Laurel Canyon Episode 5 - "People Are Strange"
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- The fifth episode of our Laurel Canyon miniseries, by Wolf River Music Television. A Journey Thru History and Song 1965-1974 explores the inner workings of the music scene that seemed to explode out of this area north of Hollywood in the mid-1960's and featured legendary musicians and groups such as: The Byrds, The Mamas and The Papas, Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, CSNY, The Doors, Frank Zappa, Carole King, The Eagles, Gram Parsons, Love, Jackson Browne, The Monkees, etc. plus music industry giants such as David Geffen, Elliot Mintz, Jim Ladd, Ron Stone and Paul Rothchild. See the famous Canyon Country Store, Love Street, the Tom Mix Cabin, the Houdini Estate, and all of the other places made famous by the likes of Jim Morrison, Cass Elliot, John Lennon and others. We'll even touch on some of the darker elements that were lurking within the shadows such as the Manson Family and the inevitable evils of cocaine and heroin and they crept into the scene, causing havoc and destruction. No matter how many times this subject of music coming out of Laurel Canyon has been repeated in other documentaries, there's always something new to learn and discover. The stories are endless and some of it can be surprising and even downright shocking. Please be sure to watch all eight episodes. Each one has a different theme and a different set of characters and events. www.wolfrivermusic.com/
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I grew up in that house in 1072-75 with Carol & I was her daughter Louise’s bst friend ! That photo was in livingroom on far right side of house when walking in courtyard👍
Hey cool! So was I right then, in my assessment that it was on the ground floor? NOT up in the back and on the third floor, as some others have believed? And it WAS in the house on Appian Way and NOT at some other house over on Wonderland Ave?
@@memoryfield yes I are CORRECT👍 It was so fun growing up there I was 12-15 years old & there were cool musicians going in & out but Carol was the Serious mom & she would drive us to school & pick us up 😊
@@michelebergman4336 I'm pinning your comment to the top of the list!
@@memoryfield Mick Robson David Bowie’s Guitar player was also Renting out the House down road when I lived there! Also John Mayall lived on Grandview Terrace & his home was burnt to the ground aswell in the 80s
@@memoryfield Steven Tyler still lives up here on Granview & I see him at Canyon Country store in his slippers buying wine 🍷
i spent last two days tending to sore throat, head cold, and i want to thank u billy for this compilation...you have done a great job, loved every minute of it, stellar, thank u
I'm glad you put John Phillips on blast! From everything I've heard and read about him, he seemed like a total jerk.. especially the way he treated Cass Elliot. Anyway, another great episode!
There was even more to be said about him, but I decided I needed to stop just because I could have trashed him repeatedly. But I didn't.
@@memoryfield Glad you didn't we have enough hate in this world, especially when people can't defend themselves.
What about his flirty wife ?
Try not to be too judgey about JOHN PHILLIPS. Only one of the most talented musicians and arrangers of the 1960's! True, he had his warts, but I still love his story!♡
@@marvymarier8988 a teenage girl who should have that responsibility
He was way older and knew better, society sees nothing wrong with that, it’s horrible she never had the chance to grow up
I am convinced...having lived through the 60's...and wandered Laurel Canyon that it wasn't the artists, the singers, the song writers ...the music. It was the energy of the Canyon that drew them, released their energy into the universe by way of song.....time changed in the Canyon. The Canyon and Time nurtured these wonderful people, their energy.. Am not surprised the "polertguise" chased Marlyn Manson out of the Canyon..and not surprises at the reports of who the Canyon holds dear.continues to hold space for....those spirits who chose to remain.. To say Laurel Canyon is magical is alluding to just the tip of the iceberg...a time in space none other that changed lives, and indeed by osmosis, our world. I love this series..
I love what you wrote here! 👍💓☮️
On August 2, 1968 I saw Jim Morrison and The Doors in concert in Cleveland, Ohio. That summer I had turned 16 years old. I wore my first pair of pierced earrings to the concert and a black Nehru style dress. I remember when Jim asked for a light for his cigarette. Memorable black leather pants!
I'm a 40 something gen x'er who grew up in the late 80's-90's era when there was a lot of antipathy and cynicism toward the 60 hippie boomer generation, but I never cared for contemporary culture and what my peers thought, rejected powder puff hair-metal and consequently, wholly immersed my self in the music of The Doors, Byrds, Love, Janis, Airplane et.al and devoured countless books and all the requisite minutiae available in those hazy, pre-internet days. Though my heart lies more with post-punk/darkwave these days, my love for 1960's music hasn't waned. The whole history/culture/aesthetic of Laurel Canyon and it's underlying darkness is still endlessly fascinating. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for sharing your story and your thoughts with us here. Glad you found us and thank you for watching the series. Come back for the new videos!
You my friend are a righteous dude, with an appreciation of a time before you were born. I can tell you it WAS magical.
It's a shame these very well done documentaries only get 20,000 views and all the stuff that is total crap will get millions.Very good playlist here!
Ha ha. Well said!
Amen
The thumbnail for this series should be a shot of Linda Ronstadt in that roller skate outfit, instantly raising views by a factor of 10...and then actually show a little cheesecake.
Dear Bill, I am an almost 68 years old Boomer guy, from Venice (Italy, not Cal !). I discovered by chance your Laurel Canyon series : the people you tell the stories were (and still are !) my musical coming of age heroes. What a wonderful work have you done !
I would like do share some thoughts inspired by your incredible videos :
1. From your footage the beauty of the places shines through: bird's songs, the heath and the smell of vegetation's I can imagine reminds me of the most wonderful mediterranean places we have here, like Portofino or Cinque Terre (but how bad are the ubiquitous garbage bins !!!);
2. I can't stop thinking how much waste of talents and of creative time and opportunities happened around LC in those years, due to "difficult" personalities unable to stay together, but the greatest waste of human resources has been the addiction to hard drugs and booze. Some colleague of mine has worked in Californian Universities, all of them were absolutely shocked by the people easiness in taking drugs in recreational moment AND in everyday situation. How many geniuses we have lost (and still are loosing) to drug abuse in USA ? Why ? This is a real cancer in your society (but here in Italy too, I everyday see drug addict gather in my usual parking lot, waiting for some crack smuggler...);
3. What a sadness, in the end of one of the last videos, seeing the Strip walkways littered by homelesses. We have much the same problem here, but all is due to illegal migrants from Africa or Middle East (Afghan and Syrian the most). We in our young years hope for a better world, with more justice, peace and equity : what has gone bad ?
4. anyway, you brought me happiness and a remind of hope and peace : thank you a lot !
anto
Migrants causing all the evils in the world??? Hard to square that with hope peace and love...
Brings back memories of my days living in Laurel Canyon in the 70's. Magical
Thank you for these! I'm busy binge-watching my way through them. Your research and recording skills are to be applauded too. It's a very well balanced and well made series, such a joy to watch. Much respect 🙏
Cats are comfortable in their own environment. With dogs, they can easily join their humans everywhere.
Out of all the bands that lived up there the doors were on another level.i think that rocked the boat some
Sir, I simply can't stop watching these episodes! I am shocked it doesn't have more views.
Haha. It's a niche audience and not for those with a short attention span. There's a lot of detailed information here and unless someone REALLY likes the music from this time period, this topic can be a hard sell. Obviously, we love the music and the time period. So we had a blast with all of this.
the doors were/are by far the best band of that era (in America)....their musicality and groove put them on a different level
I think we can definitely agree on all of that!
All the hoods (hard guys) did the Doors while Jim himself was a mellow guy. Morrison looked like a caveman on the Sullivan Show. Ed wouldn't shake hands. 😂
And Grateful Dead
Watching from the UK. Enjoying this series, thanks. Can’t believe how quiet the streets are with all those colourful characters past and present. No one walking about either🤔.
Hard to walk around in some areas because the traffic is just deadly. Way back on the side streets you'd see some people out and about every now and then. Thanks for watching!
Windows and doorways are racking due to shifting foundations. This is like the Oakland hills in Alameda county. Shacks built of STEEP hillsides. If there is a plot of land people will build a house on it just to live up in the hills. You think about wild fires and earthquakes. They are finally cutting back trees and brush to make things easier. The high peaked roofs that resemble "faerie" houses resemble the ones demolished near Olivenhain and Leucadia.
That was fantastic. I was completely captivated. 👍🇬🇧
Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching. :)
The fence and the cat....very smart observation!!
This is so memorable the Hollywood hills area . I worked at Hollywood and La Brea in 1979 by the hungry tiger restaurant and I used to stop by piece o pizza 🍕. Had a piece lately . I worked at Holiday Spa 7080 Hollywood Blvd
The view is spectacular, but those houses hugging the hills are a scary site to me knowing about the mudslides that happen.
Yeah, I know, right? Some of those houses up on stilts at the tops of these hills, too. One big earthquake...
Agree. They seem to have no yards and seemed perched on mountains, waiting for the next quake
Doesn't rain much
What a rabbit hole you have taken me down I saw the first one watched it now I'm on just about to go on six or seven right in a row ...thank you
Thank you so much for watching our videos. Glad to hear from you!
Wow beautiful houseof Carol's bet all of the housed are beautiful! Amaziing im hooked on this channel amaziing to see. Fan of the 60s ..from Australia 🦘🐊. 2023.
Glad the window issue finally got cleared up....
We do what we can for the most important aspects of history.
I've to LA several times, but never managed to get to Laurel Canyon. Thanks so much for this. I have a fantasy of driving up there in a convertible with LA Woman blasting on the speakers. RIP Jim.
I grew up in the 60s while all this was happening. I've learned a lot I didn't know on this little series. Thank you.
You're very welcome. I loved making these videos!
it seems odd that they have a pic of them all in a bath tub. did mama cass die in a bath tub in the same hotel room kieth moon died. if you live in the area you may be interested in dave mcowans book and e-book wierd scenes inside the canyon
Yes me too. We had no way of knowing these type details Because media was VERY different back then. ( there were fan magazines, but they were frowned upon by real fans.
thank you for this great video Jim Morrison is the greatest this takes me back to better time a long time ago..................
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks so much for watching. We appreciate the comments!
This just came across my feed and I watched it on my TV. So interesting! I really enjoyed it. I subscribed and am looking forward to watching all videos on this channel. Thanks!
Awesome! Thank you! Make sure you use the Playlist function and it will keep them all in order.
Awesome video.....thanks !! PS: Around 1984ish I was in Vegas and attended the opening night of The NEW Mamas and the Papas at The Sands Hotel. John, Denny, McKenzie Phillips and Elaine McFarlane (took Cass' place, she was from the pop group Spanky and Our Gang). The table I had was next to a table where Michelle Phillips sat with some friends. Also John was on probation for his drug bust and McKenzie Phillips had just been fired from the TV show "One Day at a Time" for cocaine use. One last thing, Scott McKenzie was in the band and sang his hit (written by John Phillips) "Are you going to SAN FRANCISCO. Ticket was I think, maybe $25 and a $20 tip got me a table in the front row, next to Michelle's table. WHAT A NIGHT...it was by luck I was walking by The Sands that day and got tickets.
Wow, that's incredible! Sounds like you really enjoyed that night.
What a night indeed! Only an extra 20 bucks to sit near Michelle. Probably would have embarrassed myself doing the fawning fanboy thing. 'Spanky' was the best possible replacement for the irreplaceable Cass, I thought.
Watching these videos from a freezing U.K. They certainly transport you to another time and place in music history. Very uplifting, informative and totally addictive. Thank you. When I reach the last one I will probably go right back to the beginning again.
Awesome. Glad to hear that! Make sure you use this Playlist function to keep all of it in proper order. th-cam.com/play/PLMGnMaveEzfma6qiSlhb0EOmvKyNSpg2c.html
@@memoryfield Thank you very much.
Must visit laurel canyon before it's to late
Haha. I think there's still plenty of time!
@@memoryfield not too much...72 now..better do it soon 😁😁
Think positive!
Me too! It just never worked out for me to go with Billy. But now I must, before it changes completely.
I pray you can and you pray I can. I want to walk through these places but have a need for foot surgery before. Bless you, friend.
Absorbed in your series but had to jump out just to say that Mary Aster wasn't a silent film star. She was the female lead in The Maltese Falcon! A liberated woman was Mary. Made a lot of men hide when her diary became public. Great fun.
I think maybe we're both right. Mary Astor started out in silent films as a teenager in the 20's but when "talking" films came out she almost lost her career because it turned out she had a deep, somewhat masculine voice and that was not fashionable for a woman in those times. Thanks for watching!
Chynna Phillips Baldwin is still in recovery from the drug-fueled chaos of her upbringing at the hands of Papa John, and possibly Michelle. Sounds like things were just as bad as far as the relationships she was exposed to.
The idea of total personal freedom is romantic and tantalizing, but the reality of it is disastrous for children and other vulnerable people left in the wake of that kind of lifestyle.
Children need stability, and stability imposes limits on parents’ lifestyles.
Great video, I love how this basically ended up being a tribute to Carole. My parents were her age and had Tapestry. I was mesmerized by the album cover as a kid. I heard I Feel The Earth Move on the radio today. Coincidence? 🤨 Thanks friend 🌞🌷
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you so much for your very kind comments. Carole is a treasure and one of the greatest American songwriters we've ever known here. I bought that album for my wife way back when we first got married. She was impressed with that!
@@memoryfield You're so welcome 🤗. Carole's music is timeless, even if she's singing about something sad you still are left feeling something good. Glad your wife approved 😊
That was nifty detective work about Carole's cat! Who would have thought to contradict the actual photographer? This earth-shattering mystery is finally solved, ha ha. Thanks, Billy Columbo. It's quirky stuff like this that helps to makes this series so endearing, along with the solid research. Looking up the provenance of existing houses to determine exactly where Jim Morrison was standing and what he would have been looking at when he wrote 'People are strange'? OMG, the things I didn't know I needed to know! Btw, the instrumental version surprised me with how pretty and beguiling the melody is without Jim's typically strong lyrics.
Thanks for noticing all that, and especially the music. We really had some fun with all of these instrumental versions. Yes, Carole's cat Telemacus. He ended up being in one of the most famous and iconic album covers of all time, bless his little heart. He probably didn't even care. :)
What a wonderful series, im hooked! Please don’t hold back with your options, im loving this 👏🏻💋
Glad you enjoyed it! More coming soon.
Know the area well. I used to live at 8960 & 9067 Crescent by the lookout. I miss it very much.
Yeah, wow, you lived right up there at the very top of that whole area. I imagine the view was fabulous. Thanks for watching!
@@memoryfield I originally got there in 1980, I was a recording engineer and worked for Mark Lindsay of The Raiders who lived at 9111 Wonderland. I was there when the Wonderland Murders went on, and other things. Thanks for the vid.
Very cool Billy, thanks!
Ok Billy, what can I say about this one? The Carole King house!!!!! Iconic! Tapestry is one of my fav albums of ALL TIME and it was so cool to see this house up close and personal. The stories it could tell! Loved the part about the cat too.
Thanks again for all the cool stories. 😀
Wow, thanks! We appreciate your comments and input, Tammy.
One of the best albums ever written.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️VERY NICELY DONE! 👍🏼😎
Thank you 👍
Great series.
I'm 65.
I grew up in NE Ohio.
Watching the LC series really brings up a lot of memories.
Thank you Billy.
Well, you're very welcome and the pleasure is ours. We had a lot of fun making these videos. Thanks for watching!
love this series of videos, what a time it was!
I went on Google earth and followed your path. I love it!
I really didn't much about Laurel Canton but now I believe it was enchante
Married at age 17 and #1 hit at 18!
Wonderful documentaries, thank you! As a Boomer so young back then … seeing and hearing all this now, especially Carole King brought up some deep old emotions from that time … thank you for showing the back stories to these amazing artists whose music defined my 20 something life … can’t wait to find Joni … as she did the most for me.
Joni comes up in Episode 6!
carol klein king is the queen of pop. no other woman in the music business has written more great songs. she is my queen.
Outstanding Billy.
Amen
In ‘98’ I was working in Sherman Oaks & was given a somewhat tour of all these areas…but just quickly driving through & no details…I never realized until now where exactly I was, I just figured it was a cool place with cool houses in the hills. We did see a very young Brad Pitt roaming around though...at least that’s what they told me & I had no clue who that was at the time. Now I realize why we were driving around there…showing me where all the famous people lived. I’m from Michigan, far from LA.
Great story. For some reason, that canyon has been attracting Hollywood film stars and musicians since basically they put an actual road in there. It used to also be a more affordable place to live at a certain point in the 60's and so the young musical community began moving in before many of them became famous and wealthy.
Excellent.
Thank you so much for connecting the dots and bringing this extraordinarily rich history of Laurel Canyon alive. I spent a lot of time in and around that area in the late 70s- early 80s pursuing my own musical passion but never knew even a tiny fraction of the details presented in this series.
I gotta say, Michelle Phillips was/is an absolute stunner and I suspect if she batted her lashes at any red blooded male in their 20s it would be really tough to say no and walk away. That level of attraction is both a blessing and a curse, and was at the center of much of The Mammas & the Pappas turmoil. We are fortunate to have the great songs they produced during their time together as a band.
Cheers!
The Doors title pulled me in,first time viewer. Excellent narration, photos and camera work. I subscribed !
Awesome, thank you!
Amazing they could build right on the street!
I'm friends with a person who was in that scene, a musician in a band at that time in L.A. and he lived on Lookout Mtn. 65-67. He doesn't talk much about it.
Thank you for the pics, the info. So much interesting and intriguing stuff. Love it, love it, love it.
Some of us might never make it to these places. With you, it’s almost better than in person.
Very kind of you to say so. Thanks for watching and thanks so much for your comments!
I’ve been through Laurel Canyon many times, but I never knew these places were there!
It's kind of like a place hidden in plain sight. So much history back in there it was hard to decide what to keep in and what to leave out.
Super Billy! Have always wanted to know the Carole King story, personal to me. In such a crazy industry/time she was a rare one to keep her feet on the ground. Real musician, didn't she later mentor lots of other artists, she was like a mother of other musicians. Such a famous canyon!
Yes, she has a daughter (Louise Goffin) who became a successful musician herself for many years.
She sure started young. I have learned a lot here and I already knew a good bit
I just found this series and can't stop watching it!
Your voice, stories and descriptions are wonderful!
Such a high quality production!
Looking forward to all your videos from you and your team!
Fascinating Musical History! Love it!💕Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
Really really enjoyed this one. Your fulfilling a dream of mine. I lived there and drove the streets, but wanted more. Love it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So well conceived!!! 🌳 🐦
Thanks for trip down memory lane. I was in my teens in the 60's. and just graduating high school. I still have the Doors album as well as Carol King and also Mamas and Papas album. The Beatles who were also huge, at the time,, were sadly on their way out in the late 60's. Was Interesting seeing the houses where all those iconic groups hung out.. Loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for sharing your comments. I think The Beatles, and all those others you mentioned, will be remembered for a very long time after we're all gone!
Hey! This video is a year old so I didn’t know if you’d see my previous comment or not. Since you did I regret that I didn’t mention how much I enjoy your videos. They are so well done and you are an excellent presenter. You have a pleasant voice and articulate well. (There are a lot of videos, where I like the topic, but not the speaker so much. So, I can’t watch.) I’ve watched several a couple of times just because I find them calming and low key pleasurable.
Well thank you for all the nice comments. And yes, we see all the comments and we try really hard to answer as many as we can. So glad to hear that you like what you see and hear in all of this. It was a pleasure to make this series and a real adventure to be out there in that awesome and historic area. So much recent history!
Episode 5 was just as great as all of the previous ones. I am tempted to binge watch the whole series but I'm holding back, I want to make them last😄😄
Yeah, don't get overloaded with all of it. We've got more on the way! Thanks for being here!
This blows my mind that John and Robby were roommates in the 60's and I ❤the doors for 29 years since 1994
"People are Strange", probably one of the most brilliant, insightful, songs of all time, soft and uncritical. Let's face it, we all have a deep, hidden side to ourselves, which we don't share with anyone.
Thank so much for your stories.It make me look back on my life back.I am 71years old now .I never live in LC.But it brings me back to the great fun I had.Parties and weed lots of that.You tell it so fine and true too.
Much simpler times back then, weren't they though? I was maybe just a bit too young then, LOL.
@@memoryfield Try were the best times for me.Had people I knew who lived inLCAnd in SF too.
So well done! very professional and all your facts are checked! great great job! thanks for sharing! Perhaps you can just reach out and ask Carole...
Wow, thank you! Much appreciated.
I’d like to think of myself as a music buff, and to come across your documentary series is truly compelling. I live in Michigan now and lived in southern Ca. but my eldest are planning a trip there soon so viewing this will help tremendously. Thanks for your ( playing around ) hard work arranging it all to preview.
What a great little series you have put together. Very informative as always. Thanks for the bell when Ep 5 was ready. I wonder, does San Francisco and the flower power era deserve your treatment ? They even have similar houses on hills.
Thanks and yes, actually it does deserve it. I was just there in SF last August and I was scouting around. Love the area!
This charming place reminds me of Greece except your architecture is fascinating.
@@memoryfield Those were the folks that believed the spin done down in LA but believed their brand didn't sell out. I too just discovered the roots of movement. Little did I know that the hippie attire came right out of the country store there as it was they that advertised the movement to white collar man on sunset blvd with the dress and dancing to bring ppl in. They didn't have to do much of that in SF though I suppose the song "If you are going to San Francisco (penned by J Phillips of the Mamas and Papas) was an advertisement
Really good coverage Billy! I am enjoying all of them. Thank you!!
Great series of videos. Very much appreciated.
Thanks for watching! We appreciate your comments and so glad you found us here.
I recently found your Channel and enjoy this too much! Loving Carol King. Great place yo Live, Laurel Canyon. Greetings from Spain!
Awesome! Thank you!
I had the awesome experience of working in LA,Hollywood and surrounding areas for about 2 months a few years ago as a telephone lineman. Sometimes even to this day I can’t believe this actually happened it was just a surreal experience. One particular day I was driving around,most of the time not even knowing where I was and boom there was the Hollywood Bowl. Amazing
Yes, all kinds of cool things everywhere you go out there. The traffic is terrible though! :)
@@memoryfield it really is but the good part was my hotel was in Torrance so if my last job was in the Hollywood hills and it took me 2 hours to get back it was all free OT the crazy part of traffic was they allowed motorcycles to drive in between cars on the freeway
Great analysis about the birth of a classic song..and a few other interesting facts in American music history.
Love this series
Your videos are the business! Great presentation, social history, knowledge, opinion, fact... I always say that the 60's is the greatest era/decade of music. Yet I listen to far, far less than I realised. You've inspired me to get searching for all the artists you mention. Again...
Many, Many thanks!
Love to hear things such as that. And yes, you really can't beat the late 60's for the greatest music ever made. So much rich history and crazy stories! Thanks, David, for watching and for commenting. :)
@@memoryfield Can't stop listening to The Doors at present! Society does not put anywhere near enough emphasis on its Social History; and you have managed to do this in a heartbeat.
It's surprising that some of the songs I listen to by groups/singers were only made, originally by groups from a few years previous.
Love Status Quo and their version of Roadhouse Blues. Now... anyone can be forgiven for thinking it is a decades old number but... The Doors! Enough said.
These are amazing. Thank you
Glad you think so! :)
I appreciate your attention to detail …
Thanks for saying so and thanks for noticing it! I try my best.
This is a fantastic endeavor your doing. Thank you .
Thank you too! Much appreciated.
Thank you , this was so good. Really emotional at the end.
Thanks for your comments. So glad you liked it!
Another great video Billy, thanks for sharing all of this, I would love to visit the area one day. The stories you pick out are brilliant. Can't wait for episode 6! Cheers
Mark, so glad you enjoyed it! Hope you can get over there soon, it's really an interesting and beautiful place. Thanks for watching and thanks for your comments! :)
Very well narrated and interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks so much for watching!
AY CARAMBA ! The seamy side of the MUSIC BIZ !! Thanks for the video from Eve G.
John Kay (Steppenwolf) lived in Nichols Canyon, adjacent to Laurel Canyon and just down the road from Frank Zappa, from 1969 to 89. John's daughter Shawn was friends with Frank's kids Moon & Dweezil. The cover photo for Steppenwolf's third album, "At Your Birthday Party", of the band sitting at a kitchen table of a burned out, house was taken in Laurel Canyon at the burned out, house of Canned Heat's, Bob Hite.
Yeah, I've seen that album cover and that has to be the one that was right next door to the Joni Mitchell house. She said in an interview once that the house next door burned down and was very close to hers and yet her house didn't burn. That's when she became convinced that her house on Lookout Mountain was "protected" by some higher power.
@@memoryfield Joni Mitchell lived next door to Bob 'The Bear' Hite! To say he was a party animal would be an understatement. I wonder if he was a good neighbor?
Henry Diltz did the photo shoot for that Steppenwolf album and made mention of Joni Mitchell being there that day as well.
Just was there last month!! Bucket list for sure ✌🏼🦎👑
Mary Astor was very popular in the 30s and 40s. She was in The Maltese Falcon.
The area has so many intertwined stories of famous or well known people. I like Carol Kings version of Take a Giant Step And Pleasant Valley Sunday that the Monkees recorded pretty much directly right over her demo
Yes, agreed on that. Did not know that about the Monkees and Carole King!
@@memoryfield Take a Giant Step for sure. I don't recall for sure on Pleasant Valley. Here's one called Sometime In The Morning, this illustrates it . I really like your uploads bro.
th-cam.com/video/OvzmSbT3bjo/w-d-xo.html
Such interesting personal stories and the music is great.
Thanks for noticing the music too!
Enjoyed all your hard work and dedication.
Thank you! Much appreciated.
@@memoryfield
I was a touch too young for really knowing what was going on. In Laurel Cyn. I was a W. LA schooler & absolutely loved Cyn. Ladies. I actually feel blessed to not be on the middle of the whirlwind. Of course as a high schooler we knew the gruesome Manson details but it didn't seem to much phase myself or classroom buddies, perhaps we had enough with the Kennedy assassinations. But all the music history you bring out is quite good and appreciated.
Wow, great video, Thank you! Had not idea Carole King wrote "will you still love me tomorrow". Please keep them coming. I really enjoy your style of story telling combined with the music history/locations.
Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it. :)
A story I read about John Phillips is that after performing on stage at the Monterey Pop festival,John was served legal papers for non-payment of child support and alimony. Certainly a buzz kill for him!
Hilarious! He deserved it.
@@memoryfield that night Michelle also felt ill and told Cass Elliot I think I’m pregnant! Monday morning at Doctor’s office Michelle discovers she is pregnant with Chynna Phillips. She left John months after Chynna was born due to his worsening addiction. Love these videos Bill!
Jill Gibson was the girlfriend of Jan Berry of Jan and Dean, and later Lou Adler. I remember seeing her in a Hullaballoo episode where she had a folk duo thing going on. She could sing, and Michelle Phillips backed her up on that, but I believe John felt she didn't have any chemistry with the band. Knowing John, it was probably because he couldn't get into her pants. I've also read from numerous sources that she is still in the mix on quite a few songs on that 2nd album (uncompensated). Remember, they were still mostly using 4 tracks in those days. She's had her own art and photography thing going on since the 70s.
Yes, I think I remember reading about that too that she's still on that album but even Michelle couldn't tell if it was her singing or if Jill was in there as well.
i have always loved the music of the mamas and papas, and i knew there was subterfuge.
great!
Great series, so entertaining and informative, I was 6 years old in 1968, when the better part of all this great music was being created, but I had older siblings that were into all this and had a ton of albums that would play in my house around the clock. I will never forget the day one of my sisters came home with Tapestry! Thanks for your work. BTW, where is episode 6?
Glad you enjoyed it! Episode 6 is being edited right now as we speak. So it's on the way but all of these ended up being WAY longer than what I had anticipated. So much info! Make sure you subscribe and get the notifications for the new videos coming out. :)
I was gonna say, all the girls were getting into Tapestry when i as in 7 or 8 grade
Another enjoyable episode. The photography & background music add so much to the overall effect. You've obviously put a lot of work into this & it shows. I'm not complaining that you haven't mentioned P.F. Sloan (I didn't expect you to!), but just for the record, according to his memoirs, he had a house (patterned on an English medieval castle) in Wonderland Avenue (or possibly Drive). He also mentions that Phil Ochs had a place off Lomita Drive. Final point: you're the best I've come across on TH-cam for responding to comments. Whether you'll manage to sustain that if & when your subscriptions increase, who knows, but for now, it's appreciated.
Well, we try hard. LOL. Thanks so much for all of your very nice comments. You know, if I were somehow able to get back out there, I think I could do a couple of really good episodes that included: PF Sloan, Phil Ochs, Canned Heat, Linda Ronstadt, probably more of The Byrds especially Gene Clark, Love and Arthur Lee, The Turtles, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat and Lowell George, more about the Monkees and Peter Tork, and Alice Cooper. That's so much info just right there alone. I just simply ran out of money and ran out of time after 12 full days working in Laurel Canyon. I broke that up into 4 long weekends, driving into LA from where I was working out in Bishop, CA, for the summer. People keep asking me "why did you leave out so and so", "why didn't you give more time to (my musical heroes)", etc. etc. And... well, there's the answer to about 90% of that. p.s. I swear I must have walked (even filmed) PF Sloan's house on Wonderland. There was a really big house that did look like a castle, and I swear I remember filming it on purpose. But of course, I didn't know if it had a history or not.
@@memoryfield It's understandable you should focus on the artistes that are particularly close to your heart. The main thing is, you brought a flavour of the area to people like myself, who have enjoyed the music only from thousands of miles away, enabling me to appreciate how the environment must have inspired the writers & artistes of that time. Your video & commentary have left a legacy as beautiful & lasting as the music itself.
Hey Billy 👋 really enjoying your content and have subscribed as I've just recently discovered your content and what drew me at first was The Cass Elliot ones as of recently have more interest in her and actually purchased her book Dream a Little Dream of Me via Ebay plus an avid Sharon Tate fan and been following the Manson Saga on other TH-cam channels and now yours as it gives more insight of the Era and what went down at Cielo Drive, Waverley Drive and at Topanga Canyon with Gary Hinman and how freaky that Linda Rhondstant lived next door to him but luckly wasnt home when that horrific murder happened 😳🤦♂️💔😪 anyways just wanted say love your content and keep them coming abd keep up the awesome work your doing. ❤👏👌👍😊
Cool, thanks for watching. Even weirder still is that Linda Ronstadt was living with the former governor of California (Jerry Brown) on Wonderland Ave. when those horrific murders happened on that street just a couple of doors down from them in 1981!
John Phillips auto biography is a great read that guy stomped on the Terra Firma. 🤠
Great series. Want to go back to L.A, rent a car and drive around up there 👍
Make it a goal. It's totally worth the trip, trust me!
If you find an interview with Machenzie Phillips, she has a lot to say about her father too. Ill just leave that right there.
Allegedly molestation.