Comes with a sticker that reads: '3 BIG NIGHTS. Comes with poster with liner notes, track listing & credits. 6 CDs in 3 cardboard gatefold sleeves in a cardboard slip case. WOW! It's Been 14 Years!! Day One: Nova Mob- Live. Mixed from the original 4-track analog masters.Kathleen Edwards Album Release Concert- Live At Qu.So It Goes- Nick Lowe- 1975 Stiff Demos It was The Whisky a Go Go, the first ever live music venue to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and the most iconic club of the Strip.Happy Birthday Elvis Costello- WHO CARES Benefit 2013.Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers (R.I.P. This essential six-CD set captures Otis and his blazing ten-piece band at a vital time in soul music, where a young showman was trying to.The Go Go's- Live At The Whiskey A Go-Go 1978.records, the band's sound smoothed out to a more pop-oriented sound that was ideal for radio, but the fact they are the first all-female band to write their own songs and play their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts proves they were a talented deserving band. It's true when the band signed a deal with I.R.S. area in the late 70's with recordings that pre-dated, Beauty and the Beat that were raw and hungry. My opinion at the time of the Go Go's was that they were too pre-packaged and slick, thanks to MTV! How judgemental can I be! I must admit, songs from the Go Go's (and the Bangles) became guilty pleasures, they are upbeat songs, great to dance to (which I avoid) and fun! When the compilation record, Return to the Valley Of The Go Go's was released I became aware this band had roots in the punk/new wave scene in the L.A. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing the annoying ear-worms of Like A Virgin, Venus (note: the original version from Shocking Blue is a great song!) and the Go Go's, We Got the Beat and Vacation. The new music of the early 80's on mainstream radio introduced more female-based music, as music videos on MTV that marketed the look and image of the performers that led to to the popularity of Madonna, Bananarama and the Go Go's. As the 80's arrived, my musical tastes expanded further to included new wave, mod and punk bands through more progressive radio stations and the emergence of MTV (MuchMusic, for you Canadians) that also offered some alternative to mainstream commercial radio. A sign lights up the street outside The Whiskey A Go-Go where singer Eric Burdon of The Animals and singer Nancy Sinatra performed Decemin Hollywood, CA. High school expanded to the popular groups at the time, Boston, Foreigner, Supertramp, Cheap Trick and Van Halen (the last 3 groups I saw in concert in the late 70's), as well as bands that were already considered "classic rock", Rolling Stones, CCR, the Kinks, Hendrix, the Who. Pre-high school I listened to the safe bets at the time, Elton John, Paul McCartney/the Beatles, that sort of thing. There was definitely music that stuck with me from high school to the present that I listen to today. She was a mellow chick, but smelly – she bought her clothes at Goodwill.If you're like me you listened to a lot of music on the radio when you were younger. After Mötley Crüe sold out a three-night stand at the Whisky in 1982, bassist Nikki Sixx was so excited he phoned his grandparents. The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Jack Daniel’s in a trademark fight with a company that recast the whiskey’s well-known bottle as a squeaky, chewable dog toy. It was actually heroin, but for three days I thought I killed her. I gave Janis Joplin her last drink, four shots of Southern Comfort, and dad said, ‘Put the bottle in her trunk.’ Next day the headlines said she died of alcohol poisoning. “I told Oliver Stone he got Jim Morrison all wrong – he wasn’t a mystic, he was a party animal, in here every night. “I can’t listen to ‘Light My Fire’ on the radio, because I had to hear the Doors rehearse it for hours a day, while I was setting up chairs,” says the younger Maglieri. “ Vince Neil is a doll when he’s sober, but one time he whacked one of my guys with a pizza because he parked his car in the back instead of the front,” says owner Mikeal Maglieri, 62, who started out in 1966 as a busboy working for his Whisky-owning father Mario, 90, whom Mikeal calls the King of Sunset. ![]() And if you see a motley crew at the Whisky, it may very well be a nostalgic Motley Crue. ![]() In true Whisky form, the venue will be packed with anniversary shows all month, from Lita Ford to the Bangles (Jan. The iconic building went on to anchor the Sunset Strip music scene from surf to punk to metal to now, and gave important early exposure to Neil Young, Frank Zappa (who married Whisky secretary Gail Sloatman), Johnny Rivers, Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, X, The Motels, Guns N’ Roses and Soundgarden. His group The Doors, were the nightclub’s house band in the years after the Whisky made discotheque and go-go dancers a national craze. ![]() Sunset Strip institution Whisky a Go-Go celebrates its 50th anniversary on Jan.
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