Rock and Roll High School: Growing Up in Hollywood During the Decade of Decadence by Marisa Tellez

Author:Marisa Tellez
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Pepperland Publishing
Published: 2013-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

9 I’M SO GOTH I SHIT BATS

Irang in the New Year by sleeping my way through midnight. And just a few short weeks into 1992, I noticed things began to change drastically on The Strip. Cops began putting a stronghold on our socializing, and we weren’t allowed to hang out on the boulevard anymore. If you stopped to talk to people, it wouldn’t be long before an officer popped up behind you, asking you to “keep it moving”. Bands couldn’t pass out flyers because the residents were bitching about the amount of litter and loitering in their neighborhood. Those were a few contributors to the impending death of The Sunset Strip. But I’d have to say the most significant was a tidal wave called Grunge.

I remember the first time I heard that song. I was in my bedroom, writing in my journal and listening to a local alternative station called KROQ. I was caught up in my writing and not paying too much attention to the song playing on the radio. I figured it was just a new track by a band I already knew of. When the song finished, the DJ said the song was called, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and the name of the band was Nirvana.

Who the hell was Nirvana?

Literally, what seemed like overnight, all the glam boys cut off their long locks, threw their spandex pants into their pink glitter caboodles, and chucked everything into the garbage. Nirvana had thrown down the grunge gauntlet, and that put every glam band in Hollywood on the chopping block.

And while we’re on the subject of death, let me tell you about a gloomy local Hollywood band called The Kids.

The Kids had played around Hollywood for the last few years and dressed head to toe in black. They never really fit in visually or musically to the glam rock scene on The Strip. They were the gothic misfits that were more like The Cure than Poison. I’d gone to one of their shows a few months earlier at The Roxy. They had the stage lit up with candles while their singer Sebastian, paced the stage singing about love, hate, and other "dark" thoughts while passing out long black stem roses to the crowd.

Despite his small stature, Sebastian always stood out to me because of his platinum blond hair, pale skin, and beautiful crystal blue eyes. I’d actually met him around the same time I met Sheldon. I’d always see him around Hollywood, but we were never really friends. I knew he was a buddy of my former nemesis Casey, because I’d always see her buzzing around him whenever he was in the vicinity.

I’m not sure what sparked Sebastian’s interest, but the last few times I’d run into him he became much more friendly towards me. Maybe I had unintentionally sent out an "I am single" pheromone that he picked up on. Regardless, he suddenly started chatting me up quite a bit, which he had never done before.

One of the last

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