An Oral History of Laurel Canyon, the Sixties and Seventies Music Mecca. When I first came out to L.

A. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live. Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the. Hollywood. Ask anyone in. Hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say Laurel. Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live. Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout.

Mountain. Former Byrds bassist Chris Hillman recalls writing “So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star” in Laurel Canyon in 1. The Doors' lead singer Jim Morrison reportedly wrote “Love Street” while living behind the Laurel Canyon Country Store. Michelle Phillips lived with John Phillips on Lookout Mountain in 1. Mamas and the Papas' heyday. Books and documentaries have mythologized and romanticized this woodsy canyon nestled behind Sunset Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills. Still, misconceptions continue.

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4. 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.
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For a start, the scene was more metaphorical than geographical. Nearly everyone who was there was, at one time or another, stoned; nobody remembers everything the same way. What is undeniably true is that from the mid- 1. American popular music was written by residents of, or those associated with, Laurel Canyon—including Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Chris Hillman, Roger Mc. Guinn, J. Souther, Judee Sill, the Mamas and the Papas, Carole King, the Eagles, Richie Furay (in Buffalo Springfield and Poco), and many more.

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They made music together, played songs for one another with acoustic guitars in all- night jam sessions in each other's houses. Many of those houses were cottages with stained- glass windows, and fireplaces that warmed the living rooms in the chilly L. A. They took drugs together, formed bands together, broke up those bands, and formed other bands.

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Many of them slept with each other. The music was mislabeled “soft rock” or “folk rock,” especially in the Northeast, where critics panned it as granola- infused hippie music—too “mellow” and too white. But in truth, it was an amalgam of influences that included blues, rock and roll, jazz, Latin, country and western, psychedelia, bluegrass, and folk.

It certainly was a forerunner of today's “Americana.”Four decades after those songs were recorded, their harmonies and guitar interplay have influenced such contemporary bands as Mumford and Sons, the Avett Brothers, Dawes, Haim, Wilco, the Jayhawks, and the Civil Wars. People came from everywhere.

Joni and Neil were from Canada, Glenn Frey was from Detroit, Stephen Stills and J. Souther were from Texas, Linda Ronstadt was from Tucson . Then she made a record by herself. ELLIOT ROBERTS: I saw Joni in New York in 1. Caf. I went up to her after the show and said, “I'm a young manager and I'd kill to work with you.” At that time, Joni did everything herself; she booked her own shows, made her travel arrangements, carried her own tapes.

She said she was going on tour, and if I wanted to pay my own expenses, I could go with her. I went with her for a month, and after that, she asked me to manage her. DAVID GEFFEN: I was .

I called her up and said, “Buffy, I'm insane for your new album—I love it.” She said, “That's so great—what's your favorite song?” I said, “ . David was my agent; Elliot was my manager. I bought this little house, and David Crosby chided me for it; he said I should have looked around. But I liked that house.

The hill behind my house was full of little artificial man- made caves. The house was charming. I paid $3. 6,0. 00 for it, but I paid it off.

I probably paid more for it because I paid it off. It had a fireplace and it was mysteriously protected by a force. My neighbors, who were six feet from my house, were junkies; I was out of town and came back and their house had burned down to the ground. RICHIE FURAY, singer- songwriter- guitarist, Buffalo Springfield, Souther Hillman Furay Band, Poco: Stephen Stills said, Come out to California—I've got a band together.

I need another singer. I said, I'm on my way. Neil Young . But I don't think Neil ever really wanted to be in a band. He's certainly proved to be an icon in rock and roll, but Stephen was the heart and soul of Buffalo Springfield. LAUREL CANYON “WAS A SCENE WITH TALENTED, ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE. AND. MANY OF THEM HAD SEX WITH ONE ANOTHER,” SAYS DAVID GEFFEN. DAVID CROSBY, singer- songwriter- guitarist, the Byrds; Crosby, Stills & Nash; CSNY: After I got tossed out of the Byrds .

I'm very romantically inclined and I'd always wanted to get a sailboat and just sail away. I went into a coffeehouse in Coconut Grove, and Joni was singing “Michael from Mountains” or “Both Sides, Now,” and I was just gobsmacked.

It just pushed me up against the back wall. Even at the beginning she was very independent and already writing better than almost anybody. I brought her back to California and produced her first album . A lot of people tried to copy him but couldn't. I think that's one of the things that made Buffalo Springfield musically click—the different styles that Neil and Stephen played. I just found my little rhythm in there somewhere, kind of the glue that would hold it together.

ELLIOT ROBERTS: We went out to California for Joni to record, and that's when we took houses on Lookout Mountain, about four houses down from each other. When we were doing that first album, at Sunset Sound, the one Crosby produced, Buffalo Springfield was recording next door.

Joni said you've got to meet Neil—she knew him from Canada. That night we all went to Ben Frank's .

So I started working with Neil, and pretty soon I had Neil and Joni. Neil was leaving the Springfield—he had left two times before, but this was his final leave. And pretty soon a scene started in Joni's house—that was the center where we would go all night. GLENN FREY, singer- songwriter- guitarist, the Eagles: My very first day in California, I drove up La Cienega to Sunset Boulevard, turned right, drove to Laurel Canyon, and the first person I saw standing on the porch at the Canyon Store was David Crosby. He was dressed exactly the way he was on the second Byrds album—that cape, and the flat wide- brimmed hat.

He was standing there like a statue. And the second day I was in California I met J. SOUTHER, singer- songwriter- guitarist, actor: It all just sort of evolved. There really was no “moment.”STEPHEN STILLS, singer- songwriter- guitarist, Buffalo Springfield, CSN, CSNY: It wasn't Paris in the 2.

GLENN FREY: There was just something in the air up there. I came from Detroit and things were flat. It was a little magical hillside canyon. CHRIS HILLMAN, singer- songwriter- guitarist, the Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Souther Hillman Furay Band, Desert Rose Band: Before rock and roll, Laurel Canyon had a lot of jazz guys and a bohemian Beatnik- type thing.

Robert Mitchum got arrested for marijuana there at a party in 1. JONI MITCHELL: My dining room looked out over Frank Zappa's duck pond, and once when my mother was visiting, three naked girls were floating around on a raft in the pond. My mother was horrified by my neighborhood. In the upper hills the Buffalo Springfield were playing, and in the afternoon there was just a cacophony of young bands rehearsing. At night it was quiet except for cats and mockingbirds. Romance Films Dark Was The Night (2015).

It had a smell of eucalyptus, and in the spring, which was the rainy season then, a lot of wildflowers would spring up. Laurel Canyon had a wonderful distinctive smell to it. While David Crosby was producing Joni Mitchell's first album, in 1. Joni's house all the time.

He brought Stephen Stills over, or they'd all go to Mama Cass Elliot's house. Songwriters David Blue and Dave Van Ronk lived for a while in Elliot Roberts's house. Graham Nash, who was getting bored with his British pop group the Hollies, was around. What everyone does agree on is that no one agrees about where Crosby, Stills & Nash sang together for the very first time. JONI MITCHELL: I had met Graham Nash in Ottawa and then re- met him in California.