When I first came out to L.A. [in 1968], my friend [photographer] Joel Bernstein found an old book in a flea market that said: Ask The greatest gift David and Elliot gave me was that I saw the future with the Eagles, who, at the time, were managed by Geffen-Roberts. It was a time of sexual revolution and pre-AIDS. When we got to the party, he said, “Don’t get out of the car for a second.” He said he’d been thinking that we should partner up and be Geffen-Roberts. Well the fires are raging hotter and hotter DAVID CROSBY: We knew we were in a shark pool, and I’ve said it before: we wanted our own shark. Joni Mitchell got wind of those card games, and she always was a good hang, so she started coming every Monday night and playing cards with us. One of the most successful and prolific musicians of the era, and afterwards (he recorded 33 albums and about 430 songs), one-time Canyon resident Leon Russell had his start as a songwriter, and as a member of Delaney & Bonnie and Friends in 1969 and 1970, during which time he met a lot of influential characters who would help to grow his career. I would not be a servant girl. He was dressed exactly the way he was on the second Byrds album—that cape, and the flat wide-brimmed hat. In 2012, I took a writing workshop by his one-time governess, Pamela Des Barres (for like, so many more reasons than that though). We were falling in love and having this hot affair. We spent time together in Florida and he was off drugs and very enjoyable company at that time. In the late 60’s, after Vincent Furnier and crew had cemented their band name as Alice Cooper, they were playing a club in Venice Beach when they were approached by Supermensch himself, Shep Gordon. MICHELLE PHILLIPS: Cass’s house was the biggest mess I have ever seen a house be in my life. J. D. SOUTHER, singer-songwriter-guitarist, actor: It all just sort of evolved. For further reading, I have a whole article on Gram Parsons and the place he tragically passed away at the age of 26 from an overdose, the Joshua Tree Inn and Motel. Then, in 2016, I went to Laurel Canyon on Pamela’s LA Rock Tour and got to see not only where the infamous Log Cabin that Frank lived in for a short period (it eventually burned to the ground in 1981), but his long-term estate further into the Canyon. . I think that’s one of the things that made Buffalo Springfield musically click—the different styles that Neil and Stephen played. CSN weren’t thinking about business as much as Elliot and David were. Learn more about the program. Everyone was in their 20s. Souther is a singer, songwriter, comma slash actor who, in the early 70’s, was an integral part of the Laurel Canyon scene. My Life With Frank Zappa” by Pauline Butcher, and “Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life” by Graham Nash.
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