#mudd club

[twixnmix]

Jean-Michel Basquiat and Madonna dancing at the Mudd Club in New York City, 1983.    

[cleopatragirlie]

❀ 𝐆𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐝𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 (𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗) ❀

[coeurdeverre82]

psycho killer on the south bank show 1979

[strathshepard]

Co-founder of legendary New York nightclub the Mudd Club/scenester/fashion designer/dominatrix Anya Phillips and Stiv Bators of the Dead Boys in front of Manic Panic on St. Marks Place (believed to be the first-ever punk shop in the US in East Village, NYC) in 1977 – via retronyc

[traderrock]

Anya Phillips and James Chance at the Mudd Club, 1979.

Photo - Chris Stein.

[saramencken]

Anya Philips and James Chance at the Mudd Club c 1979-80

Via @chrissteinplays

[musical-suicide]

[tycry]

This was a good day.

This is for sure my favorite posthumous release. The early ‘80 band is my favorite band Zappa ever had, containing all the great parts of the ‘80s bands, but still with the atmosphere and structure of the ‘70s bands. And on top of all that; I think is the absolute peak of his guitar playing.

If you haven’t check out the Mudd Club/Munich release. Specifically the Munich Show.

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[chasgow]

August 1981 Next Magazine (New York City) article on the New Wave music scene.

"New Wave is creeping across the country, a 1950-ish dropout counterculture, but more violent, more erotic than the 50's. It also looks worse"

[hhillfolk]

Anya Phillips & James Chance

[thespliffbunker]

Adrian Riosacevedo

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

HARDCORE '81 -- ONE OF THREE MIDWEST BANDS ON TOUR IN THE EAST.

PIC INFO: (L to R): Corey Rusk (bassist), Barry Henssler (🎤), & Todd Swalla (drums), with Brian Pollack (not pictured, on guitar) of Maumee, Ohio hardcore punk band, NECROS, performing live at NYC's Mudd Club, c. 1981, while on tour with THE MEATMEN and NEGATIVE APPROACH. 📸: Glen E. Friedman.

PIC #2: Vocalist Barry Henssler of the same Mudd Club gig, c. 1981.

NOTE: These are probably the closest the NECROS ever got to writing DISCHARGE-style/war lyrics, but way more articulate and "cerebral" than anything Cal ever wrote in those early days:

"Burned & charred bodies looking up at me, I've got guns to the heads of people in category three, Wasted bodies piled in a mess, Horrible stench makes me upset.

Category 3 not looking back, Closed your eyes on nuclear attack.

Devastation that's so immense, A reality that's too intense, The naked truth upon the screen, A docudrama so obscene."

-- "Wargame" (1981) by NECROS

Source: lifted this one off my now defunct Facebook page, but it's true source has been lost to time.

[attraktor]

John Lury with Mary Lou Fogerty

Mudd Club, NYC, 1978

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[krispyweiss]

Frank Zappa Played “Mudd Club” at the Mudd Club in 1980 - And there’s Video to Prove It

Frank Zappa once played “Mudd Club” whilst playing the Mudd Club.

It was May 8, 1980. And if audio evidence isn’t enough, there’s now video to prove it.

Previously released on Zappa ’80: Mudd Club/Munich, this arrangement is still coming together. It’s skeletal. And the lyrics aren’t finalized.

But Zappa introduces the title and explains it’s “based on real events that actually took place here” before he, Ray White and Ike Willis harmonize about the hilarity over a reggae beat.

The video shows its age and contains a reference to the Plasmatics for good measure. It was shot for a scrapped television documentary, one that this song, with its references to virgins and sex with furniture, wouldn’t have made anyway.

Its release follows a snippet-cum-montage from the same gig, which seems to indicate something’s brewing, despite no announcement from the Zappa camp.

3/31/23