Many famous rock & roll clubs and concert halls 

have quietly vanished from the face of the earth. 

Why, it's almost as if they never existed.... 

but the stories about them live on.

By the time I moved to Long…

Max's Kansas City, an all-in-one restaurant-bar-nightclub, opened its doors in December 1965 at 213 Park Avenue South, near Union Square, in Manhattan, just as American popular culture was poised on the brink of a seismic shift whose aftershocks continue to…

Awhile back I was shocked to learn that Jeff Beck, perhaps the greatest rock & roll guitarist of all, had passed away due to spinal meningitis.  I've always ranked Beck alongside my other favorite guitarist, Danny Gatton.  

Geoffrey Arnold Beck…