Why is this (long-closed) Los Angeles bar famous, Rock Nerds? No cheating. Bonus points if you can identify the bitchin’ silver coupe.
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I don’t know about the bar and will now cheat… but I think the car is the ill-fated Mustang II.
Good get. Where Freddie coined the Flintstone Flop with Jimmy Darrock.
Also also Ford Flake-on, McNamara’s Folly
without research I say the car is an AMX
Bartender name of John?
Vega.
Wasn’t that like a west coast version algonquin table, but for all the influential real estate novelists
Is it the viper room?
Watching this on Canadian TeeVee
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=copG53Bw1l0
Qualifying: I didn’t cheat on the car. I Dud cheat on the bar, but don’t want to spoil the disappointment for you.
Is that Thelma? Or the same space?
Nope. Thelma was on Sunset where the Viper Room is now. This is Wilshire where a strip mall is now.
http://www.popspotsnyc.com/billy_joel_piano_man/ Brent Mydland’s Hideout in LA
Jaysus
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kzH4Hu5QfZk