It's been a hard day's night.
You know we're not Bony Hollywood,
but we'll be able to.
Can I see the rush is
the first time I came to Catherine
say had it like a nude girl standing
on in like a shell and they said
it was Venus on the half shell and
I watched it and I went you know?
It's an adventure.
A lot of drugs, a lot of sex,
a lot of fun.
Los Angeles is become a
regular party animal.
We're not talking about any
high moral standards here.
We're talking about a band on
the frequency of life where the.
If if you get.
When you get in a room with
1000 heated bodies and
y'all sweating simultaneously on the
dance floor and you're ready to pass out,
it's it's a lot of people.
And then you can go to another
club and it's the same way.
And then maybe you go to another club
and it's the same way the same night
for the postmodern night spots to the
post punk underground dance halls.
The nightclub scene has a lot in
common with Baskins and Robbins.
There are so many flavors.
Anyway, I'm going.
Where else could you find groups
with names like Bully Mic, Banquet,
or Thelonious Monster performing at
clubs like no wax for mica egg salad?
We have Boise, Cleveland, Des Moines.
And there's flaming colossus
and white trash aghogho.
He's one of our chief
executives here at white trash.
Sometimes it's a matter of sexual preference.
More often it's a matter of dancing
with the nearest available partner,
but it's not so unusual to find
Club Utahns dancing man to man,
woman to woman and even man with doll.
Coming tonight dancing with me
more about that later. But first,
you're probably asking the
question who are these people?
Well, I suppose they could be your neighbor.
We wake up this way or your coworker.
Engineer for McDonnell
Douglas and Long Beach.
Some of the regulars are closer to real life.
There's LA style columnist and Crawford.
I go out six nights at least six
nights a week and some nights I go to,
well, my record this this month
is 88 events in one night
and that's restaurant owner Mario Tamayo,
with a ponytail and Barbie doll
Barbie the glamour doll.
I will explain about Barbie
but later but first over there
is Jeff Conaway. He Co starred
in the television series Taxi
I grew up in New York and
so so you know that right?
In case you don't know that it's
24 hours a day and LA is growing.
There is an art to cultivating
the cool crowd. The hip whosay,
not to be confused with trendy and if
you have to ask what's hip, you're not
hip is being ahead of time.
Hip is knowing what's going
on before it's going on
and what is the hip person wearing?
Perhaps something like this?
I run around without the accoutrements, but
if I were to offer any kind of fashion
advice, it would be where any color
you want to, as long as it's black.
Black is the is the Los
Angeles underground uniform?
What do you call this?
This area is nasty habit.
I want to take you on a
holiday with this outfit.
I think Black represents the
oppression of the artists
in a bourgeois society.
If somebody tried to walk
in here and think they
probably wouldn't let them in.
Somehow the ever hip blacklist
Barbie made it through the ropes.
I said we'd get to her passion.
Very deep and strong passion of mine.
Paris based designer Billy Boy
escorted Barbie to a party held in her
honor at the upscale Stock Exchange.
Boy is the author of The Tell All dialogue
refi Barbie her Life and Times when
you look into her eyes,
what do you see? Plastic
with all the kidding,
Billy Boy does about Barbie.
He says she could teach her fellow
night clubbers the moral or two.
I think Barbie has a very
important moral message
and that is to behave always in the
way in which you do the right thing.
So who would have thought that
in this world of the bizarre,
the beautiful and the Billy Boys?
It's Barbie the plastic
one with the real values.
What you need to do is go to
the corner of 1st St and Alameda
across from the Atomic Cafe.
From there you will be directed further.
If you're calling in regards to her being
Danny's party well, it will be rock and.
You won't find these nomadic
nightclubs advertised in the Los
Angeles Times of the LA reader.
You want to.
Here these notes from the underground.
You have to know someone who knows
someone or have a phone connection
with the girl or died in some ways.
The underground nightclubs are even
more exclusive than places like
the Stock Exchange and Vertigo.
We have to pass muster with the doorman.
Here your passport is simply being hip.
I've never been to a legal club,
I've only been to clubs like
this, so it feels right.
Crowd we get is the up
and up and they like to.
Dip their feet in these warehouses.
You know they they come from they
come from all walks of life and they
like to dip their feet in the the dirt
and slime every now and then. The
owners of these clubs are incredibly young.
I'm talking about people
in their mid 20s and 30s,
though the expression don't trust anyone.
Over 30 has been changed so
don't dance with anybody over 30.
The nightclub impresarios are a bit like
where wolves they come out at night.
Their prey is abandoned buildings.
This was used for club.
By some guy who decided that he
didn't want to pay rent so he smashed
down the gate and it's condemned.
You know you're not
supposed to be here at all,
but he thought it'd be great because.
Live people came and they paid to get
in and we had a great time until the
cops came and took the guy away and
stuff and said you can't come here.
This is condemned so it only got
used a couple of times but it was one
of my favorite buildings to go to.
It's
Mariah Flint is the publisher of a
guide to the underground and she says
she doesn't like to party any other
way. Lot of people out here like to
do things they're not supposed to do.
Maybe they're rebelling a little bit.
You know, if you're allowed to do it,
you don't want to do it if
you're not allowed to do it.
It's more fun, and it's like
in there it's it's really big.
There's toxic waste in the
corner and it slopes down.
And then there's about four stories up high,
and there's a lot of little rooms
and catacombs to goof off in
and out of the way.
Locations are part of it,
but there are lots of answers
when you ask the question.
What makes the club underground
in the simplest terms?
It's a place that doesn't have much
in the way of permits or licenses.
Do you have
a liquor license?
Do you really want to know that?
Well, it depends on where we are.
As soon as we have.
This song is going to run out,
but on most cases now,
most under gun clubs don't.
Another identifying mark of the
clubs is that they stay open
after the normal 2:00 AM curfew.
Here in simple you're
doing something illegal.
Uhm?
That's an understatement.
We got busted once about six months ago.
And in clubland, in least in LA,
they're sort of.
Let's just say that it wasn't like
they went after us like somebody
else told on us who was jealous.
When you multiply all the sweaty
bodies on the dance floor
times the cupboard charge,
that usually starts somewhere around $6.
You'd think that this would
be a lucrative line of work.
How much are we talking about?
How much would you take home this year now?
Now? Now I I have enough problems
as it is without the Board of
equalization coming down on me.
I gotta pay these guys enough.
More than 50,000, no, I wouldn't no no,
I don't think I don't think we're.
I don't think I I we're in 5 digits
so the motivation isn't necessarily money.
Why do you do what you do for the passion?
And I also do social climb
in the Hollywood community.
That's an honest Stanford.
It's a very candid, honest answer.
Yes, you want to social climb?
Yeah, I become very popular and
famous on the underground level.
There's a new club opening up those called
Jackie's Big Oh, that's underground.
It's Friday though. Friday Underground,
nothing is permanent about
these establishments when you
factor in the competition,
the threat of getting busted
and just plain boredom.
We're talking about planned obsolescence.
Of course, there's always the
option of going straight.
It has to be an interesting space,
an exciting space.
For it to be legal for it to be illegal,
it could be in your backyard
and is is is yours backyard open
'cause we will be looking for
a space at a couple of weeks
and until he finds a new space,
no empty warehouse or rundown
loft will be safe. The gordi.