Laurel Canyon Walking Tour Part 3: Neil Young, John Lennon, The Eagles, Buffalo Springfield 

Thank you. They are our pleasure to shoot.

Aw shucks.... Thank you, that just made my day!

@@RockessentialTim 😃👍🎸🎶

Thank you, much appreciated!

Thanks for watching. I have relatives in Ontario and have been there many times. Beautiful!

Thank you too!

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 :)

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!

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.

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'd love to know which book?

Right on, exactly!

Our pleasure. It was really fun to make.

Thank you! In the process of making a few more.

Thank you Edward. I love anything Laurel Canyon.

Thank you for watching and Keep On Rocking!

Thank you so much. We have one in the pipline now so stay tuned....

The Troubadour says if Covid lasts much longer they're closing the doors for good. What a shame.

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.

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.

Great idea. I'm gonna start researching it. Thanx.

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!

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.

This is excellent stuff to know, thanks for the info!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 :)

So true!

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

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!

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?

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.

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

Thanks!

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!

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.

Thank you. Sometimes we get so busy flapping our gums that we forget!

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!

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.

yep, I get that once in awhile.

The trams still work and I'm guessing it was the house cuz its pretty unforgettable looking.

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.

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