#maxwell's

[antigogglin]

The Mummies, Maxwell's. 2009

[sweetdreamsjeff]

Thanks to Daniel James Huppert for sharing this with us!

November 17, 2016  · New York, NY  · 

Throwback Thursday... (12/18/94), the first time I met Jeff Buckley. This was at Maxwell's in Hoboken, a few days before the release of his album, Grace. Today is Jeff's birthday. He would have been 50. I’m to his left with the long hair.

From comments on FB:

Daniel James Huppert

Correction: Grace was release a few months before, in August. So long ago, I got it mixed up. It was a few days before Christmas of '94. That must be what confused me. I still remember the winter chill in the air, as I walked into Maxwell's, and seeing Jeff waltzing around mingling. He climbed up on the bar and started licking plates of leftover food, lol. Reminds me, now that I think about it, of his lyrics in "So Real", "We walked around til the moon got full, like a plate."

Daniel James Huppert

Haha, someone remembers!!! I used to get mistaken for the lead singer of Candlebox SO OFTEN, it's gotten me on the Jumbotron at a Van Halen concert, into a Page/Plant reunion show, and VIP'd at parties. We'd roll with it, cuz it was Hiiiiiii-larious!!!

From Comments on Redit:

RevDaniel

I used to work at a Tower records, and someone put on Live at Sin-e. Hearing the scat high notes in The Way Young Lovers Do blew my mind. We knew a Sony rep, and a few of us were invited to see him perform in Hoboken NJ a few days before Christmas of either 93 or 94 (for the life of me, I can't recall which). We all had a private hang out session in the basement (that club's backstage area), and Jeff and the band were super nice. I still have a signed promo poster that he wrote "Happy Jesus Birth - Jeff Buckley". I've been a lifelong fan ever since hearing his music.

Yeah, he was pretty cool, in a quirky way. He was stirring olive oil on a dinner plate and licking it dry, haha! We talked a bunch. It’s been ages, but I remember him telling me one of his vocal influences was Judy Garland. I got photos with him somewhere. Coolest part was he remembered me, and we ended up hanging again at a Julianna Hatfield show he was opening for at Roseland Ballroom in NYC. He was whimsical, for sure. Very genuine.

[bandcampsnoop]

11/12/24.

About once a month I run across a release like The Vines "Walk The Floor" - a band who released an album decades ago who now are posting the album on Bandcamp.

The Vines (Montclair, New Jersey) originally released "Walk The Floor" back in 1988 and it definitely has a 1980s jangle reminiscent of R.E.M or Let's Active. But there were so many other bands from the era that jangled comparably yet have been forgotten. We've covered a few over the years - The Wilmas, and The Wind, come to mind. Add The Vines to that list.

This also jangles like Downy Mildew or any number of bands on the Strum & Thrum compilation. The Vines played at Maxwell's (Hoboken) during the same era as fellow Hobokenites The Feelies and Yo La Tengo (who also jangled back in the 1980s). Best of all, this was produced by Mitch Easter. This was originally released by Hoboken based label Aquablue Records.

[callmeblake]

Kerrang Issue #1765 ( from ebay)

Photo Credit: Andrew Lipovsky, Maxwell’s Bar - January 2014

Magazine Release Date: March 20th, 2019

Issue Label: March 23rd, 2019

[velvetdestroya]

One of their first live shows after releasing their first studio album, “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.”

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

The Clean - Maxwell's, Hoboken, New Jersey, December 5, 2007

Hanukkah with The Clean! Thanks to Rob's Repercussion and the tapers for another great Brothers Kilgour artifact. An all-too-brief set of sparkling sounds from the trio (who appear to be a little feisty with one another onstage, but they might just be kidding around), spanning their entire career up to that point. Here's what Ira the K had to say about The Clean on this long-gone Hoboken night:

If the holidays are a time for getting together with loved ones, then I can’t think of a better way to start night two of our little shindig than with the Clean. I have a vivid memory of riding toward the Lincoln Tunnel — this is something like 20 years ago — listening for the first time to a pre-recorded cassette of Compilation that a friend thought I’d like, and flipping my lid. Speaking of lids, the Clean’s were topped with black wigs, and had lots to say between songs, much of it profane. They opened strong with “Hold On to the Rail,” “Side On” and a world premiere “Factory Man,” and ended even stronger, with a triple play of classics — “Point That Thing Somewhere Else,” “Tally Ho,” and their Jewish number “Beatnik” — before closing with a gorgeous “Safe in the Rain.”

I wasn't at this show, but a few months prior, I had the distinct pleasure of opening for David Kilgour and the Heavy 8s in Denver. One of the great privileges of my life, seriously.

And hey, speaking of Maxwell's, don't skip this recent oral history of the club from The Believer — tons of entertaining tales and photos from back in the olden days.

[retropunch]

Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days (1985)