CLUBLAND: Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of the Hard...

CLUBLAND: Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of the Hard Rock cafes, sold his interests in that global success in 1988, because it had gotten too “Hollywood.”

What’s he doing now? Opening a new club next summer--in Hollywood. Or at least West Hollywood.

Tigrett has a January groundbreaking planned at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Olive Drive for the House of Blues, which he promises will be “the ultimate supper club in the world.”

He swears it will be nothing like what the Hard Rock has become. “This will be a palace to the blues and the music it has influenced,” the 44-year-old native of Jackson, Tenn., says. “I want to create a showplace for this music that was never mainstream and never will be.” The first House of Blues just opened in Cambridge, Mass.

Meanwhile, down the Sunset Strip, hard-rock headquarters Gazzarri’s closed last week after 30 years in business. After the death two years ago of founder Bill Gazzarri, the self-styled “Godfather of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” the club was unable to attract the high-profile acts that had made it an L.A. night-life landmark. The nearby Roxy, though, has taken on the revived R&B; Live, the club known for its impressive celebrity guest list. R&B; Live is at the Roxy every second Wednesday, resuming after the holidays on Jan. 13.