An homage to the long-shuttered nightclub The Satellite/Spaceland and to the Silver Lake-Echo Park-Hollywood of yesteryear is captured in a brand new video from a Los Angeles band.
As soon as one of many cultural landmarks of Los Angeles’s east aspect, The Satellite tv for pc nightclub in Silver Lake (which was previously referred to as Spaceland) hosted such acts as Girl Gaga, Foo Fighters, and plenty of extra nationally distinguished different and pop teams earlier than falling sufferer to the pandemic’s ebb on audiences.
The venue has been closed since 2020, becoming a member of other clubs and live performance halls throughout the nation.
Ben Golomb, a part of the band Modern Time Machines, got here up with the video idea and spent years monitoring down images and pictures.
“I’m an LA native, and it all the time places a smile on my face to find earlier than/after photos of acquainted, native haunts in my hometown,” Golomb stated. “I assume it’s a bit like discovering a barely awkward photograph of your mother and father of their highschool yearbook. You simply have to know extra concerning the little particulars. I named my band Modern Time Machines, and being a vintage-obsessed time journey nerd usually, it appeared fairly on model to do that video as quickly as the thought got here to thoughts.”
Inspiration struck Golomb in late 2019 when the Amoeba Music location on Sundown was closing, adopted quickly after by the destruction of the Googie structure Lytton Financial savings constructing on Sundown (it was a Chase Financial institution in its closing incarnation earlier than being demolished).
“I needed to shortly leap into motion to movie sequences for the video, making repeated journeys to areas proper as they had been within the strategy of being razed,” Golomb stated. “Then I needed to visually match time development photographs manually – it took a whole lot of work, however completely a labor of affection. Sensible results all the way in which.
The video additionally repurposes some unused footage he filmed in 2014 with a DeLorean in Silver Lake, in entrance of The Satellite tv for pc for a Fashionable Time Machines promo video. “So in a manner, I used to be unknowingly engaged on this video for a decade,” Golomb stated.
Alongside the way in which, he turned one thing of an area historian, significantly when it got here to The Satellite tv for pc.
“In earlier many years, going again to the Fifties, it was a restaurant referred to as The Joyful Hole, then later it turned referred to as The Crimson Chimney,” Golomb stated. “The current lack of The Satellite tv for pc was significantly troublesome for many individuals within the native music scene. That venue was just like the Cheers of Silver Lake – a spot the place everyone is aware of your title – and most native people I do know nonetheless get a tad emotional when driving by the closed down, boarded up model of what it as soon as was.”
Fashionable Time Machines performs the music within the video. “We recorded a dreamy house rock tune referred to as “Ghost Indicators (Sleight of Hand)” which lyrically hovers within the universe of tearing down recollections and indicators of the previous, and ponders how time journey would possibly (or won’t) deliver again what we’ve misplaced.”
Musicians concerned embody Fashionable Time Machines bandmates Mike Morgan and Olya Volkova, joined by pals Alex Jack, Nadia Franks, and Diana Christine Hereld, who all collaborated on the recording. Golomb and Josiah Mazzaschi co-produced it.
Actors seen within the video are Charles Phoenix and Joyful Hollows lead singer Sarah Negahdari.
Watch the video above.
