Mudd Club
The Mudd Club was a legendary nightclub in the TriBeCa neighborhood of New York that had existed since 1978. The owner Steve Mass opened the club in 2001 new in Berlin -Mitte.
History
New York
The club was opened by journalist Steven Mass, art curator Diego Cortez and singer Anya Philips in October 1978. He was in a loft in the 77 White Street in Manhattan, which belonged to the artist Ross Bleckner. He was named after Samuel Mudd, a physician who treated John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Measure indicates the nightclub was founded with just $ 15,000 starting capital. To get a license, he was declared as cabaret before the opening.
The club had a bar, unisex toilets and a rotating gallery on the 4th floor. There were live concerts in the genres of punk, new wave and experimental music.
The club quickly became a fixture in the New York underground scene. He had a reputation as a popular, and often elitist. Many aspiring cult people from Manhattan here, as the artist Jean -Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Nan Goldin met, and the musician David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, Lydia Lunch and Klaus Nomi.
The Ramones mentioned the Mudd Clubb in their song The Return of Jackie and Judy, as well as the Talking Heads in their song Life During Wartime (1979). Frank Zappa made in a song, the Mudd Club was called and appeared on his album You Are What You Is, funny about the club.
Also frequented around 1980 many hip -hop pioneers such as Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash in this club. A graffiti artist from the Bronx, called Fab Five Freddy, the people knew at the club and was asked by them to throw a hip-hop party, whereupon he the crème de la crème of the then young hip- hop culture in the club fetched. Inspired by the wide variety of styles that came together at the Mudd Club published Afrika Bambaataa 1982, the single " Planet Rock ", was a sample of the German band "Kraftwerk" used in the.
Berlin
Opened in 2001, Steve Mass Club in Grosse Hamburger Strasse in Berlin-Mitte again. By the time the club closed in 2008 due to construction work, came here often smaller independent bands on.