MXV wrote:The best part of the sunset strip is eating breakfast at Duke's. I go there every time I'm in town.
Is this documentary on the Netflix streaming? I want to check it out.
I went to that SST Superstore once or twice when I was out there back when it was still open. I loaded up on a lot of good stuff for cheap there on my first visit and I still have all those 3" CD's I got there.
yourenotevil wrote:the sunset strip is kind of shitty now. you used to be able to cruise it and now if you go past the same point 3 times in an hour you can get a ticket. still some decent clubs, but it was cooler when tower records was there, now it is some high end furniture store or something. the sst superstore was also hilarious, but cool. i have only been to the rainbow room a few times, but it seems like the glory days of the place are long gone. also, most of the clubs try to do two shows/events in one night, so if you see a band they try to get you out of there by 10 or 11pm so they can do some lame DJ shit. you used to be able to walk around and there were places to hang out, but those days are over.
Janelle wrote:yourenotevil wrote:the sunset strip is kind of shitty now. you used to be able to cruise it and now if you go past the same point 3 times in an hour you can get a ticket. still some decent clubs, but it was cooler when tower records was there, now it is some high end furniture store or something. the sst superstore was also hilarious, but cool. i have only been to the rainbow room a few times, but it seems like the glory days of the place are long gone. also, most of the clubs try to do two shows/events in one night, so if you see a band they try to get you out of there by 10 or 11pm so they can do some lame DJ shit. you used to be able to walk around and there were places to hang out, but those days are over.
Oh yeah, in the documentary they had a brief moment about the demise of Tower and Clive Davis was talking about it.
john stabb wrote:Saw the doc a few wks ago & it was a very good one. Even though it's stupid-raunchy, I laughed during Steve Jones interview in the thing about how much oral he got during that period of time. The groupie stuff w/ Pamela DesBarre is nothing new on film or her book: Yeah, Page & Plant were assholes who got into sadistic shit with their groupies, Bonham shat in their shoes, etc. Early footage is good but by the time they get into wannabe Rocker Johnny Depp's Viper Room, the death of a much more talented actor (RIP) River Phoenix, it goes pretty flat. Worth watching for 1.5 hrs.
But it is amazing how many loser leftover L.A. Glam-metal folks still hang around there.
Janelle wrote:But Steve Jones, love him, but he was always grosso raunch.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
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