Max's Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll
Max's Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll
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He lives in New York City. Please visit maxskansascity.. Steven Kasher is the owner and curator of the Steven Kasher Gallery
A good book of photography; not a good pick if you're looking for any written content I'm a bit bummed. I was expecting at least a little bit of text, but alas, pretty much just photos. Good ones, but I would have liked to read about my good ol' days.. "New York was such a pity, but at Max's Kansas City, we won" Leith Kristin Merrow Had I not owned the book "High On Rebellion: Inside the Underground At Max's Kansas City" by Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin (former wife of Max's owner, Mickey Ruskin), I may have given this a higher rating. "Max's Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll" is glossier in packaging (although it has 12 years on "High On Rebellion", so that isn't surprising), in that, the pictures are bigger, there are more color pictures, etc., but that's about the only thing it can boast over the other. As a 24-year-old girl with a passion for rock n' roll, but who obviously wasn't around back in the early 70's when the back room at Max's was. "Five Stars" according to Thomas V. Nash. Outstanding photos of a fascinating time
Please visit maxskansascity.. He lives in New York City. About the AuthorSteven Kasher is the owner and curator of the Steven Kasher Gallery
Max’s was the place where you could stare at Andy Warhol, argue about art with Willem de Kooning or John Chamberlain, discuss literature with William S. Burroughs, and get a record deal just by showing up. At no other time in history has there been a more exciting collision of art, music, and fashion than at Max’s Kansas City from the 1960s to the early 80s. If downstairs the artists were paying their tabs with original art, upstairs was home to the iconoclastic New York music scene, with performances by Max’s house band, the Velvet Underground; the irreverent New York Dolls; and undiscovered musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, Blondie, Iggy Pop, and Madonna. A luminous collection