Today’s Dom Post reports that the Loaded Hog will, intrigu­ing­ly, be rede­vel­oped into a “west Hol­ly­wood lounge expe­ri­ence”.

Los Ange­les’s West Hol­ly­wood area is best known for its large gay vil­lage and its noto­ri­ous nightlife.

It’s the home of the Chateau Mar­mont (where John Belushi died and numer­ous stars did very bad things), the Viper Room (where Riv­er Phoenix died), the Roxy (where the first Amer­i­can run of the Rocky Hor­ror Show was per­formed), the Whisky a Go Go (the club that invent­ed go-go danc­ing) and the Sun­set Strip, where dreams are made and crushed, dai­ly.

And it’s also known for being the home of the sec­ond wave of hair met­al, spawn­ing such mas­ters of mas­cara as Poi­son, L.A. Guns and Möt­ley Crüe.

So will we see the ‘Hog trans­formed into a sort of late ’80s theme bar — a fad­ed 1960s night­club with chipped paint, used nee­dles and the aro­ma of hair­spray waft­ing from both the men’s and the ladies’?

And — more impor­tant­ly — will we expect to see a nu hair met­al scene evolve, with a local ver­sion of Möt­ley Crüe?

One can only hope the answer to all these ques­tions is, “Hell yes, please”.