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Max's trivia:
Did you know that Aerosmith signed a record deal upstairs at max's by Clive Davis with Columbia Records? Clive is now president of J Records.

You knew even the assholes were going to be famous. It was that kind of place...like lighting a pack of firecrackers all at once & throwing it in the room. - Steven Tyler

Max's was so decadent. You didn't have to learn to do it, because you had already been doing it in high school for years at the soda pop shop. It was the people who wanted to continue that sort of Cafe Society, except that we had booze instead of egg creams. And it was habitual, because it was like you had to be with like-minded people, and you could find them there. --David Johansen

Max's was a party every night. It was not the kind of place you could buy your way into, you either belonged or you didn't.

I myself don't know anyone who paid the tab, although there must be someone somewhere. Every seven or eight months Mickey might mention it. Naturally wewo Lou Reed uld be insulted -- nervous -- he could cancel it.

Max's was the most democratic meeting ground imaginable. --Lou Reed

Lou was one of the back regulars that actually did it for me. He was always sexy. One of the most memorable shows for me upstairs was when he and Doug Yule the bass player were performing one of the last shows at Max's with the Velvet Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin Underground. Lou kept licking his lips as he was singing (You know that speed lip-licking--if you've been there you know what I mean) and he kept looking over at Doug in this very flirtatious way. Watching the interaction was a turn-on. Lou was a turn-on.

Nat Finkelstein, one of the Factory's photographers, claims that he saw Lou and Debbie Harry getting it on in one of max's famous phone booths. I don't know about that one. I'll have to ask Debbie the next time I see her. Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin

David Johanson and Dee Dee Ramone

DAVID JOHANSON OF THE NEW YORK DOLLS AND
DEE DEE RAMONE/ PHOTO: ANTON PERICH

EVEN THE MAX'S CROWD STARTED
STAR-GAZING WHEN ANDY WARHOL
WALKED IN WITH MICK JAGGER

IGGY POP & THE STOOGES

Johnny Thunders, Debbie Harry, and Richard Hell

THE LEGENDARY & IMMORTAL MR.JOHNNY THUNDERS
PICTURED WITH DEBBIE HARRY OF BLONDIE AND RICHARD HELL OF THE VOIDOIDS

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