Making Sure They Get It Right

Ricki Kline got a call from a stripper. Well, actually, she was a “pole-dancing consultant.” She wanted to make certain that Kline, the designer who’s currently renovating West Hollywood’s 7969 Club, orders properly proportioned poles, for maximum body-vaulting voltage. Va-vooom. . . . Ronnie Mack’s Barndance is moving to the Culver Saloon on Tuesdays in May, now that its Hollywood homestead, Jacks Sugar Shack, is about to R.I.P. Owner Eddy Jennings recently sold the Shack and has a few farewell blowouts planned next week.

Burgundy Room had a serendipitous, and dare we say surreal, week. It began when Iggy Pop popped in to the Hollywood bar for a couple of hours. Iggy was hanging with his guitarist, who requested the deejay spin the Pop classic, “Search and Destroy.”

But that’s not the weird part.

A couple nights later another New York legend dropped by: Holly Woodlawn. She requested the deejay spin “Walk on the Wild Side,” the Lou Reed song written about her and other Factory friends. Apparently, the singer-actress is getting ready for another close-up, with the Warhol film “Trash,” just reissued.

But that’s not the weird part either.

Iron Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy, dressed in drag, stuck his head in the Burgundy Room a few nights later. The deejay recognized him and played the long version of the group’s monster hit “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida,” and Bushy proceeded to play a 10-minute air drum solo.

That’s the weird part.

I had a cool conversation with Robbie Krieger, the Doors’ guitarist, at the House of Blues. I told him I danced for the first time in years one week earlier, at Club Make-Up. I couldn’t deny the gravitational pull of “Light My Fire,” which the deejay blazed up about 1:30 a.m. Krieger was surprised people were still playing his music in Hollywood dance clubs, but said he learned to write songs about universal subjects from Jim, and maybe that’s why the music’s endured. Maybe nothin’. Most def.