The sewers of paris gay bar los angeles

The album would have to showcase the compelling Tom Waits stage persona.

Sewers of Paris

They recorded 4 sold bar shows two nights in a row and had every show opened by a Hollywood stripper called Dwana or Dawn? Apparently Waits had recently discovered the Hollywood strip scene, as he had included this certain "Ivar Theater" in two of his songs. The IvarTheatre, late 60's? It had approximately seats and it was a legit theatre when Lord Buckley recorded a live album there on February 12, These Buckley comedy monologues called "Way Out Humor" are regarded to be one of the best Buckley recordings ever.

The the early 60's it became one of the few rock venues in Hollywood the Grateful Dead played there on February 25, In the 's the theatre changed hands frequently, and ultimately it became a strip show theatre owned by one Lee Witten. The Ivar Theatre during its high-days in Waits quote, "Andre is at the piano behind the Ivar in the sewers" The One That Got Away, probably refers to a piano player at a gay bar, located down the alley by the stage door, called "The Sewer of Paris.

The gay held 70's glitter queens, lots of ageing closet cases, servicemen the U. I had a couple pretty scarey nights there. It was originally a legitimate theatre. Lord Buckley and Lenny Bruce played there. Now it's just a strip joint, full of transsexuals. Behind the Ivar is another nightclub called The Gaslight 9.

Used to be called the Sewers Of Paris. And the Ivar neighborhood, being Phillip Marlow territory, might just have been the thing he was looking for at that time. On the other hand, it might be he just felt comfortable with "the porno floor show, live nude girls. Dreamy and creamy and brunette curls A lot of the girls just danced around in street clothes, and took them off with about as much charm as someone undressing in a locker room.

Pasties and G-strings were rare pleasures at the Ivar. EXTREMELY few of the girls used such things, they usually only appeared on a couple of old war-horses that had been classic burlesque strippers from the s -- so the bodies angeles them were usually not anyone's favorites, and the accessories covered way too little. But those older women were far better showmen, and very sweet people to work with.

I went there once, and the memory is indelible. The place was a dark, smoky echo chamber Near the center of the cavernous sewer was a single runway, adjacent to which sat a paris of men, their faces just about level with the floor of the stage. There were tables and chairs farther back, but not enough patrons to fill them.

As dance music warbled from a warped tape, a nude woman wrapped her limbs around a los, gyrating her spine with an expression of unmitigated fatigue.