Couldn't agree more. Even their older more bubblegum stuff is really, really rocking. And talk about criminally unerrated, how come Mick Tucker isn't in the GOAT drummer conversations? Thanks for the cool comment. Cheers.
@@RockessentialTimAfter a friend came back from a visit to Poland, he told me of this band. I bought a 45 of Fox on the Run here in Canada. Then I found a copy of this Desolation Boulevard at a local record store, but when I played it, the version of fox was different. I realized I actually bought an import version of the album! No ballroom blitz, but an awesome cover of the man with the golden arm.
@@grantr5417 Interesting. I think the North American version of the album was more of a greatest hits record than the British one. Like you said, same pic though
Without a doubt. Desolation Boulevard is the first album I ever bought. They get labeled as "bubblegum and glam", but they have some absolute hard rocking tunes such as 'Action', 'Set Me Free', 'Hard Times', 'Windy City', etc. Listen to the start of 'Hellraiser" and tell me that Motley Crue didn't steal it for 'Kickstart My Heart'. Nikki Sixx was a HUGE Sweet fan.
Thanks. I have driven by that Herb location thousands of times and before making the vid never had any idea. I must say, it is one of the coolest apartment buildings in LA.
I was completely stoked to have found it. Its pretty common knowledge now but I worked at the flower shop there during Valentines Day years ago and walked out that door upteen times and never had a clue!
03:09 Would love to see a collab with Henry Diltz - imagine a walking (or driving) tour of Laurel Canyon locations! This was another well-researched video thanks Tim.
MIA: The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (Griffith Park), Notorious Byrd Brothers (stone house in Topanga, also used for Linda Ronstadt's 'Hand Sown...Home Grown), (Untitled) at the Griffith Park Observatory.
Thanks Tim for another awesome & interesting video about my favorite subject, music! I too spent hours checking out every detail on The Doors & The Rolling Stones LP covers. I knew the Morrison Hotel photo was taken in Los Angeles, but always thought the High Tide & Green Grass photo was in England someplace. Very cool, thank you so much for the rock trivia.
A real stunner that I didn't include was the Simon & Garfunkel Sounds Of Silence Album Cover where they're wearing coats and scarves and walking up the dirt road and looking back at the camera. It was shot at the same Beverly Hills Park as High Tide & Green Grass!
Morrison Hotel is my fave of the bunch. Great vibe, that one. And Late For the Sky is one I could stare at for a long time too. Really great video, Tim. I got an education. Thanks for doing what you do!
Thanks. Up until just a few years ago the Morrison Hotel was fairly intact. I think they decided to redo that building and Covid came and the bottom fell out of the downtown commercial real estate market and it was left halfway done and boarded up.
Had to go back and listen to the Minutemen and Corona from that album, what a classic. I grew up in Long Beach but couldn’t get up to LA enough ha, memories.
You can't listen to them without instantly being transported to Pedro. My wife and I lived near Ximeno in LB for a short time when we first got together over forty years ago!
WAIT, the STONES cover was shot at the same place as The Andy Griffith Sows opening sequence ? This is blowing my mind !! To this day, watching 'TAGS' and listenin' to classic Stones albums are my two favorite things to do.
I had The Sweet Desolation Boulevard on vinyl back when I was 13 , I'm 54 now and wish I still had the original copy, those were good memories listening to that album 😊❤⚡🎤🎸🎻🥁🎹
Now I know, the Sweet album cover location. I love love that Desolation Blvd. Album, every last song. Cranking No You Don't to 10 and hearing the drums is always a must. Cool video.
I was definitely hoping you’d get to Late For The Sky. The location is very interesting, but the photography technique of proper exposure on the sky and under exposure of the foreground is very distinctive. Matching the look of the Magritte painting got me to read about the painter and in fact understand a bit about why he did that look. Here in Northern Arizona, occasionally the sky will remind me of a Magritte painting and my wife calls the clouds on such a day, “fake clouds” because they look like they are painted on a background. I believe that the album is JB’s pinnacle of songwriting, performance, and production. If I recall correctly, he spent a very long time on the project (18 months?) and was able to get every song evolved to the point that he wanted. It’s certainly not the most spontaneous sounding music, but finely honed. I love the songs and I believe the writing on this album is what prompted Rolling Stone magazine to call him “the tear ducts of a generation” if I got that quote right. Well done, sir!
I did a piece on Tom Petty a couple years ago and in reading about him I found out that they once went to Arizona to shoot a video specifically to get those clouds in the shot. They had to wait a few days but it did finally happen. If memory serves, did perhaps the photographer Bob Seidman painstakingly cut those clouds in from another photograph on the Late For The Sky photo? Anyways, thanks for the cool comment, I loved it!
@ I know that back in the day, before Photoshop, there were multiple ways to create that kind of a photo effect and cutting out a sky to go with the rest of the photo and compositing them together is one. Another way is to use a neutral density filter to allow the under exposure of the foreground while the lighter sky gets greater exposure. A more typical way was during printing to create a paper mask that was the shape of the portion of the photo you wanted to manifest the effect on and hold it over the image as projected by the enlarger on the photo paper. All of these are possibilities, I suppose. I’ve used the neutral density filter trick myself and I had a friend that used the paper mask trick.
Another great video Tim. Love the eclectic mix of artists you’ve chosen. The “Off the Wall” location surprised me most. Astonished there’s no reference to it there. Keep up the great work, love what you do.
There is actually an old, faded mural at the entrance to the alley but the true location is that now-painted brick wall. My guess is its painted cuz it tends to pick up a lot of graffiti.
Great video Tim. Much appreciation for including the Minutemen's "Double Nickels on The Dime" album cover. The double album was recorded at a cost of just 1,100 U.S. Dollars. For those viewers not familiar with them, the Double Nickels album is an eclectic mix of rock, funk, jazz and experimental textures. Take a listen if you want an adventurous and rewarding musical experience.
Right on, thanks for the info. I got to see them play a few times and it was always great. And obviously I always thought that album cover was frickin' awesome. Raging full on!
I remember when Sweet released their album. You couldn't turn on the radio without hearing Fox on the run. Which looking back now was not such a bad thing. Sad that the Viper Room is going away. I'm sure what they build there will be gosh awful ugly but you can't stop "progress". Rock on Tim.
@@RockessentialTim I've always wondered if the Morrison Hotel building was still there. And now I know. Thanks Tim for answering something that I maybe the only person who was wondering about that.
@@lilorbielilorbie2496 Yep. I’m sure it will have nice acoustics and better ergonomics,green room, etc. It had high ceilings, bigger bar. But it just looked like a disco with a Viper Room logo to me.
Tim, You're killing it with every video. Love these album cover shots! Late for the Sky is such an iconic album, and great to see the Hancock Park location.
Fun fact: When I first came to LA as a teen aged musician I delivered the LA times to a couple hundred places from my car and that house was on my route. I can't remember if I delivered to it specifically but I really grew to love the architecture there over the couple months I did it.
Jackson Browne FOR EVERYMAN was shot at his grandfather's handbuilt house The Abbey San Encino in Highland Park. Jackson grew up there. 6211 Arroyo Glen St, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Interesting, I heard it was at the Mexican restaurant not too far from the Hancock Park house where the 'Late for the Sky' cover was photographed as the Browne's lived near it when Jackson was a young kid and it was a favorite restaurant; shot on the back patio when he was young, then an older Jackson superimposed on the graphic. Cheers.
Another good video if you do a volume 2, Jackson Browne 'Pretender' album is him crossing a street in downtown LA but I don't recall which intersection
Great video. Thank you. Legend has it that the light above Jim Morrison's head is the elevator light and it was the hotel manager coming back down to the lobby. They bolted out right after that shot was taken.
I'm amazed that you can find these places, like showing where one tiny piece of a landscape jigsaw puzzle belongs. Glam bands weren't my thing, but I loved that Sweet album! A little trivia re The Carpenters, because I went to junior high and high school with Karen. We were in the same grade but I never had any classes with her, other than that she was in the marching band and I was on the drill team. She was the second-best drummer at Downey High (a kid named Frankie Chavez was the best - he'd been playing Vegas with his family since he was little) and she never sang a note in the talent show. None of us knew she could sing! Even more trivial trivia: she and her brother built a couple apartment buildings in Downey as an investment and called them "We've Only Just Begun" and "Close to You." I moved to the westside but my parents drove me by them one time, because we thought it was funny. (I doubt I'd want to live in the Close to You Apartments.) They're long now now (Karen, my parents, the apartments... as my Dad used to say, Tempus is fugiting.)
That is an absolutely amazing story and I'm so glad you shared it. Imagine having a voice like that and keeping it to yourself. Good thing Richard knew it! Thanks!
Being English i love afternoon tea and a slice of cake. Your videos are right up there with my favourite English pastime. All the best from across the pond.👍👍👍🇬🇧
Fantastic video. I never would have thought that the Stones' High Tide and Green Grass was the same location as the opening of the Andy Griffith show. I'll never watch Andy again without thinking of the Stones. I'm now subscribed.
I know. When your there its easy to picture Andy and even a couple of the Star Trek episodes filmed there but not the Stones! I'm working on part 2 and there's another surprise band that did an album cover there that is just as incredible. Thanks and thanks for the sub!
great video! I'm still looking forward to your Creedence one. The Willy and the Poorboys album cover would be fun to find that street. And the Cosmo's Factory one, probably in a warehouse. It would be interesting to know how you research all this stff! Keep up the great work!
Haven't gotten up there yet but in researching, the Willy location has all been torn down abut the Cosmo's Factory still exists. Waiting for some decent weather before I go up there.
Thank you Tim for taking the time, and doing the research on presenting these locations. Being a So Cal native since 1958, it really makes a great connection to my past, or might I say our past. Once again thank you.
Tim, quite simply, you ROCK! I cannot believe you got inside TR's Astral Dr. rental house. I can't tell you how many hours I spent -- when I first moved to L.A. in 1991 -- sitting in my car in front of that house, listening to Something/Anything? on cassette. (Yes, I was/am an "ubergeek," and it was a 1988 Honda Civic, since you asked...) The former flower shop across from what was then CBS Television City...killer! Aw, hell...all of it! Thanks for all your work. But did you have to plant the "Teaberry Shuffle" earworm in my head???
The house was for sale and I told them I'd like a look. If you were a kid they would have sent you packing so its one of the perks of being an oldster. I'll take it!
Well done, Tim. That iconic gatefold photo of Todd Rundgren has been my favorite album image for more than 50 years now. And it is truly remarkable how much movie and television screen time that little reservoir in Franklin Canyon has received over the decades....
I love the Todd pic the most too. Interestingly it was the photo taken by a non photographer, James Lowe, who not only was Todd's engineer but he played in The Electric Prunes.
It's great to have past musical memories (one of mine being Musicians Institute 1982) , but your music retrospective show makes me think I have eidetic musical memory , in a good way , every time !!! Chris Canada , Just an observation
Im a massive Herb Alpert fan, saw him live last month , own all his vinyl….tee shirts, cds, thank you for that, if I’m ever in LA, Ill make sure to stop by there and stand where he stood and take a picture.
@@RockessentialTim Oh nice!! Yeah he was dancing on stage and he was so funny, we had a great time! His wife Lani Hall was amazing. She sings so beautifully.
Unlike some of the other places I visited that one is all over the internet. The Rolling Stones and The Carpenters covers were a little more challenging.
Man I gotta tell ya, you always bring these rock and roll nuggets to life with your videos. You're a great storyteller and you always bring the goods. Love the channel and I can't wait for the next one. Keep them coming!
I just saw on the news that Morrison Hotel has burned down. Damn.
That Jackson wall is fascinating.
Rock with YOU,however.Not Rock with me
Something/Anything,1972
your channel is a treasure. thank you.
Thanks much!
Hey Tim! Love what you're doing. I'd love to take a Laurel Canyon walk with you if I ever get back to LA. You dig the same stuff I do. Thank you!
Hi Tim i aways look forward to each installment of your wonderful L.A. travelogues thank you sir
Right on, thank you!
Tim once again another great episode!
Thank you Mr President.
The Sweet are so criminally underrated. I used to DJ records, and "AC/DC" was always in the stack.
Couldn't agree more. Even their older more bubblegum stuff is really, really rocking. And talk about criminally unerrated, how come Mick Tucker isn't in the GOAT drummer conversations? Thanks for the cool comment. Cheers.
@@RockessentialTimAfter a friend came back from a visit to Poland, he told me of this band. I bought a 45 of Fox on the Run here in Canada. Then I found a copy of this Desolation Boulevard at a local record store, but when I played it, the version of fox was different. I realized I actually bought an import version of the album! No ballroom blitz, but an awesome cover of the man with the golden arm.
@@grantr5417 Interesting. I think the North American version of the album was more of a greatest hits record than the British one. Like you said, same pic though
Without a doubt. Desolation Boulevard is the first album I ever bought. They get labeled as "bubblegum and glam", but they have some absolute hard rocking tunes such as 'Action', 'Set Me Free', 'Hard Times', 'Windy City', etc. Listen to the start of 'Hellraiser" and tell me that Motley Crue didn't steal it for 'Kickstart My Heart'. Nikki Sixx was a HUGE Sweet fan.
Brian Connolly my all time favourite teenage crush! ❤ what a band! I'm from the UK and they were amazing in the 70s 🙌
Hey you're back!!
I grew up in Hollywood back in the mid 70s and 80s!
This is an awesome video! 👍👍
Thanks. It was a fantastic place to be young at, right?
Fast becoming my favorite channel. Great work!
Love it. Thanks!
I always enjoy your shows, thank you!
Thanks!
Thanks again Tim for another great video.
Thanks my man, appreciated!
Awesome! You do brilliant work! The brick archway with Herb Alpert blew me away ...also the Late for the Sky house....fantastic stuff!
Thanks. I have driven by that Herb location thousands of times and before making the vid never had any idea. I must say, it is one of the coolest apartment buildings in LA.
You my friend are an amazing self respecting rocker!! your attention to detail is truly masterful. Loved this!!💖💯
I still won't pay 15 bucks for a beer! Thanks much.
Glad l caught this, really made my day, great video 👍
Thanks, Levi.
Brilliant Tim once again. I can't believe you found the section of brick wall from Off the Wall !
I was completely stoked to have found it. Its pretty common knowledge now but I worked at the flower shop there during Valentines Day years ago and walked out that door upteen times and never had a clue!
Love your show. I love history, American history, American music history, and especially this era. Where it all began. Thank you
Thank you!
03:09 Would love to see a collab with Henry Diltz - imagine a walking (or driving) tour of Laurel Canyon locations! This was another well-researched video thanks Tim.
Love to but I don't know him or anybody that does. Great idea though.
@@RockessentialTim Maybe ask one of the galleries where he has done an exhibition such as the Woody Guthrie Center
Great mentioning the Minutemen!!! Mike Watt is an incredible musician! Love this episode!
Mike Watt is certainly worth mentioning! (and double nickels is one of my fave all-time album covers)
Great episode. Worth waiting for. You never fail to impress, Tim.
Right on, thanks!
MIA: The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (Griffith Park), Notorious Byrd Brothers (stone house in Topanga, also used for Linda Ronstadt's 'Hand Sown...Home Grown), (Untitled) at the Griffith Park Observatory.
Thanks Tim for another awesome & interesting video about my favorite subject, music! I too spent hours checking out every detail on The Doors & The Rolling Stones LP covers. I knew the Morrison Hotel photo was taken in Los Angeles, but always thought the High Tide & Green Grass photo was in England someplace. Very cool, thank you so much for the rock trivia.
A real stunner that I didn't include was the Simon & Garfunkel Sounds Of Silence Album Cover where they're wearing coats and scarves and walking up the dirt road and looking back at the camera. It was shot at the same Beverly Hills Park as High Tide & Green Grass!
👏👏👏 interesting and fun as always. D Brother.
Thanks, Gary!
Once again, Tim....Great Stuff !!! Bringing back some great memories ! Thanks.
Thanks!
Epic.. as always..
Right on.
Tim - you never disappoint!! Thanks for showing us these amazing locations!!
Thanks!
Good stuff, love the Todd house visit.
Thanks Steve.
Great stuff Tim! Thanks for all you do!!!
My pleasure, thanks!
Morrison Hotel is my fave of the bunch. Great vibe, that one. And Late For the Sky is one I could stare at for a long time too. Really great video, Tim. I got an education. Thanks for doing what you do!
Thanks. Up until just a few years ago the Morrison Hotel was fairly intact. I think they decided to redo that building and Covid came and the bottom fell out of the downtown commercial real estate market and it was left halfway done and boarded up.
@@RockessentialTim Unfortunate.
I am always excited when I see something new from you Tim. Always an excellent watch. Thanks for your work.
Thanks much my friend.
I’m 75 and I bought High Tide and Green Grass when it came out. Fabulous album. I always thought the lake on the cover was from England.
Until actually researching for the video a couple months ago, I thought it was in England too!
Loved it very much , wish we could be there .👍👍👍
You guys keep rockin wherever you are!
Had to go back and listen to the Minutemen and Corona from that album, what a classic. I grew up in Long Beach but couldn’t get up to LA enough ha, memories.
You can't listen to them without instantly being transported to Pedro. My wife and I lived near Ximeno in LB for a short time when we first got together over forty years ago!
Great job Tim!!
As always...
Thx for the ride.🇫🇷
As always, thanks!
Thanks Tim ! Great Stuff as Always ! Peace ! Rudy
Thanks Rudy, peace to you too!
WAIT, the STONES cover was shot at the same place as The Andy Griffith Sows opening sequence ? This is blowing my mind !! To this day, watching 'TAGS' and listenin' to classic Stones albums are my two favorite things to do.
Best comment of the day. No, the month! Right on!
Imagine If Jim Morrison Got to Meet Andy Griffith .
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅@RockessentialTim
I had The Sweet Desolation Boulevard on vinyl back when I was 13 , I'm 54 now and wish I still had the original copy, those were good memories listening to that album 😊❤⚡🎤🎸🎻🥁🎹
Streaming just isn't the same experience, right?
I love these videos. They really take you down memory lane. The 50's 60's 70's and 80's were the golden eras.
Thanks for mentioning the Minutemen!
I got to see them play a couple times here in LA. And besides--that album cover is SO great!
Another fantastic piece, Tim. Thanks.
Thanks again!
Legendary Rock Stars and Legendary Album covers.!!!!. Great informative video.Thanks!. Rog.Pacific Sunset Records.( LA).
Thanks, Rog!
I had the la sweet album. Way cool. Great episode.
Another great one Tim!
Right on, thanks!
@@RockessentialTim keep them coming!!
Great post Tim! Brings back many memories of my life in LA. Thanks much!
Always my pleasure. Thanks!
I miss LA, so thanks for the nostalgic tour...
Yer welcome.
Awesome list, Tim. 👍 I would like to add the cover of *Wish You Were Here* to the list, which was taken at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank.
Right you are and I would have included it if they didn't have the iron fist of security guarding the gate. Needless to say they wouldn't let me in.
Now I know, the Sweet album cover location. I love love that Desolation Blvd. Album, every last song. Cranking No You Don't to 10 and hearing the drums is always a must. Cool video.
I'll say it again. Why isn't Mick Tucker in the GOAT Drummer convo?
I was definitely hoping you’d get to Late For The Sky. The location is very interesting, but the photography technique of proper exposure on the sky and under exposure of the foreground is very distinctive. Matching the look of the Magritte painting got me to read about the painter and in fact understand a bit about why he did that look. Here in Northern Arizona, occasionally the sky will remind me of a Magritte painting and my wife calls the clouds on such a day, “fake clouds” because they look like they are painted on a background.
I believe that the album is JB’s pinnacle of songwriting, performance, and production. If I recall correctly, he spent a very long time on the project (18 months?) and was able to get every song evolved to the point that he wanted. It’s certainly not the most spontaneous sounding music, but finely honed. I love the songs and I believe the writing on this album is what prompted Rolling Stone magazine to call him “the tear ducts of a generation” if I got that quote right.
Well done, sir!
I did a piece on Tom Petty a couple years ago and in reading about him I found out that they once went to Arizona to shoot a video specifically to get those clouds in the shot. They had to wait a few days but it did finally happen.
If memory serves, did perhaps the photographer Bob Seidman painstakingly cut those clouds in from another photograph on the Late For The Sky photo? Anyways, thanks for the cool comment, I loved it!
@ I know that back in the day, before Photoshop, there were multiple ways to create that kind of a photo effect and cutting out a sky to go with the rest of the photo and compositing them together is one. Another way is to use a neutral density filter to allow the under exposure of the foreground while the lighter sky gets greater exposure. A more typical way was during printing to create a paper mask that was the shape of the portion of the photo you wanted to manifest the effect on and hold it over the image as projected by the enlarger on the photo paper. All of these are possibilities, I suppose. I’ve used the neutral density filter trick myself and I had a friend that used the paper mask trick.
I always walk away from your videos DAZZLED. Your generosity and love for all things Rock&Roll is music to my soul. Cheers @Tim
I love making them and your comment is very, very gratifying. Thank you!
Another great video Tim. Love the eclectic mix of artists you’ve chosen. The “Off the Wall” location surprised me most. Astonished there’s no reference to it there. Keep up the great work, love what you do.
There is actually an old, faded mural at the entrance to the alley but the true location is that now-painted brick wall. My guess is its painted cuz it tends to pick up a lot of graffiti.
Great video Tim. Much appreciation for including the Minutemen's "Double Nickels on The Dime" album cover. The double album was recorded at a cost of just 1,100 U.S. Dollars.
For those viewers not familiar with them, the Double Nickels album is an eclectic mix of rock, funk, jazz and experimental textures. Take a listen if you want an adventurous and rewarding musical experience.
Right on, thanks for the info. I got to see them play a few times and it was always great. And obviously I always thought that album cover was frickin' awesome. Raging full on!
@@RockessentialTim Sweet, yes, I also saw them live before D. Boon's tragic death in Dec. 1985.
I remember when Sweet released their album. You couldn't turn on the radio without hearing Fox on the run. Which looking back now was not such a bad thing. Sad that the Viper Room is going away. I'm sure what they build there will be gosh awful ugly but you can't stop "progress". Rock on Tim.
Thanks. One of my all time favorite albums.
@@RockessentialTim I've always wondered if the Morrison Hotel building was still there. And now I know. Thanks Tim for answering something that I maybe the only person who was wondering about that.
I saw sketches of the future Viper Room in another video. It’s going to be on the third or fourth floor. Zero street vibe.
@@mattskustomkreations And what do you bet they will say It's New and Improved.
@@lilorbielilorbie2496 Yep. I’m sure it will have nice acoustics and better ergonomics,green room, etc. It had high ceilings, bigger bar. But it just looked like a disco with a Viper Room logo to me.
Another Brilliant Entry!! ❤Thank You For The Joy You Bring Us With The History and Your Wit.
My pleasure!!
Tim, You're killing it with every video. Love these album cover shots! Late for the Sky is such an iconic album, and great to see the Hancock Park location.
Fun fact: When I first came to LA as a teen aged musician I delivered the LA times to a couple hundred places from my car and that house was on my route. I can't remember if I delivered to it specifically but I really grew to love the architecture there over the couple months I did it.
Jackson Browne FOR EVERYMAN was shot at his grandfather's handbuilt house The Abbey San Encino in Highland Park. Jackson grew up there. 6211 Arroyo Glen St, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Interesting, I heard it was at the Mexican restaurant not too far from the Hancock Park house where the 'Late for the Sky' cover was photographed as the Browne's lived near it when Jackson was a young kid and it was a favorite restaurant; shot on the back patio when he was young, then an older Jackson superimposed on the graphic. Cheers.
Great video, Tim.
Thanks my man!
Another good video if you do a volume 2, Jackson Browne 'Pretender' album is him crossing a street in downtown LA but I don't recall which intersection
Excellent topic and "coverage" !
Right on.
Great video. You are an excellent story teller
Right on, thank you!
@@RockessentialTim Do you do the music that is in your videos?
Yes. I am a former TV composer for Fox Sports and have a project studio in my house.
What an amazing detective story to find these locations and then document them! Thanks!
Love your comment cuz its EXACTLY how I feel when I'm running this stuff down. Thanks!
Stones & Sweet both done in LA...Mind🤯Blown. Thanks Tim for this educating video, excellent as usual!
The one that really blows me away is The Stones. That pic looks like the very description of a dreary English morning.
@@RockessentialTim So true, I always assumed it was shot in dreary Olde England
This was great. Finding all these took some excellent research. Kudos!
Thanks. It was really quite an enjoyable journey, somewhat like a scavenger hunt.
1st time watcher, really enjoyed the video. Love the concept of this video, now to your back catalogue.
I'm glad you liked it. Look forward to hearing your thoughts!
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you!
Thanks, Yer welcome!
Another excellent segment! Thank you!!
I enjoyed this video.
🎤🎸🎤🎹🥁
Right on, thanks.
I will never tire of your channel. So many cool music facts & locations!
Love it, thanks!
Great video. Thank you. Legend has it that the light above Jim Morrison's head is the elevator light and it was the hotel manager coming back down to the lobby. They bolted out right after that shot was taken.
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Great piece of legend, I’ve been looking at the light closely, it could have been the elevator light indeed.
I want to say it was written about in Jim Morrison; Life, Death, Legend. The book was written by the same person who wrote Hammer of the Gods.
Love ALL your videos Tim! Keep them coming.
I'm amazed that you can find these places, like showing where one tiny piece of a landscape jigsaw puzzle belongs. Glam bands weren't my thing, but I loved that Sweet album! A little trivia re The Carpenters, because I went to junior high and high school with Karen. We were in the same grade but I never had any classes with her, other than that she was in the marching band and I was on the drill team. She was the second-best drummer at Downey High (a kid named Frankie Chavez was the best - he'd been playing Vegas with his family since he was little) and she never sang a note in the talent show. None of us knew she could sing! Even more trivial trivia: she and her brother built a couple apartment buildings in Downey as an investment and called them "We've Only Just Begun" and "Close to You." I moved to the westside but my parents drove me by them one time, because we thought it was funny. (I doubt I'd want to live in the Close to You Apartments.) They're long now now (Karen, my parents, the apartments... as my Dad used to say, Tempus is fugiting.)
That is an absolutely amazing story and I'm so glad you shared it. Imagine having a voice like that and keeping it to yourself. Good thing Richard knew it! Thanks!
Being English i love afternoon tea and a slice of cake. Your videos are right up there with my favourite English pastime. All the best from across the pond.👍👍👍🇬🇧
Haydn, how ya'll doing?
@@RockessentialTim fine my man just back from another jaunt in cyprus. Keep these coming. It's a musical education we all love.👍👍👍🇬🇧
Fantastic video. I never would have thought that the Stones' High Tide and Green Grass was the same location as the opening of the Andy Griffith show. I'll never watch Andy again without thinking of the Stones. I'm now subscribed.
I know. When your there its easy to picture Andy and even a couple of the Star Trek episodes filmed there but not the Stones! I'm working on part 2 and there's another surprise band that did an album cover there that is just as incredible. Thanks and thanks for the sub!
great video! I'm still looking forward to your Creedence one. The Willy and the Poorboys album cover would be fun to find that street. And the Cosmo's Factory one, probably in a warehouse. It would be interesting to know how you research all this stff! Keep up the great work!
Haven't gotten up there yet but in researching, the Willy location has all been torn down abut the Cosmo's Factory still exists. Waiting for some decent weather before I go up there.
Big smile here finally knowing where that iconic Todd Rundgren photo was taken! I have that inside album cover of Todd's S/A in a picture frame
Its a really great shot and the only one of the bunch taken by an amateur photographer.
Thank you Tim for taking the time, and doing the research on presenting these locations. Being a So Cal native since 1958, it really makes a great connection to my past, or might I say our past. Once again thank you.
Thanks much. I enjoyed making it so much I'm working on part 2!
Great video. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
What a wonderful and entertaining video! Thank you so much for sharing, I love stuff like this
Right on, I loved doing this one and intend on doing another one like it soon. Thanks!
Thanks Tim. As always, good stuff.
Thank you!
Always very happy to see these videos drop. SoCal lesson in history and the arts. Another very cool video.
Thanks!
Morrison Hotel was the first album that I bought, way back in 1970. Great band. Great album. Great album cover. Still a favourite.
Got to be a top 25 EVER Album cover. Iconic.
As always, great vlog! ❤ Thanks and keep’m coming Tim!
Always!
Tim, quite simply, you ROCK! I cannot believe you got inside TR's Astral Dr. rental house. I can't tell you how many hours I spent -- when I first moved to L.A. in 1991 -- sitting in my car in front of that house, listening to Something/Anything? on cassette. (Yes, I was/am an "ubergeek," and it was a 1988 Honda Civic, since you asked...) The former flower shop across from what was then CBS Television City...killer! Aw, hell...all of it! Thanks for all your work. But did you have to plant the "Teaberry Shuffle" earworm in my head???
The house was for sale and I told them I'd like a look. If you were a kid they would have sent you packing so its one of the perks of being an oldster. I'll take it!
Thank you....another beautiful video....Great
Right on, thanks!
Well done, Tim. That iconic gatefold photo of Todd Rundgren has been my favorite album image for more than 50 years now. And it is truly remarkable how much movie and television screen time that little reservoir in Franklin Canyon has received over the decades....
I love the Todd pic the most too. Interestingly it was the photo taken by a non photographer, James Lowe, who not only was Todd's engineer but he played in The Electric Prunes.
The Rolling Stones cover surprised me. I would have thought it was someplace in England.
It's great to have past musical memories (one of mine being Musicians Institute 1982) , but your music retrospective show makes me think I have eidetic musical memory , in a good way , every time !!! Chris Canada , Just an observation
You learn something new everyday and I say that cuz I had to look up eidetic.
@@RockessentialTim You and I both friend . Just an observation
Your vids are the best Tim ! Love them.
Thanks 👍
thanks so much Tim for sharing this with me , much appreciated , Cheers from Ontario Canada ✌️🇺🇸✌️🇨🇦✌️
Thanks, Mark. Go Spitfires!
OUTSTANDING INFO. VERY WELL PRESENTED. THANK YOU.
Thanks!
Im a massive Herb Alpert fan, saw him live last month , own all his vinyl….tee shirts, cds, thank you for that, if I’m ever in LA, Ill make sure to stop by there and stand where he stood and take a picture.
He's still going strong. Amazing. BTW: That building has one of the coolest courtyards of any in LA.
@@RockessentialTim Oh nice!! Yeah he was dancing on stage and he was so funny, we had a great time! His wife Lani Hall was amazing. She sings so beautifully.
As always, great video Tim!
Right on, thanks!
Interesting stuff!!! 👍👍👍
LOVE your videos Tim you need to make more .And make them longer .
Thanks much!
Cool video, thanks for posting. I miss LA
Its beautiful here right now!
Time your videos never cease to amaze me. How in the heck did you find the location for Off The Wall?
Unlike some of the other places I visited that one is all over the internet. The Rolling Stones and The Carpenters covers were a little more challenging.
Nice, Tim! And nice to see the subscribers steadily growing. You deserve it...
Thanks, Michael. Its nice to see it wax and not wane!
Fun fact, the iconic lettering for the album "Late For The Sky" was done by gonzo, surf artist Rick Griffin....also famous for his work with The Dead.
I did not know that. That is too cool!
@@RockessentialTim Tim, keep up the great work! In honor of Halloween I will be watching your Ten Haunted LA Landmarks.
Awesome video! I appreciate all the research that must've taken. Subscribed!
Thanks and thanks for the sub. Much Appreciated!
Loved this episode thank you Tim
Right on, thanks!
Is this Christmas day? Woke up this morning and found this wonderful gift! Great video!! Thanks for all of your hard work, Tim!!😁😁😁
Right on.
Great video. Well done
Man I gotta tell ya, you always bring these rock and roll nuggets to life with your videos. You're a great storyteller and you always bring the goods. Love the channel and I can't wait for the next one. Keep them coming!
Thanks much!