Mudd Club

Coordinates: 40°43′3.57″N 74°0′8.43″W / 40.7176583°N 74.0023417°W / 40.7176583; -74.0023417
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Mudd Club
Mudd Club building facade in New York City
Map
Location77 White Street, Manhattan, New York, United States
Coordinates40°43′3.57″N 74°0′8.43″W / 40.7176583°N 74.0023417°W / 40.7176583; -74.0023417
OwnerSteve Maas, Diego Cortez, Anya Phillips
Opened1978
Closed1983
Mudd Club plaque on building at 77 White Street, New York City

The Mudd Club was a

post punk underground music and no wave counterculture events. It was opened by Steve Maas, Diego Cortez and Anya Phillips
.

History

The Mudd Club was founded by filmmaker Steve Maas, art curator and filmmaker Diego Cortez, and downtown

Samuel Alexander Mudd, the physician who treated John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.[2] To secure the space for the venue, which was a loft owned by artist Ross Bleckner, Maas described the future venue as essentially an art bar cabaret, like Mickey Ruskin's One University Place, itself based on Ruskin's Max's Kansas City.[3]

Mudd Club featured a bar,

funk music
and curiosities.

From the start it functioned as a

elitist hip
reputation.

After its first few years,

the B-52's, the Bongos and Judas Priest[10] artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and his then-girlfriend Madonna;[11][12] Colab members; performers Klaus Nomi and John Sex; designers Betsey Johnson, Maripol and Marisol Deluna; underground filmmakers Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, Charlie Ahearn, Vincent Gallo, James Nares, Jim Jarmusch, Vivienne Dick, Scott B and Beth B, Kathy Acker, and Glenn O'Brien; supermodel Gia Carangi; [13]
and makeup artist Sandy Linter.

The Mudd Club closed in the spring of 1983.[14][2] A regular noted, "At the end, it was not much fun anymore. I mean, it had just become—kind of like the hangers-on to the hangers-on at the Mudd Club".[15]

Maas opened another Mudd Club in Berlin in 2001 (located at Grosse Hamburger Strasse 17); this Berlin club was considered an intimate venue for touring bands. In 2007, the arts organization Creative Time placed a plaque on the NYC building to commemorate the club's existence.[16]

On October 28–29, 2010, a 30-year reunion of Mudd Club artists and regulars was held at the Delancey nightclub in Manhattan. Many bands and performers from the Mudd Club and Club 57 performed, including Bush Tetras, Three Teens Kill Four, Comateens and Walter Steading. The Mudd Club reunion was also attended by two of the three original doormen, Joey Kelly (Buddy Love, Magic Tramps, Dive Bar Romeos) and Richard Boch (author and painter) but not the actor/voiceperson Colter Rule, the first doorman (Halloween, '78- June,'79 with Joey Kelly as "security), who was quoted as stating, "I dislike organized partying these days".[17] A memoir by Boch, The Mudd Club, based on his nearly two years working the Mudd Club door, was published by Feral House in September 2017.[18][19]

In pop culture

The club has been mentioned in various songs such as "Life During Wartime" (1979) by Talking Heads, "The Return of Jackie and Judy" (1980) by the Ramones, "New York / N.Y." (1983) by Nina Hagen, and "Off the Shelf"(1983) by Elliott Murphy. Frank Zappa included a song named after the club on his 1981 album You Are What You Is. In 2022, Judas Priest issued the CD Live at the Mudd Club ’79 as part of their box set, 50 Heavy Metal Years Of Music.[20]

Also mention on Schitt's Creek season 4, episode 4 where Moira mentioned to Alexis and Twayla that they reminded her of when she would go to the Mudd Club on the Lower East Side.

See also

References

  1. ^ Greenberg, Lori (September 18, 2017). "Exhuming the Classic Mudd Club, 'Scene of the Crime' in the Late '70s". Bowery Boogie. Archived from the original on August 16, 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  2. ^ a b Blanks, Tim (February 25, 2001). "Mudd Quake". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved January 13, 2009.
  3. ^ Boch, Richard. The Mudd Club. Feral House. p. 33
  4. ^ Gruen, John (ed). Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography, Prentice Hall Press, 1991.
  5. ^ "Relive The Party That Launched Jean-Michel Basquiat's Art Career". GQ Middle East. March 27, 2019.
  6. ^ Musto, Michael. "Farewell, Queen of the Mudd Club", Archived 2009-07-20 at the Wayback Machine Village Voice Le Daily Musto Blog, Aug. 17 2008.
  7. ^ People, July 16, 1979.
  8. ^ Haring, Keith. Keith Haring Journals. Penguin, 1997.
  9. ^ Hager, Steve. Art After Midnight: The East Village Scene. St. Martin. 1986.
  10. OCLC 972429558
    .
  11. ^ Hager, Steve. Art After Midnight: The East Village Scene. St. Matins Press, 1986. p. 31
  12. ^ Fretz, Eric. Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography, Greenwood Press, 2010. Chapter 3.
  13. ^ Hammond, Linda Dawn (February 7, 2005). "REBEL REBELLE- PUNKS AND PROVOCATEURS PHOTO EXHIBIT". REBEL REBELLE.
  14. ISBN 978-1-62731-058-1
    .
  15. ^ O'Brien, Glenn. "A Dialogue with Diego Cortez", Jean-Michel Basuiat 1981: The Studio of the Street, Chrata, 2007.
  16. ^ Kennedy, Randy (April 29, 2007). "Touring Warhol's Space, and 32 Other Art-History Sites". The New York Times. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
  17. ^ Mudd Club / Club 57 / New Wave Vaudeville Reunion website Archived 2010-09-15 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  19. ^ Boch, Richard.The Mudd Club, Feral House, 2017
  20. ^ "Judas Priest | Official Store". Shop.judaspriest.com. Retrieved 8 August 2023.

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