Part of the Hollywood Rocks NFT Collection

The first ever Interactive 3D NFT, Architectural Archive ("Digital Twin") of the historic Troubadour nightclub on the Blockchain. (CLICK HERE to experience the interactive model)

Opened in 1957 by Doug Weston, the Troubadour was the most influential venue in folk music during the 60s, early 70s, and subsequently for singer-songwriters and Rock & Roll. Located at 9081 Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood, CA., the small music venue has played a pivotal role in the careers of countless artists including Jackson Browne, The Byrds, Neil Diamond, Eagles, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, J.D. Souther, James Taylor, Tom Waits, and other prominent and successful performers, whose performances there established their future fame. In 1970, Elton John was introduced by Neil Diamond at the Troubadour, marking his first U.S. show. The 2019 film Rocketman depicts this electrifying debut. “My whole life came alive that night, musically, emotionally . . . everything,” John later recalled to the Los Angeles Times. “It was like everything I had been waiting for suddenly happened.”

The club also has some history in comedy. In October 1962, comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested on obscenity charges for using the word "schmuck" on stage. Legendary comics Cheech & Chong and Steve Martin were discovered at the Troubadour in the early 1970s. In 1974, John Lennon and his friend Harry Nilsson were ejected from the club for drunkenly heckling the Smothers Brothers.

Today, the Troubadour still attracts small and large acts of all genres, including big name music artists looking to play an intimate set or give surprise performances to lucky fans.

You will notice on the 3D model that the Troubadour's windows are boarded up. This serves as a timestamp of when the imagery was captured. The club closed throughout 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic but has since re-opened. Yay!!

Side note… Another noteworthy historic Hollywood structure is also visible from the 3D model and GeoTIFF. The yellow bungalow to the right of the Troubadour is the legendary Dan Tana's restaurant, which opened in 1964 and is one of the most iconic restaurants in Los Angeles and a favorite hangout for the Hollywood set.

About the NFT archive:

Perfect for the aficionado of Folk and Rock music history, this NFT includes 4 collectable assets, produced specifically for this blockchain archiving, through the rendering of photographs (photogrammetry) captured from above the building. The owner of the NFT will be able to unlock the NFT assets (stored on IPFS) which includes an original interactive 3D model (CLICK HERE to experience the interactive model) to showcase in your collection and allows you to explore the exterior and surroundings of the venue by spinning, rotating and zooming-in on the model; A single .jpg reference image used in the photogrammetry. Additionally the NFT includes a 4K spinning animation video and the original Orthophoto GeoTIFF image file which contains all of the geo-referenced coordinate data of the site. The GeoTIFF can be placed accurately on geo-reference mapping applications such as QGIS.

This is the FIRST EVER (1 of 1) NFT minted of this historic site. It will be the only NFT minting of the included assets. The purchaser will be the first collector to own this original, digital slice of music history.

Photogrammetry is the process of obtaining reliable information about physical objects and the environment through the recording, measuring and interpretation of positional changes in different photographic images taken of a subject.

UNLOCKED FILES INCLUDE (STORED ON IPFS) 1 x 3D Model (glTF.glb), 1 x Orthophoto GeoTIFF (.tif), 1 x Single image frame used in the photogrammetry (.jpg), 1 x 4K Spinning Animation Video (.mp4)