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 ! ☘️🌱

"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.

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😢

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. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7iGeaWCrai5nKc.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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Was it a water bed? 😂

Tapestry is one of my favourite albums. I hope someone let Telemachus the cat out (in the window on the Tapestry album with Carole.) Otherwise he must be busting for a pee after being sat there for over 50 years! 😂😂😂 I also love the songs like Jazz Man and I’ve Been to Canaan. Later, Amy Winehouse cited Carole as an influence, and I think that Adele also did.

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

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.

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!

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.

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 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

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

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.

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.

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!

Frank Zappa did not do drugs, including alcohol. He smoked cigarettes, which are bad for you, but no one ever beat their wife & kids on nicotine or destroyed their career at 30 yo or smashed their car into a telephone pole at 80 mph, wasted on cigarettes.

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

Incredible! Yea she’s so soulful.

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.

Interesting

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

@@freewheelingideas and now the German geniuses have shut down all their nukes (having to use coal again), their pipe line got blown up (not by the Ruskies), and their industrialized powerhouse that created a wonderful life style is being shut down. yup "this is the end" you idiots. co2 is life on the planet and has nothing to do with the climate.

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.

You’re welcome 🙏

That’s the thing. In the early 80s you could still go to a free concert or get cheap tickets to see great bands. I saw Rainbow for $10….to see Richie Blackmore jam our. That was awesome. I think I paid like $20 to see Van Halen back in 1984…..the concert shirts were cheap too….food, sodas….you didn’t go broke attending a concert back then.

@@laurenurban3942 Yeah, it's absolutely obscene how high the prices are now, completely distorted compared to average incomes.

In 1982, Steven Stills was 37 years old....that's "an old guy"...? Maybe to a 14-year-old!

@@kurtralske4026 Exactly, and guess who's way older than 37 now, lol. Anyone who grew up in the 50s seemed old to me then. Kind of strange how perspectives can shift as we grow older.

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)._

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

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 ?

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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. 🙄

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.

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

You’re welcome

sounds white supremacist

with a dash of CIA mind control operations

Tavistock as well

Yes, the brilliant talents of the gifted singer-songwriter musicians from Canada and UK go hand in hand with the American equivalents. Thank you for pointing that out.

And a dash of CIA. Stop deleting my comment

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" 💯

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

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?😅

She has a Facebook 💛 She is totally awesome.

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

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.

I remember Wolfman Jack. In the Midwest we had WLS radio out of Chicago. The corruption of DJs was payola, but at least they kept some individual taste in the choice of music. Now music’s just big business and almost all radio stations play the same songs and are divided into genres. In the 60s and 70s there was a great variety to the music you’d hear on one station. Still, I was always looking for something new and different. I remember ordering records from the Intergalactic Record Company, based in Oregon I think….

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.

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 ☮️

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.

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

Damn rights they were.

Just like milly vanilli

Not really. They were just rich and hanging around with famous people. Nobody said they were influence by the Monkees. The Monkees themselves were influenced by others though.

@@alukuhito It said they wrote and helped write many of the songs - you watching a different video? I mean I don't consider "The Monkees" as an influence like Bob Dylan but Tork and Nesmith esp. collaborated with a lot of the people.

@@jindalee4471 Lazy comment - they could play their instruments and collaborated with those others. Geez..I never thought I'd be having to defend the Monkees!

Big fave of mine. 🥰 Magic.

You’re welcome and..welcome 🙏

Thank you so much!

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...

Thank you 🙏

a good description

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. >:-(

Glad you enjoyed l!

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.

Thanks for the suggestion! It was a ton of work and that was about all I could manage to fit in this one, but I definitely have a lot of ideas too on this one. Thanks 🙏

@@freewheelingideasThere's really no part 2. You summed it up nicely. The only thing left is the shifting of the gears.....

@@freewheelingideas There is this one... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/es5kd7iZzb7KpoE.html

Wrong....the finest period in music was the mid to late 70's when punk came around. At least they sang about what life was like for the middle to lower class. There was no love and peace for people only the ones with money.. Some of the best songs came from the working class....including Sabbath who grew up in lower middle class Birmingham....no love and peace there.

@@freewheelingideasAwesome work. Very well put together and spoken clearly!

What an Amazing compliment! Thank you so much 🙏

That's how I feel about the past.

Yeah, magical 😂

The draft exemptions always puzzled me too. As far as the Wrecking Crew goes, we'll never know just how many records they played on, because of NDA's. The documetary "Hired Guns" which covers 80's and 90's has an interview with a studio guy who says he played on a certain Aerosmith album, not Joe Perry. There's evidence that Nikki Sixx was replaced ON STAGE during his drug daze in the 80's. The hair and makeup hid it.

@@fazolesimilarly in the UK . with the british Invasion .. the beatles didn’t write any of their own songs.. 🙈 it’s a shocking revelation 🙏❤️☝️

Stewart Copeland’s dad founded the CIA

Lots of MK Ultra going on by the military in the Canyon and many premature deaths that were never properly investigated.

I got the idea that Laurel Canyon was a CIA project. Multiple sources.

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.

@@Cindybin46user-nu4hg2dx6u If you don’t like artists because they smoked pot or drank, or whatever, there would hardly be any art to enjoy. There’s a lot of musicians that I wouldn’t choose their lifestyle but the art is a separate thing. They aren’t demanding that I do the same. You will never find people having a perfect life. I mean, do you always agree with everything that your friends do? And guess what, you don’t have to always agree with people to have friends. Do you demand that every actor or actress has a perfect moral life before watching a film, or that every sportsman/woman, or team of sportsmen/women, have perfect lives before watching a sporting contest? So what if someone has smoked pot? The chances are that it doesn’t even affect you. It’s hardly like they are doing it on your front lawn.

@@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?

@@Cindybin46user-nu4hg2dx6u Nope. This is the first time I have ever heard of you, though I do know that whatever anyone else has written that might have been abusive, I disagreed in a courteous manner. 😐 If you don’t like pot smokers, I’m not sure why you would hang around the comment sections of music concerned with hippie videos. So, generally speaking, no, I am not familiar with you though it still doesn’t change anything. Also, your don’t have to smoke pot to be a bad person. Heck, you would be amazed at some of the nasty emails I have received in the past from apparently wholesome religious people, telling me that they hope I burn in hell, that my family get butchered etc, just for daring to disagree on something or another. Does that mean that I blame all religious people? Nope. Because I know it’s not as simple as all that and that all groups contain various and different kinds of people … including pot smokers. And no, I don’t smoke weed and haven’t for a long time. I can think of far worse groups though, but I can’t be bothered arguing and I’m certainly not interested in a slanging match with ad hominem attacks flowing back and forth. That about covers that. Hope you enjoy your evening.

I've been to Los Angeles several times and it's one of the most friendliest cities around to this day.

Los Angeles? A magical place? They have had decades of murder by the crips and the bloods. A magical place....it could be if you had money. If you were middle class or below it was hell.

Not nearly as magical as it was, rich, pompous and egotistical people ruined everything.

Postwar Los Angeles Hass to be the greatest example of human paradise. I was born in Southgate then moved to Escondido. Now I’m finishing my years in Ensenada Mexico, listening to Spotify Laurel Canyon music.🎉

@@truthseek3017 Not to mention all the homeless people using the sidewalks for tents and toilets.

I know, we know

Not just Laurel Canyon by any means, but in Detroit where other magical meetings of talent occurred, and then there is Vancouver, Toronto, Liverpool to say the very least in terms of period locations of collected extraordinary musical talents. But back to LC; many of the mentioned artists departed CA to never return (for varied reasons of course). And then, a California woman egregiously stole Mike Pinder from the Moody Blues! That can’t be forgiven! (smile)

@@wlodell Oh yeah, absolutely. Motown in particular would probably need a 2-hour season finale. But like, say you did one season on the Algonquin Round Table, and then in another season you have the Beat Movement. If at any point one of the Beat writers were to encounter Dorothy Parker, you'd have to have the same actor who played Parker show up reprising the role. That way for people watching who don't know the history, they'd recognize the "character" and think "Oh, so this happens AFTER the previous season."

@@Theomite Thank you, I believe you are right.

Those movies already exist.

@@rosezingleman5007 Movies, yes. Not 13-hour stories that can go into much more forensic detail.

Thank you 🙏

I’d never heard that term either.

Diggers is the correct term.

@@pumpupthevolume4775 never heard of that either.

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

Too bad you skipped Engligh

Glad you enjoyed it!

You’re very welcome 🙏

I think George Harrison said it best. ALL THINGS MUST PASS.