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Andaz West Hollywood - A Concept By Hyatt

Name: Andaz West Hollywood - A Concept By Hyatt
Address: 8401 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA, US

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Bob

May 4, 2014

Formerly the Continental Hyatt House, in the 60s and 70s the hotel was THE hotel in LA for rock bands, due to its proximity to popular clubs like the Whisky a Go Go, earning the nickname Riot House

John

December 22, 2015

Swanky hotel bar, rooftop views

Cecil

March 5, 2014

Night Life Entertainment/Lounge

Lisa

June 11, 2022

Originally known as Gene Autry's Hotel Continental when it opened on the Sunset Strip in 1963, the Continental Hyatt House was ground zero for so much rock star debauchery that it was actually coined “The Riot House” at some point in the 1970s. Jim Morrison was booted from the hotel for hanging out a window by his fingertips, Keith Richards and Keith Moon both dropped television sets from their balconies, and Lemmy Kilmister wrote the song “Motörhead” in the middle of the night on his Hyatt House balcony while staying there as a member of Hawkwind. The Riot House is also where Led Zeppelin stayed at the height of their career; the band would rent six floors for themselves and their extensive entourage whenever they were in town, and there’s a famous 1975 photograph of Robert Plant exulting “I am a golden god” on one of the hotel’s balconies. Director Cameron Crowe filmed scenes for his 2000 movie Almost Famous here; parts of the hotel were refurbished with exactly the same décor it sported in the 1970s, and when Billy Crudup’s character Russell Hammond cries out, "I am a golden god!" it’s meant as a direct reference to Plant. The hotel—which was renovated in 2008 and reopened the following year as the Andaz West Hollywood—no longer has any balconies, which is probably for the best.