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the jurogan experience there's nothing like that for us for music you know like i he just the place where you guys hang not really i mean there was at one point you know i bartended the viper room for years did you really yeah well that's how i ended up moving to l.a i was a i was home it was getting really miserable in berkeley i'd been home for about a week from the end of touring everywhere i went it was an issue not you know mostly positive but still it's like you feel like everybody's looking at you there are kids camped out on my lawn a couple days a bunch of days in a row at least one like 100 people come up to me a day but one of them was like hey are you that guy from county coast yeah you're adam dirtz yeah you guys are so lucky thank you i mean because you suck and there's so many good bands in the bay area it's wild that a band of shitty as you would be so successful to your face yeah and i was just like it happened like four or five days in a row i mean it was dwarfed by the amount of people that were coming up just loving the band but still it was like it started to feel like if there's gonna be one of these every day is one of them gonna have a gun you know is like is this mark david chapman is like it seems such such a weird obsession to walk up to a total stranger in the line for a bank you know and just say something like that yeah like it was so weird uh but we like we got really famous really quickly and uh i was the only people i knew in l.a really were people at the viper and i'd met a few of them playing across the street at the whiskey on the first tours and uh so i i was went home that day i'd been home for i think seven days and it happened like six of those seven days and uh i got a phone call and it was it was sal and johnny saljenko who ran the viper and he's johnny depp's partner and
they called me up and they're like hey we want to invite you to this party tonight and i was like kind of half and half out i wasn't really listening and and finally they're like wait what's going on man and i told them what was happening and they're like hang on jack and put you on hold i sat there and finally know what was going on they came back and they said okay it's it's kate moss's 21st birthday tonight and we're throwing a party here the club's closed we're just throwing party not so i available grabbed my stuff went to the airport went to this party at the viper with just like interesting people and i was like i didn't go home again that was it i moved to l.a after that it was uh i did i stayed at the bellage for a few days i moved to like a bungalow at the sunset marquis and then eventually uh i rented this house in the hills one the one of the bartenders shannon mcmanus at the viper her best friend was christine applegate and she was my landlord she ran me this old like she had this [ __ ] place it was like a little cottage in laurel canyon and it turned out it was built by the cowboy star tom mix in the 20s and then it was david niven's like in town [ __ ] pad and he named it rogues retreat when there was a little sign up there after this tv show he was on called the rogues in like the 60s and then i don't know i i think it was the i don't know what it was after that but she owned it and i stayed there i wrote most of our second record in that place before i bought a place but yeah man the viper room for a couple years i bartended all the time because it was just less crowded on that side of the bar my friends all worked there so i would be there anyways hanging out with them and so you bartended while you were a rock star oh yeah huge rock at the height of it wow like because i was back there and i'd be hanging out with shannon smoking cigarette drinking beers behind the bar you know and in the downstairs bar they're the little
one and i don't know one point i'd help her out with stuff and at one point she's like i go to the bathroom there's nobody else will you just you know mine the bar and i was like yeah sure so i did it and you know i had no qualms about berating people for tips i'm a rock star and they're not my tips so why not so i made her so i made her like a few hundred dollars in the like five minutes she was gone and uh she's like you gotta do this all the time so i just started going there i mean that's where i lived anyways i was kind of there every day the only people i knew so i just started bartending every night and it was like my home you know it was like i felt it was like a cheers thing i felt like okay there it's kind of a cool way to interact with people too because there is a barrier and it is less crowded over there and it's probably kind of fun yeah and you know you uh talk to them if you want to if you don't want to you got to get a beer for someone else so you know and there was just so many people it was like what i thought like uh the left bank would have been like in paris in the 20s i mean it was like allen ginsberg coming in and william burrows the hughes brothers all these different filmmakers you know musicians tom petty it was just really wild gibby haynes from the butthole surfers you know we're all just hanging out there wow john it was like johnny's clubhouse and we all we had barbecues on sunset on sundays you know and we just sort of for a few years it was this really cool like club kinda wow like a clubhouse it was very much like that catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background by using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost
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