History Of LA's Live Music Clubs Part #:1. 1964-2022. 

As a live sound engineer I worked many of those clubs with up coming bands and doing show cases for record companies. Thanks for the memories and nightmares.

This vid is very near and dear to me as I frequented most of these locations at one time or another---some a lot more than others. Enjoy it and let me know if you've got a story about any of them!

This is great! Don't forget that Spaceland used to be Pan's before it was Spaceland!

Enjoy them while you can Los Angeles... New York and Boston venues are dropping like flies.

This is one of my favorite RU-vid channels!! Your attention to detail and fact is second to none. Very well done!!!

Interesting about the Viper Room. I heard they will rebuild it with the new highrise they're putting there but there's no way that the new one won't suck.

saw the replacements at Als Bar - X at Club 88 - gary Myrick and the figures at the Starwood - friends the Beat rehearsed down stairs at the Masque - great jobs posting these long lost gems. oh yeah the talking heads at the whiskey on their first west coast tour...

Excellent video and incredible history here! Luckily, I was able to spend some time on Sunset on one of my trips. Going to that Guitar Center was so cool as well!

Thank you as always, love all the history.

Love seeing these historic old places, great job Tim. Thanks for slipping past the "secret service" to document these iconic venues.

Thanks for the tour of the Petco.

Number of VH bootlegs out there of them playing Gazzarri's. Good stuff!

Excellent tour Tim, looking forward to part 2. I loved the Palomino and learned to line dance there. The late 80's were a great time, I saw the Tom Tom Club at some hole in the wall club near 6th St. and Alvarado. Club Lingerie was one of my favorites. I saw Red Hot Chili Peppers there before they were famous, John Doe and Exene were at the next table. Great times.

Some happy memories of Madame Wong's West. I was a sound man there for ~6 years in the late 80s/90s.

Great buildings and The Mutts at Club 88. Those were the days, man.

In August 2023, my '80s New Wave band, The Bings were asked to reunite for an International Pop Overthrow concert at the Redwood Bar & Grill on 2nd Street. We hadn't performed together in 40 years, and the Redwood crowd was real good to us. Cool pirate vibe, and the food was pretty good, too. We might do it again in another 40 years.

Been in most of them. Thanks for the memories

Great video as always👍🎶

This is great!!! I’ve been a bar owner in Antigua Guatemala since 2006. Originally from Wales UK. Subscribed and think I’ll jump on a plane to L.A. something I’ve wanted to do for years. Only 5 hours from here.

I was blessed to go to everyone of these clubs. Basically from 80 to current. Thank you so much for this, it's an amazing episode! Keep up the great work and THANK YOU!

This is fucking amazing! Thank you! For your work. Preserving rock music history.

Good One Tim !! Jimmy ..

Love it! Thanks!!

Sadly, Hollywood will be one hotel/apt/condo/shopping/multi bs building looking at another. You forgot the HOB in Hollywood, my favorite club to play. Very cool video. I have some sticks and a cymbal in the Valley Relics Museum, nice people!

This is true Rock history right here, that was awesome.

My favorites must be in the next episode. I sort of lucked into a great time and great locations, and my friends always waited for my weekend show recommendations.

Never fails to impress, great blog, great days indeed ATB.

Great job Tim, I enjoyed this tour of memory lane. I bet those clubs were packed in the 60s and 70s.

WOW. Ok, yes I've been to all the old clubs, worked at Wongs Chinatown ('79-82) as the bartender. Friends worked at West later. So many memories and all those clubs were so comfortable. No mention of Blackie's or The Mint? (2 fun westside spots). King King was my favorite in the early 90s. Palomino late 80s such a fun scene. McCabe's wasn't really a club, but perfect when you wanted to really listen to music vs a scene. The Central was icky, better as the Viper Room. (Chuck E managed?) This is just great! Thank you.

Love your videos!

Great video! 👍👍 But u forgot to mention the Anti Club on Melrose Ave in East Hollywood and The Florentine Gardens on Hollywood Blvd, they had some punk concerts there in early 80s. The Anti Club is torn down and gone but The Florentine Gardens is still standing there. ❤

GREAT.

Awesome video ‼️🔥😎🎸

Thanks for another great video. Looking forward to part 2.💖💯

man I love this dam cool video

Oh the memories 👍. I worked at Licorice Pizza 1976 - 79 when McNasty’s was still around. WeHo was a different city back then.

really appreciate your work and in preserving this history

Thanks for the memories, I used to deliver phone books for small money when I lived in L.A. and covered a lot of the areas you are again!!! Sometimes I still wish I lived there, but No! I was destined to move overseas and I finally did it in the later '80's, so bye, bye L.A. for me!!! Anyway Thanks again and I look forward to your next release??!! P.S. I schooled in SFO in the late sixties too!!

We loved in the first part video when you mentioned that before it was the Viper club it was called The Central , as we performed with many star musicians there !

It's amazing Tim how often you were tailed during your various stops along your video tutorial. I enjoyed every moment, you are the 007 of music history!! These stories of the past must be told! 🤗☮️💙👍

Really cool video!

Man I've been waiting my whole life to escape to La for a few weeks to hit the comedy store and try to take over the world. I couldn't make it young I'm in my thirties now with wife and kids but if I could ever fly out to chase the dream I will . Very cool video man thanks

Well I enjoyed it

Love your videos! I'm a huge EAGLES fan and I always wanted to go to LA to see the famous clubs that have so much iconic history. Keep up the the good work! 👍🏻

Great episode. I don't understand why they stop you from filming. It would only serve for free advertising for them.

Both videos are a fun walk down memory lane! How about Cathey De Grande, The Zero Club, Anti-Club, and in the Valley - FM Station, The Country Club...

The first three were the only clubs I remember going to, which was during the 1980s. The Whiskey, Roxy (where I saw Average White Band) and Gazzari's (for mud wrestling and similar entertainment).

Interesting video. Never been to LA or anywhere in the USA. I reckon everywhere was better in the past.

I am stunned at everything I've seen on this channel. Stunning. Is a visit to (wipe your feet off, please) San Francisco forthcoming? I'm feeling entirely selfish to say so, but if you do, please do a long, LONG treatment of Fillmore :) I tell you, every single breath of these is stunning. I'm working on watching every single one. So far you have 17 homers in 17 at bats.

Thanks for trip round LA's new and old clubs and bars. Very interesting. Next time am in LA will endeavor to visit some of these places. As a huge music fan, you've opened my eyes to a different LA. Will definitely be back in the coming years. Cheers Tim, greetings from Thailand.

Man this brings back memories! I played quite a few been to them all I think.

So surprised and happy to see Mr Ts get some of the recognition it deserves! That was my home away from home for many years. Played there many times, as well as a couple of gigs at Als Bar and the Smell, various dive bars etc. But Ts was home. Arlo the sound guy brought the magic. He was all of our bands biggest fan, he was just so cool to everyone. There were so many great and innovative bands, lots of artsy fartsy stuff happening, but somehow felt like there was zero pretense. We were all just having a damn good time and playing our asses off. I still haven't been to Highland Park Bowl, although they do now have a "Mr Ts Room" and have shows again. So I'll check it out one of these days.

We played a bunch of these places. Thanks for the memories.

That's my Great Buildings pic. :)

Hi Tim, loving all your videos. Me and a good friend are coming over next year in February on the 16th/17th to relive some of the moments you’ve found yourself in the past. Avid fans of the rock of yesteryear. It would be cool to get a tour in person if you fancy doing something like that or even just a beer at Rainbow?

Well Phill, grew up in LA in the 60s, the Cheetah was a cool place. It became the Aquarius where I ialked with the Fool while he painted the famous mural on the outside wall. I was at Pandora's Box the nights of the curfew riots. The band playing was WW3, the whole place was painted with dayglow paint. It had a lawn painted purple. The police wern't let in, to leave the door that was locked was opened and you had to run for it. Many more stories about that, thanks for your vids..

fantastic video that deserves way more views! ive played most of these bars and its amazing hearing more about them.

Fabulous Tim! Thanks for the tour!

Thanks Tim your videos are so good man. Every time I see that you have another video it makes my day. Cant wait for part 2. Keep them coming your awesome ! !

Only in my dreams will I ever get to the USA and too these great places!

Great job Tim!!!! Thank u!!

You are so good at this, thanks for so many cool rock history videos, you are a master at it, please keep them coming and THANKS so much again!

Hanz Krypt our doom band has been together since 1984 we played a bunch of these places

Hi TIm! Another awesome video about LA. Interestingly, I always drive past these places but have never been since I'm not a club person. I just love driving down Sunset. I have to say, I was a little worried, so be careful. That was scary with the guy following you. Please be careful as LA is at its worst more than ever, now. I realy enjoyed this video! Thank you for sharing!

I enjoyed every minute of this video. Full of places that I played at back in the 80s. I laughed out loud when you said the bathroom *had* something to be desired. I think you meant it left something to be desired, but thank you for the laugh. Honorable mention to the Cathay de Grande in Hollywood.

thanks for sharing this Tim 👍 Cheers ✌️

Maybe the Anti-Club in the next one? Cathay de Grande? Raji's?

i had no idea there were so many rock clubs in LA . From 66 to 69 i frequented only the bay area venues like winterland , Filmore west , The Avalon ballroom and occasionally GG park ,where groups like the loading Zone , Greatful Dead , jefferson Airplane etc use to play for free. The LA scene seemed to be much larger in terms of the amount of clubs and groups .

You have a great channel. I got sober in LA in the late 80’s and dated a musician named Spyder (Bruce) Mittleman who played sax with Chuck E Weiss (remember the song “Chuck E’s in Love”?) at the Central in the 90’s. Spyder lived next door to Ben Gazarri on Doheny and Sunset in Doheny towers. Chuck E was instrumental in helping Johnny Depp turn the Central into the Viper room and we often saw him around the club. There were always people there who wanted to try their hand at music like Bruce Willis and others. Another hang out you should do a video on is Canters deli as a lot of people hung out there all night after the clubs closed. It was a fine time the 90’s. Spyder passed some years ago from a heroin overdose and Chuck E passed in 2021. So sad to see the central (viper room) demolished.

Great video! No one talks about the more obscure places. I hung around the Rainbow when I visited my brother in LA waiting to see Lemmy or Ozzy….

Great!!! We saw Quiet Riot at the Starwood club in Hollywood and Kevin was incredible. Randy Rhoads was too so it was one of the few shows they played at the Starwood with Randy. They were not quiet by the way!

Sad what going to happen for the Viper Room. I'm all for gentrification but historic spots should be preserved.

Wondering if you can find , what happened to the club called the Gaslight ? We performed there on off nights of gigs . It was behind the Hollywood library !

Tim I feel like I know you or at least we went to a lot of the same shows. My band, Blow-Up, played at most of these venues. But I was blown away by your comments about Trash. I was in Trash and I loved it! You mentioned Gilby but you didn't mention C.C. Deville who was a participant as was Jonathan Daniel - the booker at Wong's West - who founded Crush Management.

Cool image of the Palomino with Commander Cody on the marquee. Did you ever happen to catch a Link Wray show by chance?

Tex and Horseheads... great band!! Elliot Smith... wow. Would have loved to have hung out at Spaceland!!!

Otis Redding and Bob Dylan were pals. Otis was always pestering Bob to write him a song. Otis had a week-long residency at The Whisky in 1966. A good live album came out of it you should check out. His band were The Bar-Kays. They had the smash hit 'Soul Finger' in 1967. Most of the band died with Otis. Anyway, Dylan shows up in Otis's dressing room upstairs with a song he wrote for him. He showed him the words and Otis was blown away. It was 'Just Like A Woman'. Otis tells Bob he absolutely loves it but can't record it. Bob asks why. "Too many goddamn words, Bob. How am I going to remember all those words!".

Never create the same atmosphere as the 60.s and 70.s

Ah memories of a some would say a misspent youth. I saw that bowling alley on the tv show American Pickers. I guess if you are " friends" with Mike Wolfe you can film anything you want.

I remember a club called Blackies that started out in the Hollywood area, then moved to Main Street Santa Monica. Great bands played both locations. I saw Fear & The Mentors at the Hollywood location. And some great bands ( Dickies, Wall of Voodoo, Falcons, etc.) at the Santa Monica location.

Wow...! What a great video once again...! I learn so much from you every time...! Well filmed too...! Well done Sir...!

Can't wait to watch this one man. Thank you for making these. I always look forward to the next installment. Hope you are well man. X

Great video not my scene but it was cool to imagine all the cool bands that performed there.

Great LA Rock Club review. Just throwing out some other ones too if you get chance. From back in the golden Rock era of the 80s was China Town's Hong Kong Cafe and Madam Wongs West where the Police used to play. MW's would not book you if you played at Hong Kong Cafe. There was a rivalry between the two and they were just blocks away from each other. In Hollywood was Blackies punk rock club at 607 N. La Brea. The Alligator Lounge on Pico near the 405 and the 10. Ang the popular Lingerie Club on Sunset and Wilcox area.

Dude, those are some great videos, very entertaining and informative! I'm sitting with my tripadvisor account as I write this and save all the sights to my LA Trip. Thanks a lot. Looking forward for the next video!😎

You saw Van Halen at the Whiskey, what year? Well I saw them in 1974 at a house party in La Crescenta. They were loud then too.

I've watched both parts and enjoyed seeing the sites of some old haunts, most of which are long gone. What about The Palace? I first saw The Plimsouls there, also Los Lobos early on who were opening for someone and I realized I was probably the only one in the tiny crowd who wasn't related to the band. On the other end of the spectrum, what about The Anti-Club? I was watching a show there one time and a cockroach landed on my head. (Another night the wall behind the couch was covered with roaches - it looked like an aerial view of migrating wildebeests in the Serengeti.) Then there was The Gaslight. It was a pool hall/dive not too far from the Lingerie. I remember one night walking several blocks from there to my car alone about 3 am and watching brawlers fall out the doors of bars along the way. Thankfully, they were too busy fighting to notice me. Good times.😉

ORIENTED!

Where and when would we have seen Flies on Fire in the LA Music Clubs? Give it up Tim....

Perkins Palace ... Maybe in part 2 ??

🤠"Another one bites the dust...!" 😆😆😆03:50 Gets the up-vote! Would love to see the out-takes 👮👮‍♂😎

Accurate.

I think the band Rainbow was named after the bar in Hollywood...Ritchie Blackmore and Dio were there drinking after Ritchie left Deep Purple....

How was the parking out there? I can't imagine driving to Hollywood on a Friday night an finding a parking spot easily to see Van Halen or Randy Rhoads play in a club...lol Maybe it was a little better in the Jim Morrison era...

Saving the Starwood for Part Two? 🙂

Saw Deftones at Space land

They shot the Beverly Hillbillies at the Whisky before. Guess who hung out with buddy ebsen when he was just 12 when shooting Barnaby Jones. Yeah that's right. Thanks

the Nelsons said they played at Madame Wongs

Where was Hullabaloo filmed? Think it was Sunset @ Vine.

Where did they film the Velvet Revolver fall to pieces music video?