The Mudd Club

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By Richard Boch

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The Mudd Club by Richard Boch offers an insider's glimpse into the iconic New York City nightclub that became a cultural phenomenon during the late 1970s and early 1980s. As the doorman, Boch takes readers through the vibrant underground scene, highlighting the eclectic mix of artists, musicians, and performers who frequented the club. This memoir captures the anarchic spirit and creative energy of a pivotal moment in the city's history.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in the vibrant and gritty world of New York's 1970s and 1980s underground scene. Through the eyes of a downtown club doorman, it offers an insider's look at a cultural hub that was a melting pot for artists, musicians, and eccentrics, capturing the eclectic atmosphere and wild stories of a bygone era.

The Mudd Club

NYC's notorious where art and music intersect with sex, drugs and the slumming glittering elite.

National Print Campaign: Advance solicitation to The NY Times, LA Times, New York Review of Books, Gannett and McClatchey properties. Already in discussions with NYTimes for a profile of author Boch. National Web Media Campaign: Vice Online, Dangerous Minds, boingBoing, Huffington Post, HyperAllergic, ArtNews, BuzzFeed Specialized Print and Online Campaign: Nice media outlets with a focus on punk history, no wave music, iconic New York places, and artists. Trades: Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, Library Journal National Radio & Podcast: Solicits for interviews on both national and regional cultural interest programs. Social Media: Feral House has 8600 dedicated fans and followers. Feral House also uses Instagram and Twitter to promote books and engage readers. A dedicated Facebook, blog, and Instagram for The Mudd Club will be launched prior to publication. General Tour Info: We’re currently work with the Brooklyn Book Festival to have Boch appear as a panelist discussing his work and New York punk and art history. We’ll have more details on 2017/18 appearances in the coming months Launch party in New York City. GoodReads Giveaways always get good response for our titles.

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I was a Long Island kid that graduated college in 1976 and moved to Greenwich Village. Two years later, I was working the door at The Mudd Club. Standing outside, staring at the crowd, it was "out there" versus "in here," and I was on the inside.

The Mudd Club was filled with the famous and soon-to-be-famous, along with an eclectic core of regulars who gave the place its identity. Everyone from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, and Robert Rauschenberg to Johnny Rotten, The Hell's Angels, and John Belushi: passing through, passing out, and some, passing on. Marianne Faithful and Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, William Burroughs, and even Kenneth Anger—just a few of the names that stepped on stage.

No Wave and Post-Punk artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers were living in a nighttime world on the cusp of two decades. This book is a cornucopia of memories and images, and shows how this famed wicked downtown club attained the status of midtown and uptown.

There was nothing else like it—I met everyone, and the job quickly defined me. I thought I could handle it, and for a while, I did.

-Richard Boch

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The Mudd Club by Richard Boch offers a vivid portrayal of the legendary New York City nightclub scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Reviewers praise Boch's engaging and colourful recounting of the nightlife, high-energy parties, and eclectic characters that defined the era. As the former doorman, Boch provides an insider's perspective on the vibrancy and cultural impact of the club, capturing its unique atmosphere and influential role in pop culture.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781627310512

Publisher: Feral House,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 October 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Feral House,U.S.

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 177.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Richard Boch is a writer, artist and lifelong New Yorker. He was born in Brooklyn, grew up on Long Island and studied printmaking and painting at The University of Connecticut and Parsons New School for Design.

Boch moved to NYC in 1976 after finding an apartment on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village. Already obsessed with the music coming out of CBGB as well as the downtown art and club scene, he was more than eager to be part of it. In early 1979, after a move to the neighborhood known as Tribeca, Boch was offered a job at a recently opened club on a deserted stretch White Street. It was a life changing experience as detailed in his book The Mudd Club.

In November 2015 Boch served on the host committee of the Mudd Club Rummage Sale Benefitting the Bowery Mission, the first Mudd-related event in over thirty years. The New York Times referred to Boch as making "live or die decisions" as the club's "longtime alpha doorman."

Boch was interviewed and quoted at length for High On Rebellion, the story of Max's Kansas City by Yvonne Sewall Ruskin, New York in The 70s by Allan Tannenbaum, Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller by Chloe Griffin, This Must Be The Place by Jesse Rifkin and Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor by Tim Lawrence. In addition, Boch has contributed to Tannenbaum's Grit and Glamour and Bobby Grossman's Low Fidelity: Downtown New York 1975 - 1985.

Exhibitions of his visual work include a group show at McDaris Fine Art, a suite of multimedia prints titled A Throwback Thrown Forward at CR10 and a series of "Page Paintings" as part of No Wave Heroes exhibit.

Richard Boch's Mudd Club archive is part of the permanent collection of HOWL Arts where he has been involved in several projects and presentations. Boch continues to write and paint in his Upstate NY studio where he is working on his next book. His "New York Stories" column, including interviews and articles covering the cultural history of NYC nightlife, appears regularly in Grandlife.com.