Wild tales of sex, drugs and punk rock at NYC club Max’s Kansas City: new doc
nypost.comThe Beatles famously sang about “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.” But for one of the Fab Four, it was George in the Back Room with Rubies at the iconic New York rock club Max’s Kansas City.The new documentary “Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC” — which will be screening at Joe’s Pub on Tuesday, Wednesday and July 30 — reveals that George Harrison had a gem of a way of picking up chicks in the VIP back room of Max’s.“He always carried a little pouch of rubies,” recalled Max’s legend Alice Cooper in the doc. “And once he decided which one he wanted to be with, then he would put the ruby down in front of her.
And if she picked up the ruby, that was a done deal then.”“Nightclubbing” — which premiered at the Dock of the Bay Film Festival in San Sebastián, Spain, in May — takes you inside the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll that went down at Max’s Kansas City in the nascent thrashing of the punk-rock movement with NYC-bred acts such as the Velvet Underground, the New York Dolls and the Ramones.
Not just a punk mecca, it was also the place where the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Aerosmith were signed by Clive Davis, and where Debbie Harry served new-wave attitude as a waitress before forming Blondie.“It was the cool factor,” said Cooper. “There was a lot of other little places to play, but Max’s was the place.
It was the cool place.”“It was one of the homes of punk,” added Billy Idol. “That’s what it was for us.”Restaurateur Mickey Ruskin opened Max’s Kansas City at 213 Park Ave.
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