while DeVille, Blondie, Emmy (Madonna), Stray Cats, The Stimulators, Bad Brains, Sic F*cks, Nihilistics, it was closed, Hilly’s On The Bowery became CBGB, quickly trying to fill the gap left by Max’s closure. In 1975, Neon Leon, Somebody Good, The Martian Rock Band, The Speedies, Avis Davis, Magic Tramps, The Laura and Tommy Dean bought the bankrupt Max’s and hired Peter Crowley to book the bands, steer the ship Dictators, Pure Hell, The Rousers, Testors, Luigi & The Wiseguys, The Waldos, Velvet Underground, and get the joint hopping again, while managing Wayne County, whose new band, The Backstreet Boys, became The Stooges, The Wailers, Bruce Springsteen, The Rattlers, The Idols, Stumblebunny, Dead Boys, regular attractions at Max’s, alongside Cherry Vanilla, The Fast, Suicide, and ex NY Doll Johnny Thunders’ new Red Transister, The Marbles, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Levi & The Rockats, The Victims, Ronnie band The Heartbreakers, the greatest rock and roll band to emerge from the 1970’s NYC scene ... period. & The Jitters, Jones Crusher, Hammerbrain, Stop, New York Junk, Fellini's Basement, Little Annie, Bikini Contest, and many more. Look 'em up. Many have records or CDs available. By 1976, Crowley decided to do a various artists collection of Max’s bands as an independent release, called CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread CYAN Customer: JUNGLE MAGENTA YELLOW Catalogue No: FREUDCD121 BLACK Job Title: MAX'S KANSAS CITY 1976 AND BEYOND Page 18 Page 3 16. NICO ‘Saeta’ (live) “Max’s Kansas City 1976” , that was also the name of a single by Wayne County, the lyrics of which celebrated (Nico/Quilichini) Coeur De Lion Int. NICO – vocals; LYN OAKEY – guitars; JAMES YOUNG – keyboards; RICK GOLDSTRAW – bass; TOBY TOMAN – drums; MIKE KING – guitar; SAM – flute. the scene and the bands that played there (including one made up name, Psychotic Frogs, which was put to Recorded live in Europe in 1983, (p) 1983 ½ Records. Taken from ‘Femme Fatale’ FREUDCD069 good use shortly thereafter). The album and the single were the first indie releases from the NYC ‘punk’ scene on Jungle Records. The hippie bohemian deadpan chanteuse that was Nico is represented by a track that to gain worldwide release, distribution, and press, putting the scene on the map, once and for all. CBGB typifies her style and sound. Nico was one of the earliest Warhol stars, both in his films followed later on with a double “Live At CBGB” album, while the Max’s album featured studio recordings. and just being on display, a reality star before the art form had been recognized. Nico’s time as a vocalist with The Velvet Underground confirms her place in rock and roll history for all time, as The VU were the early and most frequent reference point to the music part of During the punk explosion in the UK, Peter Crowley and Wayne County went to England, where a new County Max’s, which had been a haven for poets, sculptors, artists and writers in it’s early days. The ‘Warhol Invasion’ of Max’s turned the tide, and Nico was an essential part of that wave; band, The Electric Chairs, was formed (and where Wayne would, by 1979, emerge as Jayne County, the first ‘Saeta’ appears on the Jungle CD “Femme Fatale”. JL. trans artist to transition in the public eye – during an extremely LGBT-phobic period for the world of rock and Unfortunately, tapes of Nico at max’s didn’t survive. So this sample performance from 1983 will have to do. PC. pop music, ground was being broken by a ground-breaking artist). Thunders and Vanilla had also made their 17. GANG WAR ‘These Boots Are Made For Walking’ (live) way to the UK during punk, but Max’s soldiered on; bands like The Cramps, The B 52s, DEVO, The Misfits, The (Lee Hazelwood) Criterion Music/Universal Music. JOHNNY THUNDERS – guitar & vocals; WAYNE KRAMER – guitar & vocals; RON COOKE (or BOBBY THOMAS) – bass; JOHN MORGAN – drums. Beastie Boys, Bad Brains and a young, rock version of Madonna all got their starts at Max’s; Peter Crowley Recorded live approx 1979. Licensed courtesy of Skydog International, (p) 1992 Skydog hosted the earliest ‘hardcore matinees’ at Max’s, when the genre was just beginning; and yes, The Psychotic International. Taken from the album ‘Johnny Thunders & Wayne Kramer’s Gang War’ FREUDCD076 on Jungle Records. Frogs ‘Death To Disco’ campaign was kicked off and headquartered at Max’s. While JoHansen and Sylvain kept The Dolls name alive, Johnny Thunders had a very active post Dolls career; besides the punk era Heartbreakers, and Cosa Nostra, he joined forces with MC5 original Wayne Kramer to form Gang War: Thunders had so many band names By 1981, various problems brought Max’s to an end, but its 16-year run set the stage for all that followed. Many over a period of time that it became hard to keep track, and this may have blunted potential feel that if Max’s hadn’t come into being when it did, many of the trends, bands and attitudes that we now share, record deals from happening; too many name changes too frequently was not seen as a positive thing by most record label employees. Thunders loved his 1960's cover versions, and this version of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For may have never come to pass.