Baxie's Musical Podcast: Scott Phares and the amazing comeback of The Hollywood Stars

Rock 102 Morning Show Podcasts · Jul 20, 2026 · 56m

Baxie talks with Scott Phares from The Hollywood Stars. The Hollywood Stars were a band that was hand selected by the notorious Kim Fowley to be the West Coast answer to the New York Dolls. While things didn’t exactly work out that way, the Hollywood Stars attempted to record several albums that were either abandoned or sat on the shelves for several decades. And yet, two of their songs were taken by producer Bob Ezrin and appeared on what would become platinum albums for both KISS and Alice Cooper! (“King of the Nighttime World” from KISS’s Destroyer” and “Escape” which appeared on Cooper’s…