I love the relaxed, casual, man on the street format to these videos. I learned a lot of cool stuff in less than 8 minutes. Nobody Does it quite like this. I could spend hours watching this. Thanks!
I was born in 97 and this is all my favourite music. Luckily, in my life I have been fortunate enough to see live Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Depeche Mode, Simple Minds, Tears for Fears, Blue Oyster Cult, Barclay James Harvest. It’ll never be the same as actually living through the counter culture of the time, but there are younguns like me that still appreciate real music :)
I would like to sit with my easel and/or create some sketches and paintings of these places...imagine the people I would meet. Let's GO ! I might jet out sometimes soon, thanks so much for turning me on to these adventures and history . Many of your videos depict great architecture as well as amazing landscapes combined in which I myself am best known for in my creativite career. Rock On cat's... H.L.
Hi just discovered your channel like less than 30 min ago and, I must admit, it is super well recorded and that must be a lot of work! It is fascinating! I am watching from Canada!
I am new . I subbed Wonderland Ave in my top 10 I ever read . I watched pr 2 now part 3 . It’s so pleasant to see all this history . And your respect to the current community. And walking the dog . I have to see view where Strange was written. Then CCR , Mamas , John Lennon with Pang when he had to leave Yoko . Glen Frey , Jackson Brown , Monkeys , the list goes on . I love your channel . I will always respect everyone who has lived there . Just up the hill , from Sunset Strip
Thanks much. I'm actually going walking there this weekend with Randy. He's lived there his entire life and know's the history intimately so I learn something new every time we walk our dogs.
Hey dude I love this shit. Im from australia and cant wait to visit LA. Youre like the Anthony Bourdaine of Hollywood. I mean that respectfully. PLEASE keep making these videos forever.
wooww, love your taste and rock n roll vibe, thanks for sharing all these wonderful stories, love from Portugal, just waiting for the next one. namaskar
Tim, I admire the way your musical pads echo the styles of the stars you’re talking about. Do you write and perform these tracks ? Really great stuff, man !
Thank you for noticing as I prolly spend more time on the music than on the photography. Yes, I do the tracks myself. I am a recently retired Television music composer so its kinda like a CPA who does his own taxes.
What a time it must have been with so much talent in the area,and the Troubadour Club nearby. To see all the interlinks is fascinating,i didn't realise Glenn Frey played with Bob Seger .A fairly small group that influenced a generation with music that has stood the test of time. I couldn't imagine today's "talent"will ever have the experience of playing with so many artists as their friends or neighbours.
Hi Tim and Randy Love your Laurel Canyon tours and canyon knowledge. Fascinating scenery and history. I was curious about the House with the Robert Mitchum bust. Fascinating story which is reported in the Los Angeles Times, Jan 11, 1949 issue. In that article a different house number is given. From that article Lila Leeds, who was also charged and convicted, subleased the house from Virginia Hyland who leased from Nanette Bordeaux. Bordeaux sued Mitchum for damages to the home from the invasion. Only in Laurel Canyon. some stories!!
Hey there! Yeah, the Mitchum house. There seemed to be 2 different addresses and as it turns out I think we had the wrong one. Oh well, the story's still a good one, right?
Indeed it is. I love your work. I am fascinated with Laurel Canyon. I’m an artist and I’m working on a painting of “the very very fine house.” In another blog, you have covered that house. An interesting tid bit I just stumbled across, in a 2018 interview Joni released the location of the house she painted inside the skirt of her “Ladies of the Canyon” album cover. I believe It’s the house at the corner of lookout mountain and Stanley Hills. Take notice of the shape of the house and the garage underneath. The scalloped trim on the roof was also a hint although one side is now missing. In her obscure painting, there is a VW Beatle in the garage. How cool!
@@janedoyle8411 I can't tell if that's the house on the corner from the painting. According to Randy, who lives on Stanley Hills, the big, tall house on the SW corner of Stanley Hills and Lookout used to be inhabited by Chaka Khan.
I didn't know, that house is near Rising Glen me thinks. The Blue Jay way house is one of the few left that hasn't been torn down and rebuilt. Its crazy loud up there with all the construction.
I've officially decided that if I win a large Lottery, I will buy one of these awesome houses in the Canyon. Topanga is also cool. All of the hills cause there to be a lot of fascinating architecture. A lot of bathrooms looking out at the canyon - I'm jealous for sure.
We have a vacation rental scheduled for March off of Ridpath. Can't wait! if there is anywhere I can sit in on jam session with my Nord Electro 6, let me know.
Its a great, albeit steep place to take a walk up there. Its still somewhat the same as it was back in the day me thinks. Let me know when you're going when it gets nearer, maybe we'll hook up at the Country Store for a coffee.
Laurel Canyon holds so many secrets. If the trees could talk (they probably do, we just don't hear them) just imagine the history lessons they could give us.
Thanks for giving an Iowa guy to these birds-eye views. I'll probably never make it there, but if I do and I see you out hoofing it, I'm flagging you down!
@@RockessentialTim I’d love to run into you up there and say hi. I drove it myself yesterday for the first time and was amazed at people driving the one-lane roads right on the edge of a cliff. It got a little dicey! Would rather hike it next time. Beautiful up there.
Are there any hikes available in the Sepulveda Basin park? this is the largest open area in the San Fernando Valley, and hikes there would be convenient to many people.
Wow. Don Nix was an original Mar-Key, right? That is really awesome. I got to see the house in the early 90''s a couple times when I delivered food there. Mayall was always really cool and seemed to enjoy talking music with the star-struck pizza delivery boy.
@@RockessentialTim Danville Illinois He got his start booking bands at the University of Illinois 30 miles to the West. Parents owned a drug store he made more money then them :)
The other open space for hiking in the Valley is the CSUN campus. Its big enough to get a few miles in without dealing with cars. In a place like LA, open and green areas are few. So the CSUN campus is a big advantage. The UCLA campus is the only place in LA I'd want to be walking around in at night, and is bigger than CSUN.
RIP Jim Ladd..He had many parties there with all the famous muscians back in the day..And yes, the elevator car was used by all..Walking up was hard enough, but going down after the party was non-negotiable!
DeflatingAtheism , Right, the roads are skinny, steep, curvy and dangerous..especially since so much alleged drug use went on. They only had that Canyon Country store to walk in... just some packaged food. Makes you long for Trader Joe’s. It’s close to their jobs, and they were young...but they also made good money at younger ages as was the case with much of the population trained for it back then. They didn’t have everything. The roads were also very cracked when I went about 4 years ago...much too much for a neighborhood that is now expensive. Hollywood Hills is not what people would imagine, and it’s not near the ocean, where there are very nice neighborhoods that get no press but are much safer. I like the quiet low profile ones. The high profile ones are more of an circumstantial occurrence. The lower profile ones were actually planned better. The baristas at the Canyon Country store were super nice on the patio.
Just to clarify info on the house that Neil Young and John Densmore live in. Neil lived there first, after he moved out, John Densmore moved in. Neither of them lived in in the house you see. There is a small cabin to the right of the main house. I knew the owner and she showed me the small Buffalo Springfield sign that Neil had nailed to the back of the cabin.
@@RockessentialTim The sign was much smaller than I expected because I had heard the stories about it.. No, John lived in the same cabin adjacent to the house. He was very protective about people knowing where he lived. He asked us not to tell anyone. While I was there John Phillips came by looking for a place to rent.. another time Jim Messina was visiting.. quite the place. I haven't seen it since the 60's ..thanks for the video!
@@vintagestudiolive That is just fantastic! This kind of info is just falling through the cracks it seems. I would love to get on the property and film, but ain't as easy as it sounds!
@@RockessentialTim The person I knew who owned the house was a woman named "Kiyo", I knew her last name as "Cuddy"... yikes! I just did some research on her and found this.. mind boggling. look up Kiyo Hodel on Steve Hodel's web site..
"Good luck getting up there, after a few beers." This is what I don't understand about Laurel Canyon- with all the debauchery in the '70s, and the megalodon-sized El Dorados they drove at the time, surely more than a few people have had a few too many substances, swerved two feet off to the side of one of those twisty one-lane dirt roads, and tumbled down a ravine.
I lived on Crescent Drive in the top house of Laurel Canyon. To get up the back road we had to turn up a ways, then back down a little to make the turn! In a great big Lincoln!!! Sometimes I would just get out and walk up it was so scary!!!
@@DeflatingAtheism Nope! There weren't as many cars then either...OH! Yes! When we lived up in Malibu, my husband drove my Chevy Step sider truck (I think that's what it was called) off the mountain and was so drunk he didn't even get hurt! Those were crazy days!!!
I think there is confusion about the 8510 Ridpath and Barry Friedman / Stills / Furay living there. Is it the house on Fountain Ave you are thinking of? The whole Springfield lived there with Barry for a while in 66 - then they moved to the Hollywood Center Motel.
They indeed lived on Fountain for a time but Friedman had a house on Ridpath, not sure if it was before or after, but next door to Billy James and according to my sources is another place they hung out and wrote.
@@RockessentialTim ok what threw me off was your hiking buddy said "8510" when you arrived there, but the correct address was 8524 where you were at. This must be the spot where Henry Diltz met the band coming out of the house and rode with them to Redondo Beach for the Third Eye Blind photoshoot.
@@RockessentialTim All good - you were at the right spot. Also Joni Mitchell used to remark that she could hear Buffalo Springfield playing up in the canyon above her - it all fits. Now here is a trivia question for you - what was the address of the house on Fountain? This is where Steve and Richie saw the BS road paver and pulled the sign off of it, and subsequently named the band.
13-May-2020.Hello, at the Los Aangles archive is a collection of photes and map of that area and the names of people who rented or owned land.Some body was keenly aware of the historical importemnce of the people and there presents and recorded all of it.Please check it out.
He reminds me of Anthony Bourdain. I don't like the copious amounts of garbage cans in driveway, in front of the house look. Very cool history in that section.
Do any of these celebrities still live up there? Or did a lot of them move out because of privacy? It would seem that the late 60's and 70's era was the time they chose to live there but after that it became too popular and privacy became an issue.
One of his main residences was Friar park in Henley, UK, some of his vids were filmed there: www.google.com.au/maps/dir//Henley-on-Thames,+UK/@51.5402007,-0.9136169,317m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x48768542ad0cb2ab:0x50b007c5953c9c7d!2m2!1d-0.902894!2d51.535764!3e0
Imo. KMET aka The Mighty Met was one of the best rock and roll radio stations ever. I used to listen to them everyday. If my memory serves me right the dj line up was something like this Ace Young ,Jeff Gonzer, Cynhtia Fox, Pat 'Paraquqt" Kelly ,Mary "The Burner" Turner, Jim Ladd .They went off the air on Feb.14,1987. And as they used to say WWWHHHHOOOOYYYYYAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No doubt these properties are expensive, but they look very run down. All the garbage cans and recycle bins out front don't enhance anything. It looks like every house and garden needs an overhaul.
@@RockessentialTim I should clarify that that by lived It would be more accurate to say I crashed there for a while before continuing my westward migration path to Topanga.The only people I knew were the GTOs who I think rented the place .Ron
@@RockessentialTim that’s what I was thinking as well. And after a wile it was just the place to be at that point in time. What are the prices there now? Any Airbnb’s ? Would be cool just to live there for a month or so.
That last house had a tram that went up to the house when I was in jr high school there was a huge party there a bunch of kids got on the tram consequently it broke and severely hurt a boy hanging on the outside of the tram. I’m almost 100% positive that was the house it’s been 50 years ago but I’m sure that’s it. Looks like the tracks are there whether they are functional I don’t know.
Such mixed feelings about the Canyon, a beautiful inspiring area but such a density of suspiciously rich folk, I try to dwell on the naivety/innocence of the time but little if anything works that way, the dog pulling the guy around is kind of emblematic of the mindset of that whole scene for me
The backround music and stories were interesting ; watching you walk the neighborhood was cool ~ but you would introduce a musicians house and eventually point the camera at it for two seconds ! I lost interest because I did not choose to wait for that short moment when you would finally remember to point the camera at the celebrity homes. Sorry guys ~ you lost me there... < ** >
Your Lennon history is messed up. He didn't make Walls and Bridges until he straightened up, learned to enjoy living with himself and went back to New York.
Ummm.. Maybe you're right, maybe I'm right but according to this Wiki history I think I have the dates right.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_and_Bridges
Neil Young....BS 1967 Boston. BS would tune their guitars prior to each song and the crowd got antsy NY responded....Hey man if we were just playing for you we wouldn't bother tuning at all...Dead silence...
You guys are good thank you
I love the relaxed, casual, man on the street format to these videos. I learned a lot of cool stuff in less than 8 minutes. Nobody Does it quite like this. I could spend hours watching this. Thanks!
Aw shucks.... Thank you, that just made my day!
@@RockessentialTim
😃👍🎸🎶
Doesnt get any better than this ! Thanx for these videos.
Thank you. They are our pleasure to shoot.
So good! They sell my book at the Canyon Country Store. Right at the register. The Journey of a Song 60s & 70s :))
Great history of Laurel Canyon guys. Cheers James.
Thank you, much appreciated!
I thank God everyday that I grew up when all the great music was being released.
I think we got to experience the best of times. I see nothing in the foreseeable future that can match the past.
I was born in 97 and this is all my favourite music. Luckily, in my life I have been fortunate enough to see live Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Depeche Mode, Simple Minds, Tears for Fears, Blue Oyster Cult, Barclay James Harvest. It’ll never be the same as actually living through the counter culture of the time, but there are younguns like me that still appreciate real music :)
Great stuff Tim as always. I had met JL (and YO ) back in NY in the 70's after this period.
I would like to sit with my easel and/or create some sketches and paintings of these places...imagine the people I would meet. Let's GO ! I might jet out sometimes soon, thanks so much for turning me on to these adventures and history . Many of your videos depict great architecture as well as amazing landscapes combined in which I myself am best known for in my creativite career.
Rock On cat's...
H.L.
Excellent ! Thanks Tim and Randy ! Peace,Rudy
Amazing videos.
Hi just discovered your channel like less than 30 min ago and, I must admit, it is super well recorded and that must be a lot of work! It is fascinating! I am watching from Canada!
Thanks for watching. I have relatives in Ontario and have been there many times. Beautiful!
These films are absolutely fantastic ! Thank you.
Thank you too!
Really enjoying this!
I love this series now !
Thank you ! Very good Informationen. Nice views!
I’m from germany.
Thank you for watching and Keep On Rocking!
The late great Glenn Frey for sure! Thanks for the tour so far guys (I’ll see them all) God, the music that came out of those few square miles! -Peace
It was actually really hard to find the Glenn Frey house so it was super satisfying when we did. (we were downright giddy). Thanks for watching!
These are great videos. I hope you get more subs!
Thank you! In the process of making a few more.
Mind-blowing tour! Thank you!
Thank you Edward. I love anything Laurel Canyon.
Great job!, Great video, thank you!
Our pleasure. It was really fun to make.
I am new . I subbed Wonderland Ave in my top 10 I ever read . I watched pr 2 now part 3 . It’s so pleasant to see all this history . And your respect to the current community. And walking the dog . I have to see view where Strange was written. Then CCR , Mamas , John Lennon with Pang when he had to leave Yoko . Glen Frey , Jackson Brown , Monkeys , the list goes on . I love your channel . I will always respect everyone who has lived there . Just up the hill , from Sunset Strip
Thanks much. I'm actually going walking there this weekend with Randy. He's lived there his entire life and know's the history intimately so I learn something new every time we walk our dogs.
@@RockessentialTim I would love to see the Sugarman/Pop house
I lived on Crescent off of Lookout Mountain an did exactly what these two are doing. But this was before TH-cam. Fun to watch.
The tour (including part 4) took us about two and a half hours but that included a lot of stopping and chit-chat.
Thanks for the tour, I'm reading the book about these houses and who passed through them. Interesting.
I'd love to know which book?
Hey dude I love this shit.
Im from australia and cant wait to visit LA. Youre like the Anthony Bourdaine of Hollywood. I mean that respectfully. PLEASE keep making these videos forever.
wooww, love your taste and rock n roll vibe, thanks for sharing all these wonderful stories, love from Portugal, just waiting for the next one. namaskar
Thank you so much. We have one in the pipline now so stay tuned....
Tim, I admire the way your musical pads echo the styles of the stars you’re talking about. Do you write and perform these tracks ? Really great stuff, man !
Thank you for noticing as I prolly spend more time on the music than on the photography. Yes, I do the tracks myself. I am a recently retired Television music composer so its kinda like a CPA who does his own taxes.
What a time it must have been with so much talent in the area,and the Troubadour Club nearby.
To see all the interlinks is fascinating,i didn't realise Glenn Frey played with Bob Seger
.A fairly small group that influenced a generation with music that has stood the test of time.
I couldn't imagine today's "talent"will ever have the experience of playing with so many artists as their friends or neighbours.
The Troubadour says if Covid lasts much longer they're closing the doors for good. What a shame.
5:22 John & Yoko apparently reunited very early in '75 cause Sean was born on October 9th of that year (John's 35th birthday).
Hi Tim and Randy
Love your Laurel Canyon tours and canyon knowledge. Fascinating scenery and history.
I was curious about the House with the Robert Mitchum bust. Fascinating story which is reported in the Los Angeles Times, Jan 11, 1949 issue. In that article a different house number is given.
From that article Lila Leeds, who was also charged and convicted, subleased the house from Virginia Hyland who leased from Nanette Bordeaux. Bordeaux sued Mitchum for damages to the home from the invasion. Only in Laurel Canyon. some stories!!
Hey there! Yeah, the Mitchum house. There seemed to be 2 different addresses and as it turns out I think we had the wrong one. Oh well, the story's still a good one, right?
Indeed it is. I love your work.
I am fascinated with Laurel Canyon. I’m an artist and I’m working on a painting of “the very very fine house.”
In another blog, you have covered that house. An interesting tid bit I just stumbled across, in a 2018 interview Joni released the location of the house she painted inside the skirt of her “Ladies of the Canyon” album cover. I believe It’s the house at the corner of lookout mountain and Stanley Hills. Take notice of the shape of the house and the garage underneath. The scalloped trim on the roof was also a hint although one side is now missing. In her obscure painting, there is a VW Beatle in the garage. How cool!
@@janedoyle8411 I can't tell if that's the house on the corner from the painting. According to Randy, who lives on Stanley Hills, the big, tall house on the SW corner of Stanley Hills and Lookout used to be inhabited by Chaka Khan.
There is a mention online that Lennon and Pang stayed at 8818 Thrasher Avenue. 6:40
I didn't know, that house is near Rising Glen me thinks. The Blue Jay way house is one of the few left that hasn't been torn down and rebuilt. Its crazy loud up there with all the construction.
I've officially decided that if I win a large Lottery, I will buy one of these awesome houses in the Canyon. Topanga is also cool. All of the hills cause there to be a lot of fascinating architecture. A lot of bathrooms looking out at the canyon - I'm jealous for sure.
We have a vacation rental scheduled for March off of Ridpath. Can't wait! if there is anywhere I can sit in on jam session with my Nord Electro 6, let me know.
Wow, where on Ridpath?
@@RockessentialTim We'll be just off of Ridpath on Jewett St.
@@markreilly7052 As I recall, that's steep up there! have you been here before?
@@RockessentialTim This is my 14th trip to the L.A. area, but we've only driven through Laurel Canyon once.
Its a great, albeit steep place to take a walk up there. Its still somewhat the same as it was back in the day me thinks. Let me know when you're going when it gets nearer, maybe we'll hook up at the Country Store for a coffee.
Laurel Canyon holds so many secrets. If the trees could talk (they probably do, we just don't hear them) just imagine the history lessons they could give us.
Right on, exactly!
Thanks for giving an Iowa guy to these birds-eye views. I'll probably never make it there, but if I do and I see you out hoofing it, I'm flagging you down!
LOL! Well I walk up here every day so I'll be waiting.
@@RockessentialTim I’d love to run into you up there and say hi. I drove it myself yesterday for the first time and was amazed at people driving the one-lane roads right on the edge of a cliff. It got a little dicey! Would rather hike it next time. Beautiful up there.
@@robinbittel9420 I haven't been going much because of covid but got my vax and will be walking up there more often with my bud Randy.
Are there any hikes available in the Sepulveda Basin park? this is the largest open area in the San Fernando Valley, and hikes there would be convenient to many people.
Good question. I have only been there with my camera once and that was to document the large, off leash park there. Thanks for the suggestion!
I spent many nights at John Mayall's house in Laurel Canyon with my friend and producer Don Nix back in the late 70's.
Wow. Don Nix was an original Mar-Key, right? That is really awesome. I got to see the house in the early 90''s a couple times when I delivered food there. Mayall was always really cool and seemed to enjoy talking music with the star-struck pizza delivery boy.
Liked and subbed....definitely.
Thanks!
How about a walk through in Nichols Canyon? I know John Kay (Steppenwolf) lived there and I believe Ringo Starr also had a house there.
Great idea. I'm gonna start researching it. Thanx.
I think Jim Ladd was the announcer on Roger Waters' solo album Radio KAOS (1984).
Anybody know what make the awesome car @04:39 is?
I'm pretty sure its a Stutz Bearcat. Haven't been up there for a few months but it used to always be parked there.
@@RockessentialTim Thanks, Tim and Randy... Excellent videos from you real folks! Liked and subscribed!
Thanks, Tim!
take us to some of the venues like the bowl. Irv Azoff's office or house columbia records thanks!
Irv is from the same town I live in.
Where is Irv from?
@@RockessentialTim Danville Illinois He got his start booking bands at the University of Illinois 30 miles to the West. Parents owned a drug store he made more money then them :)
you know what ? the host of these videos should be considered for the PBS program California Gold.
The other open space for hiking in the Valley is the CSUN campus. Its big enough to get a few miles in without dealing with cars. In a place like LA, open and green areas are few. So the CSUN campus is a big advantage.
The UCLA campus is the only place in LA I'd want to be walking around in at night, and is bigger than CSUN.
This is excellent stuff to know, thanks for the info!
RIP Jim Ladd..He had many parties there with all the famous muscians back in the day..And yes, the elevator car was used by all..Walking up was hard enough, but going down after the party was non-negotiable!
So true!
Elliot Mintz was also good friends with David Cassidy in the early 70’s. Cassidy lived at 8511 Cole Crest Dr
Randy and I are planning another Laurel Canyon walk and that is now on the list. Thank you!
@@RockessentialTim I am really enjoying your vlogs so thank YOU!
@@Karen.cook424 Right on, Thanks!
2:33 - Probably not what most people imagine when they think about the Hollywood Hills!
DeflatingAtheism , Right, the roads are skinny, steep, curvy and dangerous..especially since so much alleged drug use went on. They only had that Canyon Country store to walk in... just some packaged food. Makes you long for Trader Joe’s. It’s close to their jobs, and they were young...but they also made good money at younger ages as was the case with much of the population trained for it back then. They didn’t have everything. The roads were also very cracked when I went about 4 years ago...much too much for a neighborhood that is now expensive. Hollywood Hills is not what people would imagine, and it’s not near the ocean, where there are very nice neighborhoods that get no press but are much safer. I like the quiet low profile ones. The high profile ones are more of an circumstantial occurrence. The lower profile ones were actually planned better. The baristas at the Canyon Country store were super nice on the patio.
Bob Seeger wrote a song about the Hollywood hills.
FAB INFO. WELL NARRATED. CHEARS.
Just to clarify info on the house that Neil Young and John Densmore live in. Neil lived there first, after he moved out, John Densmore moved in. Neither of them lived in in the house you see. There is a small cabin to the right of the main house. I knew the owner and she showed me the small Buffalo Springfield sign that Neil had nailed to the back of the cabin.
Interesting. Knew that Neil lived in the cabin but was told that Densmore lived where the garage is now? Would have loved to see that sign!
@@RockessentialTim The sign was much smaller than I expected because I had heard the stories about it.. No, John lived in the same cabin adjacent to the house. He was very protective about people knowing where he lived. He asked us not to tell anyone.
While I was there John Phillips came by looking for a place to rent.. another time Jim Messina was visiting.. quite the place. I haven't seen it since the 60's ..thanks for the video!
@@vintagestudiolive That is just fantastic! This kind of info is just falling through the cracks it seems. I would love to get on the property and film, but ain't as easy as it sounds!
@@RockessentialTim The person I knew who owned the house was a woman named "Kiyo", I knew her last name as "Cuddy"... yikes! I just did some research on her and found this.. mind boggling. look up Kiyo Hodel on Steve Hodel's web site..
@@vintagestudiolive Thanks!
Kirkwood & Cole Crest Drive somewhere in the area is the smallest house ive ever seen
You are the Anthony Bourdain of LA!
"Good luck getting up there, after a few beers." This is what I don't understand about Laurel Canyon- with all the debauchery in the '70s, and the megalodon-sized El Dorados they drove at the time, surely more than a few people have had a few too many substances, swerved two feet off to the side of one of those twisty one-lane dirt roads, and tumbled down a ravine.
I lived on Crescent Drive in the top house of Laurel Canyon. To get up the back road we had to turn up a ways, then back down a little to make the turn! In a great big Lincoln!!! Sometimes I would just get out and walk up it was so scary!!!
@@maureencorrea8830 Wow! Crescent is definitely one of the more extreme roads! Do you know of anyone who ever drove off the side?
@@DeflatingAtheism Nope! There weren't as many cars then either...OH! Yes! When we lived up in Malibu, my husband drove my Chevy Step sider truck (I think that's what it was called) off the mountain and was so drunk he didn't even get hurt! Those were crazy days!!!
Have you been up there lateley?
I think there is confusion about the 8510 Ridpath and Barry Friedman / Stills / Furay living there. Is it the house on Fountain Ave you are thinking of? The whole Springfield lived there with Barry for a while in 66 - then they moved to the Hollywood Center Motel.
They indeed lived on Fountain for a time but Friedman had a house on Ridpath, not sure if it was before or after, but next door to Billy James and according to my sources is another place they hung out and wrote.
@@RockessentialTim ok what threw me off was your hiking buddy said "8510" when you arrived there, but the correct address was 8524 where you were at. This must be the spot where Henry Diltz met the band coming out of the house and rode with them to Redondo Beach for the Third Eye Blind photoshoot.
@@dennis-1983 Geez, I better go back and watch the vid. A lot of water has gone under my bridge since then. LOL!
@@RockessentialTim All good - you were at the right spot. Also Joni Mitchell used to remark that she could hear Buffalo Springfield playing up in the canyon above her - it all fits. Now here is a trivia question for you - what was the address of the house on Fountain? This is where Steve and Richie saw the BS road paver and pulled the sign off of it, and subsequently named the band.
I have no idea but I would LOVE to know!
13-May-2020.Hello, at the Los Aangles archive is a collection of photes and map of that area and the names of people who rented or owned land.Some body was keenly aware of the historical importemnce of the people and there presents and recorded all of it.Please check it out.
Thank you! Do you know if there is website access or is it person only?
@@RockessentialTim Fould out back in 70 myself.l havent been back state side in 30 yaers,Good luck.
@@RockessentialTim Hope you see 2nd reply.
He reminds me of Anthony Bourdain.
I don't like the copious amounts of garbage cans in driveway, in front of the house look.
Very cool history in that section.
Do any of these celebrities still live up there? Or did a lot of them move out because of privacy? It would seem that the late 60's and 70's era was the time they chose to live there but after that it became too popular and privacy became an issue.
Most of the ones from the 60's are either dead or gone. There are a few current ones living there but we chose not to reveal they're residences.
Do you know where George Harrison's house was? I would like to see it! Rock on!! Lennon also lived in Ojai California before returning to New York!
He had a place on the Valley side of Laurel Canyon, just behind Carpenter Elementary school. Not sure of the address though.
One of his main residences was Friar park in Henley, UK, some of his vids were filmed there: www.google.com.au/maps/dir//Henley-on-Thames,+UK/@51.5402007,-0.9136169,317m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x48768542ad0cb2ab:0x50b007c5953c9c7d!2m2!1d-0.902894!2d51.535764!3e0
Lets not forget Moma Cass lived in canyon b4 she passed..worked with her in 68..back when sex was everywhere n safe..lol💜🤴
hydrate, gentlemen!
Thank you. Sometimes we get so busy flapping our gums that we forget!
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Imo. KMET aka The Mighty Met was one of the best rock and roll radio stations ever. I used to listen to them everyday. If my memory serves me right the dj line up was something like this Ace Young ,Jeff Gonzer, Cynhtia Fox, Pat 'Paraquqt" Kelly ,Mary "The Burner" Turner, Jim Ladd .They went off the air on Feb.14,1987. And as they used to say WWWHHHHOOOOYYYYYAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still want to see the home if John Phillips
That dude is straight up Bill Murray Caddyshack
Watch out for Mickey Rourke Tim, one crazy mother !!!
Okay...
After a few beers I'm sure one would use the elevator.
Can’t be both famous AND obscure…but I know what you mean. 😁
I went to a few of those MNF parties...
Neil Young built one of those guest houses...
No doubt these properties are expensive, but they look very run down. All the garbage cans and recycle bins out front don't enhance anything. It looks like every house and garden needs an overhaul.
Thanks for some great memories. Ilived in the canyon in 1969 @ 1928 Weepah Way. Ron Petty
Did you know Mark James down on Ridpath?
@@RockessentialTim I should clarify that that by lived It would be more accurate to say I crashed there for a while before continuing my westward migration path to Topanga.The only people I knew were the GTOs who I think rented the place .Ron
Why is it that everyone congregated in Laurel Canyon?
My opinion was that it was a cheap place to live at the time and it was literally 5 minutes away from most of the music venues in LA.
@@RockessentialTim that’s what I was thinking as well. And after a wile it was just the place to be at that point in time. What are the prices there now? Any Airbnb’s ? Would be cool just to live there for a month or so.
You kinda of remind me of Anthony Bourdain
yep, I get that once in awhile.
In french please !
That last house had a tram that went up to the house when I was in jr high school there was a huge party there a bunch of kids got on the tram consequently it broke and severely hurt a boy hanging on the outside of the tram. I’m almost 100% positive that was the house it’s been 50 years ago but I’m sure that’s it. Looks like the tracks are there whether they are functional I don’t know.
The trams still work and I'm guessing it was the house cuz its pretty unforgettable looking.
Such mixed feelings about the Canyon, a beautiful inspiring area but such a density of suspiciously rich folk, I try to dwell on the naivety/innocence of the time but little if anything works that way, the dog pulling the guy around is kind of emblematic of the mindset of that whole scene for me
Consulate of Chile lives there?? Better hide this from South America Lol
The backround music and stories were interesting ; watching you walk the neighborhood was cool ~ but you would introduce a musicians house and eventually point the camera at it for two seconds ! I lost interest because I did not choose to wait for that short moment when you would finally remember to point the camera at the celebrity homes. Sorry guys ~ you lost me there... < ** >
Too much face time of the two of you and not enough camera time on the places you were visiting.
Yer right, with this mug I should be wearin' a ski mask!
Your Lennon history is messed up. He didn't make Walls and Bridges until he straightened up, learned to enjoy living with himself and went back to New York.
Ummm.. Maybe you're right, maybe I'm right but according to this Wiki history I think I have the dates right.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_and_Bridges
@@RockessentialTim But I do love these videos. Keep up the great work.
Neil Young....BS 1967 Boston. BS would tune their guitars prior to each song and the crowd got antsy
NY responded....Hey man if we were just playing for you we wouldn't bother tuning at all...Dead silence...
Stop using the word 'infamous' please. John Lennon is NOT infamous. David Crosby is a lot more than that. It detracts.
A thousand pardons...