History of Max's Kansas City with over 200 black and white photographs, profiles, memorabilia, and hundreds of personal reminiscences and testimonials. Texts by Yvonne Sewall Ruskin, Lou Reed, Leee Black Childers, Kent Wallace, Taylor Mead, Gerard Malanga, Cherry Vanilla and Jeremiah Newton. Artists include George Abagnalo, David Amram, Carl Andre, Mike Appel, Penny Arcade, Eva Babbitz, Joan Baez, Benedetta Barzini, David Behrens, Jim Bell, Larry Bell, Richard Bellamy, Agnes Benjamin, Carol Berge, Brigid Berlin, Richard Bernstein, Peter Berry, Jeannie Blake, Susan Blond, Mel Bochner, Richard Boch, Victor Bockris, Susan Bottomly, David Bowie, Bob Brady, Elda Branch, Jeffrey Brennan, Mel Brooks, Greg Brown, Jackson Browne, Tim Buckley, David Budd, Bebe Buell, Donald Burns, William S. Burroughs, John Cale, Derek Callender, Steve Cannon, Jacques Capsuto, Leo Castelli, Ted Castle, Rosemarie Castora, John Chamberlain, Dan Christensen, Scott Cohen, Ira Cohen, Colette, Alice Cooper, Wayne County (now known as Jayne County), Robert Creeley, Pilar Crespi, Peter Crowley, Jason Croy, Robin Cullinen, Patsy Cummings, Jackie Curtis, Ronnie Cutrone, Joe Dallesandro, David Dalton, Susan Dalton, Candy Darling, Fielding Dawson, Maxime De La Falaise, Maria del Greco, Antonia de Portago, Frank di Benedetto, Walter De Maria, Liz Derringer, Elizabeth de Sales, Divine, Ritty Dodge, Susan Doukas, Cathy Drew, Bob Dylan, Joe Early, Lynne Edelson, Paul Eden, Marshall Efron, Joe Eletz (aka Joe Bird), Eric Emerson, Brian Eno, Ahmet Ertegun, Fabrizio, Rita Fecher, Bob Feiden, Andrea Feldman, Federico Fellini, Jackie Ferrara, Danny Fields, Nat Finkelstein, Annie Flanders, Jane Fonda, John Ford, Jane Forth, Jim Fouratt, Cyrinda Foxe, Benno Friedman, Myra Friedman, Fudge, Steve Gaines, Gyda Gash, Mel Geary, Henry Geldzahler, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Gisella, Philip Glass, Carl Gliko, Ellen Gofen, Danny Goldberg, Al Goldstein, Michael Goldstein, Richard Goldstein, Richard Golub, Shep Gordon, Arthur Gorson, Tony Gould, Bill Graves, Julie Greenfield, Francis Grill, Michael Gross, Elaine Grove, Bob Gruen, Halston, Helen Harrington, Shayne Harris, Lynn Harriton, Debbie Harry, Rose Hartman, John Hayes, Claude Hayes, Robert Heide, Barbara Hodes, Abbie Hoffman, Billy Hoffman, Susan Hoffman, Sam Hood, Dennis Hopper, Jerry Houk, Tony Ingrassia, Phil Jabarra, Jim Jacobs, Garland Jeffrey, David Johansen, Betsey Johnson, Brian Jones, Donna Jordan, Nathan Joseph, Arthur Kane, Ed Kane, Ivan Karp, Rick Kaufmann, Lenny Kaye, Pia Kazan, Paul Kilb, Billy Klüver, Ed Koch, Joseph Kosuth, Pamela Kraft, Marilyn Krauss, Anthony Krauss, Bob Krivitt, Laura Kronenberg, Gerald Laing, Jim Lalumia, Jenny Landfield, Ron Landfield, Larissa, Johanna Lawrenson, Estelle Lazarus, Elsbeth Leacock, Timothy Leary, Ed Leffingwell, Les Levine, Jeffrey Lew, Jackie Lewis, Roy Lichtenstein, Stuart Lichtenstein, Philip Locascio, Joe Loguidice, Catherine Lombard, Charles Ludlam, Jill Lumpkin, Donald Lyons, Manolo, Robert Mapplethorpe, Brice Marden, Marisol, Emmareta Marks, David Marsh, Julie Martin, Nicky Martin, Ryder McClure, Legs McNeil, Jonas Mekas, Alan Midgette, Sylvia Miles, Geri Miller, Jim Monte, Jim Moore, Marie Morreale, Jim Morrison, Sterling Morrison, Paul Morrissey, Tiger Morse, Denise Mourges, Billy Murcia, Gail Mutrix, Forrest Myers, Lynn Myers, Billy Name, Julie Neufield, Bobby Neuwirth, Jeffrey Nickora, Nico, Noana, Dick Nusser, Glenn O'Brien, Terry O'Conner, Octavio, Michel O'Dare, Tom O'Donnell, Li-Lian Oh, Alfa-Betty Olson, Ondine, Joel Oppenheimer, Jerald Ordover, Al Pacino, Andy Paley, Bob Pauls, Sierra Pecheur, Donald Phelps, Michael Pollard, Larry Poons, Iggy Pop, Valerie Porr, Andrea Portego, Robert Povlich, David Prentice, John Puma, Tom Punzio, Mike Quashie, Diane Quinn, J.P. Radley, Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Peter Reginato, Ruby Lynn Reyner, René Ricard, Kerry Riordan, Oliver Rish, Larry Rivers, Rocco, Dorothea Rockburne, Nile Rogers, Abigail Rosen, Debbie Ross, Gaston Roselli, Raeanne Rubenstein, Todd Rundgren, Mickey Ruskin, Bob Russel, John Russel, Russel Ryan, Tom Ryan, Giorgio St. Angelo, Bill Salano, Ed Sanders, Tony S, Julian Schnabel, Carolee Schneemann, Ira Schneider, Edie Sedgwick, Carol Shaw, Sam Shepard, Jackie Sherman, Alan Shields, Jim Signorelli, David Smith, Geraldine Smith, Howard Smith, Patti Smith, Robert Smithson, Valerie Solanis, Chris Stein, Judy Strang, Marjorie Strider, Ron Sukenick, Ingrid Superstar, Bill Thurston, Francine Tint, Cory Tippin, Ed Tisch, Tish & Snookie, Oliviero Toscani, Maureen Tucker, Steven Tyler, John Vaccaro, Ken Van Sickle, Ultra Violet, Joan Vos, Louie Walden, Andy Warhol, John Waters, William Wegman, Tony Weinberger, Alice Weiner, Dory Weiner, Lawrence Weiner, Carole Wilbourn, Neil Williams, Holly Woodlawn, Mary Woronov, Andrew Wylie, Charles Yoder, Wendy Yujuico, Tony Zinetta, Larry Zox. Includes brief artist biographies and recollections of the seminal arts nightclub.
