From V.u. To The Beasties - Upstairs At Max's Kansas City

Kansas City, MO. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Click here to view a fascinating, definitive list of artists who played Max's Kansas City, 1965-82: https://bit.ly/9qAk44. Though it opened in late 1965, Max's Kansas City didn't host live music until 1970. The first band to play there was the Velvet Underground, whose month-long residency would be the last shows that Lou Reed ever played with the group.

The final show at Max's, some eleven years later, was a double bill featuring The Bad Brains and a young NYC group playing one of their first club dates - The Beastie Boys.

In between, this 100 plus capacity club was on the front line of the most convulsive decade in rock history. It's where future legends like Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, Bob Marley, Patti Smith, Tom Petty, and The Police played pivotal early gigs, and seminal cult figures like Gram Parsons, Big Star, NY Dolls, John Fahey, Tim Buckley and NRBQ built their reputations. Max's is where the music attained immortality.
Click here for an exhaustive, fascinating year-by-year list of artists who took the stage at Max's compiled by Bryan Kuntz: https://bit.ly/9qAk44.