David Bowie’s House in LA...and His Possessed Swimming Pool

is for today's adventure we find ourselves on sunset boulevard in hollywood california what you're looking at right now is the historic hollywood palladium concert venue so many people have played here today we're talking about david bowie when jessica and i first moved here we drove all over hollywood and la to get the lay of the land so to speak and obviously right now the marquis says all hail the queen hashtag genius aretha franklin that's what the af stands for but when we were driving by here for the very first time i wish i would have gotten a picture because it said david bowie played here [Music] of course david bowie wasn't the only famous act to perform here this theater has been around for quite some time frank sinatra performed here richard pryor performed here john f kennedy spoke here for his democratic speech leading up to his presidency and you remember the movie blues brothers the very end scene when they're performing and the police are in the auditorium waiting to arrest them that all happened here the interior scenes that performance with cab calloway all happen on the stage inside the hollywood palladium i really like to document the different art that's on the buildings or in the alleyways here in hollywood because just never know when they're gonna go away everything changes so much a couple of weeks ago we came across a mural of elizabeth short the black dahlia sadly that's been covered up it was probably one of the most beautiful ones we've seen on the street so you just never know just capturing it all for prosperity it's beautiful though right i mean there are some bad pieces out there on the street but these are professionally done here at the palladium artwork is always being erased here in hollywood it's being covered over and something new is painted so it's nice to just document it speaking of art around town you see that building across the street the different colors of the rainbow and the colorful characters from the 60s painted on it well when tarantino was filming once upon a time in hollywood his crew turned pretty much well i wouldn't say all of it but the majority of the sunset strip back to the way it was in the heyday and that building was one of them aquarius and they decided to keep it david bowie was no stranger to los angeles he's been here multiple times he performed here but not many people know that he actually lived here for a little bit close to a year 10 months i do believe in interviews he has said that living here in los angeles was a complete nightmare the worst moment of his life but he did put out one of his most amazing albums some would say station to station david bowie was living here in los angeles because he was starring in a movie called the man who fell to earth nothing you have seen or heard about david bowie will prepare you for the impact of his first dramatic performance in the man who fell to earth this is another dimension of david bowie one of the few true originals of our time amazing film weird film i mean it's david bowie he wanted to be a movie star he wanted to be a director and if i remember correctly there's an interview out there where he talks about wanting to just kind of give up music and performing in concerts that he's done everything that he could do the interesting thing about david bowie and i'm sure if you're a fan you're going to agree with me he was all kinds of characters he was the goblin king he was you name it he was the king at creating personas but he was never how do i say this he never put on a costume every time he created a character or every time he stepped in the shoes of a different character he became that character and that's what made david bowie out of this world literally a crazy guy talented i love them you love them but out of this world they've had the chinese theater closed down and barricaded off this entire time since the pandemic started but everything is slowly opening back up not too long before this place does one of my hollywood dreams is to spend the night inside the roosevelt hotel here mainly because inside this hotel whether you believe in ghosts or not they have something that many people know or say is a mirror that's haunted by marilyn monroe i want to see it i want to look into it not too terribly far from what i like to call hollywood proper you know the groms chinese theater and all the different museums over here by the new i think it's called the galaxy target or the target galaxy something like that but this is where you will find the star man star david bowie on the walk of fame a lot has changed since bowie got his star here in 1997 the la fitness this whole complex is all brand spanking new and i point this out because behind him in photos from that day right where that la fitness sign is you can see stairs going down those are no longer here instead i guess they moved the stairs over here look at this thing it's a beautiful building where me and my buddies are hanging out at the hollywood entertainment museum i can just whip out a mirror hold it up and say that's my star out there with my name written backwards do you have to ewok thank you very much if i make any more bad albums you can come over here and walk all over me all right right now i'm in beverly hills standing on dohini drive it's a very busy street but right across the street i'm going to show you guys in just a moment is a house that i'm gonna call david bowie's nightmare house and i got a story for you that's just gonna make you scratch your head and go okay here we a go has definitely changed here in beverly hills since david bowie was living here but this house right here 637 north doheny drive is where david bowie lived for a very short time and i'm just going to go ahead and say that this was his nightmare house i got a story to tell you but before we do that just looking at the house you can't really see it but over here there are two windows and right here behind the gate let's go ahead and get a closer look at it the front door as you can tell it says 637 right there but the front door this tall tower i guess you would say that can be seen in pretty much every photo that you can find online david bowie living here just looking at the house this is it let me go ahead back up hidden nightmarish music history in interviews but we said living here in los angeles was the darkest point of his life while here not only did he make the movie the man who fell to earth but he also recorded this the album station to station but living inside this house he was doing so much cocaine and he was sleeping very little i'm talking weeks without sleep living in this house like a vampire living only on peppers and milk saving this is mind-blowing saving his semen and his nail clippings because he was afraid that witches black magic witches were going to come and cast a spell and make another david bowie clone of him so to speak my favorite thing about this story and it had to have really sucked for david bowie is there's a poll out back and he famously performed an exorcism on the pool like what kind of drugs now imagine this you're on so much cocaine and you haven't slept for days maybe even weeks you're sitting out back the wind is howling and you start seeing things now supposedly the wind was howling and the pool started bubbling and david bowie was convinced that the devil was in his swimming pool that it was possessed by the devil and he had to have it exercised and he took it upon himself to do such a thing i wish that there was video of this i really do it doesn't look like anybody's home and to be honest i don't think we're going to be able to get back there to see this swimming pool but it would have been right back here behind this portion of the house david bowie's time here was very short in the grand scheme of his career but at the same time it was very influential we got the movie the man who fell to earth the album stationed the station and dare i say another one of many legendary rock stories in the history of music and i read about the stuff and i laugh i find it amusing but at the time obviously for him it sucked i'm gonna try to be a little sleuthy and walk around the corner to see if there's an alleyway maybe i can see the pool from there or something but just got to be careful here in beverly hills they have a lot of like security walking around and i want them to think that i'm trying to break into some place just some crazy fan of bowie himself so we shall see well they do have an alleyway again no trespassing just want to see if we can see the pool all right so walking down here over here on the left-hand side is where the house would be so this this building right here says beware of dog 639 doheny so right here this is 637 this is where david bowie would have parked his car way back in the day can't see anything past this gate right there but i can hear like the pumps the engines or the the motors of the the pumps for the swimming pool whatever you call it i can hear it i can't see it it's alright we tried poking its head over the fence like two possessed eyes looking back at us is what appears to be a guest house or possibly even a pool house but it looks like this is as close as we're gonna get to the david bowie's possessed pool in his nightmarish house crazy though with that being said thank you for joining us on another adventure and remember happy halloween is

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Id: A539oFHzU_4

Length: 13min 20sec (800 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 09 2021