I was 21 and living in LA at the time right out of college. I’m laughing and wincing because I was exactly like these guys. Hair and everything. What a time to be alive. This was right before Nirvana exploded and grunge took over, so we’re watching the very last days of the Sunset scene right here.
21 Also at that time living in the "Valley" I actually wanted to watch this video till the end to see if i saw myself or anyone else i knew. What a killer time we had hangin out on the Strip. Im 52 and still listening to the Metal from back then and still rocking the long hair! " Long Hair Rocks " 🤘
I was 22 when this was filmed. I remember when everybody started wearing the white jeans. It was all black and white everything. The monochrome 90s was taking over from the colorful 80s.
@@maxmustardman298 it was like time for a lil contrast or so. Had that special 90's grunge feeling to it! The 80's were more neon and stuff, so the 90's went over to cool😎
I remember being aware of that as a kid. From my perspective the black and white aesthetic seemed to be tied in with money and maturity. Colorful was more for the kids and whatever... and the black and white identified a sense of ambition and direction. There was a sexyness to it. Michael Jackson's whole "Bad" thing reflects this aesthetic.
Yeah cuz nobody ever has been raped or murdered at parties like that right nothing has changed LOL people are just stupid or these days and don't even know how to talk to a person unless it's on the phone which makes it easier to pray take and destroy the scum. Trust me relationship scams find some dumb w**** tell her how much you love her beg her for money she sends it and then you never see her it works trust me
I'm crying right now. I was born in 1970 so the 80s and 90s are very special to me. I wish I would of went to Los Angeles back then. I've been there a few times the last few years and its nothing like this anymore. It's so sad. Thank you for all the amazing footage Len. ✨
I was born in 70 as well and feel the same way. I can’t believe I’m 50 because those days don’t seem that long ago to me. But I guess it’s that way for most. It was definitely a more positive time, things today feel darker and less optimistic. Take care
@a w Correct...but the observation was made looking through the lense of the present while pointed towards (and reflecting upon) that precise moment in the past. In any event, it works in either context as a simple statement of historical fact.
@Estela Lopez yeah i know it, but its ironic how these late 80s/early 90s kids with all that glam stuff used to looks cleaner and clear than kids today
You TRUE ! Now the kids are totally miserable, they're not having fun anymore (or before that decade) and life sucks and music sucks and we should totally drink bleach.
It still blows my mind to think about how all those 80's Sunset Strip bands went from platinum albums, hit singles, packed arenas, heavy rotation on MTV, and God know what else to almost nothing overnight when grunge hit the scene. All of the sudden, those once-popular bands were thrown off MTV and radio and played to half-empty clubs, if they didn't break up and go get regular jobs entirely. It was just a sad state of affairs when the door slammed shut forever on the 80's hard rock scene.
I would argue - and as I remember - that a lot of that music (at least that was being played on MTV and the radio) just wasn't very good. And I'm not a hater of hair metal, but by 90/91 the stuff (not all of it) getting airplay was (mostly) weaker than it was in the 80's. That's what allowed other music to get a foothold in the first place. Blame commercialization, I think, because record companies probably cared more about a band's "look" than their actual music. Enter Nirvana, who didn't give a shit about their look.
I graduated high school in ‘91. Man, for me, the ‘80s were the best. Concerts, parties, chasing girls. Wild nights! I tell my daughter about those days. I got her into a lot of the music from that decade.
Class of ‘89 here. Miss the old days. Technology killed the personal connections. We should create a movement to bring back these old days and ban all phones.
i'm 15 and i wish more than anything that i could have lived like this. . . things aren't the same anymore, and i hate it. things are more strict now, and people are less willing to be carefree these days. i'm in love with all of the music and rockstars, etc. from back then. thank you for making this channel, and living my dreams.
And the irony of all of this was on this very night another Seattle band was 20 mins away recording their album at Sound City studios. That album was Nevermind.
It was an amazing album. Previous commenter has been diluted by all the fucking hairspray he's inhaled. For fuck sakes, go cry in your spandex bro..shit.
Grunge changed the culture from being this displayed. Happy joking with friends to self Lothian depressed hippies. I wish grunge was skipped in rock roll evolution.
Even the girls at that time zone was that easy , so humble and pretty ! without any kind a plastic surgery , over painted makeup or social Media filters !!
Agree the girls in this video look beautiful...they remind me of the video vixens you'd see in a late 80s-early 90s cheesy hair metal band video. (Like Bobbie Brown the cherry pie girl ) And sure girls wore a lot of makeup, push up bras( or even breast implants)a had overly teased hair but still manage to look more natural than many women from today's era. And I say this as a woman myself. I love the mini skirts, high heels and wish it would come back in fashion
I was 24 in 91 and we did the exact same thing in down town Dallas, so much fun, everyone was ur friend.....can't even imagine how young people today mingle....
I'm 22 right now and this is exactly what me and my friends do everytime we hang out it's not any different Today at least not for us can't speak for the rest of the world
You just don't see kids play on the streets anymore where I used to play as a kid with dozens of other kids. It's sad how kids have turned into couch potatoes.
I spent 9+ hours watching all of your videos! You must had nice time in those times! It's so fun watching them. It's so crazy when teenagers have changed a lot over years. I always been fascinated by people in the ancient times-90s which inspired me to study anthropology. Keep uploading videos 🤘
Damn! Over 9 hours??!! That's awesome! I'm so glad you're enjoying my videos. I have a bunch more to come that will hopefully help you in your anthropological pursuits!!
Great video, I remember the 80's and 90's well. I was born in 1968, grew up with all the big hair metal bands and had the long hair until 1987 then I joined the Navy and was stationed in San Diego and I got to go and hang out on the Sunset strip, it was awesome ( especially being from a small town in Georgia.
U never have friends like the ones we grow up with in this time , kids have been social distancing for 15 years now wtf is really going on with our country ..
@Pixi Did you really just say "Enjoy the fires?" You do realize people die and lose their homes in those fires right? Fucking moron. But I guess according to you it was all just God's plan right?
n0v4 003 n0v4 003 it’s not technology dumbass it’s you. The problem humans have is they are always comparing themselves to these motherfuckers on social media and it’s killing their mental state. How bout you stay off snap chat and instagram and Facebook and do yourself a damn favor. Fuck I hate people who blame it on the phones learn how to take accountability for yourself 🤦🏾♂️. Stop caring about what others think and worry about yourself 🥱.
@@50ksubscriberschallenge9 fucking finally, recently found this channel, love it, I love the time period and yet every fucking comment is about phones and people not being able to socialize, it's not about phones! It's them! If these people were born in the 70's they'd have spent the 80's and 90's playing nintendo, watching movies and reading on their own, with not one friend, they're so insecure they need to be different amd say they're better than others. social gatherings still exist, we still get fucked up together and listen to music, loser kids just got their own head so far up their asses they can't see other kids around them.
Combat Vet nah it’s just that people always compare themselves to other people when they need to stop being bitches and torcher their enemies with success. Like god damn you don’t like your life do something about it.
Things were changing in 1991. I was only 13, but I could feel a big difference between 1991 and 1987, even as a child. The music scene was definitely getting more depressed around this time. 1991 was the year most 80s hair bands started dying. Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (not the deodorant) came out that summer. I remember it well because MTV started showcasing the new Seattle sound. 1991 was depressing.
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Why do you think the cultural mood shifted to depressing by 1991? What was happening, generally speaking?
@ Not sure. I was 13 years old at the time. 1990 was a dance-hoppy year with fun songs like "U Can't Touch This" and many others. Then we got REM's depressing "Losing My Religion" and other equally depressing songs. This was pre-grunge. Pre Nirvana. By the time 1992, 1993, 1994 rolled around it was at its peak. Music didn't start getting happy again until 1998 with Smashmouth, Sugar Ray, etc. I was 20 by that time.
Nahuel Patiño I was only 14 when this footage was filmed, the 80’s was a more brash, fun and hedonistic time. The early 90’s wasn’t necessarily depressing it was reflective and filled with irony. Don’t forget the 80’s also had the start of AIDS, threat of nuclear war via the Cold War was very real and scary, stock market crash in the west in 87. The 90’s was more about a low key slacker vibe, maybe the hangover after the party but I’m just speaking generally. It seemed to me as if the 80’s was a very aspirational time in the western world and a whole bunch of kids wanted absolutely nothing to do with that, they dropped out for a while. If I could name the prominent or influential drug for each decade 80’s = coke, 90’s = heroin.
@@Havencheese that's a fairly accurate description of the 80s-90s transition,I was just a kid at the time but even I noticed that when I went back to school in late summer of 1991 I kind of noticed that things changed but couldn't put my finger on it per se.by the time 1993 rolled around a lot of the mtv videos were almost all grunge and our local rock station was almost always playing soundgarden ugh...
It's kind of sad seeing this footage of the Strip in 1991 knowing full well that this would be the final year of its glory years.It didn't end overnight but it did end fairly rapidly.
I was a 90s grunge dude for sure and the hair scene was a bit before my time but I have always secretly kind of loved this era and this makes me really wish I was there. Thanks for posting!!!!!
If you guys had arrived a few years earlier, maybe you could've had a better chance. Can you imagine the crazy stories, parties and things that happened on that strip? One of the coolest and most iconic scenes ever. 🤘
Ah, the memories! I was two weeks from graduating high school when this was filmed. When girls were naturally beautiful, people were happy, chill and unpretentious and we had AMAZING times!
@@thomasdupont7186 well my dear Thomas. I believe your grandpa was correct. Nowadays we cant recognize girls from boys. You see boys making long hairs and girls removing their hairs entirely and appears very bold. What is worse is seeing girls marrying girls and guys marrying guys. Totally disgusting
@@ghassanjenainaty4212 "What is worse is seeing girls marrying girls and guys marrying guys. Totally disgusting" you're goofing around right ? Why is it your problem ? If you were gay you would have a totally different opinion obviously (and if you're trolling well congratulation I failed and replied).
@@thomasdupont7186 I am not goofing around but just stating my opinion. If you don't like it you can just shut up and schroll down. The rules of nature should not be played with since they are not kids games
@@ghassanjneinaty4421 You're not "goofing around", but you sounds like to be a goofball my kind sir :) I'm sorry I'm sure you're nice beside these anti gay opinions. But : "The rules of nature" ?! lol, your ramble on politics and human rights doesn't sound very scientific to me. That's ok tho, I guess we can still argue without name calling, and it's always interesting to speak with someone who doesn't think like you do. But why do you care that much ? why don't you let others have the same BASIC RIGHTS you have and be in peace ? It doesn't mean you have to agree or love them, but just let them have that, it won't be the fall of civilisation trust me....
I was about to comment: "Grunge was JUST about to hit, and that entire scene would be much different" ... Then I saw the description, where Len said it perfectly for me. Loving these videos, Len. So fantastic you held on to these videos all these years. Us younger folks can watch a television versions and descriptions of what these days were like, what young folks were like, but your videos give us the truth of what it actually was like and we get to see it up close. No scripts, just kids being kids in a much different Era. . You are an OG vlogger. Sooo very cool.
Magicalindigo Adult Can you be a bit more explicit? Did it end physically and we’re all dead but we haven’t woken up,instead they transferred our consciousness to a simulated world?
@@magicalindigoadult3838 nah human civilization will end when technology enters the singularity. We just came into the digital age after 1995. Thats why everything feels so fake right now. People don't go outside anymore or spend their time usefully. The same reason why we are here wasting time on youtube which didn't exist back then
Two months later Smells like teen spirit hit the radio And the remnants of the watered down late 80s like slaughter, firehouse, tesla, skid row were about to come to an abrupt no more. By this time I already cut the ass length hair, quit the hard parting, quite the band and was a year in to the dreaded responsibility phase of life. Had the best of times though. 80-90 RIP
'90-'92 are still considered the 80's because it still had that 80's LA , Big Hair , Rockstar vibe but its kinda sad watching videos from then because by mid 93 it would all be dead thanks to that garbage grunge movement . everyone started dressing normal & cutting their hair . that larger then life party all the time 80's rockstar lifestyle had ended .. the mid '90's - onwards blew .
Grunge had some pretty good hard rockin bands you just had to dig deeper. Bands like Tad Gruntruck Steel Mill. The ones that made it big Soundgarden-AIC were musically credible. Pearl Jam-Nirvana we’re always sellout garbage to me
Glam metal, big hair killed the cool Rock/party scene. Nothing cool about about big hair bullshit. These losers killed rock and roll by 1983-84. 1984-1991 was lame comparatively. Bunch of fucking uncool poseurs.
Thanks for sharing your footage. The 1980s and early 1990s LA is a fascinating places for me. One I never could experience myself. During the time 91 the video was made I was only 6 years old and I was and in fact, I am still living Austria. Have seen the 80s and 90s LA quite often im Movies though and have also thought that was a interesting place with a special vibe.
I was a young young man then. A great time for a long haired guy, playing guitar. Lots of good memories. My method? Long hair, tight jeans, cool jacket. Played in a few bands. The girls cared about their looks. The world is not better today. It’s so bad in fact.
Scorpions song “Wind Of Change” was topping the charts in America right about then. It was big in Europe shortly after the wall came down, took a little longer to hit tops in the States. That’s the way the music industry worked then
@@paddytguitar I still know the two blond guys, but all the dark haired dudes I haven't seen or spoken to since then. And we were all trading the camera around but I did shoot some of it
Back when all the girls were feminine, And fine as hell! I was born in 79, so im a little younger than you. But had 3 older siblings. A sister an 2 brothers who graduated in 86, 88, and 91! And idolized all 3 aswell as guys like you and your buddy's! I can still vaguely smell a mix of hairspray , makeup , and Marlboros , When I think about the girls from then! Atleast i got to be a teen in the 90s and a part of the last generation before technology change/ruined everything.
Living in Hollywood Hills, and hanging out on the Strip and places like Roxy, The Satellite, and the legendary Troubadour, You just HAD to spend your youth (if you were the right age) there in 1980s.. I'll always remember those nights. So decadent.. lol.. We fucking RULED !
It's funny how this throwaway video is basically a historical piece of a time long gone now. I've always been fascinated with the scene on the Sunset Strip, and it's next to impossible to find videos of it during this time. There's the Circus video and this. Thanks for sharing this little piece of history with us.
Me and my bros used to hang out in Hollyweird on LSD causing all kinds of havoc on our skateboards. We also used to hang out at the Hollyweird sign and smoke out! Good old daze!
I was born in April 1972 and I got to enjoy the awesome eighties as a teen. No cell phones, internet, or social media. I love to read the comments, this video brings back great memories.
Len it’s soo killer you not only kept all these but shared them with us. I was one of the only people who owned a camcorder in the 90s from my group and I wish I had those videos from house parties, drag races and just out being teenagers. Fast forward to now and I don’t even think I have a picture outside my grad photo
The hair metal scene may have been dying out in LA and on the West coast in ‘91, but not in Florida and Texas where I grew up and was working in rock clubs and in hair metal bands. The rock era finally ended in Miami by late 1993 -early 1994 when the world went full grunge or rap Edit: so much to see here Note the Nikki Sixx poser at 4:23 4:47 Lamborghini Countach 7:21 amazing cute chick in typical 90s fashion
Wow!!!! I was there.....and I worked at the Ten Masa Sushi Bar across the street as a bouncer and at NRG National Research Group during the week!!! Dude ----thank you for the memories!!!
In 1991 my friend went to visit his Cousin in LA . He back home with a Box full weed and amateur underground porn . At this point in May of 1991 . I was Less than month away from Turning 15 . The youngins of today missed a helluva good time
This video is well. Just shakes lose so many great memories. A funny nonsense me and my friends did. Spent time on those very same streets probably maybe a year earlier. Because we were going to be rock stars lol seriously could not thank you enough for sharing these beautiful time capsules with us.
Man, I remember being a teen in the late 80's/early 90s, just hanging out on a Friday and Saturday night with friends, being wild and crazy, trying to pick up chicks.....God I miss those days
@@mountainman4987 \m/\m/ Up the Irons! Saw Maiden at Long Beach Arena in 1991. anthrax opened up for them. It was the 2nd night out of 3. They said we were the loudest crowd they had heard. Good times!
There’s psychological studies that show dramatic drops in empathy from the mid 90s to now. It’s definitely the Internet. People don’t have to face others personal reactions when they say stuff online and get the illusion they’re social. Born in the late 80s I think I must’ve been the last generation that avoided all these social media and weird political issues that we have now in my adolescence
My friend April took me in 2006 and it was dank, seedy, & depressing. Her picture is up on the wall with her big hair and spandex from years before and she even knew this little french man with a pervy vibe. She used to be a groupie and man, she was wild. She did every hair band that was well known and probably a few that weren't. I don't know how she survived all of that cocaine and booze....and probably unsafe sex. ew! lol
Did the Strip really change that quickly? I was up in Boston at the time... and it seemed like new hairbands were still getting radio airplay through like 93-ish... although it was mixed with the grunge bands, maybe we were behind you guys.. 95 is really when it seemed like everything started to die.. after Kurt died rock music seemed to shatter off into a million different pieces, all doing their own thing trying to become the next big trend... but nothing lasted...
Yes it did. I lived there from 1984 to 1991 and many of the fans grew up and started families. A new generation of music came in (Grunge). I got married one year after this. Now the new rockers, Grunge, metal older rock fans all go to concerts together. I helped promote Welcome to Rockville from 2011 to 2016. There are many massive festivals such as Welcome To Rockville and Rock on the Range plus 6 others venues in the tour that have 3 days of 50,000 to 80,000 fans per day with many rock acts from accross the rock genres playing usually from April to July. One big family now. Rock on! \m/\m/
wow..the memories..i had just turned 18 and my daughter was going on 2 months old..also wanted to mention as a guitarist the part at 1:03 made me smile!
Wild how many in the comments long for the connection and bonding these people showed on the video. Just shows how disconnected technology has made the human spirt now days.
It's sad how much the Strip has changed in thirty years, everything's being torn down for more overpriced apartments and hotels. However, last time I was outside The Roxy someone handed me a flier and engaged me in some conversation, so luckily a few embers of this era still burn. Thanks so much for sharing this and all your other home movies so I can live vicariously. When this was filmed I was laying in a crib about 30 miles away, not even three months old yet, but I always knew I should've been born 20 years earlier.
I have an old vintage t-shirt from KNAC (2:06) radio station that a friend of mine who lived in California gave me. He worked as a Personal Assistant to Matt Sorum (G'n'R) when they went on tour. He originally met him, because he did landscaping and worked at Matt's home in Malibu. They became good friends. Anyway, he would call into KNAC and occasionally give updates on the band; thus, the story on how Dave gave me the shirt years later. Even got to meet Matt and stay at his house. All nice people. Edit: I just remembered his name on the radio show (and with close friends) was "Tropical Dave " due to working with plants, etc.
Whoa! That's a great story. I love hearing about any connections / encounters that people had with the famous and semi famous rockers from that era. Thanks for sharing!!
@@LenEnders You're welcome. 😉 He was a close friend to me. I was able meet Tommy Lee on that trip, too. Matt gave Dave one of his drum sets, too. (I have a picture. Wish I could upload on here.) Thanks for the videos! edit: missing word
Definitely a flashback for me in Ft.Lauderdale. Watch Judas Priest parking lot on RUclips and it feels like I was there with them. Same feel everywhere back then.
Was in my Navy schools in San Diego in 1984-1985, that took around 70 weeks to complete. We would try to hit the Sunset Strip every weekend. That was the epicenter of the metal/glam band scene. I am 6’5” and looked relatively handsome (married a pro cheerleader while I was stationed in Florida…so, must have had something going on). Size 15 shoes didn’t hurt. I loved every aspect of that scene and I missed the hell out of it once I was stationed on the east coast.😊
I started at UCLA about four months after this video was filmed, and I spent many days and nights hanging out on The Strip. The LA flavor was about to change to Rage Against the Machine and Jane’s Addiction.
It's funny how at the time nights like this seem like no big deal at the time but give it 20 years and you realize they were some of the fun filled nights of being a young man discovering the world around you. Life goes by way too fast!
Some of us had a blast. As great as the industry was touring it was quietly painful I have always said. Late 80s and 90s was a big time in my life, world. As amazing as it was in our industry it was as equally painful. Working on a book called both sides of the stage. I have been in the industry from eight years old, lucky enough to have trained worked with the best in the intier industry. Than growing up in New York in my area of Brooklyn so many of my friend's ( older than me or not) became the biggest name's in metal. Throw in my first husband accidentally being discovered by Less paul at 14 did 90 percent of everyone's you all love drum tracks. I suddenly realized even more guys egos ran higher in music? Than Broadway or the sliver screen? My end of the industry. He was 4 year's older than I. We got married in my last year of high school, not a soul knowing other than ever possible person at are wedding our families. Music was what he called his medicine? Hey I Iove it just as much as anyone else, I played the drums, bass guitar, but I didn't understand that comment. I was than introduced to his favorites Al Di Meoloa, Chick , Paco etc. He suffered daily not from what people thought or even more knew about. Let's just say I'd never want to be a documented genius for all the money in the world. Drove him sadly mad and he passed. Than in the late 80s life even more so changed happily married again, flying back and forth because a new sound know one had heard of yet my amazing husband already knew of. From looking at him? You'd never have known he was into punk, so many band's. He always would play these bands under group from nirvana down the line. You'd have never known much about him unless he totally trusted you. He started working for MTV alongside his uncle who wasn't much older than us. He however is big too date in music and much more. Than bing bam boom suddenly that sound was discovered. I had my own obligations to for fill on Broadway as well as a few other project's. I than suddenly found myself flying back and forth from New York to California ( California I was already use to) to this place called Seattle. The next thing I know we're on a life of none stop touring. Sure we had breaks here and there go home but that's where I learned so much more. It honestly still blows my mind that people assume everything is wounderful parties the best of everything. Sorry to inform the world that's anything but the truth. I don't talk about certain people, thing's to date many confided in me. I learned that road, private jets seeing the world more than one can imagine isn't a very nice place. Don't let many fool you either I'll 💯 percent alway’s fear never forget what one musician the world seems to believe his twisted lies. I'll personally say he's the most ungrateful inhuman toxic individual in the world. He's the biggest reason two of the world's most talented band members are dead and honestly way too young and became two of my closest friend's. Many people call me a living walking diary that doesn't talk, the safe place. Than a war breaks out that people were lead to believe was over and it was anything but. Tour bus pulled over ( I was privately told a while back at our place about, just in case, but I was told everything. As well as what to do. I maybe anti war, but when you love someone? you have support them.) Imagine a tour bus being followed just to take your loved one suddenly because he was needed? Not cool in your 20s Many of a list of whoes who became brother's to me. Thank what ever his uncle was alway’s working with someone and I was there. I get upset still because many musicians you alway’s hear, read lies or about their drug abuse addiction. There's (many that made it and fight it everyday still to stay clean.) so many amazing thing's about many from there Interests, there personal lives and wtf came up with the title grunge? Spoiled rich brats? I'd love to laugh in their faces I have class but I honestly think I'd lose it on. They were amazing, so many different passions intriguing wounderful guy's. Spoiled? Brats? EPIC FAIL regarding that b.s. If a fan worse groupies ask me certain questions unless I think it will save their lives? I say nothing regarding the 80s and 90s. I enjoy sharing who they really were, listened to or how all those hard asses were the most amazing people in my life. My brother's from all different music had to help me once because I lost a friend in my side of the industry (art's) throw in my second husband. I was lucky I didn't do drugs or really drink. Green is fine, but anything else? I started saying to myself it's slow suicide, byhond self medicating. Tg my mom was a counselor and educated myself big-time. I miss many but I'm writing away about who each of them really we're sure the intier music, it's industry but many fan's should know the amazing thing's about them. This video took me back in time. I needed a little inspiration again a muse of some sort. Who ever it belongs to, whomever uploaded it? Thank's it didn't take me to the madness but those moments on the sunset strip that was peaceful fun great conversation or just listening too many. You honestly can never go back it sucks everything was lost in hurricane Sandy or some dumb groupies breaking into your storage and believe me when I find them? There as bad as stupid criminals they have no brains and always slip up. Ty for sharing this, people may not like it however I enjoyed time’s like this. Peace music enjoy the show May 8th 5 30 everyone will be able to watch. We all want to return, concerts festivals but watch the show. Next Saturday May 8th 5 30 eastern time, unless people do it? They'll honestly end music show's and Broadway. I never thought I'd ever miss the road in my life. Peace ty again I stay low key, I needed this as well as to fix what I originally wrote. Rock 🎸 🤘 on
Being a boy from Brooklyn I always wish I could've experienced the sunset strip in it's heyday. Being 45 now I can't go back in time but this video helps
Dude , i miss those days of talking shit 99.9% of the time hanging out and messing with girls you don't even know.never made it to the strip or the west coast. But we partied hard here on the east coast. Thanks for sharing your adventures. I just wish more of us filmed these times.
This kind of hanging out doesn't happen anymore. 😢 Stangers don't talk to strangers and act as if they've always known each other.
I know. It's sad!!
Of course it does, you never been on drugs? Everybody's your friend.
@@nealrichardwilliamthompson7452 😂😂😂 Good call!!
Bible Stuff We’re in a low trust society now
People are like that these days. I try saying what's up to strangers sometimes and I get a nasty look lots of times.
I was 21 and living in LA at the time right out of college. I’m laughing and wincing because I was exactly like these guys. Hair and everything. What a time to be alive. This was right before Nirvana exploded and grunge took over, so we’re watching the very last days of the Sunset scene right here.
The last gasp of hair metal!!! 😭
Myself as well!
I bet those were some fun times. I would have loved to experience LA in the 70s-80s-90s , bet it was really cool.
it could have crushed u emotionally to see the demise of good times
21 Also at that time living in the "Valley" I actually wanted to watch this video till the end to see if i saw myself or anyone else i knew. What a killer time we had hangin out on the Strip. Im 52 and still listening to the Metal from back then and still rocking the long hair! " Long Hair Rocks " 🤘
I was 22 when this was filmed. I remember when everybody started wearing the white jeans. It was all black and white everything. The monochrome 90s was taking over from the colorful 80s.
Yes!!
I was 18 and ready for the girls and drugs!
Why black and white though ?
@@maxmustardman298 it was like time for a lil contrast or so. Had that special 90's grunge feeling to it! The 80's were more neon and stuff, so the 90's went over to cool😎
I remember being aware of that as a kid. From my perspective the black and white aesthetic seemed to be tied in with money and maturity. Colorful was more for the kids and whatever... and the black and white identified a sense of ambition and direction. There was a sexyness to it. Michael Jackson's whole "Bad" thing reflects this aesthetic.
The days when you could party in the parking lot or on the sidewalk with total strangers and everyone was cool to each other are long over.😥
Yeah. I doubt anyone even knew they were living in a special time. Hard to realize until those times are gone and you're looking back.
Yeah cuz nobody ever has been raped or murdered at parties like that right nothing has changed LOL people are just stupid or these days and don't even know how to talk to a person unless it's on the phone which makes it easier to pray take and destroy the scum. Trust me relationship scams find some dumb w**** tell her how much you love her beg her for money she sends it and then you never see her it works trust me
@@Mr.Death101 One of the dumbest things I have ever read. Congratudolences.
Not true
Girls can still party with anyone.
Much happier time, no cell phones, no social media just ppl having a good time
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I'm crying right now. I was born in 1970 so the 80s and 90s are very special to me. I wish I would of went to Los Angeles back then. I've been there a few times the last few years and its nothing like this anymore. It's so sad. Thank you for all the amazing footage Len. ✨
I'm 48 I feel same way that's why I watch these videos.
I was born in 70 as well and feel the same way. I can’t believe I’m 50 because those days don’t seem that long ago to me. But I guess it’s that way for most. It was definitely a more positive time, things today feel darker and less optimistic. Take care
Its nothing like it was in friggen 2015 haha.
I was born in 73 and grew up in Los Angeles skateboarding and raising hell all over the city! 🤘
jupp..I had the same reaction:) born 1970
80s hair bands were on life support in a nearby hospital and Grunge was being born on different floor.
Yes this scene would change real quickly at end of yr with Nirvana
@a w Correct...but the observation was made looking through the lense of the present while pointed towards (and reflecting upon) that precise moment in the past. In any event, it works in either context as a simple statement of historical fact.
Motley crue were still going good in 91 .......decade of decadance...n all that......for me 93 was the year it turned real fast
Grunge SUCKS
80S METAL 4 LIFE
@@mercierjanice agreed
As ironic as it sounds, these kids had an more "clean" appearence, more glowing, more natural, less factured
@Estela Lopez yeah i know it, but its ironic how these late 80s/early 90s kids with all that glam stuff used to looks cleaner and clear than kids today
That shine is called optimism
I agree! You ever notice that kids in school pictures back then glowed more? There was just a happiness about us.
@@anikadiamond007 yes and now we have to deal with everything your generation created so that might explain some of it but it does seem nice
I remember the joy of youth back in this year, the fun with friends, loving and living music. I'd go back in an heartbeat.
You TRUE ! Now the kids are totally miserable, they're not having fun anymore (or before that decade) and life sucks and music sucks and we should totally drink bleach.
It still blows my mind to think about how all those 80's Sunset Strip bands went from platinum albums, hit singles, packed arenas, heavy rotation on MTV, and God know what else to almost nothing overnight when grunge hit the scene. All of the sudden, those once-popular bands were thrown off MTV and radio and played to half-empty clubs, if they didn't break up and go get regular jobs entirely. It was just a sad state of affairs when the door slammed shut forever on the 80's hard rock scene.
I would argue - and as I remember - that a lot of that music (at least that was being played on MTV and the radio) just wasn't very good. And I'm not a hater of hair metal, but by 90/91 the stuff (not all of it) getting airplay was (mostly) weaker than it was in the 80's. That's what allowed other music to get a foothold in the first place. Blame commercialization, I think, because record companies probably cared more about a band's "look" than their actual music. Enter Nirvana, who didn't give a shit about their look.
I graduated high school in ‘91. Man, for me, the ‘80s were the best. Concerts, parties, chasing girls. Wild nights! I tell my daughter about those days. I got her into a lot of the music from that decade.
Same here! Jeff, I miss the Hell out of it!
Class of 91 brother!! Best of both worlds!! Caught a good bunch of the 80s and the coolest part of the 90s!
Class of ‘89 here. Miss the old days. Technology killed the personal connections.
We should create a movement to bring back these old days and ban all phones.
@@jeffheim163 Only PAY PHONES! Maybe pagers I remember pagers in early 90s. I definitely agree 👍
i'm 15 and i wish more than anything that i could have lived like this. . . things aren't the same anymore, and i hate it. things are more strict now, and people are less willing to be carefree these days. i'm in love with all of the music and rockstars, etc. from back then.
thank you for making this channel, and living my dreams.
Thank you so much for watching!!!
My Dream is to be 15 again.
I was 18 in 91 what an amazing time to be alive. Id give almost anything to go back one more time.
And the irony of all of this was on this very night another Seattle band was 20 mins away recording their album at Sound City studios. That album was Nevermind.
It was an amazing album. Previous commenter has been diluted by all the fucking hairspray he's inhaled. For fuck sakes, go cry in your spandex bro..shit.
necneck hahaha......true.
Grunge changed the culture from being this displayed. Happy joking with friends to self Lothian depressed hippies.
I wish grunge was skipped in rock roll evolution.
Even the girls at that time zone was that easy , so humble and pretty ! without any kind a plastic surgery , over painted makeup or social Media filters !!
Agree the girls in this video look beautiful...they remind me of the video vixens you'd see in a late 80s-early 90s cheesy hair metal band video. (Like Bobbie Brown the cherry pie girl ) And sure girls wore a lot of makeup, push up bras( or even breast implants)a had overly teased hair but still manage to look more natural than many women from today's era. And I say this as a woman myself. I love the mini skirts, high heels and wish it would come back in fashion
They were so amazing and we all had a great time! My favorite girlfriend was from this time!
ruclips.net/video/ewTC4xnsT3s/видео.html I was miles away from Len lol!
@@SolSkinn wow .. typically 90s beautiful lady 👌🏻
@@winterlynn9012 oh yeah, the tight stretch skirts and dresses🤗sooo cool, I loved wearing them✨good times..
I was 24 in 91 and we did the exact same thing in down town Dallas, so much fun, everyone was ur friend.....can't even imagine how young people today mingle....
It sucks I'm 18 I wish I had 70s 80s90s experience I would be a different person then
I was 22 in 91 and in Austin, Texas doing the same thing...getting ready for LA
I'm 22 right now and this is exactly what me and my friends do everytime we hang out it's not any different Today at least not for us can't speak for the rest of the world
My friends and I went to The Basement, Joe's Garage and Deep Ellum!
You just don't see kids play on the streets anymore where I used to play as a kid with dozens of other kids. It's sad how kids have turned into couch potatoes.
NO CELL PHONES!!!...You left your house and that was that all that was left was the answering machine...DAMN I MISS the '80s & Early '90s
In less than a year, the entire scene would change.
And they never saw it coming...
@@LenEnders That was the best part
River's Edge hinted it.
@Noble Failures damn!!
@Noble Failures I'm the same!! Been hitting Warrant in repeat lately lol!
I spent 9+ hours watching all of your videos! You must had nice time in those times! It's so fun watching them. It's so crazy when teenagers have changed a lot over years. I always been fascinated by people in the ancient times-90s which inspired me to study anthropology. Keep uploading videos 🤘
Damn! Over 9 hours??!! That's awesome! I'm so glad you're enjoying my videos. I have a bunch more to come that will hopefully help you in your anthropological pursuits!!
Hahaha ancient times LoL it was just a few days ago , least that's how it feels 😁
Ancient times? Quit being insulting.
Anthropologists starting to cite Len's videos in their papers.
@@anikadiamond007 ththtpphhhh
Great video, I remember the 80's and 90's well. I was born in 1968, grew up with all the big hair metal bands and had the long hair until 1987 then I joined the Navy and was stationed in San Diego and I got to go and hang out on the Sunset strip, it was awesome ( especially being from a small town in Georgia.
I bet that was so cool!! I would've loved going to the strip in the 80s!
U never have friends like the ones we grow up with in this time , kids have been social distancing for 15 years now wtf is really going on with our country ..
Yeah it's fucked
@Pixi Take your bible thumping somewhere else
@Pixi Did you really just say "Enjoy the fires?" You do realize people die and lose their homes in those fires right? Fucking moron. But I guess according to you it was all just God's plan right?
@Pixi Fuck you, I'm not gonna remember this conversation. Get fucked. 🖕
@Pixi Oh you're a woman? Ok then. The rest of your comment is so far from reality it's laughable.
When everyone talked to each other, and not at, while looking down. I miss those days!
bruh nowdays people are just looking at their phones in the side walk and not talking to one another
I think technology has had a negative impact on quality of life.
n0v4 003 n0v4 003 it’s not technology dumbass it’s you. The problem humans have is they are always comparing themselves to these motherfuckers on social media and it’s killing their mental state. How bout you stay off snap chat and instagram and Facebook and do yourself a damn favor. Fuck I hate people who blame it on the phones learn how to take accountability for yourself 🤦🏾♂️. Stop caring about what others think and worry about yourself 🥱.
@@50ksubscriberschallenge9 fucking finally, recently found this channel, love it, I love the time period and yet every fucking comment is about phones and people not being able to socialize, it's not about phones! It's them! If these people were born in the 70's they'd have spent the 80's and 90's playing nintendo, watching movies and reading on their own, with not one friend, they're so insecure they need to be different amd say they're better than others. social gatherings still exist, we still get fucked up together and listen to music, loser kids just got their own head so far up their asses they can't see other kids around them.
Saul Hendrix Exactly my point fam. Don’t come in the kitchen if you can’t handle the heat. If you can’t handle social media don’t use it.
Yeah cause these winners had it all together
Combat Vet nah it’s just that people always compare themselves to other people when they need to stop being bitches and torcher their enemies with success. Like god damn you don’t like your life do something about it.
Things were changing in 1991. I was only 13, but I could feel a big difference between 1991 and 1987, even as a child. The music scene was definitely getting more depressed around this time. 1991 was the year most 80s hair bands started dying. Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (not the deodorant) came out that summer. I remember it well because MTV started showcasing the new Seattle sound. 1991 was depressing.
Why do you think the cultural mood shifted to depressing by 1991? What was happening, generally speaking?
@ Not sure. I was 13 years old at the time. 1990 was a dance-hoppy year with fun songs like "U Can't Touch This" and many others. Then we got REM's depressing "Losing My Religion" and other equally depressing songs. This was pre-grunge. Pre Nirvana. By the time 1992, 1993, 1994 rolled around it was at its peak. Music didn't start getting happy again until 1998 with Smashmouth, Sugar Ray, etc. I was 20 by that time.
Nahuel Patiño I was only 14 when this footage was filmed, the 80’s was a more brash, fun and hedonistic time. The early 90’s wasn’t necessarily depressing it was reflective and filled with irony. Don’t forget the 80’s also had the start of AIDS, threat of nuclear war via the Cold War was very real and scary, stock market crash in the west in 87. The 90’s was more about a low key slacker vibe, maybe the hangover after the party but I’m just speaking generally. It seemed to me as if the 80’s was a very aspirational time in the western world and a whole bunch of kids wanted absolutely nothing to do with that, they dropped out for a while. If I could name the prominent or influential drug for each decade 80’s = coke, 90’s = heroin.
It is odd that the optimism of the 80s died. We won the cold war, the economy was good (after brief 92 recession), no wars until Yugoslavia...
@@Havencheese that's a fairly accurate description of the 80s-90s transition,I was just a kid at the time but even I noticed that when I went back to school in late summer of 1991 I kind of noticed that things changed but couldn't put my finger on it per se.by the time 1993 rolled around a lot of the mtv videos were almost all grunge and our local rock station was almost always playing soundgarden ugh...
This is hands down my favorite vintage footage channel. I was a teen during this time it was amazing.
It's kind of sad seeing this footage of the Strip in 1991 knowing full well that this would be the final year of its glory years.It didn't end overnight but it did end fairly rapidly.
No one will ever get to experience it again! 😭😭😭
Would you say September of that year marked the end of an era?
@@ShadowNightghost86Yes because that’s when teen spirit came out.
If Jani Lane, Sammy Hagar, Joe Elliot and Danny Vaughn were in a band together.
😂😂😂😂 definitely!!!
Only it's Sebastian Bach Sammy Hagar Joe Elliott in Danny 😯
😂
we also have the participation of kiko loureiro in this video
that is an interesting combination
I was a 90s grunge dude for sure and the hair scene was a bit before my time but I have always secretly kind of loved this era and this makes me really wish I was there. Thanks for posting!!!!!
Rad video, Len!
Man, watching this, you realize just how far people have drifted apart.
You're so right! Thank you for watching my friend!
Agreed. With technology, everyone is connected yet nobody belongs...
Well, that's life. Everybody drifts apart.
If you guys had arrived a few years earlier, maybe you could've had a better chance. Can you imagine the crazy stories, parties and things that happened on that strip? One of the coolest and most iconic scenes ever. 🤘
The greatest!!
Ah, the memories! I was two weeks from graduating high school when this was filmed. When girls were naturally beautiful, people were happy, chill and unpretentious and we had AMAZING times!
"When girls were naturally beautiful"
Dude come on, grandpa's were saying the exact same thing in 91 😏
@@thomasdupont7186 well my dear Thomas. I believe your grandpa was correct. Nowadays we cant recognize girls from boys. You see boys making long hairs and girls removing their hairs entirely and appears very bold. What is worse is seeing girls marrying girls and guys marrying guys. Totally disgusting
@@ghassanjenainaty4212 "What is worse is seeing girls marrying girls and guys marrying guys. Totally disgusting"
you're goofing around right ? Why is it your problem ? If you were gay you would have a totally different opinion obviously (and if you're trolling well congratulation I failed and replied).
@@thomasdupont7186 I am not goofing around but just stating my opinion. If you don't like it you can just shut up and schroll down. The rules of nature should not be played with since they are not kids games
@@ghassanjneinaty4421 You're not "goofing around", but you sounds like to be a goofball my kind sir :) I'm sorry I'm sure you're nice beside these anti gay opinions. But : "The rules of nature" ?! lol, your ramble on politics and human rights doesn't sound very scientific to me.
That's ok tho, I guess we can still argue without name calling, and it's always interesting to speak with someone who doesn't think like you do. But why do you care that much ? why don't you let others have the same BASIC RIGHTS you have and be in peace ? It doesn't mean you have to agree or love them, but just let them have that, it won't be the fall of civilisation trust me....
These were the good times! Hollywood was so fun back then, the chicks were SO cool. The last time I played Hollywood in 2003, it was over and done.
The total vibe is just so friendly in this video. Nowa days, you try to talk to a cute girl or something, the response you get is, "Get away freak!!!"
Years of media brainwashing and indoctrination have turned people against each other...
lol
I was about to comment: "Grunge was JUST about to hit, and that entire scene would be much different"
... Then I saw the description, where Len said it perfectly for me. Loving these videos, Len. So fantastic you held on to these videos all these years. Us younger folks can watch a television versions and descriptions of what these days were like, what young folks were like, but your videos give us the truth of what it actually was like and we get to see it up close. No scripts, just kids being kids in a much different Era. . You are an OG vlogger. Sooo very cool.
Thank you so much my friend!!!!
This is when people actually socialized!
life basically feels like a simulation now, 80s & 90s (and earlier of course) were so real, at some point we went into a simulation..
keli 20.30 tell me more
Jennah G the earth ended in 2012 which is 2020 we shifted reality with the Mandella effect
Magicalindigo Adult Can you be a bit more explicit? Did it end physically and we’re all dead but we haven’t woken up,instead they transferred our consciousness to a simulated world?
@@magicalindigoadult3838 nah human civilization will end when technology enters the singularity. We just came into the digital age after 1995. Thats why everything feels so fake right now. People don't go outside anymore or spend their time usefully. The same reason why we are here wasting time on youtube which didn't exist back then
@@magicalindigoadult3838 elaborate
I was on the strip in 1989 at 17 years old. A great adventure for me and a great time.
Two months later
Smells like teen spirit hit the radio
And the remnants of the watered down late 80s like slaughter, firehouse, tesla, skid row were about to come to an abrupt no more.
By this time I already cut the ass length hair, quit the hard parting, quite the band and was a year in to the dreaded responsibility phase of life.
Had the best of times though.
80-90 RIP
The sunset strip is unrecognizable now… but if you know what to look for, you can certainly enjoy a nostalgic stroll and bar hop a bit into the past.
'90-'92 are still considered the 80's because it still had that 80's LA , Big Hair , Rockstar vibe but its kinda sad watching videos from then because by mid 93 it would all be dead thanks to that garbage grunge movement . everyone started dressing normal & cutting their hair . that larger then life party all the time 80's rockstar lifestyle had ended .. the mid '90's - onwards blew .
Yeah grunge realy did suck.
Yeah grunge really is garbage everyone was cool with being sad and depressed, Heavy Metal and the 80s rule🤘🤘
Grunge had some pretty good hard rockin bands you just had to dig deeper. Bands like Tad Gruntruck Steel Mill. The ones that made it big Soundgarden-AIC were musically credible. Pearl Jam-Nirvana we’re always sellout garbage to me
Glam metal, big hair killed the cool Rock/party scene. Nothing cool about about big hair bullshit. These losers killed rock and roll by 1983-84. 1984-1991 was lame comparatively. Bunch of fucking uncool poseurs.
grunge came up in the 80´s and it was obviously a l so influenced by hairbands
Thanks for sharing your footage. The 1980s and early 1990s LA is a fascinating places for me. One I never could experience myself. During the time 91 the video was made I was only 6 years old and I was and in fact, I am still living Austria. Have seen the 80s and 90s LA quite often im Movies though and have also thought that was a interesting place with a special vibe.
Back when teens didn't talk to each other through a screen.
a w, you missing the point here dude.
Stfu last time I recalled my generation is starting a revolution wtf did your generation do apart from be complicit to racism
a w, nah the other guy was just saying that the old generation is over and no need to grief about it.
@@rueb3864 Yes, by burning and looting good job!
@@rueb3864 Another thing I am canadian you fucking twit! Where do you think the destination for the underground railroad was? Dummy!
I was a young young man then. A great time for a long haired guy, playing guitar. Lots of good memories. My method? Long hair, tight jeans, cool jacket. Played in a few bands. The girls cared about their looks. The world is not better today. It’s so bad in fact.
Scorpions song “Wind Of Change” was topping the charts in America right about then. It was big in Europe shortly after the wall came down, took a little longer to hit tops in the States. That’s the way the music industry worked then
I’d be interested in a “where are they now” video shot on the same camcorder please “)
I only knew two of the guys in this video. One of the other guys we had met a week before this and everyone else we met that night.
@@LenEnders Do you still know them? Did you shoot this?
@@paddytguitar I still know the two blond guys, but all the dark haired dudes I haven't seen or spoken to since then. And we were all trading the camera around but I did shoot some of it
@@LenEnders that’s awesome. Looked at your channel more and it’s epic
Back when all the girls were feminine, And fine as hell! I was born in 79, so im a little younger than you. But had 3 older siblings. A sister an 2 brothers who graduated in 86, 88, and 91! And idolized all 3 aswell as guys like you and your buddy's! I can still vaguely smell a mix of hairspray , makeup , and Marlboros , When I think about the girls from then! Atleast i got to be a teen in the 90s and a part of the last generation before technology change/ruined everything.
Back when the girls were feminine........and so were the guys!
@@RonaldReaganRocks1 yeet 😚😆
Today girl masculine because masculine now rules the world. Most people prefers boys and masculinity, in Asia having a son is a "god" thing.
There were tomboys and more masculine women back then, too. You see a slice of the past and think you've seen the whole pie.
Women back than was PRETTIER
For the guy who filmed this. You are a legend
@@douglasbush9815 thank u very much. Super pumped u enjoyed it!
I really wish I could go back and hang out with you guys, you're channel is gold. 😩🤘🏼
I second that! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Hey but you can ! Do you know where Paris is ?
Living in Hollywood Hills, and hanging out on the Strip and places like Roxy, The Satellite, and the legendary Troubadour, You just HAD to spend your youth (if you were the right age) there in 1980s.. I'll always remember those nights. So decadent.. lol.. We fucking RULED !
I wish I could've been there just a few years earlier!!!
I was over in the Desert when this was filmed,,,,,I did have all my Hair Band Tapes with me,, The Walkman was a great escape,,,
It's funny how this throwaway video is basically a historical piece of a time long gone now. I've always been fascinated with the scene on the Sunset Strip, and it's next to impossible to find videos of it during this time. There's the Circus video and this.
Thanks for sharing this little piece of history with us.
I love the Circus Hollywood videos!!!
Me and my bros used to hang out in Hollyweird on LSD causing all kinds of havoc on our skateboards. We also used to hang out at the Hollyweird sign and smoke out! Good old daze!
I was born in April 1972 and I got to enjoy the awesome eighties as a teen. No cell phones, internet, or social media. I love to read the comments, this video brings back great memories.
I can feel the 1991 radiating front his video and i was born in 1997 lol, awesome as always 😎👍
Thank u so much!!
Cool Pizza Guy same I was born in 97 wish I could of lived the 90s
I was born in 97 as well 👍😎
@@fruitywubbs4419 I was born in 1996 and I wish to be alive in 80s.
This could have been 1986 as well. The big hair and tight dresses on girls makes me 17 all over again(I wish). LOL!
Len it’s soo killer you not only kept all these but shared them with us. I was one of the only people who owned a camcorder in the 90s from my group and I wish I had those videos from house parties, drag races and just out being teenagers. Fast forward to now and I don’t even think I have a picture outside my grad photo
The hair metal scene may have been dying out in LA and on the West coast in ‘91, but not in Florida and Texas where I grew up and was working in rock clubs and in hair metal bands. The rock era finally ended in Miami by late 1993 -early 1994 when the world went full grunge or rap
Edit: so much to see here
Note the Nikki Sixx poser at 4:23
4:47 Lamborghini Countach
7:21 amazing cute chick in typical 90s fashion
Wow!!!! I was there.....and I worked at the Ten Masa Sushi Bar across the street as a bouncer and at NRG National Research Group during the week!!! Dude ----thank you for the memories!!!
Love hearing about stuff like this! Thank u for watching!!
In 1991 my friend went to visit his Cousin in LA . He back home with a Box full weed and amateur underground porn . At this point in May of 1991 . I was Less than month away from Turning 15 . The youngins of today missed a helluva good time
Thanks for sharing this story! 🤘🤘🤘
Ed Powers Porn ?
This video is well. Just shakes lose so many great memories. A funny nonsense me and my friends did. Spent time on those very same streets probably maybe a year earlier. Because we were going to be rock stars lol seriously could not thank you enough for sharing these beautiful time capsules with us.
“Have you ever sat in one of those seats that you sit in?”
Words of a true god
Man, I remember being a teen in the late 80's/early 90s, just hanging out on a Friday and Saturday night with friends, being wild and crazy, trying to pick up chicks.....God I miss those days
Back when girls flirted and were not so self righteous. I lived a 1 minute walk from here at this time in 1991. Almost everyone was friendly!
Lol I was 9 😔
@@tlwest21 So you remember some of the good times then. You were still old enough to basically know what was going on.
MAIDEN BROTHER! I grew up in Downey and used to hang out in Hollyweird all the time like these dudes did.
@@mountainman4987 \m/\m/ Up the Irons! Saw Maiden at Long Beach Arena in 1991. anthrax opened up for them. It was the 2nd night out of 3. They said we were the loudest crowd they had heard. Good times!
@@TheKevo7777 I was born in Long Beach! I also remember that concert because my cousins went and i missed out! You're lucky! Lol! 🤘
There’s psychological studies that show dramatic drops in empathy from the mid 90s to now. It’s definitely the Internet. People don’t have to face others personal reactions when they say stuff online and get the illusion they’re social. Born in the late 80s I think I must’ve been the last generation that avoided all these social media and weird political issues that we have now in my adolescence
the rainbow was still there as of a few years ago. that's a weird stuck in time place on the inside. really surprised it was still there..
My friend April took me in 2006 and it was dank, seedy, & depressing. Her picture is up on the wall with her big hair and spandex from years before and she even knew this little french man with a pervy vibe. She used to be a groupie and man, she was wild. She did every hair band that was well known and probably a few that weren't. I don't know how she survived all of that cocaine and booze....and probably unsafe sex. ew! lol
@@kitschmygrits4836 niiice lol
I was just at the Rainbow last week lol. It’s still the exact same
Did the Strip really change that quickly? I was up in Boston at the time... and it seemed like new hairbands were still getting radio airplay through like 93-ish... although it was mixed with the grunge bands, maybe we were behind you guys.. 95 is really when it seemed like everything started to die.. after Kurt died rock music seemed to shatter off into a million different pieces, all doing their own thing trying to become the next big trend... but nothing lasted...
Yeah it changed super fast! I was back in the Pacific Northwest by 93 and it was all grunge all the time by then up there of course.
After 95 Rage against the machine and Smashing pumpkins were everywhere
It seemed to me when AIC released Dirt that’s when it was game over for Hair Metal
Yes it did. I lived there from 1984 to 1991 and many of the fans grew up and started families. A new generation of music came in (Grunge). I got married one year after this. Now the new rockers, Grunge, metal older rock fans all go to concerts together. I helped promote Welcome to Rockville from 2011 to 2016. There are many massive festivals such as Welcome To Rockville and Rock on the Range plus 6 others venues in the tour that have 3 days of 50,000 to 80,000 fans per day with many rock acts from accross the rock genres playing usually from April to July. One big family now. Rock on! \m/\m/
After ‘92, the metal culture of LA was pretty much gone.
Man, to see old footage of the Lamborghini Countach cruising in its prime. Golden.
Omg!!!! There you are in my neighborhood! That's the year I saw GnR and Skid Row at the forum! And know what???? I have a short video of just before!!
wow..the memories..i had just turned 18 and my daughter was going on 2 months old..also wanted to mention as a guitarist the part at 1:03 made me smile!
Yeah, I noticed too. Did the same thing for me. :)
Dude! I love your videos! I totally miss the awesome 80s my teen years! keep uploading more 80s 90s awesome vids!
Thank you for watching!!! Really glad you found my channel! Many more to come!
this still feels like the 80s to me i think grundge was when the 90s realy started.
Before listening to Hair Metal back in 1980s, we got Grunge in 1990s. :D
Wild how many in the comments long for the connection and bonding these people showed on the video.
Just shows how disconnected technology has made the human spirt now days.
Remember those days..So much has changed. I want to go back to that time period. That guy with the real curly hair is cute lol
I was cute to in the 80's but i'm old now. 😢
The 80s and the 90s were the BEST!
It's sad how much the Strip has changed in thirty years, everything's being torn down for more overpriced apartments and hotels. However, last time I was outside The Roxy someone handed me a flier and engaged me in some conversation, so luckily a few embers of this era still burn. Thanks so much for sharing this and all your other home movies so I can live vicariously. When this was filmed I was laying in a crib about 30 miles away, not even three months old yet, but I always knew I should've been born 20 years earlier.
Thank you so much and thanks for the update. I was there just before Covid on a Friday night & it was absolutely dead.
I have an old vintage t-shirt from KNAC (2:06) radio station that a friend of mine who lived in California gave me. He worked as a Personal Assistant to Matt Sorum (G'n'R) when they went on tour. He originally met him, because he did landscaping and worked at Matt's home in Malibu. They became good friends.
Anyway, he would call into KNAC and occasionally give updates on the band; thus, the story on how Dave gave me the shirt years later. Even got to meet Matt and stay at his house. All nice people.
Edit: I just remembered his name on the radio show (and with close friends) was "Tropical Dave " due to working with plants, etc.
Whoa! That's a great story. I love hearing about any connections / encounters that people had with the famous and semi famous rockers from that era. Thanks for sharing!!
@@LenEnders You're welcome. 😉 He was a close friend to me. I was able meet Tommy Lee on that trip, too. Matt gave Dave one of his drum sets, too. (I have a picture. Wish I could upload on here.)
Thanks for the videos!
edit: missing word
@@Scorpio_Moonshine So cool!!! I love it!
Skating and destroying the sunset strip back in the day must have been hella good times
Just when I thought Heavy Metal Parking Lot was the ultimate metal heads time capsule...
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@@LenEnders damn who the hell was the 2nd guy long hair said hiso hot
@@LenEnders who's the one with the 2 women so hot is he a celeberty?
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Love the chicks around that time.. long hair n very natural
the poofy hair is cute
You think all that hairspray is natural?? xD
Definitely a flashback for me in Ft.Lauderdale. Watch Judas Priest parking lot on RUclips and it feels like I was there with them. Same feel everywhere back then.
Was in my Navy schools in San Diego in 1984-1985, that took around 70 weeks to complete. We would try to hit the Sunset Strip every weekend. That was the epicenter of the metal/glam band scene. I am 6’5” and looked relatively handsome (married a pro cheerleader while I was stationed in Florida…so, must have had something going on). Size 15 shoes didn’t hurt. I loved every aspect of that scene and I missed the hell out of it once I was stationed on the east coast.😊
I love these old vintage videos!!! I miss those days!
Now that was the place to be in the 80s. Awesome job filming this. Love your videos. Born in 1970. So these bring back great memories.
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Man, I would fit right in with these guys. This my type of lifestyle and humor and everything! U frickin' rock Len!
Great video. I am older but my heart and soul still lives those days gone by.
Thanx!!
Seems like yesterday but it was actually almost 30 years ago!😱
I started at UCLA about four months after this video was filmed, and I spent many days and nights hanging out on The Strip. The LA flavor was about to change to Rage Against the Machine and Jane’s Addiction.
After 1992/1993 all of this was pretty much history.
Wow...pure 80's feeling..
The guy kissing all the girls is like very sweet. I kinda fell in love with him and i don't even know him. I've seen this video like ten times ❤️🤘🏻🤘🏻
I still wonder what ever happened to that dude!
@@LenEnders do you know his name? Look him up if so.
@@joshuatraffanstedt2695 I only recall his first name
Lol that's hilarious. I found him to be a modern day d-bag. :D I loved when the pretty girl ducked out on him. lol
12:35 things are alot faker now
wow i like ur era...all natural..no filter...u can socialize in person most of the time
It's funny how at the time nights like this seem like no big deal at the time but give it 20 years and you realize they were some of the fun filled nights of being a young man discovering the world around you. Life goes by way too fast!
Full Kook Hollywood 1991 Flashback nice thanks for the memories. I was born in Burbank used to always party on the Strip.
When times were much simpler damn this takes me back
Went there July '89 took a picture of that same KNAC billboard on the side of Gazzari's,what a party that night was! this video is frickin' awesome!!
Thank you!!
Gazarri's was the place to see 👀 alot of Rock stars- Gene Simmons was there with Cher!
Good times!!
Pure gold! I had some great times in the 90s.
Thanks!!!
Some of us had a blast. As great as the industry was touring it was quietly painful I have always said. Late 80s and 90s was a big time in my life, world. As amazing as it was in our industry it was as equally painful. Working on a book called both sides of the stage. I have been in the industry from eight years old, lucky enough to have trained worked with the best in the intier industry. Than growing up in New York in my area of Brooklyn so many of my friend's ( older than me or not) became the biggest name's in metal. Throw in my first husband accidentally being discovered by Less paul at 14 did 90 percent of everyone's you all love drum tracks. I suddenly realized even more guys egos ran higher in music? Than Broadway or the sliver screen? My end of the industry. He was 4 year's older than I. We got married in my last year of high school, not a soul knowing other than ever possible person at are wedding our families. Music was what he called his medicine? Hey I Iove it just as much as anyone else, I played the drums, bass guitar, but I didn't understand that comment. I was than introduced to his favorites Al Di Meoloa, Chick , Paco etc. He suffered daily not from what people thought or even more knew about. Let's just say I'd never want to be a documented genius for all the money in the world. Drove him sadly mad and he passed. Than in the late 80s life even more so changed happily married again, flying back and forth because a new sound know one had heard of yet my amazing husband already knew of. From looking at him? You'd never have known he was into punk, so many band's. He always would play these bands under group from nirvana down the line. You'd have never known much about him unless he totally trusted you. He started working for MTV alongside his uncle who wasn't much older than us. He however is big too date in music and much more. Than bing bam boom suddenly that sound was discovered. I had my own obligations to for fill on Broadway as well as a few other project's. I than suddenly found myself flying back and forth from New York to California ( California I was already use to) to this place called Seattle. The next thing I know we're on a life of none stop touring. Sure we had breaks here and there go home but that's where I learned so much more. It honestly still blows my mind that people assume everything is wounderful parties the best of everything. Sorry to inform the world that's anything but the truth. I don't talk about certain people, thing's to date many confided in me. I learned that road, private jets seeing the world more than one can imagine isn't a very nice place. Don't let many fool you either I'll 💯 percent alway’s fear never forget what one musician the world seems to believe his twisted lies. I'll personally say he's the most ungrateful inhuman toxic individual in the world. He's the biggest reason two of the world's most talented band members are dead and honestly way too young and became two of my closest friend's. Many people call me a living walking diary that doesn't talk, the safe place. Than a war breaks out that people were lead to believe was over and it was anything but. Tour bus pulled over ( I was privately told a while back at our place about, just in case, but I was told everything. As well as what to do. I maybe anti war, but when you love someone? you have support them.) Imagine a tour bus being followed just to take your loved one suddenly because he was needed? Not cool in your 20s
Many of a list of whoes who became brother's to me. Thank what ever his uncle was alway’s working with someone and I was there. I get upset still because many musicians you alway’s hear, read lies or about their drug abuse addiction. There's (many that made it and fight it everyday still to stay clean.) so many amazing thing's about many from there Interests, there personal lives and wtf came up with the title grunge? Spoiled rich brats? I'd love to laugh in their faces I have class but I honestly think I'd lose it on. They were amazing, so many different passions intriguing wounderful guy's. Spoiled? Brats? EPIC FAIL regarding that b.s.
If a fan worse groupies ask me certain questions unless I think it will save their lives? I say nothing regarding the 80s and 90s. I enjoy sharing who they really were, listened to or how all those hard asses were the most amazing people in my life. My brother's from all different music had to help me once because I lost a friend in my side of the industry (art's) throw in my second husband. I was lucky I didn't do drugs or really drink. Green is fine, but anything else? I started saying to myself it's slow suicide, byhond self medicating. Tg my mom was a counselor and educated myself big-time. I miss many but I'm writing away about who each of them really we're sure the intier music, it's industry but many fan's should know the amazing thing's about them. This video took me back in time. I needed a little inspiration again a muse of some sort. Who ever it belongs to, whomever uploaded it? Thank's it didn't take me to the madness but those moments on the sunset strip that was peaceful fun great conversation or just listening too many. You honestly can never go back it sucks everything was lost in hurricane Sandy or some dumb groupies breaking into your storage and believe me when I find them? There as bad as stupid criminals they have no brains and always slip up.
Ty for sharing this, people may not like it however I enjoyed time’s like this.
Peace music enjoy the show May 8th 5 30 everyone will be able to watch. We all want to return, concerts festivals but watch the show.
Next Saturday May 8th 5 30 eastern time, unless people do it? They'll honestly end music show's and Broadway. I never thought I'd ever miss the road in my life. Peace ty again
I stay low key, I needed this as well as to fix what I originally wrote. Rock 🎸 🤘 on
Grunge hadn't taken over at this point so the strip is style rockin.
Being a boy from Brooklyn
I always wish I could've experienced the sunset strip in it's heyday. Being 45 now I can't go back in time but this video helps
Dude , i miss those days of talking shit 99.9% of the time hanging out and messing with girls you don't even know.never made it to the strip or the west coast. But we partied hard here on the east coast. Thanks for sharing your adventures. I just wish more of us filmed these times.
Hell yes my man! Good fucking times!! Thanks for watching 🤘🤘🤘