What led to the DEMISE of Laurel Canyon’s Freewheeling Society of Sex and Rock n Roll? Imagine living in a dreamy place where you look out your window to see Jim Morrison riding his bike past the Eucalyptus trees as you hear Joni Mitchell’s guitar echoing through the hills while ducks swim in the pond in your backyard? David Crosby and Frank Zappa breeze by you at the local country store before you stop by your neighbor’s house to enjoy a game of Ping Pong and a swim because it’s always a fun time with The Monkees. It may sound like a dream but it’s actually just another day in Laurel Canyon, 1967.
But then change creeps in when disturbing events take place and the laid back feeling dissolves into fear and hopelessness. So what happened to Laurel Canyon’s famously thriving community?
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I LOVE this. ❤️❤️
However Melcher didn’t own the Tate residence, he had previously rented it with actress Candice Bergen.
Read the fabulous ‘Chaos’ book by Tom O’Neill and get the real story.
Manson knew Melcher had already moved out.
LOVE this. ❤️❤️
It really was a time when performers had talent and not just a savy producer.
Lots of memories for me.
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It only takes one psychopath among a thousand open, creative, and agreeable people to have murder and chaos.
Our house sucked, old people music
Can we went recreate this joyful way of living?
It never went away:
Laurel Canyon you describe in the intro is how the rich and privileged have always lived.
Now their enclaves are simply better secured to keep out we peasants and rabble.
Hippies. Leftism turns everything to 💩.
Gee, they were all wealthy multi- millionaires as well.
Manson wasn't in the Canyon..stupid lies!
Aloha
Everybody should David McGowan’s book:
Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
It will change your life
No mention of cia or military intelligence….at all.
. . .numerous muggings , vicious beatings and**rapes** occured at the Altamont concert also … including the four deaths… that included the on – camera stabbing **murder ** of Meridith Hunter …😢…
Was there more to the Laurel Canyon scene than just a bunch of musicians hanging out together. Read David McGowan's book, "Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon".
Amazing ….what a load of nostalgia ….I was near but just 4 years old when my mother who was being trained in counter bank fraud by L.A. detectives who showed her Sharon Tate's blood soaked clothes in the evidence room..it's been said Charles Manson was a CIA plot to put an end to the "hippy movement "…… I'm no expert but Manson seems like poster child for Trauma Based Mind Control .
Freewheeling? No, not at all. All an ILLUSION… I survived by the Grace of God. It was the beginning of the destabilization of America, and freedom lost. Go deeper, find the players, find the 3 letter agencies…
When you worship Satan he sometimes shows up w his friends
I was there. The era was ushering in the New Age energies as well as the generational energy ruled by Neptune in Libra – influencing peace, love, brotherhood and harmonious relationships. I observed these beautiful energies become warped by distortions of reality caused by drugs, alcohol and the Vietnam War. I observed those "down with the establishment" become the establishment. It appeared a portion of the generation that was once motivated by love and understanding became seduced by materialism and greed. The once great state of California was abandoned by those of us who could not tolerate the invasion of destructive energies.
Wow, The Monkees were quite influential actually.
and 50+ years later most of them are still recording & touring ..
I couldn’t Stand that dude for what he did to his daughter
Wonderfully done. Of course, I already knew everything lol, having been a little 14 year old bead stringing shoeless long haired hippie back then, who avidly listened to all these artists you mentioned, but thoroughly enjoyed this and you get 👍👍+
the house was NOT owned by Melcher
Fun times I am sure. However, it was a bunch of dirty hippies who died young of overdoses or other things related to their lifestyles.
Thanks for the memories, bro. Cheers!
what led to the demise… when the CIA moved in and Zappa was central, he was a handler… all much darker than this portrays
Back up singers for Linda Ronstadt? They did nothing else like play all the instruments?
Please if you're going to do a special on You Tube about a place and time, learn first how to spell it.
It is Laurel Canyon's demise
not Laural Canyon
Thank you
Love eight miles high and I loved Cali – folk sound. Loved Mamas and the Papas) Of course The Doors, Janis Joplin, I don’t know Loves music,….i remember watching The Monkees on the telly . [ crush on Davy Jones) I loved too, natch The later psychedelic songs of Biuffalo
Springfield….oh if only you could dig up MORRISONS 🎥 way back then! Loved Jimi Hendrix fab guitarist…
No fan of Zappa either probably a speed freak…..Joni had her great voice everyone hailing proud to say] Canada 🇨🇦! My country ! But dual citizenship.
I was shocked with open door policy” back in those daze”
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Joni is using black magic “ with those men! At the bbq at Cass ‘ place. What beautiful lyricist was she.So another man ….😊Graham falls for her . Graham wrote those few lyrics of Our House?” About Joni! It’s perfection. She was their muse.
It's still there. It just requires being a billionaire to own anything.
The wealthy ruin everything… ask Aspen , Jackson Hole etc etc ..
I had ( on Video) the Stones Altamont concert,agree the end of the flowerchildren movement……after the Manson Murders. Many packed guns etc.
I’d dug to have A walked round as an adult in Laurel Canyon to interview my fave rock artists groups and solo females and males…..
Or- B) same but been in the UK heavy rock scene) ex LED Zeppelin, Most popular 1969 years I was born 1961🔮
Outstanding Doc! Peace ☮️ and 💗
The Manson Murders had a huge impact on that
Santa Cruz in Northern California had a similar vibe. I haven’t been able to get back there, but I have my memories. At that time I was living in NYC, where everything was happening. Punk, New Wave, Hair Bands, Rap…… I went back.
Hippy Utopia…must have been a beautiful time.🌻🎴
Manson had nothing too with it. The GLBTTQ/ BDSM combined with witch craft, Devil/ Dark myths fascinations & hard narcotic addiction is what ended those naive young adults delusional utopia in the canyons. There was also a lot of gay prostitution going on up there. Never a “magical time” . Just a weird drugged out mostly gay scene.
Excellent walk down memory lane💖🎵
I wonder if those musicians ever mentioned experiencing California 's Earth 🌎 tremors back in their days living in Laurel Canyon… I visited my sister in San Diego California in 1977… One morning while having breakfast all by myself, in her house…I experienced one of those tremors.. all my sisters nik naks & things on her shelf shook a couple of seconds… I definitely would not want to pay the amount of money wanted to live there today… And all those politicians there today are more evil now than they were then… God, aka Elohim be with you all…🌎🙏