The Continental Riot House (really the Hyatt House) During the ’60s and ’70s, the Continental Hyatt House, just down the Strip from the Whisky and Rainbow, more or less invented the the rock and roll hotel—where the innkeepers overlooked the long hair, pitiful per diems and property-damaging proclivities of rock and roll journeymen needing, in the words of Dorothy Parker, a place “to lay a hat and a few friends” during their voyages across America.
The Riot House truly defined itself during the ’70s, when the coffee shop was overrun with teenage groupies and putative Mayor of the Sunset Strip Rodney Bingenheimer. Led Zeppelin rented as many as six floors of the hotel in the mid-to-late 1970s for the band members and entourage. Drummer John Bonham was reported to have driven a motorcycle along the hallways. Room 1015 bears the distinction of being where Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards dropped a TV out the window. The Who's Keith Moon was also reported to have dropped a TV out of one of the hotel's windows. Jim Morrison lived there until he was reportedly evicted by management for hanging out a window by his fingertips, dangling over the pavement. The scene from Almost Famous in which Russell Hammond cries out, "I am a Golden God!" is a reference to Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant who allegedly said the same thing while looking over Sunset Strip from one of the hotel's balconies in 1975. The Continental Hyatt House is truly iconic Rock n' Roll landmark.
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Robert Plant on the balcony overlooking Sunset Strip.
A few of the LA groupies that frequented the Halls and rooms of the Riot House, while Led Zeppelin was in town.
Miss Pamela(one of the original Groupies, with Alice Cooper)
Jimmy Page
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Lori Maddox
The GTO's
