THE RAINBOW (2019)

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This is a film about The Rainbow, a bar/restaurant on the Strip in Hollywood. It follows the Maglieri family, the owners, and focuses on, but is not limited to, their history with the metal dudes in the 80s. The owners functioned as parents for many of the rockers who stopped in all the time. If you saw the Lemmy documentary, this is the place where Lemmy always hung out and played video poker.

Original owner Mario Maglieri (who died in 2017 at 93) seemed like a rad dude. He moved to LA to run the Whiskey, and then opened the restaurant as well. Everyone seemed to love him. He was always telling the rockers to ease off the drugs, but helping them get through day to day as well. He had some pretty blunt anti-racist comments that were cool as well.

The only thing I didn't like about this was at the end where the old rockers complain about modern music. You are out of touch, old men.

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