Daiana Feuer

In April 1994, Aerosmith was the first band to play the Sunset Strip House Of Blues. Club co-owner Dan Aykroyd introduced them, dressed in his Blues Brothers garb, of course. Brad Pitt was in attendance. So was Snoop Dogg. Since then, the venue has hosted almost ten thousand shows; in 2014 alone, more than 172,000 people attended concerts there. That adds up to a lot of drinks (and many drunken famous people staggering onstage at a moment’s notice—more on that later). HOB is a venue that embodies all the glitz, glam and charade that has defined the Sunset Strip, and while it will ultimately reopen in another location, for better or worse, it won’t be the same. Here are a few of the things we’ll miss the most. 1. Its sacred spaces (even for Satanists) HOB co-founder Isaac Tigrett selected every piece of art and furnishes for the venue, sparing no expense across all 40,000 square feet. The corrugated metal lining the exterior was stripped from a gin mill in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where blues legend Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the intersection of Highways 49 and 61. The inside bar railing was made from pieces of ancient Indian temples. Devil on the outside, Buddha on the inside made for quite the eclectically spiritual space to get hammered.   2. Eggs, bacon and Jesus Speaking of spirituality: The House Of Blues began hosting its famous Sunday morning gospel brunch back in the 1990s. Although gospel Grammy-winner Kirk Franklin took over the show a few years ag