by Dave McGowan | May 8, 2008 | Laurel Canyon
“There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear” Join me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a time nearly four-and-a-half decades ago – a time when America last had uniformed ground troops fighting a... by Dave McGowan | May 13, 2008 | Laurel Canyon
“He was great, he was unreal – really, really good.” “He had this kind of music that nobody else was doing. I thought he really had something crazy, something great. He was like a living poet.” [Today’s first trivia question: both of the above statements were made, on... by Dave McGowan | May 13, 2008 | Laurel Canyon
“I mean, fuck, he auditioned for Neil [Young] for fuck’s sake.” Graham Nash, explaining to author Michael Walker how close Charlie Manson was to the Laurel Canyon scene. During the ten-year period during which Bruce, Novarro, Mineo, Linkletter, Stevens, Tate,... by Dave McGowan | May 19, 2008 | Laurel Canyon
The bridge of the USS Bon Homme Richard, January 1964. Just months later, the guy on the right would guide his ship into the Tonkin Gulf, and the young man on the left would begin a remarkable transformation into a brooding rock god. The Bon Homme Richard, by the... by Dave McGowan | Jun 6, 2008 | Laurel Canyon
“Call them freaks, the underground, the counter-culture, flower children or hippies – they are all loose labels for the youth culture of the 60s …” Barry Miles, author of Hippie “This is how I remember my life. Other folks may not have the same memories,... by Dave McGowan | Jun 6, 2008 | Laurel Canyon
“Vito was in his fifties, but he had four-way sex with goddesses … He held these clay-sculpting classes on Laurel Avenue, teaching rich Beverly Hills dowagers how to sculpt. And that was the Byrds’ rehearsal room. Then Jim Dickson had the idea to put them on at...