I remember the zombie zoo club, they did not serve drinks and would stay open until sunrise
it really wasn't a punk club but punk used to go there to hang out, after the other places closed.
i remember they had a bunch of old 70s type B?W tvs stacked in a room and they would play movies like nosferatu, while the house music played. I remember seeing ADS (another destructive system) there, so they did have some punk bands play some times.
Don't remember seeing a lot of punk girls, would have been pretty cool at 3am if I had.
Seem to remember some death rock guys in dresses fighting with the death rock girls for mirror space to put on make up. That was always good for a laugh.
Seem to remember it was in the LA brea area, could be wrong.
Yes, Zombie Zoo was a "Deathrock" club in Los Angeles in the 80's ("goth" used to be called "deathrock"). There was a restaraunt nextdoor to the club called Ships (it was kind-of like a Dennys). The patrons of the club used to hang-out there and eat. One night Tom Petty and Roy Orbison stopped in for a late night dinner after a recording session and met some of the club kids, and wrote a song about them.
Yes, Zombie Zoo was a "Deathrock" club in Los Angeles in the 80's ("goth" used to be called "deathrock"). There was a restaraunt nextdoor to the club called Ships (it was kind-of like a Dennys). The patrons of the club used to hang-out there and eat. One night Tom Petty and Roy Orbison stopped in for a late night dinner after a recording session and met some of the club kids, and wrote a song about them.
Zombie Zoo had many locations. The location that Tom saw was at "the Facade" on LaBrea. Zombie...
Zombie Zoo had many locations. The location that Tom saw was at "the Facade" on LaBrea. Zombie Zoo was also at Osko's downstairs in "the Cave", a room that was made to look like a cave. It was also at a dance hall called "La Casa" in downtown. it's first location was on Washington in a rather bad part of town (this is the locaztion that had the stack of TV's the played random things on each screen).
Yes, we did book punkrock bands, as there weren't really enough "deathrock" bands around yet.
Tom petty is a bastard. He wrote the song about my club. I called his managment to request a couple of tix to his concert. I was told "Tom said no". What a @#*&$%@!
Yes, I used to go to Zombie Zoo and when I hear the lyrics I know it's about that club. It's not a particularly flattering song about us, now is it? Of course my friends and I were all just "little girls" (15 at the time), but it was a scene and I see it's influence in so many artists and even main stream media today since all of us "little freaks" apparently grew up to be the people behind such things :P
Yes, I used to go to Zombie Zoo and when I hear the lyrics I know it's about that club. It's not a particularly flattering song about us, now is it? Of course my friends and I were all just "little girls" (15 at the time), but it was a scene and I see it's influence in so many artists and even main stream media today since all of us "little freaks" apparently grew up to be the people behind such things :P
I remember the zombie zoo club, they did not serve drinks and would stay open until sunrise it really wasn't a punk club but punk used to go there to hang out, after the other places closed. i remember they had a bunch of old 70s type B?W tvs stacked in a room and they would play movies like nosferatu, while the house music played. I remember seeing ADS (another destructive system) there, so they did have some punk bands play some times.
Don't remember seeing a lot of punk girls, would have been pretty cool at 3am if I had.
Seem to remember some death rock guys in dresses fighting with the death rock girls for mirror space to put on make up. That was always good for a laugh.
Seem to remember it was in the LA brea area, could be wrong.
Yes, Zombie Zoo was a "Deathrock" club in Los Angeles in the 80's ("goth" used to be called "deathrock"). There was a restaraunt nextdoor to the club called Ships (it was kind-of like a Dennys). The patrons of the club used to hang-out there and eat. One night Tom Petty and Roy Orbison stopped in for a late night dinner after a recording session and met some of the club kids, and wrote a song about them.
Yes, Zombie Zoo was a "Deathrock" club in Los Angeles in the 80's ("goth" used to be called "deathrock"). There was a restaraunt nextdoor to the club called Ships (it was kind-of like a Dennys). The patrons of the club used to hang-out there and eat. One night Tom Petty and Roy Orbison stopped in for a late night dinner after a recording session and met some of the club kids, and wrote a song about them.
Zombie Zoo had many locations. The location that Tom saw was at "the Facade" on LaBrea. Zombie...
Zombie Zoo had many locations. The location that Tom saw was at "the Facade" on LaBrea. Zombie Zoo was also at Osko's downstairs in "the Cave", a room that was made to look like a cave. It was also at a dance hall called "La Casa" in downtown. it's first location was on Washington in a rather bad part of town (this is the locaztion that had the stack of TV's the played random things on each screen).
Yes, we did book punkrock bands, as there weren't really enough "deathrock" bands around yet.
Tom petty is a bastard. He wrote the song about my club. I called his managment to request a couple of tix to his concert. I was told "Tom said no". What a @#*&$%@!
Yes, I used to go to Zombie Zoo and when I hear the lyrics I know it's about that club. It's not a particularly flattering song about us, now is it? Of course my friends and I were all just "little girls" (15 at the time), but it was a scene and I see it's influence in so many artists and even main stream media today since all of us "little freaks" apparently grew up to be the people behind such things :P
Yes, I used to go to Zombie Zoo and when I hear the lyrics I know it's about that club. It's not a particularly flattering song about us, now is it? Of course my friends and I were all just "little girls" (15 at the time), but it was a scene and I see it's influence in so many artists and even main stream media today since all of us "little freaks" apparently grew up to be the people behind such things :P