Laurel Canyon might have been a Hippie Stronghold back in the day, but the Doors played their own music and it wasn't manufactured by someone else! I've been to a Doors concert and they played real live music! Frank Zappa was a really good guitar player and was ahead of his time for music! I had his dad, as a substitute teacher, on several occasions at my High School in Ontario, Ca. Laurel Canyon probably produced all the make-love, not war types that became tree huggers and nut cases in California! Men who got their draft classifications and went to war, because their country asked them to, were discriminated against and laughed at because of their short hair when they returned to California! Believe me, I know! BTW - Every AirPort or shopping center you visited in California back in the '60s had HollyChrishna's trying to give you poppies and get you to join their communes!
I remember the Hare Krishnas especially at airports. Frank Zappa went to my high school, but apparently got kicked out. Though he went to Upland High too.
Laurel Canyon might have been a Hippie Stronghold back in the day, but the Doors played their own music and it wasn't manufactured by someone else! I've been to a Doors concert and they played real live music! Frank Zappa was a really good guitar player and was ahead of his time for music! I had his dad, as a substitute teacher, on several occasions at my High School in Ontario, Ca. Laurel Canyon probably produced all the make-love, not war types that became tree huggers and nut cases in California! Men who got their draft classifications and went to war, because their country asked them to, were discriminated against and laughed at because of their short hair when they returned to California! Believe me, I know! BTW - Every AirPort or shopping center you visited in California back in the '60s had HollyChrishna's trying to give you poppies and get you to join their communes!
OMGosh; I grew up in Claremont. Rivals. 😉
I remember the Hare Krishnas especially at airports. Frank Zappa went to my high school, but apparently got kicked out. Though he went to Upland High too.
Look up Frank Zappa and Edgewood Arsenal in MD where they started MK Uktra. I grew up there and people still remember Frank roaming around.