Whisky a Go Go
Nightclub in West Hollywood, CaliforniaWikipedia
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Oct 29, 2026
Allan WalshHOST
I did.
Allan WalshHOST
The show was at the legendary Whiskey A Go-Go on Sunset Boulevard.
Allan WalshHOST
And just about every famous up-and-coming rock group and singer has played there at some point in time over the courses of their career, including Bruce Springsteen on the Born to Run tour, played some legendary shows at the Whiskey.
Allan WalshHOST
So Max has a, as he explained when he was on the show, a jukebox band where on any given night they have a screen with about 300 classic rock songs scrolling on the screen and people shout out the name of the song they want to hear and they just play it.
Allan WalshHOST
And one of the members of Max's jukebox band played for five years with Styx.
Allan WalshHOST
Another, the guitarist, was leaving LA after the Max show to go join the Eagles to play with the Eagles at the Sphere.
Allan WalshHOST
So he was going from the Whiskey A Go-Go to the Sphere to be with the Eagles to be part of their band for their run in Vegas.
Allan WalshHOST
And I was fortunate after the show, my son and I were invited into Max's dressing room.
Gary SiniseGUEST
And he played all the way through elementary school into high school rock bands.
Gary SiniseGUEST
He was in a rock band in high school as a freshman that played at the Whiskey A Go-Go on high school night.
Gary SiniseGUEST
On the Sunset
Jeremy BoreingHOST
Strip? Where the Doors
Gary SiniseGUEST
And they would have this high school night.
Gary SiniseGUEST
And Max Band went in there as freshmen and played all this original music that they were writing.
Gary SiniseGUEST
And I'm standing there at the Whiskey A Go-Go watching my son.
Gary SiniseGUEST
He's like 14 years old, and he's up there playing and killing it.
Janda LaneHOST
Which makes sense.
Janda LaneHOST
Which is to say that unlike, you know, some sweet little hippie groupies that are probably hanging around at the Whiskey A Go-Go or what have you, you know, these ladies are...
Janda LaneHOST
On another level.
Janda LaneHOST
On another level.
Dr. CreepenHOST
Everyone stared at Bert for several seconds before finally he added, Jims? Brother, said Hellfire, I'll have fucking Bigfoot bring boxes of them to you himself.
Dr. CreepenHOST
Diplodocus started their epic world tour in front of a sold-out crowd at the world-famous Whiskey-A-Go-Go on L.A.'s Sunset Strip, opening their set with their powerful, head-crunching song, Chainsaw Lobotomy, followed by Tyrannosaurus Thug,
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then their new instrumental ballad,
Dr. CreepenHOST
Skull Smash Brain Love.
DeanHOST
Where?
MikeHOST
I would want to go to Whiskey A Go-Go.
MikeHOST
I would want to go to Whiskey A Go-Go so bad.
MikeHOST
It's where all the rock bands go.
MikeHOST
It's a small venue.
GuyHOST
Exactly.
GuyHOST
But for Miles Kennedy's voice, for being mainly in Los Angeles with Angelina, which was just this, watching and listening and pouring over pictures of the Rainbow Bar and Grill, the Whiskey A Go-Go since I was 15 to finally get there and see Slash and then have this moment.
GuyHOST
For me, for emotion, I had to put it in.
GuyHOST
It was just
Rex BroomGUEST
It's for them every year.
Christina BobenkoGUEST
When we went to the Whiskey A Go-Go to see the Strawberry Alarm Clock gig, there was a couple from Chicago who recognized us and said, you're the ones who put out that Halloween album with the board game.
Christina BobenkoGUEST
And we're like, yeah, we play that all the time with our son.
Christina BobenkoGUEST
Well, that's cool.
Wayne BergeronSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Always great, always funky, and always tight.
Wayne BergeronSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I saw this band play when I was in high school at the Whiskey A Go-Go and it changed my perception of the way the trumpet could be played and the tightness a horn section could have.
Wayne BergeronSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was completely impressive to me and I'll never forget that night.
Wayne BergeronSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One of the great things about the Big Fat Band, when we take on a tune like this, we dedicate ourselves to the style of music.
John TorraGUEST
So this was our second run for the summer.
John TorraGUEST
We had the honor of opening up for Steelheart at the Whiskey A Go-Go.
John TorraGUEST
All right.
John TorraGUEST
and during um that week we were all in town you know and everyone's talking about us everyone's talking about me um and we had two gigs lined up we're playing the viper room and then we're playing the whiskey all in the span of two days and on the second day which was the day of the whiskey the day of the I'm like getting ready to go to the venue.
Jeff HovdenHOST
Rolling Stone explains that 80s metal men were far from the first rockers to run wild in West Hollywood.
Jeff HovdenHOST
Just ask The Doors, who functioned as the house band at the Whiskey A Go-Go in the late 60s, and whose singer Jim Morrison balanced on a railing on the roof of the 16-story building on the Strip as if they were tightrope's.
Jeff HovdenHOST
Or Led Zeppelin, who in the following decades would rent out six floors to 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 den of debauchery.
Jeff HovdenHOST
A lot to live up to, perhaps, but it was a challenge that Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, Rat, Wasp, Poison, L.A.
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