“I just saw Courtney the other day - Dave Navarro was rehearsing, and she said, ‘Dave, want to come upstairs?’ ” Adds Maglieri: “It was a party every night.Blues legend John Mayall played the Whisky Wednesday night. Courtney Love, whose great-grandmother Elsie Fox was a screenwriter who partied with Douglas Fairbanks, follows in her forebear’s glamorous footsteps on the Strip. Fields put his fist through a wall, Marilyn Monroedated Joe Kennedy in the corner booth, Kennedy picked up his mistress at the third bar stool every Wednesday night, Errol Flynn was on the Strip.” Flynn’s daughter Rory Flynn was a regular when the Doors played the Whisky. “The Whisky just kind of followed the tradition and kept it going,” says Maglieri. Maglieri notes that the Whisky’s scene is just a continuation of a longer tradition of serious, culturally influential fun. I ran in and said, ‘Dad, M- is naked on the street!’ He said, ‘Who’s watching her station?’ So I covered for her.” It was so crammed, I couldn’t fight the crowd at the bar, I had to go out the club’s back door and come back in through the front - and on Sunset, I saw our waitress standing naked with her underwear on a stick, flagging down cars. One night, either Vanilla Fudge or Cream were playing. “The Kinks played the Whisky, then went to the Rainbow, and one of them crawled out of the front booth, bit a waitress on the leg, her tray dumps, a table turns over on the floor - and it was no big deal. “Jayne had a terrible crush on my dad,” says Maglieri. STORY: Kurt Cobain’s Ex-Girlfriend Blasts Courtney Love in Bizarre Pet-Death DisputeĮverybody wanted to get into the Whisky: the Beatles, Steve McQueen, Charles Manson (who got thrown out), Mariska Hargitay‘s mom, Jayne Mansfield. It was a crazy fun time - the Strip was eight kids deep along the sidewalk.” Arthur Lee still owes me $10 for a bag of marijuana. “I remember Sting when he was just Gordon. “The Temptations, the Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, Martha and the Vandellas played here.” Robinson’s 1966 hit “Goin’ to a Go Go,” later covered by the Rolling Stones, immortalized the Whisky. “We were the first club to integrate,” says Maglieri. The Whisky is less known for another culture-shifting introduction. She was a mellow chick, but smelly - she bought her clothes at Goodwill.” 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. PHOTOS: Capitol Records Building: Hollywood’s Iconic Tower Gets Transformed 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.

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