I’m trying to grow my hair this long! It’s almost there!
Eric Clapton, Micky Dolenz, Joni Mitchell, and David Crosby hanging out at Cass Elliot’s house in 1968.
Photo by Henry Diltz
Thanks SO MUCH to Zee for scanning this from Teen Set Magazine. WOWSERS!
joni mitchell and stephen stills
Joni doesn’t look happy here, does she? It could’ve just been one of those shots, y’know, I’ve got photos of myself where I look mad as HALE although I know I was actually in a good mood.
In any case, I hope Joni is having a happy birthday today.
she looks cold:(
Micky Dolenz tells the story of a Los Angeles neighbourhood which became home to a diverse mix of musical stars - including himself. Laurel Canyon was just a bunch of heavily wooded, rocky outcrops - situated a few minutes from West Hollywood and Sunset Boulevard - but it became the garden where the stars of jazz, folk rock and pop played.
From the jazzers like Barney Kessel and the bohemians who settled there in the 40s and 50s to the folkies; the Byrds who sought the laid-back alternative to the hurly-burly of LA, Frank Zappa who took over the log cabin of cowboy star Tom Mix; the Doors, whose Jim Morrison brooded in the hills; The Mamas and the Papas; Cass Elliot’s home always open to all-comers; David Crosby, Graham Nash, Neil Young, and the new and powerful women of rock; Joni Mitchell and Carole King.
Programme one, The Garden of Allah, sows the seeds of hedonism for the Canyon as jazz and folk form its rock. The Byrds, The Doors and the Monkees settle in, and so do the groupies. It’s a story of great music, stellar collaborations, overflowing with youthful idealism; but it is tempered with the exploitation of young women, reckless drug use, and the day when they all locked their doors as a result of the Sharon Tate killings.
This will be available only for the next five days, I’m listening right now:
PART 1 (60 minutes) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t8b6b
PART 2 (60 minutes) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tbsp6
