Infamous Hotels and Hotel Rooms
In the days before Covid, I was always on the road\u2026if it wasn\u2019t a music conference in Singapore, it was an interview in London, the Juno\u2019s in\u2014wherever, or a concert in Los Angeles\u2026this means I have seen more than my share of hotel rooms\u2014everything from five-star luxury spots to sub-one-star establishments that come with a complimentary dead hooker under the bed\u2026\n\nThis means I\u2019ve developed a certain attitude toward hotels\u2026\n\nFirst thing you do when you get into the room is ditch the bedspread\u2026they are never, ever cleaned\u2026just tear it off, pile it in the corner, and then wash your hands\u2026then try not to imagine what\u2019s happened on that couch\u2026\n\nAt night, there\u2019s the sound of the air conditioning, the noises coming from the hallway\u2026and what are they doing in the room next door?...\n\nThen in the restaurant and the bar and the fitness room, you run into fellow guests\u2026who are they?...what are they doing here?...what\u2019s their story?...occasionally, I\u2019d find out\u2014like the time I ran across a Nobel prize winner who was living in this Asian hotel because he was too ill to fly back home\u2026\n\nHotels are fascinating places where things happen that don\u2019t happen anywhere else\u2026strangers come together from everywhere to do things that they might not do anywhere else\u2026no wonder so many books and TV shows and movies are set in hotels\u2026I am fascinated with these places\u2026\n\nHere\u2019s the segue: rock stars spend a lot of time on the road, meaning that they spend a lot of nights in hotels\u2026and some of the rooms they stay in end up become part of rock\u2019n\u2019roll history\u2026let\u2019s take a look at some of them, shall we?...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices