Laurel Canyon Legends Volume 6.

[@paulinebutcherbird]

In the Woodrow Wilson house, Frank's studio was the ground floor at the front. There was a door directly into it across the front lawn (now hidden by jungle). You had to climb steps with an iron railing to reach the front door to the rest of the house which was actually the ground floor at the back, the house being set into a hillside.

[@warriorempathshealingfromn5625]

Another Monkees connection with Frank Zappa, he appeared in a episode of the Monkees TV show in which he took a sledge hammer to a old car and he also had a cameo in the Monkees movie Head. Zappa and John Lennon got who and what the Monkees were, a musical Marx Brothers. The mid to late 60's was a fantastic time for rock music and I know a lot of people in the LA music circle hated the fact that this was not an organic band and denied them the respect they deserved. They had some of biggest hits of 1966 and 1967 and they did persevere until 1970, as a band looking for the respect they were denied. They did write their own music and were accomplished musicians too. Not only did this band turn a 11 year old girl onto music back in 1966, it turned a lot kids onto rock music and many became musicians. It breaks my heart that they will never make it in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, even with all they gave to the future of rock music, the TV show was ground breaking and won 2 Emmy awards and the first music video was Rio by Mike Nesmith who too what he learned with the Monkees romps and that led to MTV and music vids.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Frank was one of a kind, no doubt!

[@aWomanFreed]

None of those bands were organic. None.

[@chadmooreofficial]

Frank's son Dweezil used to talk about growing up at that house on Woodrow Wilson Dr. and how Eddie Van Halen used to stop by there all the time to hang out. Steve Vai as well.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Funny you mention this. I just drove by the place 20 minutes ago. Lady GaGa owns it now.

[@chadmooreofficial]

@@rockessentialswithtim710 dooood. As Randy Newman put it, I Love L.A. oh yeah!

[@carlamurray9150]

ive been a zappa fan ,since 68,thx oldest bro,for your introduction to zappa ,miss you frank

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

If you'd like to see my other "Laurel Canyon Legends" episodes, check out my sister channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZjJq6GNo7eqnpI

[@Jason.Brayshaw]

Great video, Tim. Love these Laurel Canyon music tales. Keep them coming ✌️

[@peanut422hb]

✌️ all into the 😈 system

[@thecoolestdad]

Love your vids Tim. The 60s was an awesome time for music and rock stars and those up and coming.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thank you. Its always nice to hear.

[@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu]

Hello from 13° Detroit! Great vid, as usual. 👍

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Representing the D. Thank you!

[@AlanMckenna-v7c]

BRILLIANT. GREAT PRESENTATION. MANY THANKS.

[@mjn1332]

Love your channel! Rock On!

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Right on!

[@garrygballard8914]

🙋🏻‍♂️ from Nashville. Cool, Zappa was a bit off beat for me, but never the less I did admire him for being so. 👍 good video ✌️tks D brother.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Right on.

[@KMoran-cw2fd]

Very interesting!

[@marktaft6467]

thanks for another awesome video Tim 👍✌️

[@dugaldhutchings404]

Brilliant stuff Tim.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thanks as always.

[@c.keefer332]

This is awesome!!!!

[@paulmartin3682]

Great video Tim! A wealth of information on Frank. And that country store...has to be the coolest store ever to have existed! Keep up the good work!

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thanks much. I actually stop at the the Country Store every couple months. Its on my home if I go into Hollywood and they make excellent Deli sandwiches.

[@mickrinaldiofficial979]

Such a good vibe here tim!..

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thanx. The Canyon still has a friendly vibe. Love it!

[@Crashtopher]

Excellent. As usual.

[@TheInterGalacticFederation]

Instant Up-vote! Great use of music in this one. I didn't know about some of these homes - gives some insight into Zappa's lifestyle. Very cool!

[@chrisgreen3100]

one of my fave guitarists. thanks tim

[@terryahlstrom5423]

I really enjoy these videos. A great way for a Minnesota (65 year old kid) to see the haunts of his heroes. Thank you so much!

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

From a 65 year old kid from Michigan to one from Minnesota, thank you much!

[@seamus6149]

Music history seems to ooze from the landscape of Laurel Canyon, been there, done that, bought the Acai berry juice at the store, wonderfully informative and enjoyable as always Tim.

[@iannamico]

coolest guy/vids on youtube!!

[@RichKopf]

Really informative Tim, happy you did this.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thanks much and thanks for the cool comment!

[@Rnagy3000]

Zappa was a bit different. I saw him once around 1979. We may have had shrooms on our pizza before the show. My mantra for the evening was " wtf is going on " . Also I was a child in Rancho Cucamonga in the mid sixties so we were tight like that.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

You wouldn't recognize the place now. It has become the true definition of a suburb.

[@henryfung6789]

Great stuffs Tim. Love this channel

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thanks, Henry. Always good to hear from you.

[@ny2phillyholloway592]

Subscribed here too. Loved Frank Zappa and his unapologetic self!!!! He truly broke the mold.

[@RebekahCurielAlessi]

That was sensational. I didn't get to "like" all 7 (or is it 6?) videos in this anthology cuz I was so keen to watch the next one. I loved learning about Edgard Varése and as I mentioned in their episode: Arthur Lee and Ed Kleinholz (sic?). Thanks for your ardor and thoroughness! 😊

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thanks for watching. That is all the Laurel Canyon tours for now but I will prolly add to it in the coming months

[@sharisimonehampton5434]

Hi Tim. I just finished watching all 6 episodes with you and I loved the tour! Being a California native and an extreme lover of music, this was not only fun to see where these iconic rock stars lived but a wonderful history lesson as well. Crazy days and crazy ways, no doubt...lol.Thanks for the tour! Looking forward to viewing more from you too! ✌️& ❤ &🎵 😉👍♥️

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

I love reading a comment like yours, it's what makes making these vids so gratifying. Thank you!

[@aWomanFreed]

You should read Dave McGowans book, or maybe u shouldn’t

[@mikebrison1838]

Too cool, Tim. Great great videos.

[@ranchotexino4929]

Cool Cool stuff! you know I had a little book by Art Fein called the LA Musical History Tour. I would read and try to visualize these places in their heyday or really, just see what they looked like in color as the book was in low resolution black and white! Its always good to see some of the places again and see new ones too. "I'm-a hankerin' fer-sum" Canned Heat, Sprit, Three Dog Night and Iron Butterfly sites if/when you get around to it. good camera work and thanks Tim for the time and effort

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thank you. I remember Art Fein had a public cable show that I used to watch back in the day. He was a character!

[@PerfDayToday]

Fabulous as always! Just down loaded that first MOI 1966 album for listening later tonight, thxs.

[@R3TR0R4V3]

So beautiful all through there! Thanks for sharing 😎

[@SlackHoffman]

Awesome 👏 Episode Tim 😊

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thank you kindly. Zappa was an interesting subject to say the least!

[@dvanmartin9842]

Wonderful.

[@59jaguar]

Excellent tim!

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Many thanks!

[@bonniebrown6960]

Wouldn't you love to go inside and look at all of these houses? I know I would..!! 😁🤩

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

The next time I go I should probably ask!

[@bonniebrown6960]

@@rockessentialswithtim710 , that would be cool. 😀😉👍 I love these kinds of stories. It's was a little before my time. I was born in 1968, but I still grew up listening to this kind of music. It's awesome to see where all of these people lived.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

@@bonniebrown6960 I think at the time most of those artists moved to Laurel Canyon cause it was cheap to live there. That's really the main reason it all happened there. Most of the houses have been redone, but a few, like Joni Mitchell's place are still exactly the same.

[@drewnwiseman]

Great Tim!

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thanx, man.

[@UncleWayon]

Excellent

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@rickdesarle9875]

Great. Thanks.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thanks!

[@tomdemaline8869]

is there going to be a Laurel Canyon Part 7 Tim? I hope so. Keep up the great work love it ! ! !

[@bossyhouse1]

What is the Country Store like?

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

The narrowest, most history soaked aisles in LA!

[@philipjackson6882]

Thanks Tim ... well done !

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thank you!

[@nobells4388]

Thanks so much; great video as usual! Huge FZ fan here and have always found his last house/recording studio fascinating.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

I didn't mention it in the vid but that house is now occupied by Lady Gaga. She bought the house specifically for the studio.

[@nobells4388]

@@rockessentialswithtim710 Yup, I’m glad she bought it; love her and that she’s an artist that will (hopefully) respect the history of the UMRK.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

@@nobells4388 The Muffin Research Kitchen calls us!

[@Tressala]

Enjoyed it. Thank you

[@jeffp47]

I love your videos!

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thanks!

[@aliraelei3313]

Love your Videos,. Was it Tom Wilson and where can I find him?

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Yeah, Tom Wilson. He died fairly young, in his 40's I think. There is a great story about him producing Like A Rolling Stone for Bob Dylan and how Al Kooper played organ on it. I'm sure if you google those names together it will come up. Thanks for watching!

[@aliraelei3313]

@@rockessentialswithtim710 Thank you for your reply.

[@lilorbielilorbie2496]

I have watched several of your walking tour videos. And I wonder if any of the people who live in these houses have any idea of the famous and sometimes "infamous" people who have lived there before them. I think that surely some must.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

I think most of the people that live in the houses now know but I have talked to neighbors who had no idea. Some of them are occupied by well known people now which is info I omit cuz I wouldn't want anyone bothering them. If the "legends" still live in the house I don't put them in the vid.

[@lynemac2539]

Suzy, Suzy Cream cheese, this is the voice of your conscious speaking... My very first album.

[@garrygballard8914]

Jerry Garcia‘s first band ?

[@walkoffamedocs1171]

The Warlocks?

[@HenningSundstedt]

According to the former Frank Zappa secretary Pauline Butcher Bird, during the short time of three months Zappa rented the house, there were no parties. It could be interpreted the way it is told here that life in the log cabin was nothing but a big party. Pauline says the word *monastery* is a better description of how it really was. Perhaps, a monastery with quite a few unpredictable and non wished for periods of, not feasts, but rather fasts.

[@sollyharr]

Dude! We need 20 minutes minimum !!just getting settled in and it's over...😂👍

[@ellie-tk4jy]

Holy fkn sh1t! I'm so excited. Need to find part one first but this is amazing. I'm not a big hiker so a dedicated music channel is a great idea. My biggest regret in life is not visiting laurel canyon the few times I visited Los Angeles. Lastly Zappa is great. It could be argued that his drug of choice was sex.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

This should work I hope: kzbin.info/aero/PLqcJPQC7dVct2LD1LzGWSfaoz4UJt2qDO

[@lesliegoodman-malamuth9796]

@ellie-tk4jy Regarding your argument about Zappa’s “drug of choice,” one of my best friends from childhood, down at the beach, changed her name to Nigey Lennon and was Frank’s teenage lover for awhile.

[@ellie-tk4jy]

@@lesliegoodman-malamuth9796 woah really? when you say teenage, how old exactly and is this when he was married? how old would he have been? he was definitely a sex addict, like george harrison.

[@robtempe]

An interesting Frank Zappa/Linda Ronstadt connection: From Frank Zappa: “In 1967 we were living in New York and I got a request from an advertising agency…So, Linda Ronstadt happened to be managed by Herb Cohen, who was our manager at the time. Ian Underwood and I put together this track, and Linda did the vocal on top of it, and we made a demo. They paid a thousand dollars for the demo, and that was the last I ever heard from ’em. They didn’t like what I did.” Oh well. ” kzbin.info/www/bejne/joubnmqGaL94d9E According to Ronstadt “It was so musically complicated that I don’t know if they liked it. It was kind of like Bambi and Deep Throat on the same bill; it was not a likely pairing.” But all was not lost! Many years later that Zappa/Ronstadt demo would influence the theme to one of the greatest tv shows ever...The Simpsons. From dangerousmindsdotnet: ” When Matt Groening hired Danny Elfman to write the theme for The Simpsons, he gave him a mixed tape of songs that he wanted the music to sound like: The theme from The Jetsons, some of Esquivel’s “space age bachelor-pad music,” a teach-your-parrot-to-talk record, selections from Nino Rota’s Juliet of the Spirits soundtrack and this unused Frank Zappa-produced radio commercial for Remington electric shavers that features the vocal stylings of none other than a young Linda Ronstadt. The future queen of country rock is nearly unrecognizable here, speeded-up, multi-tracked and sounding like she’s just taken a hit off a helium balloon. At the end, Zappa tells listeners that the Remington electric razor “cleans you, thrills you… may even keep you from getting busted.” According to legend, after giving the tape several listens Elfman told Groening, “I know exactly what you’re looking for!” The result: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4HdhGaHjsdrbJo

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

If you're in the music business the world is a small, small place... Great story!

[@kjc9trader491]

You missed "the end of the story"... I believe - Lady Gaga purchased the last FZ home - with the UMRK studio - not too long ago... Yes?...

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Yeah, she had it for about 5 or 6 years I think. I didn't want to publish the fact that she lived in it cuz of that shooting that happened when they stole her dogs last year. I heard it recently had been sold to another celeb though.

[@kjc9trader491]

@@rockessentialswithtim710 : ...Really??... ...Any details?....

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

@@kjc9trader491 I'm getting old and I can't for the life of me remember who just bought it.

[@rotten_joey]

Frank Zappa is the Salvatore Dali of music.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

agree!

[@peterbustin2683]

It didnt know Marc Volman of The Turtles was in The Mothers Of Invention !

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Totally. Flo and Eddie.

[@peterbustin2683]

@@rockessentialswithtim710 Wow ! Im gonna go a hunting !

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

Lookout Mountain ???????????????????????????

[@bobski7032]

Frank saw merit in a girl band called the Shags …it takes effort to listen to the Shags

[@lynemac2539]

Utility muffin, as opposed to a party muffin. No icing.

[@ninamc6116]

Frank was pretty weird without drugs…but a genius

[@bobmcdonald155]

i believe that Lady Gaga owned Frank Zappa's last house but has since sold it.

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

She did. She sold it after her dogs got kidnapped a couple years ago. It wasn't a very secure house.

[@jenacarruthers2993]

Not a Frank Zappa fan!

[@jamesrabey2129]

The video was great..but Frank wasnt..

[@DanielMulloy-bg6gw]

I really enjoy your videos..... I was never a big Zappa fan but to each his own..... peace!

[@rockessentialswithtim710]

Thank you!

[@johnjaco5544]

Excellent