Chuck E. Weiss Dies: Los Angeles Music Scene Fixture And Actor Was 76

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Chuck E. Weiss, a longtime presence on the Los Angeles music scene and the subject of a Top 5 hit for Rickie Lee Jones, died yesterday at age 76.

Details on his death were not immediately available, but friends said he died after a long illness.A staple performer on Mondays at The Central nightclub on the Sunset Strip for 11 years with his band, The Goddamn Liars, Weiss convinced friend Johnny Depp to /help revive it when it fell on hard times.

It became the Viper Room, one of the hottest music venues in the city. He also became associated with the Kibitz Room, an offshoot of Canter’s Deli on Fairfax, where a booth was named in his honor for his presence at the room’s frequent jams.An outpouring on social media came as news of Weiss’s death

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