A Royal Show by RCR’s Nichols

Eddie Nichols is a superstar. The Royal Crown Revue frontman never looked or sounded better than last Thursday at the Key Club. And now I know why RCR’s sax player Mando has so much soul. He was raised in Watts....

The Key Club party was in honor of Mark Mahoney, sort of a welcome-to-the-neighborhood for his Shamrock Social Club tattoo parlor. And by the by, crooner Jake LaBotz is doing a Saturday residency at the Shamrock.... Was happy as a clam at Joey Sehee’s recent Moomba gig. The lounge wizard rocked the full house in fine shagadelic form.... Am counting the days until March 30, when such beach boys as Too Rude and Slightly Stoopid perform at the Roxy. There’s gonna be so much funky punky reggae love in the house, it just might levitate.

Author Clynt Catalyst says the Sunday reading salons at the new Parlour club in West Hollywood are “must-hear non-TV.”... Texas Terri blew away the Viper crowd at Camaro night on Monday, thus earning her the underground icon status as the hardest rocking gal in show biz.... Save the dates: Duff McKagan’s uber-hot rock band, Loaded, returns to the Viper on April 1 and Slim Jim Phantom’s birthday party is at the Cat Club on March 28.

Caught Motochrist again at a recent Dragonfly show. If those four boys rocked any harder, they’d spontaneously combust.... Flogging Molly’s Dave King tells me he was raised in a one-room flat in Beggar’s Bush, outside Dublin. King, whose band kicks off a three-night run at the Troubadour tonight to celebrate the release of “Drunkin’ Lullabies,” says despite the tight quarters, his family always made room for a piano. Music to me ears.