{"id":12727,"date":"2025-05-18T08:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12727"},"modified":"2025-05-18T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:08:22","slug":"counts-vampd-rock-bar-grill-is-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12727","title":{"rendered":"Count’s Vamp’d Rock Bar & Grill is CLOSING!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danny Koker has a passion for rock \u2018n\u2019 roll and vintage cars. It\u2019s time for the Las Vegas icon in those dual cultures to hand over the key to his rock club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRunning a rock club, Bro, that takes a lot of time and a lot of work, and especially for 16 years,\u201d Koker said in a phone chat Thursday. \u201cSo somebody else really needs to take this over and continue this awesome place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This awesome pillar of rock, Count\u2019s Vamp\u2019d Bar & Grille, is up for sale and closing this summer. The club at 6750 W. Sahara Ave. is pumping the brakes on a 16-year run June 28, with Koker\u2019s Count 77 rock outfit headlining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The club was listed Friday morning, with an asking price of $4.3 million. Koker is working with Chip Madsen of IS Luxury, who holds the listing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vamp\u2019d is going out with heightened volume. It\u2019s venue-closing series features Faster Pussycat on May 30, Steven Pearcy and Warren DeMartini of Ratt,on June 10, Night Ranger on June 18, Loverboy on June 27, and the Count\u2019s 77 finale June 28. Dollar Loan Center founder and avid rock fan Chuck Brennan is presenting the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koker has piloted the anti-establishment establishment with his wife, Korie, since 2009. M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce front man Vince Neil was an original partner under the venue\u2019s original name, Feelgood\u2019s, until Koker took over and renamed the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koker and Neil remain friends. Koker, known as \u201cThe Count,\u201d has a lot of friends in the rock community, and from his star turn in \u201cCounting Cars\u201d,<\/a> a spin-off of \u201cPawn Stars\u201d on History <\/a>Channel<\/a>. The show is centered on his Kounts Customs auto restoration business in Las Vegas. Koker is also the most recent guest on \u201cPawn Stars\u201d co-stars Rick Harrison and Austin \u201cChumlee\u201d Russell\u2019s \u201cPawn After Dark\u201d podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koker talks of club fatigue, operating a rock venue for 16 years. But he is not retiring and will remain an entertainment figure. He has plans for a new project to be unveiled after the club shuts down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat this comes down to is, Danny Koker has got to focus his efforts on some new things that he can\u2019t talk about right now,\u201d the rocker said with a chuckle.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Vamp\u2019d is a 6,000-square foot music fortress that has hosted members of Pantera \u2014 led by the late Vinnie Paul \u2014 Black Sabbath, Skid Row\u2019s Sebastian Bach, bass great Phil Soussan. Local cover bands, including Sin City Stones and Three Lock Box (the Sammy Hagar tribute), Fan Halen, and LV\/DC and Pyromania have packed the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vegas rock stalwart Stoney Curtis, who operates Stoney\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Country at Town Square and Stony\u2019s North Forty at Santa Fe Station, is a member of Count\u2019s 77 and a frequent figure in the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A favorite memory from eight years ago, an all-star band put together in haste with Kip Winger, the vastly underrated rocker and founder Winger on bass and vocals; Vinnie Appice of Black Sabbath on drums, studio great and musician Pat Thrall on guitar and Frankie Moreno on piano. This show careened for three hours. By the end, the crowd was still out the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those experiences are now finite. Prior to Feelgoods, Koker remembers the space as Props Mongolian Grille. Before then, it was the Italian restaurant East Side Mario\u2019s. Koker used to dine there before he ever imagined it would be his rock club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe went down there and built it ourselves, and it has that reflection of our creativity,\u201d said Koker, readily recognizable in his black bandana, shades and leather jacket. \u201cIt has such a reflection of our creativity, but it has such a reflection of my heart and soul as far as what it is and how it\u2019s been operated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The buyer can turn the club into a different venture, of course, a restaurant or a fitness center. But Koker would love to keep the rock vibe alive. Who knows, maybe his band can headline the reopening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy feelings inside are very torn. I truly love the place. I\u2019m truly passionate about it,\u201d Koker said. \u201cI just know that as a as a businessman, I have to shift gears, so to speak. But nothing would make me happier than if someone carried it on the tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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