Echo in the Canyon
2019
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Laurel Canyon is a mountainous neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills region of the Santa Monica Mountains, within the Hollywood Hills West district of Los Angeles, California. The main thoroughfare of Laurel Canyon Boulevard connects the neighborhood with the more urbanized parts of Los Angeles to the north and south, between Ventura Boulevard ...
1:26. Imagine living right down the street from Joni Mitchell, The Byrds and Modern Folk Quartet. Those were just a few of Michelle Phillips' famous neighbors in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon in the ...
They made music together, took drugs together, formed bands together, slept together. But none of the legends of the Laurel Canyon scene that flowered in L.A. in the late 60s and early 70s—Joni ...
Laurel Canyon’s bubble would be slowly deflated by real life: the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the stabbing of 18-year-old black festivalgoer Meredith Hunter at Altamont by a Hells Angel, and ...
It was the late 1960s and Mitchell owned a house nestled in Los Angeles’ Laurel Canyon. The smell of eucalyptus was in the air and there was a soft warmth from the sun above. From her dining room, where Mitchell’s mum was enjoying the hilled view, you could see Frank Zappa’s duck pond in his backyard. Three girls, stark naked, were ...
Laurel Canyon was the breeding ground for the confessional singer-songwriter sound made popular by leading lights Mitchell, Taylor, and King. It was the birthplace of the laid-back, uniquely Californian country-rock music pioneered by the likes of the Byrds and taken to unimaginable heights by the Eagles.
In the 1960s, Laurel Canyon became famous as home to many of L.A.’s top rock musicians and bands, including The Byrds, Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison, the Buffalo Springfield and Love. Joni Mitchell, lived in the home that was immortalized in “ Our House “, written by her then lover Graham Nash. Joni would later celebrate other residents of ...
