Rainbow Bar and Grill

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Rainbow Bar and Grill

The Rainbow Bar and Grill is a bar and restaurant on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood ( California ), United States , on the border with Beverly Hills area. The Rainbow Bar and Grill is located on the ground floor . An exclusive club called Over the Rainbow is set up on the upper floor and consists of a bar, a dance floor and a DJ booth. The restaurant is adjacent to The Roxy Theater and Key Club , at 9015 Sunset Boulevard .

history

The building was constructed in the late 1920s and was originally called the Mermaid Club Cafe . In 1933 it was taken over by the film director Vincente Minnelli and the silent film actor and director Allen Dale and opened as The Villa Nova . Dale had a strict rule: “No press!” Baseball player Joe DiMaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe met at the restaurant for a blind date in 1952 , and director Minnelli chose it as the location to successfully propose to his girlfriend Judy Garland . The Villa Nova was sold to Elmer Valentine, the film producers Lou Adler and Mario Maglieri in early 1972 . They renamed the restaurant The Rainbow as a tribute to Judy Garland , also as a symbol of peace and freedom. Originally they wanted to call it Over The Rainbow , but didn't get permission to do so.

On April 16, 1972, the venue opened with a party for the British singer and composer Elton John . The bar quickly developed into a meeting place for celebrities of all kinds. The American singer and film actor John Belushi ate his last dish, a lentil soup at table 16. Mario Maglieri was the operator for many years. The Rainbow became known as a meeting place for rock musicians and their groupies . Notable regulars at Rainbow during this period included Keith Moon , Alice Cooper , Micky Dolenz , Harry Nilsson , John Lennon , Ringo Starr, and Neil Diamond . Even Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash occasionally visited the Rainbow . A group of musicians who called themselves the "Hollywood Vampires" made the Rainbow their home in the mid-1970s. Record producer Kim Fowley hung out at Rainbow, especially in 1975 when he formed the women's rock band The Runaways . The actress and musician Cheryl Smith was given the pseudonym "Rainbeaux Smith" early in her career because she was a frequent guest at Rainbow; she briefly replaced Sandy West as drummer for "The Runaways" at the end of the band's existence.

When the musical trends on the strip shifted towards heavy metal in the 1980s , the rainbow followed that trend. Band members from Mötley Crüe , Poison and Guns N 'Roses frequented the bar regularly. The lead singer Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers reports in his autobiography "Scar Tissue" (2004) that he often works with his father John Kiedis and with members by bands like Led Zeppelin and Kiss in the club. Often the waitresses and bartenders were groupies at the same time , just like those who visited the establishment regularly. In Pamela Des Barres ' book "Let's Spend the Night Together," the author commented that as a bar stool she met a number of celebrities in the early 1980s, including Billy Idol . For the last two decades of his life, Lemmy Kilmister , front man of the English hard rock band Motörhead , was a regular at Rainbow when the band was not on tour, playing a video poker slot machine down the counter. His official memorial service also took place there.

Since June 2016 there have been live acts by changing musicians in the Rainbow every Wednesday evening from 10 p.m. until the shop closes . Both local acts and various well-known musicians perform to perform selected classic rock cover songs each week. During this time, many jam band meetups took place on Sunset Boulevard in the area. The surrounding nightclubs Viper Room and Whiskey a Go Go also joined the Rainbow by allowing musicians to host jams on different nights of the week as well.

In 2009, the US music magazine Revolver awarded the Rainbow the “ Revolver Golden Gods Awards ” in the “Revolver Metal Industry Award” category. On January 18, 2017, the Rainbow was inducted into the “Hall of Heavy Metal History” because it introduced new heavy metal acts.

References in popular culture

music

The place was mentioned in several lyrics:

  • The Los Angeles songwriter Warren Zevon referred to the bar in the last verse of his song “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” (1976): “ I met a girl at the rainbow bar. She asked me if I'd beat her. ”
  • The track "Rainbow Bar & Grill" from the Cheech and Chong album "Let's Make a New Dope Deal" (1979) is about the bar and the restaurant.
  • Jimmy Buffett - "You'll Never Work In This Bidness Again" (1986): " I parked cars at the Rainbow, I sold maps of the stars ... "
  • Redd Kross - "Peach Kelli Pop" (1987): " Laughing at all the assholes at the Rainbow. Flying so high on coke. What a joke ... wooh! ”
  • WASP - "Sunset and Babylon" (1993): " At the Rainbow bar and grill, I'll drink till I get my fill. ”
  • LA Guns - "Vampires" (2005): " Walking down the sunset strip. Cast no shadow at The Whiskey. At the Rainbow getting lit. ”

The British band “ Rainbow ” of guitarist and songwriter Ritchie Blackmore named themselves in 1975 after the club.

Music videos

Movie and TV

  • In the documentary "The Decline of Western Civilization Part II - The Metal Years" (1988) by Penelope Spheeris , exterior shots can be seen.
  • The US television series Californication (2007-2014) with leading actor David Duchovny has a longer scene in Rainbow in the episode "The Great Ashby" (season 2, episode 2).
  • " Lemmy " is an American documentary film about the British musician Lemmy Kilmister, the band leader and singer of the band Motörhead, from 2010, in which several scenes of Lemmy were filmed indoors.
  • Some scenes from the US-American Netflix biopic " The Dirt - They Wanted Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll " (2018) about the history of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe play in the club.
  • In 2019, director Zak Knutson shot the documentary "The Rainbow - Living Room of Rock'n Roll".

Others

  • The rainbow appeared in the 2017 fantasy novel "The Road To Roo Inn" by Morat.
  • In 2018, the perfume manufacturer "19-69" named an Eau de Parfum after the "Rainbow Bar".

literature

Web links

Coordinates: 34 ° 5 '26.2 "  N , 118 ° 23' 17.9"  W.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The name of the bar is said to be reminiscent of Judy Garland with the title of the song Over the Rainbow from her most famous film.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Megan Koester: LA's Most Iconic Rock 'n' Roll Bar Isn't Going Anywhere. In: Vice . April 26, 2017, archived from the original on June 29, 2019 ; Retrieved May 1, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ Legends never die: Joe DiMaggio - 1914 to 1999: Yankee Clipper famous for far more than baseball exploits . In: Toronto Star . March 9, 1999, ISSN 0319-0781 , p.   1 (American English).
  3. ↑ Dennis McLellan: Elmer Valentine, co-founder of Whiskey a Go Go, dies at 85. In: Los Angeles Times . Retrieved April 7, 2008, April 25, 2020 (American English).
  4. ^ Richard Sandomir: Mario Maglieri, Who Coddled Rockers at His Clubs, Dies at 93. In: The New York Times . May 9, 2017, Retrieved April 25, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Erik Quisling: Straight Whiskey: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip . Bonus Books, 2003, ISBN 978-1-56625-197-6 , pp. 175-176 (English).
  6. ↑ a b Kastle Waserman: Rock 'n' Rollers, Your Tab Is Running at the Rainbow . In: Los Angeles Times . December 15, 2002, ISSN  0458-3035 , p. I8 (American English).
  7. ↑ a b High life . In: People Weekly . January 17, 1994, ISSN 0093-7673 , p.   41 (2): 56-62 (American English).
  8. ^ Dom Lawson: Hollywood Vampires: 'You've got to have ego to do what we do'. In: The Guardian . June 15, 2018, Retrieved May 7, 2020 (American English).
  9. ↑ Linda Zimmerman: Scratchin 'Around for Chicken Soup . In: Los Angeles Times . January 31, 1988, ISSN  0458-3035 , p. 90 (American English).
  10. ↑ Bruce Haring: Metal bands regain a heavy attitude . In: USA Today . April 16, 1996, ISSN  0734-7456 , p. 4D (American English).
  11. ↑ Pamela Des Barres : Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies . Chicago Review Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-55652-789-0 , pp.  384 (American English).
  12. ↑ Alexander Gorkow : Conversation with Lemmy Kilmister: "The world is bad". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 5, 2008, archived from the original on September 8, 2008 ; accessed on April 25, 2020 (German).
  13. ↑ Tilmann Rohlf: Lemmy's memorial service takes place in the legendary 'Rainbow' bar. In: Metal Hammer . January 4, 2016, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  14. ↑ 2009 Golden Gods Winners. In: Revolver . 2009, archived from the original on February 13, 2013 ; Retrieved May 6, 2020 (American English).
  15. ^ Althea Legaspi: Scorpions Among Nominees for Hall of Heavy Metal History. In: Rolling Stone . December 22, 2016, Retrieved April 25, 2020 (American English).
  16. ^ Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow . In: dacapo-records.de . February 24, 2011.
  17. ^ Christian Düringer: "I saw the glory days of this place." In: Popspots. 2019, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Californication - 2 × 02 - The Great Ashby on YouTube . November 22, 2009. (Video; 1:57 min)
  19. ↑ dpa: The Dirt. In: Focus . March 22, 2019, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  20. ↑ The Rainbow - Living Room of Rock 'n Roll . In: Geo Television .
  21. ↑ Rainbow Bar - Eau de Parfum . Retrieved April 1, 2019.