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“They used to have parties at the house in the living room with a bar, with the 8-track cassette player. The Road House soundtrack features songs by major artists like The Beach Boys, via summer classic ‘Kokomo.’ Post Malone, who sings ‘Horsepower,’ also briefly appears as a fighter at the start of the movie. Young is playing drums on a pair of Steely Dan songs, “FM” and “Josie,” at the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts Retrofest 197.8 concert this weekend. He will enjoy rocking out by covering a band that was close to the peak of its powers as the 1970s drew to a close. In 1988 John started a family and lived in the Tehachapi Mountains, near the “Grapevine” of Highway 5, which separates southern and central California.

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Standout performances by Gyllenhaal, and Conor McGregor, the former UFC champion, and positive word of mouth have roused the interest of the audience. Additionally, the music and film score have also become one of the biggest talking points since the film was released recently. Last year, Wainwright recalled to The Times the circumstances that led to his song, written when he was a few months shy of 30 years old. In Hollywood, I used to stay at the Tropicana, and for a while I was at the Sunset Marquis.

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Garrett is attacked, but fights off his assailants and comes to Double Deuce, while Dalton checks on Elizabeth, who is safe but unwilling to talk to Dalton any further. Distraught, Dalton storms Wesley's estate, kills most of his henchmen and defeats, but relents from killing Wesley, refusing to give in to his anger. Elizabeth arrives and reconciles with Dalton, but Wesley recovers and attempts to shoot him before being shot dead by the locals, including Emmett and Red. Sometime later, the modernized and refined Double Deuce bustles with customers while Dalton and Elizabeth swim together in a lake.

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“This year I took some time off from touring and went off on some adventures of my own, and this is kind of a letter back home,” Mitchell told a crowd in 1970 during a televised performance. The project features essays, interviews, portraits and quick primers on the past 25 years’ worth of crucial songwriting about the city. The MMET students each formed bands that will have sets sprinkled throughout the show, Kubis said.

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A security guard was shot several times outside the Los Angeles-area home of Weeknd co-manager and business partner Amir “Cash” Esmailian in an apparent home invasion, according to Fox11. The restaurant’s discordant look became part of its unpretentious appeal. “The ambiance is unlike anything else around,” attested regular Jim Wiatt, then the chair and chief executive at William Morris (predecessor to today’s WME), to the Los Angeles Times in 2007. Get our big stories about Hollywood, film, television, music, arts, culture and more right in your inbox as soon as they publish. Retrofest 197.8 has shows Thursday and Friday nights at 7 p.m., and Saturday shows at 1 and 7 p.m.

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The song’s narrative, about a pair of lovers who smuggle weed from San Ysidro to Hollywood, was even turned into a telenovela on Telemundo. “Hollywood has a very important significance for us,” bassist Hernán Hernandez told Miranda. Each band has also created an interpretation or presentation of one of the songs it is playing, which will be featured in the lobby for concertgoers to enjoy. As Frankie and Stephen begin to rebuild, Charlie says goodbye to Dalton as he waits for his bus out of town. Stephen discovers Dalton has left them the trunk of cash as the bus pulls away.

In a mid-credits scene, Knox has survived and assaults the hospital staff, leaving in his gown. Road House is a 2024 American action film directed by Doug Liman, written by Anthony Bagarozzi and Chuck Mondry and produced by Joel Silver. It is a remake of the 1989 film of the same name and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniela Melchior, Conor McGregor (in his feature film debut), J. Later, Wesley contacts Dalton threatening that either Elizabeth or Garrett will die.

Add a shot of Adcock’s tremolo, a Bo Diddley beat and a nonsensical chorus in the tradition of “Louie Louie,” and it’s the perfect groove for Road House’s signature melee. Then there’s the campy 1989 Patrick Swayze vehicle Road House, where Jeff Healey choogled through Creedence’s “Travelin’ Band” while Patrick Swayze laid waste to corrupt townies at the Double Deuce Bar. One evening, the auto shop adjacent to the Double Deuce — owned by Elizabeth's uncle Red Webster — is destroyed in an arson attack.

He has recorded 8 solo records w/ numerous renowned singers and players, more recently including Patty Griffin, Dan Auerbach, Aimee Mann, Don Was, Kathleen Edwards and Greg Liesz. He has appeared in over 50 films and television productions, with some of his most notable roles in Road House, Georgia, Roadside Prophets, Great Balls of Fire, Pure Country and Roswell. He continues to act these days but more sporadically as his touring schedule has become more demanding. When possible, we’ve attempted to include interviews with artists recalling the inspiration behind the songs, as well as contemporaneous reports culled from The Times’ archives. The remake of Road House stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor, and sees the pair of them fighting to a soundtrack of blues, soul, and rock n roll, so here’s what you can expect to hear during the movie.

Frank Tilghman, a businessman, recruits Dalton to take over security at his club "Double Deuce" in Jasper, Missouri. Tilghman plans to invest substantial funds into the dilapidated club and needs Dalton's highly regarded skills to tackle the endemic violence and rough customers. Dalton agrees in exchange for full authority over the club's operations, immediately firing several employees for poor behavior, theft, and drug dealing. Doug Liman, the director, chose to skip a theatrical release and went straight for streaming.

Hewitt eventually got an apartment on Fountain Avenue in West Hollywood, which borders Beverly Hills. From the perspective of popularity, this synth-funk track from the Eddie Murphy comedy “Beverly Hills Cop” is hardly in the pantheon. As delivered by then-Shalamar lead singer Jody Watley, the song addressed, in its own subtle way, the racial disharmony that plagued the region in the early ’90s.

This song is played by the bar band at night as Reef and Billy chase out inebriated troublemakers. A patron gets agitated with the tune the bar band is playing and starts to act aggressively toward them. For more new movies, check out this month’s theatrical releases, as well as what’s new to streaming. Road House stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a former MMA fighter who accepts a job bouncing at a Florida bar where the locals get tanked up and repeatedly wreck the place.

Radio drops also set the mood, serving as intermissions between the songs. Other musical side projects include work with the Knitters, Jill Sobule and The Sadies. He continues to write poetry and has even taught workshops from time to time. In the Family Guy season 8 episode "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag", Peter Griffin purchases a DVD copy of Road House for a dollar at a closing video store. After watching the film, he decides that the only way to solve every problem is by roundhouse kicking everything in sight including his family. The episode was dedicated in memory of Swayze, who died of pancreatic cancer on September 14, 2009.[36] Since the episode, Peter kicking people has since became a gag in the show.

Initially hesitant, Dalton takes up the offer after narrowly averting a suicide attempt with a freight train that destroys his car. He takes a bus to Frankie's establishment, called simply The Road House, and befriends Charlie, a teenager who runs a bookstore with her father, Stephen. No spoilers, but perhaps hearing that song helped McGregor get into Road House character, especially when the scene calls for him to swing a golf club in Adcock’s direction. Wesley's nephew Pat, who is one of the fired employees, intimidates Tilghman into giving him his job back and attacks Dalton, who badly injures Pat and his accomplices. Receiving a knife wound in the process, Dalton visits a hospital and befriends Dr. Elizabeth Clay to whom Wesley is also attracted. After sending his henchmen to unsuccessfully try to disrupt business at the Double Deuce, Wesley offers to hire Dalton himself.