Laurel Canyon

by Steve Krantz

Laurel Canyon 1st Printing Paperback

Genres: Fiction

362 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[Mac Daly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book with a wealth of rock and roll history.

[Culli Sheerfrost · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been reading lots of books on the late 60's music culture and its influence on later times - but even more important the influence on the people who lived through them. It made me remember the first time I heard CSNY's first album (self named) - I was in Vermont and a friend played it over the P.A. system out over a beautiful lake amid the Green Mountains. I stopped in my tracks to hear the very first bars of "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" and at that moment my life changed forever. Somehow the music was so influential on us all...and the others that lived in Laurel Canyon at the time - Frank Zappa, the Eagles, Jackson Brown, Joni Mitchell!!! - like God lit on that place with some golden light. How did they all find themselves and become neighbors and many times collaborative singer-songwriters. What's sad to me is that the 70's and 80's were so disappointing to all of us - 'we were out to change the world - turns out other people were running the world - and they still are." What Graham Nash and Joni Mitchell and Don Henley and all the other iconic singer/songwriters need to know is that they DID change the world - no 'we're' still not running the world - but we are still starlight - we are still golden.

[Gina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book among some paperbacks my mom bought at thrift stores. I read it for the dirty parts when I was in the 7th grade or thereabouts.

[Beckey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of those books that released in the late 1970's that would expect it to be what is ... Interesting read to a point but dry & boring in other parts...