New Tracks On Laurel Canyon Radio Week of September 27 Summer turns to fall and with fall comes up boatloads of great new music from newcomers and oldtimes alike: “Everybody Knows” – Judy Collins and Stephen Stills A collaboration fifty years in the making, they may not be the spring chickens they once were, but Judy Collins and […]
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Meet Rock’s Historian: The Man Who Captured the ‘60s on film 05/20/2016 03:51 pm ET (Neil Young at his La Honda barn, circa 1969. Credit: Henry Diltz.) If I had a time machine, I’d head for Laurel Canyon in the late 1960s. At the time, Los Angeles’ Laurel Canyon was a world unto itself — a desert collective, bursting with […]
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In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had before them. Thirty years later, the music made […]
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This exhibit, currently at the Skirball Cultural Center here in Los Angeles, is a great opportunity to experience an era of music and concert promotion that really spoke to the shared experience of listening to eclectic music. Sure it laid the groundwork for all things Coachella and then some, but this is when there was one stage and you paid […]
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“Hotel California” topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week in May 1977 and peaked at number 10 on the Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked it number 19 on its 1977 Pop Singles year-end chart. Three months after its first release, the single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), representing one million copies shipped. The […]
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Watching the documentary “Under The Covers – A Magical Journey: Rock N Roll in LA in the 60’s – 70’s” featuring photographer Henry Diltz and artist Gary Burden and their work is like watching two old party buddies hang out and shoot the breeze. Except these two buddies design aesthetic have inserted themselves so far into the Laurel Canyon consciousness […]
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