Spencer Wilking at the Voice reports that the 27-year-old rehearsal space under Max Fish at 178 Ludlow street will have to close this summer... Ken Caldeira and Sal Principato (vocalist for Liquid Liquid) opened the space in 1986. But the end is very near. Landlord Arwen Properties has told Max Fish and Principato that they'll both need to vacate the building by early summer. (That's different from the August date we heard for Max Fish, who's moving to Brooklyn.)
"They're in no mood to bargain because they stand to make a killing in the anticipation of the hotel," says Principato, referring to the Hotel Ludlow, the latest boutique hotel that will soon open next door to Max Fish. "We're a liability. Who's gonna pay those big bucks with a bunch of musicians in the basement?"
As Wilking wrote: "Call it the Ludlow Street Massacre — the rehearsal space, Pink Pony, Motor City, and Max Fish, all closing."
Read the whole article here.
[Image by Spencer Wilking]
2 comments:
Art and music in New York City is over. This town will always be the media and finance center of the world, but from this point forward anything of a creative nature is pretty much out of the picture. Yeah, there are artists and musicians here, but without a REAL underground there is no platform for producing anything of lasting interest. Manhattan is turning into a huge Yuppie enclave and the biggest disappointment is the young people (the ones that can afford to come here) are buying into it lock,stock and barrel. All of the great cultural movements that came out of New York over the last 50-60 years were produced by young people. Now it seems to me that same age group comes right out of high school and move right into something that resembles middle age. High-end leisure and dining? Isn't that something your old aunts and uncles used to do?
When the history books are written about this period in New York, there will be NO, absolutely NO success stories of people (like the Ramones, etc.) rising from the trenches and creating new forms of music or art. Those days are gone and they're not coming back.
Not to mention Earth Matters!!!
OY
GUVULT
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