Brian Cicioni
| Special to USA TODAY 10Best
The majority of those crazy Sunset Strip stories you hear about motorcycles in hotel lobbies, flying televisions and the Hollywood Vampires took place in West Hollywood. Back then, it was a seemingly “anything goes” unincorporated section of Los Angeles County. Since 1984, West Hollywood has been a separate city. And if you’re looking for music history, there’s no other place quite like it in Southern California.
Up-and-coming acts still play legendary venues like The Roxy, Viper Room and Whisky a Go Go. There’s even a walking tour dedicated to the hidden history and overall debauchery of the pre-grunge Sunset Strip.
For this piece, we’re giving you a list of hotels, bookstores and concert venues that you can still visit. And, besides decades of music history, they all have one thing in common: to this day, you never know who you might run into at any one of these legendary West Hollywood landmarks for punk, hard rock and metal fans.
Andaz West Hollywood (the former and current Riot House)
The former Continental Hyatt House at the corner of Sunset and Kings has changed names a couple of times since Keith Richards dropped a TV out of room 1015. Nowadays, it’s the Hyatt concept hotel,…
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