7/15/2023 0 Comments Whiskey a go go new york![]() ![]() The Courtney Villas subbed for the Chateau Marmont in “Daisy Jones and the Six.” “We knew we wanted to shoot on the actual Sunset Strip,” Kender says, “So that was one of the first things locations got moving on, because it’s so hard to shut down.” The crew basically took over the Viper Room block, “so whenever you see Sunset, you’re either looking outside the Whisky or on that one block where the Viper Room is.” The solution? “We did find a softcore porn that we used,” she reveals - complete with a catchy Filthy’s song. While there was enough documentation of the heyday of the Sunset Strip to compile a large reference binder, it was nearly impossible to find photos or film that actually showed the interior when it was still Filthy McNasty’s. River Phoenix tragically overdosed on the sidewalk in front in 1993. In the early 1990s, the bar, then called The Central, was sold to a group of young Hollywood types including Johnny Depp, who renamed it the Viper Room. It’s only natural that the Six would get one of their first gigs at this lower-key spot, which was frequented by the likes of Elvis, Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison. Not quite in the same league as the Troubadour and Whiskey a Go Go, the smaller club Filthy McNasty’s was nonetheless a fixture of the 1970s and ’80s Sunset Strip. The Six gets ready to play Filthy McNasty’s on the Sunset Strip. ![]() The club needed to quickly return to its live music schedule after the art department dressed it for the ’70s, so “we were given like 24 hours, we would run crews morning and night,” she says. ![]() It used to be covered in vintage wallpaper,” Kender explains. “The Whisky doesn’t have go-go cages anymore. But of course, it doesn’t look exactly the same 50 years later. The Turtles, Love, the Byrds and Van Morrison’s Them were just a few of the dozens of other bands whose careers were juiced by Whisky appearances. Jim Morrison got around to just about everywhere in Hollywood, but the Whisky is where the Doors were the house band, and one of the first places where go-go girls frugging and watusi-ing in cages above the dancefloor became popular. music world - the rock club was basically the epicenter of the Sunset Strip scene from the mid-1960s until well into the 1970s and beyond. It’s not surprising Daisy would show up at the Whisky on one of her very first forays into the L.A. “I felt like if we couldn’t get the actual thing, since Duke’s no longer exists, as long as we emulated the feel of the places, that was enough,” Kender says. However, a neon sign for Duke’s was added. Recently reborn as Clark Street Diner, it looks convincingly like someplace Daisy might have slung hash before hitting it big, with its flagstone wall, golden Naugahyde booths and rows of photos of famous patrons. Since Duke’s is long gone, the series shot at the Hollywood Hills Coffee Shop. In those days, it was far more likely to find strummers and songbirds at Duke’s Tropicana Coffee Shop or Barney’s Beanery. The Hollywood Hills Coffee Shop quickly became a Hollywood classic after it got cleaned up with a makeover and new chef in 1994 and was then immortalized in the 1996 movie “Swingers.” Was it a popular hangout for rockers and hangers-on way back in the 1970s? Not really, though it did exist. Riley Keough (Daisy) at the Hollywood Hills Coffee Shop/ Duke’s Lacey Terrell/Prime Video ![]()
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