What led to the DEMISE of Laurel Canyon’s Freewheeling Society of Sex and Rock n Roll? 

Wow, Man. I hate that you went through that, but I love that music helped you through it. Thanks for sharing.

what you say is so meaningful. sad but powerful.

💜 I'M SO SORRY TOM 😢 I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT YOU WENT THROUGH. SENDING LOVE & HUGS 🫂💜

What a challenging life's journey you have had. Do write it down, a telling American story😢

I'm sorry you went through that, glad you had music to bring you through it.

You certainly lived your youth in much better times than the today's youth. Peace !

What a great time to be alive and young...

I'm 2 years older than you. I loved growing up in the Hollywood Hills!!!

Are you still in California???

I imagine you have wonderful stories to tell !.All kinds from Beautiful to Hilarious to Romantic ect ! I love your perspective. You were one of them but they went on to be famous. There is an amazing book in you Miss Meg ! All.of those people together at the same time learning from and helping each other ! You got to be a part of what it really was all about and that couldn't last for long. Nothing does. Think about writing some of your history down. Who knows, you may just get published. ! How awesome to hear it all from a woman of your age and wisdom ! ☘️🌱

Thank you 🙏

David had the best weed was told.

About 4 years ago this documentary came out about what took place in Laurel Canyon during that magical time. It’s a wonderful piece. Hope you get a chance to view it. Here’s the trailer. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QRVFBQHBUls.htmlsi=2E0VPIpsL2xeP_4D

Echo in the Canyon is one. The rest all have laurel canyon in the title i believe

Have you heard him since he died?

3 feet? More like 3 zip codes.

3 feet? more like 6 feet under.

Three feet? More like 3000 miles.

"Welcome home, brother. Thanks for doing what our country had asked of you, and for being there for other servicemen who needed you."

Moody Blues 🕊️❤️✨

Glad to hear it. Good on you, brother. Love the Moody Blues.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing your life (relevant part of) story. I wasn’t born until ‘67, but I was immersed in this incredible music growing up. These songs move me deeply and touch a place in my soul that nothing else can. A wonderful part of who I am at the core.

@@BeeFunKnee Thank you for your kind comment.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Find the kitty

OK boomer.

Yes, this is xlnt! Rip your friend. 💕🎶✨✨💕🎵🎶🎵 Rip.Bella😢

@@tranzco1173 Are you a troll or something? Grow up.

Incredible! Yea she’s so soulful.

And just think, she was singing to you!

A snippet of Angel From Montgomery featured here. Written by John Prine, Bonnie does it justice and then some.

I love Bonnie Raitt. My favorite album of hers is "Takin My Time".

I’ve always loved her music.

It sure was. Now they keep kids locked up for 3 years unnecessarily and then teach them they might be a different sex.

OK boomer.

It was Awesome!!!🎉

@@tranzco1173Not Necessarily! Also I don't know anyone who got to choose their birth date! That makes it rather stupid to put people down for that particular fact of their life!

Former Baltimoron here. Loved it, hanging out at Mt. Vernon Place, saw Cream at the Civic Center.

than you try heroin to come down,just a little bit turns into selling your guitars and so on.

hate to break it to you but morphein use was nothing new - Merle Haggard said if it weren't for methamphetamine there wouldn't be a Nashville - it is what it is

yes we know that, but the video is about the scene in laurel canyon, not nashville our nyc, when all the jazz players where doing smack in the 50s of course drugs were nothing new, but it was to these young kids, young adults that suddenly had a lot of money!!!@@davidrice3337

@@davidrice3337 I'm talking about California specifically and zeroed in on Laurel Canyon and the artistic residents of the time. I don't know anything about Nashville that might be true

Nailed it I say. I was around California through the 70s. Once Ken Kesey made LSD cool in 1965, it you were a cool musician you took LSD every chance you got. Then in 1969 Easy Rider made cocaine cool. If you were a cool musician you looked for cocaine daily. Different vibes, more addiction, more focus on getting drugs.

"Those were the days,my friend;we thought they'd never end.''

My mother and aunt grew up not far away on Irvine Ave, off of Laurel Canyon Blvd. My aunt would ride her horse through Laurel Canyon all the time. But that was in the 50's, probably before the drug scene hit. She stabled her horse just a couple blocks from her house... almost unimaginable today!

I just did a conversion calculator, and $70 in 1967 would be about $670 today; I was surprised it was that cheap to live

I imagine it's unaffordable now for most? Always my dream to live there

@@megmodaff5989 definitely not affordable now

I wish I'd been in my teens and 20s when I lived close to there in La Crescenta Cali in the late 80s.

Wow thank you for sharing your experiences

I was very happy for you to read a bit of your life and how you were able to reassimilate into the crazy times in America. I had two of the nicest cousins and both were able to come back, one minus most of his shoulder, and the other sadly succumbed to drinking and drugs towards his passing. They were both changed men. That useless war did a number on all who served, and even me as an 8 year old because I didn't understand enough about life. But I'll always miss them both for the sweetness and kindness they showed me just as a little kid.

This was my era too! My friend and I used to cruise the Sunset Strip, dance at the Hullabaloo Club and the Wiskey. I was asked to be one of the dancers at the Hullabaloo, but I was still in high school and didn't even drive yet. I met my future husband at the Oar House and Buffalo Chips in Santa Monica to the tunes of the Buffalo Springfield. Years later I went to a party with my college art history class, hosted by the professor, an elderly woman. It had an amazing views, like living in the trees. I wondered how she could have afforded this house because by this time, it was considered a ritzy area. I didn't realize that Laural Canyon was originally a cheap, affordable area.

Loved your thoughts and comments but think about paragraphs.

@@garyreams8123 I don't usually ramble on at such length.

Not impossible when you consider the military base that had operations going on in that area at the time. Also not really a secret anymore how our defense department plays a major role in these lucrative and extremely influential (manipulated) industries we all grab onto.

@@bigchedds8389 Yes! It all makes sense now! The military manufactured a veritable torrent of amazing music! Silly people thinking that it was just musicians that did it.

@@bigchedds8389 David McGowan's book 'Laurel Canyon-Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon' puts some flesh on the bones of things.

@@BeforeAndAfterScience The Wrecking Crew were the real musical architects of all those Canyon bands sound even the Beach Boys.

You’re welcome 🙏

​@@freewheelingideastake your medicine...

Medication for education

Was it a water bed? 😂

Her drug dealer boyfriend? That's terrible! Where were their morals??

Did... did you just out your mom having a mirror over her bed?

What a cool snapshot of a time and place

This story is overblown and all the hype of the area is getting bigger as we get older. It wasn't as romantic as all these story's say. LA by the early seventies was starting g its decline.

Thank you so much 🙏

There's a darker side to it all. Look into the Tavistock institute and the CIA movie and music studio located there. It was primarily a social engineering program and an artistic expression second.

​​​​@@jeffreypierce1440 That makes some sense . Up to a point . Shouldn't the music have then been , meh , just very average ? Maybe a happy accident ( for the ever fiendish CIA ! ) .

@@JayJay-xd5lmall of the artists parents were high ranking government officials and defense contractors.

@@jeffreypierce1440This comment gives me hope. If enough ppl question the narrative and actually start looking for the real history of this country, things might change

Glad you enjoyed l!

Thank you

Keep being proud man. Thats a great attitude.

"Mongo have deep feelings for Sheriff."

@@hannabaal150 very cool miss Hanna. You know who Alex is. I was their landscaper.

Proud drummer here, but not bad at it in bands in NYC, LA and Texas. Not rich,...not famous. Damn!

​@user-hz6vm7xh8mHe couldnt do drugs. It wouldve muddled his mind and disabled him from completing the mission he was assigned to carry out by his mindfucking CIA controlled father. The entire Laurel Canyon scene was a psychological operation to inject the wild flower children and hippies into a serious anti war movement scene that was growing up north cali...and threatening to put an end to their bankers interests of enslaving our populice.

My first concert at 12. 1973

🙏🏼

@@brettsfav4 thank you

Ya My mom too. That generation mastered music. It will never be as good and that's cool. Just keep playing and passing them down.

Tapestry is one of the greatest albums. Carole King is a very talented and creative individual. I doubt we’ll see another musician like her ever again. I first listened to that album back in the early 70s when I was in grade school. My sister was much older than me, so I listened to whatever she listened to. I recall, back in 1970, when I was 6 years old, swimming in the back yard pool with my family and we had a radio blasting, and “Bobby McGee” was first played on the radio. I loved…we all loved it. I miss what life was like back then…even though I was a child, I still remember how nice people were then. Not like today.

It wasn't the type of drugs that changed things. Things just change. Weed and mushrooms are still here but that Laurel Canyon is gone.

@pumpupthevolume4775 You are right, things do just change! The causation for change that I'm referring to is not that weed and mushrooms went away. In fact they're probably more prevalent now in the percentage of people using compared to the 60s and 70s. What happened was that many people began also using coke and downers like smack and prescription narcotics. I was there and saw many people change. The whole scene went from peaceful and loving, to overdoses, guns, and crime. It was sad. I'm reminded of Neil Young singing, "I've seen the needle and the damage done." Most of us left the hippie scene at that point, but some people just deteriorated into a life of addiction.

All that 'were were for free' did nothing good for women .

@@MalteseKat You mean women should sell it for a good price ?

Lynndupree - u are a wild chick 😅😊

Yes, that free love created a lot of abandoned young women and children. I remember. No thanks.

​@@thedowagerd.2431well that's the egoic males' problem to fix amongst themselves

There were a lot of lost souls in those days, including those running the war in Vietnam. The only difference with the hippies was their powerlessness. As is true for most of us even now.

Interesting

Did you perform the uncensored version that got the Doors kicked out of The Whiskey?

I was the drummer in a psych band from Indy in 69 (Gidians Bible). Since I had the lowest voice I got to sing & scream "The End". One time even on acid. Tho we had no faith, when I screamed "Save us! Jesus! Save us!" I always felt it was like a real desperate prayer. And amazingly, He eventually showed up & totally changed our lives and many in my generation.

Loved The End. I sang the song pretending it was about my father.

OK boomer.

so sad she was only 30. such a talent 😔

She was without a doubt the true Queen of the Canyon and everyone's Mama!😊

Yeah, seems if you were invited to one of her parties, you were made.

Yeah, Cass was a force. Amazing soul.

And, for the record, she did not choke on a Ham sandwich.

Thank you for the kind words!

some politicians just don't care about what is the Military and the people involved in protecting the Peace. I remember the recent effort to boost the VA's interaction with actual Veterans, many employees were fired because of instances where they showed they just didn't give a shit. the atmosphere at VA clinics changed overnight. then the next crew of politicians rehired them all. hope that works out

Totally. Everyone I've ever heard putting Ringo down are those who know precisely nothing about drumming.

@@wattage2007 The joke back in the day was if the Beatles plane had crashed into the ocean with no survivors, the headline would read: *_"Three Musicians and a Drummer Lost at Sea"_*

Even if they were all more or less the same age, the Beatles were so big they had already stopped touring at that time, so they had at least five years of professional experience over all the others at that time. Having Ringo walked in to be their professional drummer for a day must've turned the entire room to giggling fan girls.

@@ingvarhallstrom2306 Excellent point. Besides, I am quite sure that Ringo was the only one in that gaggle of gigglers who had a submarine that resembled an electrical banana _(which is bound to be the very next phase)._

At a certain point after they broke up I realized I had one McCartney album, one Harrison, three Lennon but only one without yoko and well, seven or eight Ringo albums.....

I Also born in Pasadena Saint Luke’s Hospital in 1956. Loved it. I would ditch H.S. And hitchhike with a couple friends to one of the beaches and bodysurf. Later Moved to Venice Beach for a couple years and landed in Encinal Canyon when I married my husband a Landscape Architect for Herb Alpert. Then hired me to work as a brick mason and tile setter at Herb Alperts in Malibu. Great memories and a great place to grow up. 👍

Just be grateful you had a chance to live it - nothing lasts forever.

Pasadena raised, too, in this era. So much great music everywhere. Easily accessible. Troubadour, Golden Bear, Whiskey a go-go, the Ice house . To name a few.

​@@karencahill4798 When I was a child I wanted to be a mason or in a string quartet. I did play in a string quartet for pay at functions at Shattuck in the small Episcopal church on campus there, with Dr. Heinz Bruhl's wife, Eva Bruhl, and St. Olaf's Beatrix Lien, then. Both have died, as has the music teacher at Shattuck then, Greg Larsen or Larson, who was a very positive man. Herb Alpert!

People who live across the pond and weren't a part of that scene see it as the start of America's societal decline.

Stop judging people holding guitars for starters, ey?

'Vito and the freaks'...'Mansons'' MK-Ultra ? l suspect so.

@@earlgrey691 What does MK for.

@@trustinsynchronicity Mind Kontrolle'A gift imported by Nazis to the US after WW2.alongside NASA and the C.I,A.Satanic stuff at source.

you've added perspective to the stories!! thanks. I miss the FEELING of those times, something brave and creative, a freedom. People here in Calif, and especially L.A. area were horrified and chilled by Tate-La Bianca murders. I moved here after them, and only heard about them when I arrived (1975). However, the murders at Kent State of 4 STUDENT protestors, UNARMED, by our own president (Nixon ordered the National Guard on them), triggered the ultimate protest song imo "Ohio" by Neil Young--who saw the photo and "went into the woods & wrote the song & came back and sang it" to David Crosby. Now I've seen the woods in the video probably! The result: our whole country of young people of my generation rebelled. Neil's song--or at the least its influence--isn't mentioned here oddly. Love your addition about Donovan!

cool

@@lauraturner4216 A glimpse of how earth life was meant to be is my take away,the dark,corporate-satanics were always lurking in the shadows though..(Rothschilds,Rockefellers,MK-Ultra) et al but a few years in history when possibilities were possible.Not quiet the same deal today it's fair to say.

Great era

CIA mind control for the boomers.

You didn't mention the best of all, the jazz scene. Miles, Trane, Monk, Blakely, Ornette, and Mingus!!!

I was an 80s baby but the 70s music absolutely blows me away. I find far more great music from the 70s then I do the 60s or any other decade. So I really don't blame ya.

It's terrible so many of them smoked pot, though. Makes me lose respect for these people.

Yeah what a great song too. Pull it up & have a listen, Mary Hopkin. Then tell me you didn't bawl your eyes out.

@@soulthriver-oz6470lots of nice memories in the 60’s, the music lead the way to make it magical

​@@Thomas-qr3zvoh yes!

You’re so welcome 🙏 thank you for the positive feedback 😄

Love to hear Mama Cass sing; and this video features some of my favorite artists!♥️

The video moves pretty fast, as a young musician it's a lot to take in. My dad knows these bands and he talks about them from time to time, so much history and great musicians. A special time and place indeed.

I know.

The video was hard to get through. What a load of crap. It's always dangerous, however tempting, to idealize someone else's past. But I do love the funny quote from Jackson Browne @1:00. After all, what's more regimented than the music business? Not just now, but then too. Sure, there were some good songs, sex, drugs, etc. But mostly it was just a bunch of spoiled and ugrateful white kids who couldn't see they were making things worse, not better, because they were too busy kissing their own ass. Once the Boomers are gone no one will care about any of this.

This, is what has happened everywhere. If it hasn't been already said... Greed (for one thing or another) is the root of all problems.

Money hungry losers.

Greed is always a force of destruction...

Exactly, that place had its own unique persona, the gatherings and parties in the area back in the day was magical in too many ways to describe, and then the marauders saw an opportunity to try and monetize a vibe born of freedom and community and the rest is sad history.

"Call someplace paradise...kiss it goodbye."

Add Nashville to the list. It is quickly dissolving into the abyss of "used to be Paradise" as of 2024.

I know, I can't believe these people used drugs! Where did they even FIND this stuff? I grew up in the 60s and 70s and have never even seen marijuana!

@@Cindybin46user-nu4hg2dx6uYour rants are not making an impact. 🙄

They plucked the poison apple from Eden's tree when they went from herb (hash) to drugs (coke) Even acid was 'created' at the Rockefeller Sandoz laboratories of Vienna and was way too overkill.The natural entheogens-shrooms,peyote,ibogaine would have better aided the creative processes rather than lobotomizing multitudes of the Canyon minstrels of the time.Zappa knew these things.

Very cool and You’re welcome 🙏

@@freewheelingideas I am enjoying your channel. Where do you live bc u have a UK accent?

LOL I’m sure I can say this bc Grace Slick has been open about it, but I met her at a “meeting” in Malibu. It was a small one at a church and only maybe 20 of us. She spoke and told the most insane and hysterical stories about her time in the good ole days. She told a funny story about her car being on fire and her interaction with the cops that had us all laughing. Figured you’d enjoy that since you say you love Jefferson Airplane! ❤

You’re welcome!

Thank you 🙏

I never realized how close that these musicians were to each other... Later on in life I leaned more towards Frank Zappa, in 1979, after being a big fan of Alice Cooper couldn't wait for Zappa's next record..Most of Zappa's earlier Mothers albums were hard to obtain and out of print..Now I listen to all those bands that came out of Laurel Canyon.. God be with you man,,,,, 🙏 for without God aka Elohim, none of that would have been possible...

It did save the world, but not for humanity.

Did we get that wrong? I'm not sure

@@DianeDixey Oh, yeah, we certainly did. It was always a fairy tale. Not everybody bought into it, it was mostly the "flowers in your hair" Cali crowd when looking back on it objectively. Pete Townshend said "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". He got it right.

She has a Facebook 💛 She is totally awesome.

Thank you 🙏

I was born in 62 also and will be forever grateful to have grown up in a time the best music that ever was or will be again took place ☮️

OK boomer.

@@tranzco1173 What's the point or implication of your reply?

@@anonymous19844just a troll. They’ve reply to many of the comments with the same😑

@@anonymous19844 He's been reported.

is the point that it was a micro sliver of a generation more relevant to a very few, while everyone else was on the outside looking in to Laurel Canyon. ​@@anonymous19844

OK boomer.

I grew up right on top in laurelwood in the 60's went to carpenter, Colfax, Reed & nhhs #GoHuskies

@@tranzco1173 go upstairs and tell your indulgent mommy to finish her job. You need to be in time out

@@tranzco1173 Stop with that. It's getting older then boomers. Just because someone is older doesn't mean they deserve to be ridiculed. Your lack of life experience doesn't make you superior. Last I will say..... since I know the best cure against weak ass internet trolls is to ignore them.

​@@tranzco1173 You keep showing up in the comments here, if you don't like it just scroll on.

Glad you enjoyed it and thank you 🙏

I lived in the Midwest , but the music and lifestyle were like a magnet way out there in California. I left Detroit in 69 in a 58 Ford wagon and I had a 107 bucks. It's been a hell of a ride along the way. I have to say that people were much different back then. Maybe we were just naive, but it was easy to trust one another back then . Instead of the negative , everything seemed like anything was possible, including stopping that war. As the sixties came to a close and altimont finished the peace and love thing , everyone and everything has a harder edge. That innocent magic was gone. It was like when John Lennon died, so did an era and an idea. Stomped out like it was nothing and don't think the government wasn't happy. They hated peace, love and freedom, no matter what they pretend this country is. It may have died , but it ain't forgotten by any means . Like the Phoenix, it too shall rise again

The best music coming out in the year 1970 was Sabbath or most of their music. No peace and love there.

Thank you

Thank you 🙏

a good description

How incredible! I know exactly where you’re talking about!! I showed up there 10 years later! We hiked out there to the caves and stripped, and all ran into the ocean, naked. We sat and talked in the caves and looked at the sea. I thought it was perfect, but I can’t imagine how much more perfect listening to Joni sing in person! That’s mind blowing!!

Me too Mátala was magic for me around the early 70’s period, remember sharing a cave with 3 German girls, I was a young 18 year old travelling hippie, high times 😊

I also was there in '69 before the song Carey. But when I heard it, I was right back there......."The wind is in from Africa" "Come to the Mermaid Café and I'll buy you a bottle of wine".....those were the days.

Thank you for your wonderful recollection of Joni in Greece. I too fell in love with the islands there and cried Bitter tears when I had to leave. Born in 52, I grew up in the Hollywood hills not far from Laurel Canyon, had a musician boyfriend who lived there, went to Hollywood High. What an amazing time it was.

I once saw Joni, trying to be incognito sitting in the big front window of the Cafe Figaro...genius and ego, hand in hand...

Thank you so much!

Would loved to have been around at that time x

Right? I've never seen any of them and had no clue they were all this chummy with one another. Kept making me think about all the great local musicians and music industry people I was privileged to hang out with just in my little neck of the woods in Harrisburg, Pa where we had more than a couple great nightclubs, bands and parties. We were all one big happy family and then this Grunge crap killed the scene in 1995. Talk about a PSYOPS. >:-(

OK boomer.

The artists understood melody, chords, rhythm , lyrics. The producers knew how to find and help artists. 20 somethings today and boomers know this.

and auto-tune

Still , none of them played on their albums.

They weren’t mentioned, but David Geffen and Lou Adler played a huge part in all of this too

Thank you 🙏

The Reagan Era killed it. When the hippies became the yuppies.

Joni was just another self-indulgent, amoral hippie-type...she gave away her illigitimate baby at age 19, to trade on her good looks and different voice. Most of these types back then, were ego-tripping massively!

@@curbozerboomer1773 true but that doesnt deter from her music.

​@curbozerboomer1773 sorry to the kid, but otherwise I don't care. Great music. Some fun times. A LOT of fun times and good memories on my part- although I was younger than that crowd and saw it from a more innocent place. But I'm far removed from being naive and know full well it was an ideal that was never truly realized or lived. Moments in time and people with imperfections. Without that Ego how would Joni have done any of the things she did? Good and bad. Is her child happy today? I would guess probably. She came to earth from a unique place. The voice of the judgemental scold is replete in the old republican party- and look what has happened to their ideals and dreams. Shattered in the horror and wasteland of the Donald movement. That's the reaping that their unforgiving judgements have earned them. Pointing fingers at the past as if the evil, jealous god from the old testament has stirred up from it's hoary grave to frighten todays children with the nightmare reality their grandparents lived and breathed- but which is now as dead and obsolete as my mom's old fashioned ring dial telephone- the stand up.kind with the separate earpiece connected by a cord. That's the value and relevance of that particular conception of a "loving" God. Historical dustbin and good riddance. A small, hateful little deity for small, hateful little people. This music isn't for people like you, any way.

​@@dionmcgee5610wow that was quite an unload. Yes ego,s can propel some to great lengths it seems, more often it just clouds ones perception. I guess thats why its so hard for inteligent people to be humble. Sad to see it burning in hatefilled hearts. But thats why its for everyone to find their own path and in the end if all they are left with is a angry heart and empty soul theres always the ego to blame.

@@curbozerboomer1773 I fully agree. I never got how she was so famous. Open tuned guitar with capo on (thus removing any need for guitar playing skills) with endless 'intellectual' rambling over the top. From this documentary I'm sensing she slept her way into that scene.

I’d never heard that term either.

Diggers is the correct term.

@@pumpupthevolume4775 never heard of that either.

It could literally scare the hell out of you hanging out with older teenagers. It all involved drugs

Psychedelics are powerful medicine properly applied of course. the people in this story are all a few years older than me but we were careless in our use of these substances for recreation. Thankfully about 40 years ago I learned about their proper use.

The world changed in 1968. Almost overnight. Tet Offensive?

CIA & FBI (active in LC & other avenues such as Timothy Leary and Gloria Steinem) social engineering propaganda permating the media was the reason everything changed more or less overnight. hippies were a threat to the establishment's position, the social brainwashing wasn't working on your generation so they had to subvert and neutralize it asap by any means necessary.

Yep. Change for the sake of change is never good. Selfishness gone to extreme whilst preaching love and peace. We know that there is no peace.

You decide how old you are

@Progmeister: Definitely not the sound of the Laurel Canyon bands, though all of that was wonderful too, but thank goodness for what came to be known as Progressive Rock with the likes of King Crimson and much more in depth and challenging music. Still, that Laurel Canyon scene must have been something while it lasted.

I don't understand why people are unable to wax poetic about the music that they love merely by describing that music and the way it makes them feel. Why is it necessary to compare the music that one loves to the music being listened to by any other people i.e. "... the crap that our youth is listening to now..." To be divisive in all discourse is so negative. I am glad that you enjoyed the music from Laurel Canyon as a youth and throughout your life: that's terrific! Just say that. Namaste.

@@GladysKravitz42 Hi there. A detailed answer to your above questions will likely disturb your sensibilities and upset you. Have a good one.

Chaka Kahn lived here in the Early 70s! She’s playing at Hollywood Bowl soon & sounds GREAT Still playing old RUFUS !!! If u want to be in the 70s vibe & she has Amazing Jazz band

It wasn't community, a heroin addict will steal your shorts, and your triple beam balance scaless.

Hard to maintain a house in topanga canyon. The troubadour was a weird place in the late 80s.

The same genres I heard all my life at home, except I'm in SC. I wouldn't trade it for anything. One of my very favorite parts of my life.

Cobo Hall, Masonic Temple. Grande Ballroom… Im from Detroit as well.

CKLW, WKNR, WABX, WWWW, WLLZ@@djquinn11

Michigan Palace, East Town, Cobo Hall Bookies Lounge. Mid to late 70s😊

What about Taylor Swift?😅

You haven’t read the McGowin book?

But do you realize so many of these bands smoked pot? I used to think the Monkees and the Turtles were so great, for example, and then I learned they used drugs. That is terrible.

@@oleggorky906 I have ranted against pot and alcohol for over 20 years online, typing my fingers to the bone. Haven't you read a thing I've written? What do you mean, so what if someone has smoked pot? That's TERRIBLE. Especially if they did it when it was ILLEGAL. And people always tell me it doesn't affect me so I shouldn't speak up against it. That makes me angrier and even MORE determined to speak up. And have you SEEN the things the pot smokers say and do online? You would not BELIEVE what I have been through with them for the past 20 years online. Haven't you even heard of me?

@@oleggorky906 Sigh, one of the reasons I have to keep speaking up against pot year after year is because pot smokers tell me "just because I smoke pot doesn't mean I'm a bad person!" (as they cuss me out, threaten me, attack my religion, my looks, my sex life, make mean videos and websites about me, dox me and call my house, etc.). I tell them if you are such a good person, that makes it WORSE you'd smoke pot! Can't you see my point?? What parent would ever raise their kids to grow up and smoke POT? Most parents try to teach their kids morals and values to know that using drugs is wrong. And I know many of these same parents think nothing of using a mind-altering drug in the form of alcohol, but they are hypocrites. And the reason I started watching this video is because I remembered that term Laurel Canyon, and for some reason it showed up in my list and I saw that term and wanted to see what it was about.

@@Cindybin46user-nu4hg2dx6u LMFAO At first I thought you were shitposting & hilarious (like, seriously- who the fuck could ever be expected to know “Cindybin46user-nu4hg2dx6u”), but then I went to your page & then Googled your actual user name & every single result that came up said that you are a legendary schizo/psycho internet troll who wasted your life ranting to strangers who don’t give a fuck about any of your bullshit. It’s one thing to be some backwards BS moralizer, but it’s another thing entirely to have such a towering key overinflated ego that you actually expect random people to have any idea who the fuck you are. You’re not famous, lady. What *little* niche notoriety you have is only among people who catalog internet freakshows like Chris Chan, and that’s not “fame”- it’s INFAMY.

Focusing on being rich and famous instead of being really good at something has TAKEN OVER all of America now. In the 90's it was pretty much isolated to rapmusic, but now that rap/hip hop ( and it's it culture) has taken over most of pop music that state of mind has raced though the last couple of generations - everything is superficial nowadays - and social media hasn't helped at all either. Everyone's trying to keep up with the Kardashians instead of just being true to themselves.

@@richhope3043 that is so true

Fact! The wannabes replaced the true artists.

The best days of Everything are gone!😮

"Art used to be the focus.....rich and famous... coincidental" 💯

You’re so welcome🙏 and thank you for the positive feedback, greatly appreciated!

I never realized they all flocked to Laurel Canyon because it was so cheap. Far cry from todays cost to live there. I'm a Hollywood child from the 70's-80's and went to school with a few celebs that grew up in the canyon.

Nailed it.

It takes two, buddy. Maybe you need better friends.

Definitely happens a lot more than realized. usually ends up wrecking the band

Well that isn't "love" it's just a temporary pleasure that all of you indulge in because yall have no control over yourselves. Sex rock and roll always been a bunch of junkie kids that's into other junkie kids and the west view on "love" has always been flawed.

A little more than flirting going on there. I don't understand anyone, male or female, taking back a cheater.

@@alukuhito John left his wife ans 3 kids for Michelle

Awesome insights and thank you 🙏 what a wedding gift

Thank you for your recollections. I too lived in the Hollywood Hills, went to Hollywood High, 71 grad. We were so fortunate to be right there in the middle of all this fabulous creativity. What a melting pot of great vibes!

@lesliejackson9117 - thank you for your kind comment, if we didn't cross paths, maybe in another life. Be well...

yup and he died of a "FAST ACTING CANCER" 6 months after it was released. Funny how that keeps happening

That is a great book. Imagine the whole thing was coordinated by our government that is frightening. I firmly believe Jim Morrison did not die he was simply done with his detail! Lol

Also Memoirs of Billy shears sheds light on all the magick round the music industry

Big fave of mine. 🥰 Magic.

How old are you 70?

I'm 69 and wanted to be there also. I feel the freshest time of all times.

It wasnt over so much. Just morphed into what they had socially engineered it to. The whole hippie scene was a psychological operation created to undue the true anti war movement that really getting started good. Vietnam was different. Everyone, normal everyday folks could see thru the war propaganda machine and knew there was no justifiable reason for us to be attacking Vietnam. They all were questioning the gulf of tonkin incident and many had begun questioning some things about ww2. Like why we brought all the high ranking nazis were brought here and to Russia. Put in charge of medical industry, pharma, research and development in many medical sciences, vaccine development. NASA was literally created by nazis. Operation paperclip if you never heard of it. America just claimed, well russia has recruited some nazis, we have too to for "national security"....and we know who runs Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Yeah we have been lied to about absolutely everything. You know about mk ultra and how all the acid used in the "acid test" was all coming from the cia? Owsley worked for the cia, so did Kesey...remeber the Grateful Dead was the house band for these parties and traveled on the merry pranksters bus w Kesey and all?...."im uncle Sam that's who I am. Been hiding out in a rock and roll band...summer times done come and gone my old my". while hollywood had always been involved heavily in the occult, they socially engineered the youth to welcome the "new age", the dawning of the age of aquarius, which is really nothing but the old age, the worship of the so called "gods" of "mythology". Literally the worship of satan and the rest of the fallen angels. No different than in ancient times when they practiced child and human sacrifice to honor these "gods" and performed all sorts of evil and wickedness in worship of their "gods". Same exact thing just called new instead of old. When they speak of people being free, they really mean free to commit all manners of sin and evil with no fear of retribution from the only CREATOR GOD. For corrupting HIS creation in such evil ways. What they seek to do now is what caused the great flood long ago, they are working to generically corrupt all humanity and all creation. If we are no longer human then we can no longer be redeemed to our FATHER GOD, our CREATOR. And if we can be changed into something other than human, then no longer will the sacrifice JESUS made to pay for the sins of humanity, of all who would believe on HIM and let HIM make them a "new creature", where the power of HIS spirit in us, gives us victory over our sinful nature and sinful desires...but no longer will that sacrifice apply to us. If we are no longer truly human.

I used to think the Turtles were so good, and then I learned they smoked pot as so many of these other musicians did. Even the Monkees. It's just SOOO disappointing to learn these people had such bad morals.

@@Cindybin46user-nu4hg2dx6uMorals? Bad morals for smoking pot? LOL

Spot on. Operation Midnight Climax and MK Ultra. Social Engineering and Bank Anthropology.

UserXyz... Originally to: ​@bluesky6985 Ahh yeah...those spook jerks infiltrate anything that's grassroots & good & led by spirit. But that music-- THE BEST EVER because it arose from pure creative hearts-- that can't ever be destroyed, no matter what or who tries to control or denigrate it. Rock on Folks!✌💞

​@@johnjacobjingleheimerschmi3857 originally to: ​@bluesky6985 Ahh yeah...those spook jerks infiltrate anything that's grassroots & good & led by spirit. But that music-- THE BEST EVER because it arose from pure creative hearts-- that can't ever be destroyed, no matter what or who tries to control or denigrate it. Rock on Folks!✌💞

And British Invasion backed by TAVISTOCK,,,,,Fuck it I still LOVE the music

That's how I feel about the past.

Yeah, magical 😂

'65 baby here too. Everyday I wish I had been born 15-17 years earlier.

Too bad you skipped Engligh

Born in Southern California in 1961 I was just too young for the hey day of the 60’s but I was traveling all over Hollywood and the Canyons and Hills in LA, and Laguna Canyon in OC, sometimes listening to The Split Enz in my Mustang Convertible. Your music made it into my life as I checked out all the places in this documentary!

Very cool!

Amazing stuff

that's 'cause there's a lot less rubber in 4 fiat tires than one '55 chevy tire ;)

@@cloudshe The tires were only 12 inches in diameter.

Everytime I think there's nothing left to cover about Laurel Canion another Doc. pops up with so much more. Even the posts here were nostalgically informative. It's really interesting to see what was going on behind the scenes of those great songs that were the back drop of my young crowd on the other coast in the late 60"s - early 70's. I'm sure that after every great artist community had ended, like Greenage Village, Luarel Canion etc they thought it could never happen again. Artisans seem to always get priced out, but I can't help believing in that curious thirst that drives us in our youth. I didn't even dream that such a place as Laurel Canyon existed in my younger days while it was happening. There was a bit of a buzz about lots of curios places, but young folks have a tendency to exaggerate what they want to believe. Oddly enough that's where creation starts.

Highly unlikely... it's all been done. Society is moving in a deep, dark direction.

Demographics change if you don't take time, money and mean girl DE-FENCE

​@@stillnotwoke I agree and these are boring times. But I do what my sisters and I did when we were teenagers....make my own fun.

ask Tavistock

@@stillnotwokeLOL. Just wait. Things will change. It may take 20 years, but they'll change.