Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865479666 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Every Music Fan Needs This Book I was only 5 years old when the 60s ended. However, as I grew up I heard people talking about various artists and over the years I listened to much of the music from the 60s groups and loved the folksy rock by most every artiist mentioned in the book. I had seen various documentaries over the years and video and was always enthralled by the era. This book was amazing. The reader can almost feel the Laurel Canyon vibe the way Mr. Walker writes. This is one of the most enjoyable and informative book. Anne Barrington said Dazed and Confused. Confused. If you are looking forward to digging into the day-to-day lives of the inhabitants of Laurel Canyon and living and breathing the burgeoning creativity of the gritty, earthy LA music scene, then you will need to look elsewhere. The history told here seems cobbled together from many other rock and societal memoirs. There is very little "inside" about it, and tales of the Canyon's denizens too often fade into rehashing of LA myths and legends from the Troubadour, Whisky, and Rainbow Bar and. A very entertaining and informative read! R. Watts Being a person who'd spent some time in Laurel Canyon, I was happy to come across this book. It's like having a key which opens up the parallel universe between Laurel Canyon today and the Laurel Canyon of yesterday. For the most part, the emphasis rests on the era of the 60s-70s, and a touch of 80s. If you are a fan of the bands of that era (Crosby, Stills & Nash, Frank Zappa, The Beach Boys), then this book makes a wonderful companion piece to your listening pleasures. The stories are fun, and i
During the canyon's golden era, the musicians who lived and worked there scored dozens of landmark hits, from "California Dreamin'" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" to "It's Too Late," selling tens of millions of records and resetting the thermostat of pop culture.In Laurel Canyon, veteran journalist Michael Walker tells the inside story of this unprecedented gathering of some of the baby boom's leading musical lightsincluding Joni Mitchell; Jim Morrison; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; John Mayall; the Mamas and the Papas; Carole King; the Eagles; and Frank Zappa, to name just a fewwho turned Los Angeles into the music capital of the world and forever changed the way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed.. In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood
If "the folk stars of the early 1960s were the first rock stars," for example, then what was Elvis? 8 pages of b&w photos. From Publishers Weekly Beginning in the mid-1960s, a string of successful rock bands emerged out of Laurel Canyon, a neighborhood of Los Angeles tucked away in the hills north of Sunset Boulevard. . All rights reserved. It's a plausible concept, but one he stumbles to elaborate past the length of a magazine feature. From the success of bands like the Byrds and the Mamas and the Papas, and singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Jimmy Webb, Walker proposes Laurel Canyon as rock's answer to Jazz Age Paris. Instead, he pads the story with le