The Mudd Club Contributor(s): Boch, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1627310517 ISBN-13: 9781627310512 Publisher: Feral House OUR PRICE: $28.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - Music | History & Criticism - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
Dewey: 647.959 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 7" W x 9.9" (2.20 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Chronological Period - 1970's - Chronological Period - 1980's - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: I was a Long Island kid that graduated college in 1976 and moved to Greenwich Village. Two years later, I was working The Mudd Club door. Standing outside, staring at the crowd, it was out there versus in here and I was on the inside. The Mudd Club was filled with the famous and soon- to- be famous, along with an eclectic core of Mudd regulars who gave the place its identity. Everyone from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, and Robert Rauschenberg to Johnny Rotten, The Hell's Angels, and John Belushi: passing through, passing out, and some, passing on. Marianne Faithful and Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, William Burroughs, and even Kenneth Anger-- just a few of the names that stepped on stage. No Wave and Post- Punk artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers living in a nighttime world on the cusp of two decades. This book is a cornucopia of memories and images, and how this famed wicked downtown club attained the status of midtown and uptown. There was nothing else like it-- I met everyone, and the job quickly defined me. I thought I could handle it, and for a while, I did. --Richard Boch |