Hollywood Rock Stories: Viper Room, Sunset Strip, Tower Records, Roxy, Whisky, 80s, 90s - Sean Clark
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- For our anniversary I got my girl Nay and I a penthouse for the night at the world famous Hyatt Riot House on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Today it's known as the Andez West. I hadn't been in this hotel since the 80's and I thought while we were staying there I would take her on a little walking tour of some of my memories of the Sunset Strip as a metal kid in the 80's as well as a bit of my own personal band history from performing at these clubs in the 90's. I thought it would be fun to document this and it was. We had a blast. I hope you enjoy this little piece of musical time capsule.
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Awesome Video! Would have been epic to be on the Sunset strip back in the 80s. U have some great stories.
Who would have thought that the goof behind the drums (12:14)would one day have one of the coolest horror memorabilia collections, and be such a presence in the horror fandom circuit? You done good
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I’m pretty much a big fan my self now love the channel glade you exist
This is an awesome video Sean, Happy Anniversary! Fantastic view from your suite (I got sweaty palms ) when you got close to the edge Yikes!
Such a great history of your stomping ground’s really cool stories. You’ve got the life man🤘🏻
Thanks for taking us back with you, although I gotta say that it's pretty sad seeing it how it is today. My wife and I were in The Whiskey back in '87 (hopefully I'm remembering it correctly). We were both 26, 25yrs old and loving Sunset Strip. We ended up seeing the band Kix, they put on a great show. I also remember while we standing there a guy introduced himself to us, he said that he was the manager Noel Monk for Van Halen.
Whether he was or not, I'm not sure but he was interested in my opinion on comparing Sammy and Dave.
Again, great video and even though it'll never be the same, thank you for your video. 👍
Totally love the 80's and the Sunset Strip era. I wish I were around then to really soak it in and be a part of it all at it's peak. But I instead just enjoy the music every single day which truly helps me get through my day. Scorpions concert is this month for me in Detroit, so that'll be awesome. Thank you for sharing your insight on your experiences of that era, I really enjoyed it. Congratulations on your anniversary. I hope it was wonderful, and that you two have many many more.
Another GREAT video Sean!!! Keep em coming...
That was really cool, Sean. Thanks, for showing us around!👍
Bad Brains and Descendents at Whiskey! Wow I bet that was awesome. I’ve never been but I have a lot of backstage passes from Tim the artist, he was roommates with Chris Holmes from wasp. He had some crazy stories
Very cool video bro...I remember the vibe of '80s LA and this really brings it all back. It's got a River's Edge vibe... Very cool man. Be well.
Sean the riot house Zeppelin's home in 70's . Love your Jimmy Page story .
Hey my friend so wasn't cheech and chongs up in smoke filmed there at the Roxy ?have you done a video on that?
Headed there in just over a month, and will be hitting all of those sites. Excellent history lesson 👍
Your wife's smile says it all. That's a lovely hotel omg. Just stunning. Thanks for another great video!
So much history...very excited for this!! Legendary place!! Love that version of Hellraiser man...one of Lemmys finest 👌
That a cover by one of my old bands The Heathens
@@malfuncsean Awesome 👌 love that other tune you use for Horrors Hallowed Grounds too...great sound!
That’s awesome. Until now I had only heard Ozzy’s and Lemmy’s.
I love this video it takes me back in time keep up the hard work your fan from east of Atlanta...........
Sean, this video was awesome. Different from what you usually do, but I loved every minute of it! So much great history! Thank you for sharing this with us. That hotel you guys stayed at was gorgeous, and also that tall building across the street from where you stayed was a filming location in the tv show Lucifer. It was Lucifer's night club "LUX" and the top floor was his penthouse.
Great job! Love the history! Sad to see it all going away
Hey sean it's Dave Vanderhoff...i was born in 1968 and this video is awesome. Thanks for sharing 👍
I was hoping you were going to talk about Rodney Bingenheimer” the mayor of the sunset strip”- Awesome documentary. Loved this video Sean
Hey dude! 👋
@@Mr.Thrasha what’s up bro? Great job on your half baked filming locations and congratulations on your one year anniversary! I had to get back to work so I’m excited to get home to finish what I missed of it
@@keithhavens6566 appreciate that sir! 🙏 learning from a master like Sean.
HELL RAISER 🎵🎶 😚
@Amstel 54 what’s more classic than the sunset strip?🤘💀
I saw Steel Panther 2004, 2005 at the House of Blues restaurant in Las Vegas, when they were called, The Atomic Punks. People were watching them as they were eating at their tables but no one was standing in front of the stage. So when we were done we went to stand in front of the stage, technically playing for 2 people. Lol, now look at them.
They're amazing
Lots of history and a lot more to be made still ! What a time to be alive and ripping 🎃
Thanks man enjoyed it foo shoo lol thanks for bring us in on your personal day with you lady and tell her thanks too 😎👍🏻🇺🇸🦅
Great stuff Sean. There will always be a special place in my heart for the 80s and a smile that I can't explain to my wife. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for this! I came out to So California from NC in 1989 and my then roomates used to go to Hollywood(the strip) every weekend. They were trying to "get famous" all the time. I jist wanted to see what it was all about mostly. It was fun while it lasted. Everything you said about the flyers and the hair and the booze was so true :) I was in my 20's when I was there so could get into a lot of those places but didn't want to lol. Anyway, I appreciated your recollections of the strip and the surrounds and just know some of us are still out here and we feel the same about the tearing down of music history x
thanks shawn for the awesome video!!!! big big fan of ALMOST FAMOUS!!!! again thanks
Wow so cool Sean that you got to stand where Plant was!! Great video! So cool seeing all the clubs that spawned so many bands! Sorry the music thing did not work out, but the horror thing sure has!!! 🎃Keep the content coming! By the way your room’s view is tremendous!! 🙏🏽❤️🔥😎☠️🔥
As soon as you walked into the Continental Hyatt (riot house) I could see that scene in Almost Famous. Crazy.
I absolutely loved this Sean. You and Nay are a great team. Love this history of the sunset strip. I remember seeing pictures of it back in the day, I have always lived in Northern California, and it just looked like a happening place to be. You’re visual storytelling and memories really brought me there. Sad to see it so desolate now but I am glad you had those experiences. Best to you both.
Great stuff Sean!!!!! Absolutely dig the channel and very much appreciate all you do. Your knowledge and hard work always shows through with whatever you are covering!!! Please keep the excellent content/vids coming and thank you again!!!
Cool, very cool. No disrespect intended, but why was your wife wearing an overcoat? Was raining maybe......?
🤘🏻”Fuckin” Lemmy would be proud himself!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻they should have added that to the front of his name.
What would a stay at the Hyatt Riot house be without dropping a few TVs off the balcony…although an LCD cracking wouldn’t have the same effect as a tube exploding!!
This really hit home for me. I was in a band in the 90's in the DFW area. We got to open for bands like the Toadies and the Nixons (and even got to "open" for Bush once when they played last on an all-day bill where were played first, LOL) at cool venues in Fort Worth like Mad Hatters (where the video for Mister Love by the Toadies was filmed), The HOP, Dogstar Cafe, and The Galaxy Club in Dallas. Hell, we even played the same club where Pantera got their start, an awesome little place called Joes Garage in Fort Worth (including being asked to come play their last night open). The tour of your old haunts really reminds me of those days ... Thanks for the video!!!
Ah so a fellow musician who found it cool and weird that someone asked for a stick. Or my case pick and an autograph once… Probably only because we opened for Golden Earing at Park Pop - “fame by association” 😄
I only been asked for an autograph and/or pick twice and every time it felt weird. You like it but as a session musician and a tribute/cover band artists you don’t really get that.
The best thing was hooking up with a 19 year old girl as 22 year old after a gig. But the fun left. When she was performing “the flute” and her dad came in in his robe. He didn’t do anything… I was thinking “don’t move he may not see you… wtf??? The guy is a human not a dinosaur!”
He grabbed whatever he went to grab from the fridge. Walked past us as he closed the door (his daughter still on her knees, by know I was flossing her teeth because all blood had left the ‘building okay garden shed’): “be sure to wear protection”.
26.10. i bet my ass that was mr. Russler ! lol .. btw ur joking the gonna run down all that stuff there?!?!?!?! wtf why?? thats literally history and total LA vibe ! btw im amazed for the so called american freedom that u have to be fkn 21 to go to a bar yet u can kill at 18 aka army, btw, here where i live, i seen 1w932109 times 14-15yos in caffees/bars no problemo ,guess freedom has different meanings
"You left me in an "Alley". LOL!! Ohh how many times have I had some version of that same brand of argument. "Its not an "Alley"!
Sean, where Gazzari’s was is now 1-Oak. 1 Oak is a club that is owned by Jay-Z….there is one in New York as well. The Viper Room got sold I think and is going to stay a music venue….don’t know what the new name will be.
I mentioned a lot of the LA Sunset Strip stories to my brother….The Riot House aka The Hyatt. The story of the groupie being with a member of Led Zeppelin and her getting whipped w/ a mud shark…..just off the wall stuff.
Hey Sean great video I've always wanted to visit the Strip! I'm a massive kiss fan and have been since Revenge, seen kiss live about 8 times and just saw then at the last ever UK appearance and took my 10 year old Daughter to Download her first ever gig/festival and she lost her mind over kiss, just wanted to know what you thought about Paul using backing to accompany his vocals? Me personally I don't care and I think its getting blown out of proportion they still kick ass!
Man I didn’t even know that the Key Club closed. Got to open for Bullet Boys there in 2011. I highly enjoyed that Roth/Sheehan story haha
When my brother first moved to San Diego, I met a friend in LA when I first went to visit my brother when he lived in Cali. I visited the Red Rock Cafe…2nd time was when my brother got married and on a road trip up to the in-laws we stopped in LA & had a beverage(s) before heading up to Pleasanton.
Calif L.A. Hollywood. Beverley hills. Should preserve the history. Never tear it down. . so many cool place s
That Penthouse had to have been mucho💲💲💲Hope you kids had fun and great memories captured
Sean I thought you looked familiar, I was in a band with Ronnie and Punky after Witch and weren't you hanging out at that time, the band was call AWOL
Thanks for sharing so many great stories and memories in this video. They reminded me of some of my own past band experiences playing guitar and bass in St. Louis. 🎸I immediately searched for MALFUNCTION on RUclips after watching your video, and was happy to find some of the band's music and videos. The music video for "FUSE" was the first video I watched--BADASSED. 📺Sean, you are a lean, mean, drumming MACHINE! 🥁It would be great if you could put some new music projects together. Of course, if would also be great if I could put some new music projects together too. 🎶🎶😉
Hey I'm in St Louis also... Actually St Charles. Sean is a super talented dude. My favorite channel on RUclips.
@@keitha.563 For sure. 🎃🔪
I loved Tower Records back in the 90s here in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
I did a lot of similar stuff in the same time era but my experiences were on the East Coast being i am from Long Island i used to gather up my buddies and we'd take the train L.I.R.R. into Penn Station and hit the clubs in the city like Roseland Ballroom and Roxy etc. Saw MegaDeth, Suicidal Tendencies, Faith No More, Helmet, and a long list of other bands. When i was standing on line outside of one of those clubs on the nyc sidewalk waiting to get in to see MegaDeth and Suicidal i was wasted and all of a sudden i see a camera guy coming towards me and some guy with long black hair and when they got up to me and my buds it turned out to be Riki Rachman they were filming for Head Bangers Ball and i stuck my mug right in the cameras face like an idiot just making dumb faces cause i was so drunk lol.
Tower records was the best. So excited whenever one of my fav bands new tape came out. Or buying concert tickets. Waiting in huge lines. Everything being online just kind of ruined so much of the experience.
Sean I've watched a few of your vids and you looked really familiar, then I saw one where you said you were the roadie for Witch, wow dude I was in a band with Ronnie and Punky after Witch and man you look really familiar, were you hanging out then, that restaurant Barones is just a couple miles from my house. I'd look to speak to you.
I’ve never been anywhere close to LA (I’d love to go someday), so I find this SO interesting. Great video, Sean!
Absolutely great video enjoyed every bit of it and the cool stories you have made it even better.........really wasn't expecting the epic ending....... great work Sean and wife ☺️👍
Hiii
I am not a fan of heights myself, which might seem somewhat ironic to people given that I'm 6' 7", and I once had to climb to the top of a narrow exhaust tower at an oil refinery and sit in a VERY small circle with several other people around the mouth of the shaft of the tower monitoring the hydrogen sulfide levels.
Awesome video, dude. I wanna hit the Sunset strip someday and check out the Whisky.
Respectfully, Mrs. Clark is very beautiful and seems very nice!
What a trip, I've never got to see HOLLYWOOD so close.
I saw the band "Dark Angel" at The Whisky-A-Go-Go in 1986.
I find it really lame how they have taken the historic charm of the Hyatt House and made into some corporate hotel chain. Sad.
Hi Sean. I used to live in l a los Feliz area. I'm 42 and remember seeing pearl jam at tower when I was very young lol and it was free .
It really sucks Tower is gone. Every time I come back to LA it seems another Iconic place is gone. It really sucks
The Prince of Zamunda made an appearance..Excellent,very cool.man.
I miss Tower Records as well. Last time I was there The Crow City of Angels was just released.
LOVE this video!!! Had no idea you were in a band! Wish we could have saw in some of those places
I watch all your videos. they're great, but maybe you could use a microphone
I’m a huge Zeppelin fan, so I loved the tour you gave on this this clip!!
Happpu anniversary but most of all was nice to walk down Memory lane of your life
Be proud and keep safe
Would have loved to see this area back in the early 90’s and prior; it seemed like an amazing time and place.
Really enjoyed the video, your stories , and the history you shared. Thanks it was a really good video.
That thumbnail-I’ve been watching your content for many years and somehow never noticed you had a tiny arm growing out of your chest! Great video Sean. I’ve seen a million [famous band] did [famous thing] in [famous location] Sunset Strip videos, but yours was full of things that happened to you personally, really setting it apart. So glad you did this. And happy anniversary!
Great video! - Does anyone know when demolition starts at The Viper Room?
22:13// Its an alley from the point of view of standing in it. // sort of Like the JAWS movie line 'its only an island if u look at it from the water'
Wow so sad Tower Records isn't there anymore. I loved going there. This reminds me so much how iconic places in NYC village that are now banks or something similar as annoying.
I wasn’t born until 89 and have never been to California but I somehow long for those days you spoke about. Thank you for taking the time to take us on this trip down memory lane!
This was a great tour of the strip.
Do you know of Hollywood Undead?
"PC has Little 👐s" BUT We All know the Story...😍
Fucking cool stories and well done video. Beauty hotel room too. Peace and love dude.
btw sean, this is eventho i love the horrors but considering this is a personal video, this is by far my fav vid of urs !!!! aps love it !!!! this is .. these are the places is go to see 1st if i ever was to go to usa and la ..
Is that the same Roxy that guns n roses played one of there first gigs ?? Great content BTW
That was a really good one. I remember Memorial Day weekend 1996 I was 17 a senior in high school. Me & my friends cruised up to Hollywood walked the strip trying to get into some of those clubs & a few of the adult ones too lol.
Awesome memories ... Make more n more vdos plz ... Love your channel Sean Clark ❤️❤️🙌
15:15 a video rental place gets replaced by a bank. a microcosm of everything that's gone wrong with the world these past 2 decades.
Holy hell! I love hearing your stories Sean! I’d love to trade Jane’s Addiction stories someday. You’ve left no stone unturned in life. 🕶✌️🥁
Tell us some Janes Addiction stories.
@@michaelminnikin4265 I got a few of those.
@@malfuncsean I'd love to hear some.
Hi Sean. This was an amazing journey down memory lane. Enjoyed hearing the stories and seeing your pictures. The suite you and your wife had was Amazing!! ~Ali 🎀🏰💖
I didn't leave her in an alley......it was a parking lot 🤣🤣. really enjoyed this Sean. My word the view from that sweet suite.
Cool video. I love these Sunset Strip walking tours and hearing stories from those who were there back in the day. The Faith No More stories are great. Mike Patton still rules. You should do more of these.
you have you fingers in so many famous pies...your the one to go to for famous info..good vid!
Why did they enclose all the balconies in glass?? What is the point in that?
You might want to invest in a body mic as struggling to hear you over the noise of the traffic etc
Your punching with her Sean...congrats 😉
I had to comment right away I fucking loved “Tower Records”!
I’m 8 years younger,but how we never met and became bros totally escapes me!😂
Super cool Video 🤟🏻🤟🏻✌️✌️😎😎😎
The famous Robert Plant view on the balcony him with a snake Greek God speech . Thanks for sharing this Sean 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
@Keith Ashabranna dude I’ve always wanted to go to the sunset strip since I was a kid! Maybe I’ll go before I die.🤘💀
@@magacat5210 absolutely Seeing Sean do the The Plant pic at the end is priceless . Led Zeppelin and Pantera my two favorite bands of all time .✌🏻🤘🏻
We stayed there on our honeymoon
We did all that you shown on our honeymoon trip
I used to always party at Myagi’s and Dublins.
Your lady is fine, Sean. Did you get her in the days of “the magnet”?
Nice pull 👍🏻
LOL! In the days of the "magnet" I believe she was being born. Bit of an age difference there.
@@malfuncsean 😄 you are the golden god
Great stuff. Found it all very interesting.
Great video Sean, I was out there a few months ago and went to The Rainbow room and walked up and down the strip. I would have loved to have been there in its heyday.