city: new york
max’s kansas city
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Beastie Boys flyer for a Max's show (featuring hand-drawn Ernie and Bert) from Some Old Bullshit.
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On the SE corner of W Broadway and White St, in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York, a short-lived punk and new wave club existed from 1979 to December 1980.
Hilary Jaeger was working as a waitress at Tier 3 (or TR3) in the spring of 1979 when she began booking shows at the 300-capacity venue. The club mixed punk and new wave music with the experimental film and art scenes of Downtown.
TR3 had three floors, a mural that was painted by Basquiat, and also one painted by Kiki Smith.
The Lounge Lizards played one of their first shows at TR3, and played many times after that. Other New York bands included The dB's, DNA, The Stimulators, The Bush Tetras, 8 Eyed Spy with Lydia Lunch, and The Raybeats.
It is likely that Madness played their first US show at TR3 in 1979. There is a picture of a flyer promoting a TR3 show in the liner notes of the Beastie Boys Some Old Bullshit, so they must have played there as well.
The venue was evicted in December of 1980.
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Great Gildersleeves was the other rock/punk music venue on the Bowery in the late 70's and early 80's. Although it never reached the level of infamy of CBGB's, G.G. saw its share of major shows.
On April 1, 1979, Elvis Costello played here in a series of three NYC shows immediately after "the Ray Charles incident."
The Beastie Boys used to play here in their hardcore days ('82 and '83). On April 24, 1983, Adam Horovitz's band, The Young and the Useless, opened for Hüsker Dü and the Replacements (this was before he joined the Beastie Boys).
Sonic Youth played their 2nd show here on June 3, 1981.
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Beastie Boy Mike D attended the prestigious private school, the Walden School.
The Walden School was founded by Margaret Naumburg in 1914. The school became a model for progressive education, and embraced “individual transformation” as an education principle, encouraging creative expression and self-motivated learning.
While in high school, Mike D was in a band called the Young Aborigines with drummer Kate Schellenbach. According to Mike D, they had only one fan, MCA, so when they quit the band after two shows, they reformed as the Beastie Boys.
The Walden School merged with the New Lincoln School in 1988, and the location is currently home to the Trevor Day School.
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St. Mark's Sounds is a record store mainstay in the East Village of Manhattan.
The Beastie Boys used to hang out here and listen to records in their hardcore days. They sold their first EP here, Polly Wog Stew, and MCA was reported confused that the 7" would continually sell out each week. Mojo (of "Egg Raid on Mojo") also liked to shop here.
When Licensed to Ill dropped, record store employee Binky Phillips recalled that they listened to it nonstop.
Ad-Rock wrote lyrics to "Paul Revere" on the steps outside of St. Mark's Sound.
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