![]() “She was a special catalyst - the Gertrude Stein of Laurel Canyon. “Mama Cass loved introducing people,” says Diltz. Nash hanging out with Elliot in 1966, at the peak of their respective success with the Hollies and the Mamas and the Papas. “Swimming in the pool, playing music, smoking doobies.” He went on to create some of the first music videos. “They would hang out all day,” Diltz remembers. He shot to fame as a member of a made-for-TV rock group, but he denied that he was the group’s only real musician. Neil Young (left) and CSNY drummer Dallas Taylor. ![]() “That’s the first moment I laid eyes on him,” Diltz says. James Taylor playing “Oh, Susanna” in 1969. “They were in their own little bubble,” says Wilde. The Byrds’ Gram Parsons (left) and Chris Hillman playing cards in Peter Tork’s kitchen. “I was saying to Eric, ‘Move out of the way.'” “That’s me filming Eric’s french fries,” says Dolenz, who was on the cusp of completing the second and final season of The Monkees for NBC at the time. That really impressed me.”Įric Clapton (left) and Micky Dolenz in Cass Elliot’s backyard in 1968, in a photograph captured by Diltz. “He’s one of the first guys I saw who had actual oil paintings. “He lived right up the road,” the photographer recalls. She looked incredibly beautiful.”ĭiltz shot this photo of Steve Martin playing the guitar in 1969. “I normally would have left her alone, there’s no way I couldn’t shoot that. “She was in the middle of recording an album,” Nash recalls. Nash took this photo of Mitchell at the home they shared in 1969. “After a couple of hours, they forgot I was there,” Diltz says. Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash in a limo, on their way to Big Bear Lake for a CSN shoot circa 1969. “I was going to use for an album that never got made,” Leadon says. Who hung out with mass murderer Charles Manson.Former Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon in 1979. Hippies were no longer seen as flower children, but like the people Musicians stopped sharing ideas and became protective of The second part of the documentary explores how the environment changed from the bright joyful world of Joni Mitchell’s “Ladies of the Canyon” to the dark threatening world of the Doors’ “Riders on the Storm.”Ĭlubs to stadium rock. The film holds this up as the high point of the peace and love generation’s cultural coming of age and explores its influence on the musicians and music. Rondstadt’s songs recorded live at the Troubadour.Īnd then there was Woodstock. Period, and I’m sure it’s my voice yelling on the recording of one of Linda I was lucky enough to live about a mile from the Troubadour during part of this Like the Whiskey a Go Go and The Troubadour. Helped me understand that groups like America and performers like Jacksonīrowne were really building on this tradition. Period that I was rebelling against my parents’ Country music passion. Linda Ronstadt was the ultimate song stylist of the era The reaction was often to seekĪ synthesis of the new sounds with traditional American motifs such as Rhythm Music by English groups inspired by the Beatles. ![]() Musicians were reacting to the “British invasion” – the domination of American Photos are some serious discussions about the music. Yet they were there in the mix with Frank Zappa, The Doors, and the Mamas and the Papas. The Monkees were an ersatz group put together for a TV show to emulate the Beatles movies like Yellow Submarine or A Hard Day’s Night. The second part details the social and economic changes that overturned thisįootage of a car traveling through Los Angeles with “Happy Together” by TheĪs various bands began to discover the canyon, we see film and pictures of people you wouldn’t have expected to be hanging out together. The first part is the happy birth of this amazing period. He and Barbour split in 1972 amid claims he’d had an affair with. Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Michael Nesmith, and Linda Ronstadt. Nesmith additionally had a son, Jason, born in August 1968 to photographer Nurit Wilde, whom he met while working on The Monkees. Like Diltz, her photographs include iconic singers such as Jackson Browne, Joni Upgraded herself when she started working on lighting at the Whiskey a Go Go. 1, -, Front Cover - Neil Young Buffalo Springfield 1966 By Nurit Wilde 2, -, Inside Front Cover - Third Eye Poster With Neils Handwritten Out Of My Mind. Henry Diltz took thousands of photos in Laurel Canyon
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