#the cathouse hollywood

[rocknrollflames]

Candy

Candy was a Sunset Strip Glam Pop Band who were contemporaries of bands such as Poison, Faster Pussycat, Guns N' Roses, Jetboy, The Zero's, Femme Fatale, D' Molls and others. Gilby Clarke replaced original lead vocalist, Kyle Vincent, then went on to join Kill for Thrills, Guns N' Roses, Slash's Snakepit, became a producer, and is still an active musician today.

Last photo (above): Candy performing with Izzy Stradlin, of Guns N' Roses, at most likely The Cathouse. Riki Rachtman in the foreground.

[rocknrollflames]

I just wish there was video of this night and so many other Cathouse performances.

Axl with Vince Neil in 1988 at The Cathouse, Hollywood, CA

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[rocknrollflames]

I do not believe that is Jetboy. It looks like Candy ...

That looks like Gilby Clarke. Guns N' Roses did play at The Glamour on New Year's Eve 1986. I do not know who was on the bill with them though.

GNR did play on the same bill with Jetboy, L.A. Guns, and Faster Pussycat at The Cathouse on December 23, 1986.

Izzy and Gilby were friends at that time. Izzy was one of the very first people that Gilby met when he moved to L.A. It would make perfect sense that he would jam with him.

The picture you see with Jetboy - Izzy is wearing what looks like an identical outfit. I think Candy was probably at The Cathouse Dec. 23rd but were never listed on the bill. I believe they are one of the 'special guests' that was supposed to be there that night. (Or maybe Izzy just really dug that outfit and wore it two nights, lol).

But there are four guys in the pic of Candy, and it looks like there are ... five guys on stage with Izzy. Candy was a four-piece band. It's got to be Candy because Gilby was on lead vocals then. It's Candy! Just some other guy must have wanted to jam with them too. Let me find a pic of them.

I had the best pic of Jetboy but can't find it. I'll put up some subpar pics instead ...

Below is a picture of Kill for Thrills which were also a four-piece, but they were not formed until 1988. (You can tell the outfits look a little later 80's. Well, to me, at least.):

Below is a picture of Izzy (wearing the same outfit) with Mickey Finn and Billy Rowe of Jetboy, and Timo Kaltio to his left.

Below are pics of Jetboy with Sami Yaffa.

Gilby was the lead singer for Candy after Kyle Vincent left. And it turns out there were quite a few of people who really liked Candy.

Let me try to find a photo of them. I am adding a link to an article about Candy as well. Well, it's a piece about Candy on a cool music blog - willfullyobscure.blogspot.com

OMG! Look at this flyer! But that was for Country Club. Okay, it says Faster Pussycat and GNR, but I think they're referencing that those bands got signed and went on the road. The Strip might seem dead, but they're still there!

Here is a really cool flyer with Gilby Clarke's name on the pink pick. (To indicate this was Candy with Gilby and not Kyle, I guess.) These flyers are great. I love looking at old band flyers!

I don't know if Gilby is in the pics below or not because they are so small! Pretty sure he is, though.

I think that is Gilby on the right but could be wrong.

Anyway, it was cool to find out a bit more about Candy, Kill for Thrills, and Gilby Clarke. These pics are great! The ones of Gilby and Candy, AND the ones with Izzy and Candy on stage. Love the Izzy pics!!!!

**** Update ****

The extra 'musician' on stage with Candy and Izzy is Riki Rachtman. He is the one in the leopard print coat. This is an even stronger indication it was The Cathouse and that Mickey Finn (and possibly another member of Jetboy) got on stage with them at some point that night.

I also found a pic of Mickey Finn (lead singer of Jetboy) on stage with them but am unable to download it. If I can, I'll add it. So, likely a member of Jetboy did join Izzy and Candy onstage for at least one song that night! The photos of Candy, Izzy, and Riki were taken by photographer David Plastik (Dave Plas) and he claims they were taken at The Cathouse but in 1987. I think he might have the year wrong.

So Izzy might have performed with members of Candy and Jetboy that night, which is even cooler. That is probably why the post originally said Izzy performing with Jetboy. He probably did, but it was just the wrong picture from the same night. ; )

Izzy joining the band Jetboy for a New Year’s Eve show at The Glamour in Los Angeles

December 31st, 1986 

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Riki Rachtman (Cathouse Hollywood, MTV Headbangers Ball)

[littlemissheadbangersball]

axl rose and riki rachtman. 1987.

[crashdiet]

Nick Menza Playing live at The Cathouse in Hollywood, CA (1991).

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[jamest541975]

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[babylon-crashing]

lurid

You know, in films, when a Twist-jane lounges

by a flophouse window, in crepe mousseline

drawers, that she must be glum; crooning, “Diva's

Cathouse,” and, “Heartbreak Hotel,” and, “Virgin

Funk.” It's always ten past midnight; next door

your love-worn gunsel answers on his horn …

keeping it low. The sad are always poor

in films. We slouch since love makes us forlorn

and lean and use words like, “hooch,” and, “barfly,”

and, “skint.” Twist-jane, you say? What lurid slang.

Lurid? No, tragic. Like ten past doomsday,

crooning, “I'll be so lonely,/ I could die;”

like in films where your gunsel blows hard pang

and grief and the only colors are gray.

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Notes:

In the noir thriller, The Maltese Falcon (1941), Sam Spade uses the Yiddish term, gunsel (“little goose”), several times to describe Wilmer, Kasper Gutman’s highly problematic “associate.” According to Hollywood lore, the term got by the censors because they thought that Bogart said, “gunman,” though in reality it's a slur for pretty boys kept for sexual purposes by older men. This being 1940s Hollywood, Wilmer is all that, plus every other gay stereotype the producers could think of: effeminate, soft-spoken and, of course, a psychotic killer.

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[eddystshirts]

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[littlemissheadbangersball]

80s cathouse inspired wallpapers / lock screens

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