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Before the LA invasion of coffee shops and juice bars, there were speakeasies and nightclubs attracting the rich and the famous to the Sunset Strip. Over the years, the City of Angels has grown increasingly more popular as the entertainment capital of the world, attracting hundreds of people everyday to the iconic stretch of land. Rich in history and internationally renowned, the beauty and culture of the strip is kept alive through many creative outlets that contribute to its overall character. More than meets the eye, the Sunset Strip is the mecca for music and the epicenter of entertainment, located in the city of the stars. Above the busy street, palm trees tower over the homes of many a- list celebrities tucked away in the Hollywood hills, both hidden and in plain sight.
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/a-historical-look-at-the-sunset-strip/

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"Livin' in L.A. is so much-a . . . fffuuuun!" screeched Faster Pussycat's Taime Downe in 1987. And nowhere was the party crazier, sleazier or more glam-rockin' than the Sunset Strip, where big-haired dudes and the girls who loved them turned the boulevard into their own personal playground.

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Stevie Rachelle: "Oh — there was also a tanning salon that was really popular. The woman who ran it was fooling around with a lot of the guys in the bands. I slept with her. Not in the salon, but I know there were guys who'd go there, get tan and get a blowjob with it . . . and still not have to pay!" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/decade-of-decadence-a-timeline-of-the-eighties-sunset-strip-157726/june-6-1986-guns-n-roses-debut-for-real-42501/

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I've already spent ten years of my life apologizing for that band. As their manager, that's all I really did. Apologize. For years afterward I'd walk into a hotel lobby and the receptionist would call to me, 'Mr. McGhee.' And I'd run up and drop to my knees and say, 'Oh, Jesus, I'm really sorry.'
They'd look at me funny and say, 'No, nothing's wrong. You have a telephone call.'
And I'd breathe a sigh of relief and thank the good Lord above that I wasn't managing Mötley Crüe anymore.

~ Doc McGhee.

Motley Crue, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock BandTags: autobiography, mötley-crüe, rock-music, rockbands, rockers, sunset-strip

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"Imagine it being like one big insane frat party, like an overthe top "Animal House" toga party, but it happened all the time, almost nightly. We've seen nakedness, debauchery, sex, drugs, everything you can think of. Everything crazy that you could do, every crazy thing that could be done was done. Most af the bands that came there were small-town kids that had no clue and got to Hollywood. It's like when you go to Vegas, it unleashes this primitive animal instinct to party." - Bret Michaels talking to The New York Times in 2012

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/movies/bret-michaels-duff-mckagan-and-sebastian-bach-reminisce.html

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Eighties metal men were far from the first rockers to run wild in West Hollywood — just ask the Doors, who functioned as the house band at the Whisky a Go Go in the late Sixties, and whose singer, Jim Morrison, balanced on a railing on the roof of a 16-story building on the Strip as if it were a tightrope. Or Led Zeppelin, who in the following decade would rent out up to six floors of the Hyatt on Sunset, a.k.a. the Hyatt House, a.k.a. the Riot House, and initiate a groupie-shagging, television-smashing, motorcycle-down-the-hallway-driving den of debauchery.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/decade-of-decadence-a-timeline-of-the-eighties-sunset-strip-157726/october-5-1989-home-sweet-home-42744/

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"Livin' in L.A. is so much-a . . . fffuuuun!" screeched Faster Pussycat's Taime Downe in 1987. And nowhere was the party crazier, sleazier or more glam-rockin' than the Sunset Strip, where big-haired dudes and the girls who loved them turned the boulevard into their own personal playground.

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"Within one-to-three square miles on a Friday, Saturday night, there were probably 50 to 75 bands playing," says Stevie Rachelle, who moves from Wisconsin to L.A. in the spring of 1987 to front the very Poison-esque Tuff. "I mean, on one corner you had Gazzarri's, and then there's, like, a bank, and then the Rainbow and then the Roxy. If somebody lights off a pack of firecrackers, anyone standing in front of any of those clubs might get hit. They're that close. Then you go another block and there's the Whisky. Another mile down, at the corner of Sunset and Crescent [Heights] is the Coconut Teaszer. Trying to get people to come and watch your band play at one of these places from, say, 9:30 to 10:15? There's a lot of choice. And then it's like, 'That band's drummer has a bigger drum set!' Or, 'Those guys have a faster guitarist!' Or, 'Their singer's hair is bigger!' There was so much competition to draw these people. Whatever you saw on Headbangers Ball or in Metal Edge, there were hundreds of those bands in Hollywood."
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/decade-of-decadence-a-timeline-of-the-eighties-sunset-strip-157726/1987-the-battle-of-the-sunset-stars-44434/

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In 1980, Nikki Sixx played the Starwood — located just south of the Strip, at the corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and N. Crescent Heights Blvd. — with his pre-Mötley Crüe band, London. The club was one of the dominant West Hollywood venues, having hosted Seventies rock acts like AC/DC, Rush and Cheap Trick, and homegrown punk bands like the Germs, Fear and the Circle Jerks. It was also where burgeoning hard rock and metal outfits like the Runaways, Van Halen and the Randy Rhoads-era Quiet Riot would play. When Sixx puts together Mötley Crüe in 1981, he debuts them at Starwood across two nights, April 24 and 25, as the opening act for Y&T. Recalled that band's frontman, Dave Meniketti, "[I was] sitting in the balcony overlooking the stage and watching a few songs, going, 'These guys are crap,'" he told Philadelphia's WMMR radio. "And I ate those words a million times over." And with that, Eighties glam metal was officially born.

Fun Fact: Mötley's set list that night included a cover of the Beatles' "Paperback Writer."
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“The "Sunset Strip" of West Hollywood'sfamous Sunset Boulevard is a 1.5-mile-long section of street between Doheny Drive and N. Crescent Heights Blvd.

Why is it called the strip, you might wonder. It's not because there are strip joints there. It's not because it's been stripped of its clothing or its dignity, either. In fact, it's a rather simple explanation.”

https://www.tripsavvy.com/sunset-strip-4123592

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In the 1920s Angelenos discovered poinsettia fields and avocado groves outside the boundary of Los Angeles and the jurisdiction of the LAPD. That lovely spot became West Hollywood. With a relaxed (to nonexistent) police presence, WeHo grew into a lawless entertainment mecca. The Strip is still a prime destination for swish music, entertainment and partying, plus superb dining, and ultra-stylish shopping.

In the 1960s much of the genesis of modern rock-n-roll happened on The Strip. To commemorate the 50th anniversary, the City of West Hollywood produced a program called ‘There’s Something Happening Here’ which includes art exhibitions and special events
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.visitwesthollywood.com/stories/legends-of-the-sunset-strip/%3Famp

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The first time Warrant played the Whisky was 1984, right around the club’s 20th anniversary. The band considers it the spot where their careers began. “We spent a lot of time on the Sunset Strip,” remembers Turner. “Guns N' Roses got signed before us, and Mötley Crüe and Ratt and Quiet Riot and Poison. After all those bands left town, we were the kings of the Sunset Strip.”

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“I've already spent ten years of my life apologizing for that band. As their manager, that's all I really did. Apologize. For years afterward I'd walk into a hotel lobby and the receptionist would call to me, 'Mr. McGhee.' And I'd run up and drop to my knees and say, 'Oh, Jesus, I'm really sorry.'
They'd look at me funny and say, 'No, nothing's wrong. You have a telephone call.'
And I'd breathe a sigh of relief and thank the good Lord above that I wasn't managing Mötley Crüe anymore.

~ Doc McGhee.”
―  Motley Crue, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

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1982: Seventeen-Year-Old Slash Dresses in Drag at the Rainbow on the sunset strip. 

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1982: Seventeen-Year-Old Slash Dresses in Drag at the Rainbow on the sunset strip. 

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Years before Guns N' Roses got together, L.A. kids Slash and Steven Adler would regularly hit the Rainbow armed with fake I.D.s. On one particular evening, however, it's ladies night at the club, and longtime bouncer Steady isn't having it. Though he allows Adler in, he sends the budding guitarist packing. According to Slash in his 2007 autobiography, he goes home, gets good and drunk and hatches a plan to return to the Rainbow — dressed as a girl. "My mom thought my plan was hilarious," he wrote. "She outfitted me with a skirt and fishnets, piled my hair up under a black beret, and did my makeup . . . I looked like a Rainbow chick." His goal? To seduce his future bandmate. "Adler hit on every girl in sight, so I was sure that he'd hit on me." Once inside the Rainbow, however, Slash realizes his friend is long gone, and ends up doing the walk of shame back down Sunset, getting catcalls all the way. -  Rollingstone.com

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True to its reputation as the place to see and be seen, the Strip welcomed a wave of emerging musicians on their way to stardom in the early 20th century. Famous bands such as the Doors, Van Halen, and Guns N’ Roses first began at clubs along the strip, such as The Roxy, Whiskey a Go Go, and The Viper Room. Today, new generations of musicians continue to perform at these historic venues, excited to play on the same stage as the legends before them. The room is filled with positive vibrations, the energy is alive, and inspiration echoes off the walls from decades of history centered around an artistic passion that can only be found in the entertainment capital of the world. https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/a-historical-look-at-the-sunset-strip/

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The Starwood was originally a jazz nightclub built in ’61, co-founded by a guy named Elmer Valentine, The Starwood swapped ownership a few times and morphed into a spot for first-wave punk and metal over the decades. But on April 24, 1981, it hosted what may have been its most significant event: Mötley Crüe’s debut performance and the de facto birth of the glam metal genre.

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Rodney Bingenheimer used his club on the Strip and his radio show on K-ROQ to introduce Los Angeles to musicians like KISS and Iggy Pop.

During the ’70s, the Strip musical scene evolved from rock and glam to punk. With the dawn of the 1980s, a new musical genre was germinating on the Strip—glam metal—which would soon take over the clubs on Sunset and charts across America.

Hotel staff had a remarkably lenient attitude toward these rock ‘n’ roll antics.

“One night we got crazy and threw a chair out the window,” Neal Doughty, REO Speedwagon pianist, told Michael Walker, author of Laurel Canyon. “Ten seconds later we got a call from the desk. All they said was, ‘Did you at least look first?’”

https://la.curbed.com/2019/3/21/18270439/sunset-strip-motley-crue-the-roxy

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"You had to be able to put up . . . not 100 percent, but 1,000 percent," says Poison singer Bret Michaels. Or, as Crüe frontman Vince Neil put it in the band's gloriously degenerate 2001 autobiography, The Dirt. "We'd get drunk, do crazy amounts of cocaine and walk the circuit in stiletto heels, stumbling all over the place. The Sunset Strip was a cesspool of depravity."

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"You had to be able to put up . . . not 100 percent, but 1,000 percent," says Poison singer Bret Michaels. Or, as Crüe frontman Vince Neil put it in the band's gloriously degenerate 2001 autobiography, The Dirt. "We'd get drunk, do crazy amounts of cocaine and walk the circuit in stiletto heels, stumbling all over the place. The Sunset Strip was a cesspool of depravity."

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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/decade-of-decadence-a-timeline-of-the-eighties-sunset-strip-157726/april-24-1981-motley-crues-coming-out-party-49506/

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"Did I tell you about the time I tied a girl up in the Whisky bathroom with 🤬 [Mars]'s guitar cable, and then went to get a bump of blow from Tommy [Lee]? I forgot she was in there! I think Vince found her and everything was [fine]. Ah, to be in Mötley Crüe in 80's Los Angeles." — Nikki Sixx, chatting with L.A. Weekly in 2011.