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Maxwell's, currently known as Maxwell's Tavern, is a bar/restaurant and music club in Hoboken, New Jersey. Over several decades, the intimate venue attracted a wide variety of acts looking for a change from the New York City concert spaces across the river.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maxwell's in Hoboken — Let there be (minimal) light — Photo 1/6 — Metromix Jersey Shore )〕 Maxwell's initially closed its doors on July 31, 2013, and reopened as Maxwell's Tavern in 2014. ==History== The club was opened in August 1978 by Steve Fallon.〔 When the Fallon family bought the corner building in uptown Hoboken with its street-level tavern, Steve Fallon's sisters Kathryn Jackson Fallon and Anne Fallon Mazzolla along with brother-in-law Mario Mazzola were interested in turning the factory workers' tavern (General Foods' Maxwell House Coffee factory was a block away on the Hudson River) into more of a restaurant.〔 The Hoboken band "a" (featuring Glenn Morrow, Richard Barone, Frank Giannini, and Rob Norris; the latter three later forming The Bongos) asked if they could rehearse in an unused back room and play a few gigs in the front for the restaurant's patrons. The live music quickly caught on and Fallon started booking bands in the back room. Over time, his booking taste, freewheeling personality and respectful treatment towards musicians made Maxwell's and Hoboken a stop to look forward to on many bands' tours.〔 By making the blue-collar mile-square city with a rough-and-tumble reputation a cultural gathering place, Maxwell's was instrumental in sparking Hoboken's first wave of early 1980s gentrification — the artists and musicians.〔See the description of Melissa Holbrook Pierson's book ''The Place You Love is Gone: Progress Hits Home'' as reviewed in: 〕 In that light, it is also believed that the Mazzolas may have offered the first successful Sunday brunch in Hoboken.〔Brunch continues to be served at the reopened Maxwell's. See: (【引用サイトリンク】title=Maxwell's: Our Menu )〕 Maxwell's eventually become so successful that it spawned Pier Platters, an independent record store near the PATH train station that Fallon invested in; a whole music and cultural "scene" epitomized by the "Hoboken Sound" (which was featured in an hour-long television special on a local NYC station);〔The special appeared on channel 5 according to 〕 and Fallon's own record label, Coyote Records. Fallon hired Todd Abramson to take over the booking of the acts in the mid-1980s. Abramson has, essentially, been booking the venue ever since (except for a short period in the late 1990s after Fallon sold the club and Maxwell's was converted into a short-lived brewpub.)〔 At a time when one of the Fallon siblings wanted to divest their interest in the business, Peter Buck (guitarist for R.E.M.) bought their piece to help his friend Steve Fallon keep it open as a resource for enthusiasts of new music. When Fallon wanted completely out, he and his partners sold Maxwell's in December 1995 to William (Silverback) Sutton, who then turned it into a brewpub. Abramson,〔Todd Abramson is identified as an "owner of Maxwell's in Hoboken" in an article about the breakup of a Hoboken based band in: 〕 Steve Shelley (drummer of Sonic Youth) and Dave Post of the Amazing Incredibles and Swingadelic arranged to bring Maxwell's back, and reopened it on July 26, 1998.〔 While some longtime patrons missed the more freewheeling Steve Fallon days, Maxwell's again became as vital a part of the independent music community as it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Parts of the music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" were filmed at Maxwell's on May 28, 1985. The music video was directed by Hoboken resident John Sayles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Glory Days Video )〕 The video for the song "Away" by The Feelies, directed by Jonathan Demme, was recorded at Maxwell's in 1988. After a 17-year hiatus, The Feelies reunited to appear at Maxwell's in July 2008, and they made appearances again every July from 2009 through 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Feelies at Maxwell's (Hoboken) on 3 Jul 2009 – Last.fm )〕 While on tour supporting their debut album ''Bleach'', Nirvana appeared at Maxwell's on July 13, 1989. Early in the day, before the show, photographer Ian Tilton took several pictures of the band around Hoboken while John Robb interviewed them for a ''Sounds'' front cover feature. The picture of frontman Kurt Cobain has since been used in dozens of magazines, newspapers and websites before and after his death.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=07/13/89 )〕 In the early 1990s, Maxwell's was voted the "Best Club in New York — Even Though It's in New Jersey" by ''The New Yorker'' magazine.〔 〕 In addition to serving as a concert venue, Maxwell's offered monthly swing music by owner Dave Post's accomplished band Swingadelic, provides a forum for local musicians (with its free "New Jersey Songwriters in the Round" concerts), and opens itself up to weekly Tuesday DJ nights. Maxwell's also sponsored monthly art exhibits on its walls, with supporting opening events. In the 2005 ''Village Voice'' Best of NY poll, Maxwell's was voted "Best Reason to Leave the State for Dinner and a Show". Also in 2005, ''The New York Times'' wrote that Maxwell's was "so New York that it's in New Jersey". The indie rock band Yo La Tengo usually rented out the club for the eight nights of Hanukkah every year. In April 2013, Maxwell's came in third in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's "Venues that Rock" list of the best clubs in America.〔http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-best-clubs-in-america-20130328/maxwells-in-hoboken-n-j-19691231〕 In June 2013 it was announced that Maxwell's would not renew its lease and the club would close in July.〔McCall, Tris (June 3, 2013). ("Maxwell's, a Hoboken rock institution, to close at the end of July" ). NJ.com.〕 The club closed its doors on July 31, 2013, preceded by an afternoon block party on 11th Street between Washington Street and Hudson Place, beginning that afternoon, to commemorate its final night.〔("Maxwell’s Live Music Venue In Hoboken, N.J. Closing After 35 Years" ). CBS News.〕 Maxwell's reopened temporarily in August 2013, solely as a bar and restaurant, while the owners sought to sell the venu;〔http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2013/09/maxwells_to_temporarily_reopen_as_a_restaurant_only.html〕 Justin Timberlake was allowed to film a commercial there.〔http://gothamist.com/2013/09/03/maxwells_now_staying_open_as_restau.php〕 In early 2014, it reopened under new ownership, with the name changed to Maxwell's Tavern.〔http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2014/10/maxwells_tavern_bringing_live.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maxwell's」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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