Whisky a Go-Go - Revision history

Spider of Destiny: /* References to the Whisky a Go-Go in Zappa's work */

2026-07-29T23:25:35Z

References to the Whisky a Go-Go in Zappa's work

Spider of Destiny at 23:20, 29 July 2026

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Spider of Destiny at 21:40, 29 July 2026

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Spider of Destiny at 14:16, 26 July 2026

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Jason.Kreitzer at 19:08, 1 December 2021

2021-12-01T19:08:37Z

Duncan: Tidying

2021-08-26T09:41:18Z

Tidying

Maroual at 23:48, 3 October 2007

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Emdebe: removed obsolete Category:Geography

2007-02-20T16:36:02Z

removed obsolete Category:Geography

Dunk at 23:29, 7 June 2005

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Emdebe at 22:46, 7 June 2005

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 ==References to the Whisky a Go-Go in Zappa's work==
-* In the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'', in the ''[[Relevant Quotes]]'' section Zappa's closing message from a Whiskey a Go-Go concert is printed: ''If your  children ever find out how lame you are, they'll murder you in your sleep."''
+* In the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'', in the ''[[Relevant Quotes]]'' section Zappa's closing message from a Whiskey a Go-Go concert is printed: ''"If your  children ever find out how lame you are, they'll murder you in your sleep."''
 * ''[[Bwana Dik]]'': ''"Girls from all over the world / Love to write my name on the toilet walls / At the Whisky-A-Go-Go"''
 * ''[[Tinsel Town Rebellion (The Track)]]'': ''"From Madam Wong's to Starwood to the Whiskey on the strip"''

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 [[image:Whiskey Buffalo Springfield.jpeg|right|thumb|400px|Whisky a Go Go 1966]]
-Sunset Blvd., West [[Hollywood]] CA 90069, Northwest corner of Sunset and San Vicente Blvd (Clark St). Opened January 1963 by [[Elmer Valentine]]. The DJ worked from the suspended cage.  One female DJ's dancing gave rise to the term Go-Go dancing. The Whisky was a popular place for the LA police to pick up freaks during the mid 1960's. Throughout the 1960's and 1970's the whisky was host to many of the major bands but by the 1980's it had lost its status and closed in 1982.  It opened again in 1986  under a new regime.
+The '''Whiskey a Go-Go''' is a club at 8901 Sunset Blvd., West [[Hollywood]], California 90069, Northwest corner of Sunset and San Vicente Blvd (Clark St). It opened in January 1963 by [[Elmer Valentine]]. The DJ worked from the suspended cage.  One female DJ's dancing gave rise to the term Go-Go dancing. The Whisky was a popular place for the L.A. police to pick up freaks during the mid-1960s. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the whisky was host to many of the major bands but by the 1980's it had lost its status and closed in 1982.  It opened again in 1986 under a new regime.
-<blockquote>."..we were hired as a temporary replacement at the [[Whisky a Go-Go|Whisky-a-Go-Go]]. By chance, [[Tom Wilson]], a staff producer for [[MGM Records]], was in town. He was up the street, at [[The Trip|the Trip]], watching a 'big group.' [[Herb Cohen]] talked him into a quick visit to the Whisky. He walked in while we were playing our 'BIG BOOGIE NUMBER' -- the only one we knew, totally unrepresentative of the rest of our material.
+==Frank Zappa==
 He liked it and offered us a record deal (thinking he had acquired the ugliest-looking white blues band in Southern California), and an advance of twenty-five hundred dollars."- [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]] </blockquote>
 [[Image:WhiskyAGo-Go-1960.gif|right|thumb|200px|Whisky A Go Go]]As "advertised" in the artwork of [[Freak Out!]] under the header "[[Freak Out! Hot Spots]]"...
 ==References to the Whisky a Go-Go in Zappa's work==
 * ''[[Bwana Dik]]'': ''"Girls from all over the world / Love to write my name on the toilet walls / At the Whisky-A-Go-Go"''
 [[Category:Clubs And Bars]]

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		+	==References to the Whisky a Go-Go in Zappa's work==
		+	* ''[[Bwana Dik]]'': ''"Girls from all over the world / Love to write my name on the toilet walls / At the Whisky-A-Go-Go"''

	[[Category:Clubs And Bars]]		[[Category:Clubs And Bars]]

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 [[image:Whiskey Buffalo Springfield.jpeg|right|thumb|400px|Whisky a Go Go 1966]]
-Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood CA 90069, Northwest corner of Sunset and San Vicente Blvd (Clark St). Opened January 1963 by [[Elmer Valentine]]. The DJ worked from the suspended cage.  One female DJ's dancing gave rise to the term Go-Go dancing. The Whisky was a popular place for the LA police to pick up freaks during the mid 1960's. Throughout the 1960's and 1970's the whisky was host to many of the major bands but by the 1980's it had lost its status and closed in 1982.  It opened again in 1986  under a new regime.
+Sunset Blvd., West [[Hollywood]] CA 90069, Northwest corner of Sunset and San Vicente Blvd (Clark St). Opened January 1963 by [[Elmer Valentine]]. The DJ worked from the suspended cage.  One female DJ's dancing gave rise to the term Go-Go dancing. The Whisky was a popular place for the LA police to pick up freaks during the mid 1960's. Throughout the 1960's and 1970's the whisky was host to many of the major bands but by the 1980's it had lost its status and closed in 1982.  It opened again in 1986  under a new regime.
 <blockquote>."..we were hired as a temporary replacement at the [[Whisky a Go-Go|Whisky-a-Go-Go]]. By chance, [[Tom Wilson]], a staff producer for [[MGM Records]], was in town. He was up the street, at [[The Trip|the Trip]], watching a 'big group.' [[Herb Cohen]] talked him into a quick visit to the Whisky. He walked in while we were playing our 'BIG BOOGIE NUMBER' -- the only one we knew, totally unrepresentative of the rest of our material.

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 band in Southern California), and an advance of twenty-five hundred dollars.</blockquote><div align="right">[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div>
-[[Category:Clubs & Bars]]
+[[Category:Clubs And Bars]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]