“In the good old days everybody in New York’s underground went almost nightly to the back room of Max’s Kansas City in New York. Besides all the fabulous people there one of the drawing cards was the lighting. RED. Everyone looks glamourous, young, and blemish free in red light. So, in these pictures I actually did a very realistic impression of how it looked with these two photos I took in the early 1970’s. The first photo is Donald Lyons, Cockette Pristine Condition, and Lou Reed.” — Leee Black Childers