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Renamed as “Filthy McNasty’s,” the bar became a popular hangout for Evil Knievel and Phyllis Diller, Elvis Presley and Mick Jagger and other celebrities such as Little Richard and John Wayne who appreciated McNasty’s ban on photographers. near Larrabee, a hangout where Bugsy Siegel and Micky Cohen and other gangsters were said to gamble. Wolfgang and Nasty (who was born as Wilfried Bartsch before the brothers legally changed their names) moved to the United States from Berlin in 1956 according to Leigh Montville, author of “ Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend.” They began working in the restaurant business and eventually took over the Melody Lounge, at 8852 Sunset Blvd. That’s probably why he was among the few to succeed outside the confines of the Sunset Strip.” Filthy McNasty (center) with Shawn Crosby and Micky Perez of Jones Street. McNasty was a kind man whom everyone liked. In an era when most club workers were total pricks, Mr. Filthy McNasty, founder of the great rock club FM Station,” writes Gerry Gittelson, editor at MediaSludge, on Facebook. Rest in peace, boss.” (Wolfgang was McNasty’s brother.) Never to be outdone, it remains the largest gavel I have ever owned. In my chambers to this day (I serve as a judge of the Superior Court of California) is the massive gavel he and Wolfgang gave me when I first became a judge in 1990. When I learned he died, I felt that a portion of my youth died with him. “From 1979 to around 1982 I was one of his bartenders at the Strip and North Hollywood clubs. “The news of the passing of my former boss, Filthy McNasty, is devastating to all of us who knew him,” Rogan wrote in his post on McNasty’s Facebook page. They include local rockers and James Rogan, a U.S District Court judge in California and a two-term member of the U.S. His death at the age of 73 was disclosed on his Facebook page on Tuesday and has drawn comments from several dozen friends and co-workers. Station in North Hollywood, died of cancer on April 13. McNasty, whose eponymous nightclub was the predecessor to what now is the Viper Room and who also owned F.M. Word is spreading about the death of one of the iconic (and most oddly named) figures of the Sunset Strip - Filthy McNasty.