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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,436 --> 00:00:03,830 For 12 months, our negotiators have been... 2 00:00:03,874 --> 00:00:06,877 ["Take It Easy" playing] 3 00:00:10,663 --> 00:00:12,230 - ♪ Well I'm a-runnin' down the road ♪ 4 00:00:12,273 --> 00:00:13,753 ♪ Trying to loosen my load 5 00:00:13,797 --> 00:00:18,062 ♪ I got seven women on my mind ♪ 6 00:00:18,105 --> 00:00:21,413 ♪ Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me ♪ 7 00:00:21,456 --> 00:00:24,459 ♪ One said she's a friend of mine ♪ 8 00:00:24,503 --> 00:00:27,637 ♪ Take it easy 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,379 ♪ Take it easy 10 00:00:31,423 --> 00:00:34,818 ♪ Don't let the sound of your own wheels ♪ 11 00:00:34,861 --> 00:00:38,430 ♪ Drive you crazy 12 00:00:38,473 --> 00:00:41,607 ♪ Lighten up while you still can ♪ 13 00:00:41,651 --> 00:00:45,524 ♪ Don't even try to understand ♪ 14 00:00:45,568 --> 00:00:48,614 ♪ Just find a place to make your stand ♪ 15 00:00:48,658 --> 00:00:51,835 ♪ Take it easy 16 00:01:19,732 --> 00:01:23,257 - ♪ Take it easy 17 00:01:23,301 --> 00:01:26,826 ♪ Take it easy 18 00:01:26,870 --> 00:01:30,308 ♪ Don't let the sound of your own wheels ♪ 19 00:01:30,351 --> 00:01:33,616 ♪ Drive you crazy 20 00:01:33,659 --> 00:01:37,054 ♪ Come on, baby 21 00:01:37,097 --> 00:01:40,797 ♪ Don't say maybe 22 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,713 ♪ I got to know if your sweet love ♪ 23 00:01:43,756 --> 00:01:47,151 ♪ Is gonna save me 24 00:02:02,514 --> 00:02:04,647 - I'm Jim Ladd, and you have the good taste, 25 00:02:04,690 --> 00:02:06,300 the grace, and the luck 26 00:02:06,344 --> 00:02:08,738 to be listening to 95.5 KLOS. 27 00:02:08,781 --> 00:02:10,565 Good for you, man. 28 00:02:10,609 --> 00:02:14,047 I worked at a radio station in LA. 29 00:02:14,091 --> 00:02:17,007 I had hair down to the middle of my back. 30 00:02:17,050 --> 00:02:19,313 Here we are in our early 20s, 31 00:02:19,357 --> 00:02:22,360 the entire social order of the country 32 00:02:22,403 --> 00:02:24,188 was in upheaval. 33 00:02:24,231 --> 00:02:26,930 ["The Star-Spangled Banner" playing on electric guitar] 34 00:02:33,980 --> 00:02:38,332 But then something very special happened. 35 00:02:38,376 --> 00:02:41,727 - That's one small step for man, 36 00:02:41,771 --> 00:02:44,556 one giant leap for mankind. 37 00:02:44,599 --> 00:02:46,253 Houston... 38 00:02:46,297 --> 00:02:50,693 - That day in front of a black-and-white TV set, 39 00:02:50,736 --> 00:02:53,783 it reached into me, 40 00:02:53,826 --> 00:02:56,568 this young hippie radical, 41 00:02:56,611 --> 00:02:59,223 just as it reached into everybody 42 00:02:59,266 --> 00:03:00,441 that was alive... 43 00:03:00,485 --> 00:03:02,139 - There you go. - Yeah. 44 00:03:02,182 --> 00:03:04,141 - Beautiful. 45 00:03:04,184 --> 00:03:08,972 - That's what humanity coming together looks like. 46 00:03:09,015 --> 00:03:12,976 And that's what would start it in a smaller way. 47 00:03:15,674 --> 00:03:18,198 - The great rock festival is now history. 48 00:03:18,242 --> 00:03:20,548 The last of the nearly half million young people 49 00:03:20,592 --> 00:03:22,420 have now departed. 50 00:03:22,463 --> 00:03:25,684 - And while the music is over, the aftertaste lingers on. 51 00:03:25,728 --> 00:03:28,774 - Woodstock was the event 52 00:03:28,818 --> 00:03:31,777 that drew our generation together 53 00:03:31,821 --> 00:03:34,693 and put a face and numbers to it. 54 00:03:34,737 --> 00:03:36,564 - ...virtually a city. 55 00:03:36,608 --> 00:03:39,872 - The fact that you would pull that many people together, 56 00:03:39,916 --> 00:03:41,569 and it would be peaceful... 57 00:03:41,613 --> 00:03:42,745 - ...a place of no violence. 58 00:03:42,788 --> 00:03:44,572 - ...it made a big impression 59 00:03:44,616 --> 00:03:48,751 on those in a society that hated us. 60 00:03:48,794 --> 00:03:51,536 And let's remember, there were those that hated us. 61 00:03:51,579 --> 00:03:53,364 They didn't like hippies. 62 00:03:54,844 --> 00:03:56,149 - Hippie eventually was a name 63 00:03:56,193 --> 00:03:57,803 that people didn't want to be called 64 00:03:57,847 --> 00:03:59,762 because it was a way of packaging them up 65 00:03:59,805 --> 00:04:01,198 and dismissing them. 66 00:04:01,241 --> 00:04:03,809 But hippie was, like, a young person, 67 00:04:03,853 --> 00:04:05,506 just burgeoning or just opening, 68 00:04:05,550 --> 00:04:06,594 just blossoming. 69 00:04:06,638 --> 00:04:08,683 Somebody who's getting hip. 70 00:04:08,727 --> 00:04:11,077 I mean, it was a way of living your life out in the open. 71 00:04:11,121 --> 00:04:14,559 Being a freak and being unapologetic 72 00:04:14,602 --> 00:04:16,126 about who you were. 73 00:04:19,042 --> 00:04:20,608 It was going on in Woodstock 74 00:04:20,652 --> 00:04:23,133 and immediately was echoed in Laurel Canyon. 75 00:04:31,271 --> 00:04:35,188 - Joni Mitchell, she didn't come out to Woodstock, 76 00:04:35,232 --> 00:04:36,842 but she wrote the song about it 77 00:04:36,886 --> 00:04:40,019 from what she gleaned from other people. 78 00:04:40,063 --> 00:04:43,240 And yet, to her credit, 79 00:04:43,283 --> 00:04:46,069 it was the song. 80 00:04:47,766 --> 00:04:51,726 - ♪ By the time we got to Woodstock ♪ 81 00:04:51,770 --> 00:04:55,295 ♪ We were half a million strong ♪ 82 00:04:55,339 --> 00:04:57,732 ♪ And everywhere 83 00:04:57,776 --> 00:04:59,082 ♪ There was song 84 00:04:59,125 --> 00:05:05,566 ♪ And celebration 85 00:05:05,610 --> 00:05:10,180 ♪ And I dreamed I saw the bombers ♪ 86 00:05:10,223 --> 00:05:13,444 ♪ Riding shotgun in the sky ♪ 87 00:05:13,487 --> 00:05:20,320 ♪ And they were turning into butterflies ♪ 88 00:05:20,364 --> 00:05:24,542 ♪ Above our nation 89 00:05:26,152 --> 00:05:28,676 I was just trying to understand myself and my world. 90 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,243 I used the writing process 91 00:05:30,287 --> 00:05:32,376 as a method of understanding, 92 00:05:32,419 --> 00:05:34,900 getting closer and closer to the essence. 93 00:05:36,728 --> 00:05:40,514 My 20s were full of intense painful self-discovery. 94 00:05:40,558 --> 00:05:42,865 Some truths that I discovered along the way, 95 00:05:42,908 --> 00:05:46,259 wherever I could take it from my own personal travail 96 00:05:46,303 --> 00:05:47,391 to the universal. 97 00:05:47,434 --> 00:05:49,088 Anything good that helped me, 98 00:05:49,132 --> 00:05:51,090 I would try to slot into the song 99 00:05:51,134 --> 00:05:52,613 to give it some nutrition, 100 00:05:52,657 --> 00:05:55,094 so it would transcend self-pity. 101 00:06:00,970 --> 00:06:03,059 - I was always very cautious 102 00:06:03,102 --> 00:06:05,888 about giving Joan enough room to write. 103 00:06:05,931 --> 00:06:07,237 There was no schedule. 104 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:09,413 It was just me trying to recognize 105 00:06:09,456 --> 00:06:12,329 when Joni was going into that void, 106 00:06:12,372 --> 00:06:14,809 when I say something and she wasn't listening. 107 00:06:14,853 --> 00:06:17,116 And she wrote many, many, many songs 108 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:18,944 while we were together. 109 00:06:18,988 --> 00:06:22,165 She wrote half of "Blue," "Ladies of the Canyon." 110 00:06:24,428 --> 00:06:25,820 It was a shitty morning. 111 00:06:25,864 --> 00:06:27,910 Late winter, chilly, 112 00:06:27,953 --> 00:06:30,956 rainy, miserable, foggy. 113 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,784 I'd taken Joni to breakfast 114 00:06:32,827 --> 00:06:35,091 at Art's Deli on Ventura Boulevard, 115 00:06:35,134 --> 00:06:37,789 quite close to Laurel Canyon. 116 00:06:37,832 --> 00:06:39,660 We were walking after breakfast, 117 00:06:39,704 --> 00:06:40,966 and we passed an antique store, 118 00:06:41,010 --> 00:06:42,533 and we're looking in the window. 119 00:06:42,576 --> 00:06:44,970 Joan saw this small vase that she wanted to buy. 120 00:06:45,014 --> 00:06:47,320 It was about eight or nine inches high. 121 00:06:47,364 --> 00:06:49,540 Some hand-painted flowers around one edge. 122 00:06:49,583 --> 00:06:52,151 So she bought it. 123 00:06:52,195 --> 00:06:54,980 We drive to her house, go through the front door, 124 00:06:55,024 --> 00:06:56,286 and I said, "Hey, Joan, 125 00:06:56,329 --> 00:06:57,983 "why don't I light a fire 126 00:06:58,027 --> 00:06:59,550 "and you put some flowers in that vase 127 00:06:59,593 --> 00:07:01,334 that you bought today?" 128 00:07:01,378 --> 00:07:03,815 It's that simple. 129 00:07:03,858 --> 00:07:06,470 Joni went out to find some winter flowers 130 00:07:06,513 --> 00:07:08,341 to put in this vase that she just bought. 131 00:07:08,385 --> 00:07:09,995 That means she wasn't at her piano, 132 00:07:10,039 --> 00:07:12,041 but that means that I was. 133 00:07:12,084 --> 00:07:15,653 - ♪ I'll light the fire 134 00:07:15,696 --> 00:07:20,614 ♪ You place the flowers in the vase ♪ 135 00:07:20,658 --> 00:07:25,054 ♪ That you bought today 136 00:07:27,317 --> 00:07:30,450 - ♪ Staring at the fire 137 00:07:30,494 --> 00:07:33,627 ♪ For hours and hours 138 00:07:33,671 --> 00:07:37,849 ♪ While I listen to you 139 00:07:37,892 --> 00:07:41,070 ♪ Play your love songs 140 00:07:41,113 --> 00:07:43,463 ♪ All night long 141 00:07:43,507 --> 00:07:47,641 ♪ For me 142 00:07:47,685 --> 00:07:49,817 - People would say when me and Joan walked into a room, 143 00:07:49,861 --> 00:07:51,471 it lit up the room. 144 00:07:51,515 --> 00:07:54,474 We brought out the best in each other. 145 00:07:54,518 --> 00:07:57,042 - ♪ Come to me now 146 00:07:57,086 --> 00:07:59,305 ♪ To rest your head for just... ♪ 147 00:07:59,349 --> 00:08:00,698 - In the Laurel Canyon scene, 148 00:08:00,741 --> 00:08:02,134 we were at the very center 149 00:08:02,178 --> 00:08:04,310 of this beautiful bubble of creativity 150 00:08:04,354 --> 00:08:05,659 and friendship and sunshine 151 00:08:05,703 --> 00:08:08,053 and sex and drugs and music. 152 00:08:08,097 --> 00:08:10,969 - ♪ Our house 153 00:08:11,013 --> 00:08:14,320 ♪ Is a very, very, very fine house ♪ 154 00:08:14,364 --> 00:08:17,671 ♪ With two cats in the yard 155 00:08:17,715 --> 00:08:21,023 ♪ Life used to be so hard 156 00:08:21,066 --> 00:08:24,069 ♪ Now everything is easy 157 00:08:24,113 --> 00:08:27,246 ♪ 'Cause of you 158 00:08:27,290 --> 00:08:30,510 - Joan, I don't think ever has really had 159 00:08:30,554 --> 00:08:32,773 another relationship like Graham. 160 00:08:32,817 --> 00:08:34,993 Graham was as close as it ever came to her 161 00:08:35,037 --> 00:08:38,779 actually loving somebody on an ongoing basis. 162 00:08:38,823 --> 00:08:41,652 She probably nearly stuck with him forever. 163 00:08:41,695 --> 00:08:43,480 And I don't think she ever even considered it 164 00:08:43,523 --> 00:08:45,090 with any of the rest of us. 165 00:08:47,875 --> 00:08:51,879 - It was a telegram, and it only said, 166 00:08:51,923 --> 00:08:54,099 "If you hold sand too tightly in your hand, 167 00:08:54,143 --> 00:08:55,927 it will run through your fingers." 168 00:08:57,885 --> 00:08:59,583 And that was a shame, 169 00:08:59,626 --> 00:09:02,325 but that's the way things are. 170 00:09:10,115 --> 00:09:12,422 - ♪ Boys and girls 171 00:09:12,465 --> 00:09:17,905 ♪ Have a good time together 172 00:09:17,949 --> 00:09:20,821 ♪ Be my friend 173 00:09:20,865 --> 00:09:24,999 ♪ Or be my lover 174 00:09:25,043 --> 00:09:28,133 ♪ Girls 175 00:09:30,744 --> 00:09:32,529 - That's the way we've been doing it. 176 00:09:32,572 --> 00:09:33,965 We changed it. This time we sing-- 177 00:09:34,008 --> 00:09:35,271 - Yeah, but the rhythm has changed, Cass. 178 00:09:35,314 --> 00:09:37,142 - Mamas & Papas-- 179 00:09:37,186 --> 00:09:39,840 we were only together for two and a half years. 180 00:09:39,884 --> 00:09:43,322 Then that all changed. 181 00:09:43,366 --> 00:09:45,324 - Being successful, we've all developed 182 00:09:45,368 --> 00:09:47,326 our own ways of life here in Los Angeles, 183 00:09:47,370 --> 00:09:49,328 and we don't affect one another 184 00:09:49,372 --> 00:09:51,069 as creatively as we did 185 00:09:51,113 --> 00:09:53,202 when we were all dependent upon one another, 186 00:09:53,245 --> 00:09:55,291 emotionally and whatnot. 187 00:09:55,334 --> 00:09:57,162 - After a while, you don't want to see 188 00:09:57,206 --> 00:09:59,164 those same three people 189 00:09:59,208 --> 00:10:00,905 day in and day out all of your life. 190 00:10:00,948 --> 00:10:03,081 It starts to wear on you. 191 00:10:03,125 --> 00:10:04,735 We decided that 192 00:10:04,778 --> 00:10:06,650 we didn't want to continue working together. 193 00:10:06,693 --> 00:10:09,218 Everybody had ambitions to do other things. 194 00:10:09,261 --> 00:10:12,656 Cass wanted to be a soloist more than anything. 195 00:10:12,699 --> 00:10:16,050 She saw herself as a hip Barbra Streisand. 196 00:10:18,227 --> 00:10:20,838 - The music that my mom chose for herself 197 00:10:20,881 --> 00:10:22,796 that she did as a solo artist, 198 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,538 she felt passionately about 199 00:10:25,582 --> 00:10:29,151 really positive subject matter. 200 00:10:29,194 --> 00:10:31,544 My mom was loving and warm 201 00:10:31,588 --> 00:10:34,895 and inviting, big hugs. 202 00:10:34,939 --> 00:10:38,421 She loved to be around her friends. 203 00:10:38,464 --> 00:10:40,292 She loved to have a full house, 204 00:10:40,336 --> 00:10:42,816 and people would make music. 205 00:10:42,860 --> 00:10:45,558 Gram called her The Queen of the Canyon. 206 00:10:45,602 --> 00:10:48,039 - In Laurel Canyon, her house was, like, 207 00:10:48,082 --> 00:10:50,563 at the center of everything. 208 00:10:50,607 --> 00:10:53,349 Open 24 hours a day. 209 00:10:53,392 --> 00:10:57,614 A very wide circle of friends. 210 00:10:57,657 --> 00:11:00,356 But John and I left Laurel Canyon, 211 00:11:00,399 --> 00:11:01,748 moved to Bel Air. 212 00:11:01,792 --> 00:11:04,403 Three Rolls-Royces in the garage. 213 00:11:04,447 --> 00:11:07,232 We were hippies, but we were rich hippies. 214 00:11:07,276 --> 00:11:09,408 There was no question about that. 215 00:11:09,452 --> 00:11:11,758 We'd been so innovative. 216 00:11:13,543 --> 00:11:16,241 But we had become the establishment. 217 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:29,254 - I was continuing The Byrds as a franchise. 218 00:11:29,298 --> 00:11:32,039 Kind of like Coca-Cola or something. 219 00:11:32,083 --> 00:11:34,390 David Crosby showed up at my house and said, 220 00:11:34,433 --> 00:11:37,262 "You know, some of the songs you guys are doing are okay, 221 00:11:37,306 --> 00:11:38,742 but some of them aren't." 222 00:11:38,785 --> 00:11:40,700 And I had to agree with him. 223 00:11:40,744 --> 00:11:43,877 There was a mediocre element in what The Byrds had become. 224 00:11:43,921 --> 00:11:46,402 We'd gone out on the road as a three-piece band. 225 00:11:46,445 --> 00:11:48,969 It just wasn't good, wasn't happening. 226 00:11:49,013 --> 00:11:51,102 We were looking for somebody to fill in for David 227 00:11:51,145 --> 00:11:53,365 because there was no rhythm player. 228 00:11:55,454 --> 00:11:56,977 Chris Hillman met Gram Parsons 229 00:11:57,021 --> 00:11:59,676 and invited him over to our rehearsals. 230 00:11:59,719 --> 00:12:02,287 Gram came in and played a little country music. 231 00:12:02,331 --> 00:12:03,636 I thought, "The guy's got talent. 232 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:05,203 We can work with him." 233 00:12:05,247 --> 00:12:07,292 I didn't know it, but he was about to morph 234 00:12:07,336 --> 00:12:10,121 into George Jones in a rhinestone suit. 235 00:12:20,349 --> 00:12:22,002 - I convinced The Byrds 236 00:12:22,046 --> 00:12:24,266 that they should be doing country music 237 00:12:24,309 --> 00:12:28,574 instead of trying to write their own Bob Dylan material. 238 00:12:28,618 --> 00:12:30,837 Chris had been trying to say something like that all along 239 00:12:30,881 --> 00:12:35,668 but wasn't sure The Byrds would be out of a job. 240 00:12:35,712 --> 00:12:37,496 - Gram Parsons came along, 241 00:12:37,540 --> 00:12:40,194 and he really understood the real music. 242 00:12:40,238 --> 00:12:42,327 All this wonderful stuff out of California 243 00:12:42,371 --> 00:12:46,244 along with the Nashville '50s and '60s country music. 244 00:12:46,288 --> 00:12:49,247 - Gram Parsons' love of country music was infectious. 245 00:12:49,291 --> 00:12:52,424 He loved it so much that he sold us on it. 246 00:12:52,468 --> 00:12:53,947 I went to Nudie's, a rodeo tailor, 247 00:12:53,991 --> 00:12:56,472 and got some cowboy clothes. 248 00:12:56,515 --> 00:12:58,952 And we recorded an entire county album, 249 00:12:58,996 --> 00:13:00,737 the "Sweetheart of the Rodeo." 250 00:13:00,780 --> 00:13:03,696 It was the first time a commercially successful 251 00:13:03,740 --> 00:13:05,481 rock band had done country music. 252 00:13:05,524 --> 00:13:07,700 Other people had dabbled in it. 253 00:13:07,744 --> 00:13:11,051 - We all had trouble getting anybody to believe 254 00:13:11,095 --> 00:13:14,359 that you could make good country music. 255 00:13:14,403 --> 00:13:16,622 - Gram was a nice guy. He was a lot of fun. 256 00:13:16,666 --> 00:13:19,408 We'd drink beer and play pool, and he's like a good old boy. 257 00:13:19,451 --> 00:13:20,800 It was a good time. 258 00:13:22,628 --> 00:13:24,369 He got to know The Rolling Stones. 259 00:13:24,413 --> 00:13:26,719 He and Keith Richards became really tight. 260 00:13:26,763 --> 00:13:29,592 And he always wanted to hang out with Keith. 261 00:13:29,635 --> 00:13:31,289 - He was around for six months. 262 00:13:31,333 --> 00:13:34,031 He left The Byrds. And I got a little antsy then. 263 00:13:34,074 --> 00:13:36,947 I wanted to do something else, as David had the year before. 264 00:13:36,990 --> 00:13:38,992 So I left The Byrds, and Gram and I started 265 00:13:39,036 --> 00:13:42,561 The Flying Burrito Brothers in 1969. 266 00:13:54,617 --> 00:13:57,794 - ♪ You may be 267 00:13:57,837 --> 00:14:01,406 ♪ Sweet and nice 268 00:14:01,450 --> 00:14:06,933 ♪ But that you won't keep you warm at night ♪ 269 00:14:06,977 --> 00:14:09,632 ♪ 'Cause I'm the one 270 00:14:09,675 --> 00:14:13,026 ♪ Who showed you how 271 00:14:13,070 --> 00:14:15,115 ♪ To do the things 272 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:19,250 ♪ You're doing now 273 00:14:19,293 --> 00:14:22,340 ♪ He may feel 274 00:14:22,384 --> 00:14:24,951 ♪ All your charms 275 00:14:24,995 --> 00:14:27,476 - We want to do this young, hip country band 276 00:14:27,519 --> 00:14:30,479 and base it around a Bakersfield-type sound 277 00:14:30,522 --> 00:14:32,916 with a little R&B. 278 00:14:32,959 --> 00:14:35,571 Now, this is where Gram taught me a lot of music. 279 00:14:37,094 --> 00:14:41,490 - ♪ At the dark end 280 00:14:41,533 --> 00:14:44,928 ♪ Of the street 281 00:14:44,971 --> 00:14:46,886 - I thought I was pretty well up 282 00:14:46,930 --> 00:14:48,627 on most of my R&B and blues, 283 00:14:48,671 --> 00:14:50,542 but he started picking up these records 284 00:14:50,586 --> 00:14:53,284 and turning me on to people I've never heard of. 285 00:14:53,327 --> 00:14:57,462 - ♪ Where we don't belong 286 00:14:57,506 --> 00:15:02,685 - ♪ Living in darkness to hide our wrong ♪ 287 00:15:02,728 --> 00:15:06,602 ♪ You and me 288 00:15:06,645 --> 00:15:08,647 ♪ At the dark end 289 00:15:08,691 --> 00:15:11,998 ♪ Of the street 290 00:15:12,042 --> 00:15:15,437 ♪ You and me 291 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:21,443 ♪ I know that time's gonna take its toll ♪ 292 00:15:21,486 --> 00:15:24,446 - This is now 1969. 293 00:15:24,489 --> 00:15:26,448 I'd been in two groups already in LA. 294 00:15:26,491 --> 00:15:28,537 And The Flying Burrito Brothers were on the same label, 295 00:15:28,580 --> 00:15:32,541 so we would see each other on the A&M studio lot, 296 00:15:32,584 --> 00:15:35,108 and they invited me to join, to play guitar. 297 00:15:35,152 --> 00:15:36,806 And I happily did that because I thought that 298 00:15:36,849 --> 00:15:38,895 The Burritos could do something. 299 00:15:38,938 --> 00:15:42,942 - ♪ You and me 300 00:15:42,986 --> 00:15:45,467 ♪ At the dark end 301 00:15:45,510 --> 00:15:48,034 ♪ Of the street 302 00:15:48,078 --> 00:15:49,993 ♪ You and me 303 00:15:52,343 --> 00:15:54,040 - Back then I would go on tour, 304 00:15:54,084 --> 00:15:55,694 and I would leave the door open 305 00:15:55,738 --> 00:15:56,869 'cause our friends would come in 306 00:15:56,913 --> 00:15:58,610 and stay there. 307 00:15:58,654 --> 00:16:01,526 They cleaned the house and stocked the refrigerator. 308 00:16:01,570 --> 00:16:03,136 I'd leave money in the drawer. 309 00:16:03,180 --> 00:16:05,530 There was no thievery or anything. 310 00:16:07,227 --> 00:16:09,186 We came back from touring once, 311 00:16:09,229 --> 00:16:10,883 and there's Bobby Beausoleil 312 00:16:10,927 --> 00:16:13,930 sitting on my floor playing a guitar. 313 00:16:13,973 --> 00:16:15,409 And I'm glad to see him. 314 00:16:15,453 --> 00:16:17,803 Bobby Beausoleil was in the Grass Roots, 315 00:16:17,847 --> 00:16:21,154 which was our group just before we became Love. 316 00:16:21,198 --> 00:16:22,982 He was just the sweetest kid. 317 00:16:23,026 --> 00:16:24,593 We sit down and chat. 318 00:16:24,636 --> 00:16:27,291 And I noticed the door to my bedroom is closed. 319 00:16:27,334 --> 00:16:29,162 So I said, "Is there somebody in there?" 320 00:16:29,206 --> 00:16:31,208 He said, "Yeah. My girlfriend, Sadie. 321 00:16:31,251 --> 00:16:33,123 She's asleep." 322 00:16:33,166 --> 00:16:36,387 A few minutes later, this thing comes out of my bedroom. 323 00:16:36,430 --> 00:16:38,563 This horrible cadaverous-looking thing 324 00:16:38,607 --> 00:16:40,260 that smelled awful. 325 00:16:40,304 --> 00:16:41,566 She had been in my bed. 326 00:16:41,610 --> 00:16:43,437 Now I'm upset. 327 00:16:43,481 --> 00:16:45,265 And I said, "Man, who the hell is this?" 328 00:16:45,309 --> 00:16:46,571 And he said, "Oh, this is Sadie. 329 00:16:46,615 --> 00:16:48,225 "She's with me. 330 00:16:48,268 --> 00:16:51,358 "We lived together at the Spahn Ranch. 331 00:16:51,402 --> 00:16:52,882 "These people are friends. 332 00:16:52,925 --> 00:16:56,755 And they have this utopian lifestyle." 333 00:16:56,799 --> 00:16:59,584 So he starts telling me, and he's romanticizing it, 334 00:16:59,628 --> 00:17:01,325 and I said, "Cool. That sounds good. 335 00:17:01,368 --> 00:17:03,806 Maybe one day I'll come up and visit you guys." 336 00:17:03,849 --> 00:17:06,156 And he says, "I don't think that's good. 337 00:17:06,199 --> 00:17:08,985 Charlie, you know, is kind of racist." 338 00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:11,901 I said, "So why are you hanging out with a bigot?" 339 00:17:11,944 --> 00:17:13,467 And he says, "Well, I better go 340 00:17:13,511 --> 00:17:15,339 "because Charlie is gonna be upset 341 00:17:15,382 --> 00:17:17,950 if he knows that I came by to visit you." 342 00:17:17,994 --> 00:17:20,605 Well, I said, "Dude, if this guy is gonna be upset 343 00:17:20,649 --> 00:17:22,651 "that you came by and visited somebody 344 00:17:22,694 --> 00:17:24,478 "that you've known for years, 345 00:17:24,522 --> 00:17:27,612 maybe you ought to get away from him." 346 00:17:27,656 --> 00:17:30,093 He kind of laughed. 347 00:17:30,136 --> 00:17:32,791 - They call themselves The Family. 348 00:17:32,835 --> 00:17:34,663 Young girls supposedly under the spell 349 00:17:34,706 --> 00:17:36,055 of a bearded Svengali. 350 00:17:36,099 --> 00:17:38,275 The mystical hippie clan despise 351 00:17:38,318 --> 00:17:40,103 the straight affluent society. 352 00:17:50,809 --> 00:17:54,334 [The Doors' "Riders on the Storm"] 353 00:17:54,378 --> 00:17:56,859 - Friday night in Los Angeles, a movie actress 354 00:17:56,902 --> 00:17:58,861 and four of her friends were murdered. 355 00:17:58,904 --> 00:18:02,038 And the circumstances were lurid. 356 00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:03,996 - This was at the home of movie director 357 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:05,432 Roman Polanski. 358 00:18:05,476 --> 00:18:07,173 And it was his wife, Sharon Tate, 359 00:18:07,217 --> 00:18:09,567 who was one of the victims. 360 00:18:09,611 --> 00:18:10,742 - Do you have any kind of an idea 361 00:18:10,786 --> 00:18:11,787 who might have done it? 362 00:18:11,830 --> 00:18:12,962 Do you have any kind of APBs out? 363 00:18:13,005 --> 00:18:14,354 Any suspects at all? - No. 364 00:18:17,227 --> 00:18:19,011 - The first two suspects 365 00:18:19,055 --> 00:18:21,492 after the murders at the Sharon Tate house 366 00:18:21,535 --> 00:18:23,668 were these two guys I knew. 367 00:18:23,712 --> 00:18:25,365 In the paper, the police were looking for them. 368 00:18:25,409 --> 00:18:27,890 They went and turned themselves in immediately 369 00:18:27,933 --> 00:18:29,282 and said, "Wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa." 370 00:18:29,326 --> 00:18:31,763 It was frightening in LA then. 371 00:18:31,807 --> 00:18:33,678 - A short time later, not far away, 372 00:18:33,722 --> 00:18:35,854 a middle-aged couple was found murdered 373 00:18:35,898 --> 00:18:38,291 in similar circumstances. 374 00:18:38,335 --> 00:18:40,642 - Leno LaBianca, a supermarket owner, 375 00:18:40,685 --> 00:18:43,514 and his wife have both been stabbed to death. 376 00:18:43,557 --> 00:18:47,257 Hoods have been placed over the heads of both victims. 377 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:51,565 - ♪ There's a killer on the road ♪ 378 00:18:51,609 --> 00:18:54,873 ♪ His brain is squirming like a toad ♪ 379 00:18:59,356 --> 00:19:01,706 - We were in this beautiful bubble, 380 00:19:01,750 --> 00:19:04,100 and those murderers put a pin 381 00:19:04,143 --> 00:19:06,580 right in that bubble, and it exploded. 382 00:19:10,628 --> 00:19:13,979 Eight people butchered in the night. 383 00:19:14,023 --> 00:19:17,504 It was too close, too real. 384 00:19:17,548 --> 00:19:19,550 - It's a quarter mile from my house. 385 00:19:19,593 --> 00:19:21,987 I went out and bought a shotgun... 386 00:19:22,031 --> 00:19:24,773 my only gun until then. 387 00:19:24,816 --> 00:19:26,252 - Prior to Manson, 388 00:19:26,296 --> 00:19:28,124 in Laurel Canyon if I saw a hitchhiker, 389 00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:30,735 I would always stop and say, "Hey, man, get in the car. 390 00:19:30,779 --> 00:19:32,694 Sure, I'll take you up the Canyon." 391 00:19:32,737 --> 00:19:34,434 But then after the murders, 392 00:19:34,478 --> 00:19:36,872 you had to stop and think, "Well, wait a minute, 393 00:19:36,915 --> 00:19:39,222 he looks like a cool guy, but how do I know 394 00:19:39,265 --> 00:19:41,398 "he's not gonna reach around and slit my throat 395 00:19:41,441 --> 00:19:43,617 while we're driving up the Canyon?" 396 00:19:43,661 --> 00:19:47,099 I mean, I actually have those thoughts, you know? 397 00:19:47,143 --> 00:19:48,535 - I had been to that house 398 00:19:48,579 --> 00:19:51,451 several times with David Crosby, 399 00:19:51,495 --> 00:19:55,151 'cause just before Sharon Tate lived there, 400 00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:58,023 Terry Melcher, who had produced The Byrds, 401 00:19:58,067 --> 00:19:59,633 lived at that house, 402 00:19:59,677 --> 00:20:01,635 and everybody was familiar with the house. 403 00:20:01,679 --> 00:20:04,464 He'd have parties occasionally. 404 00:20:04,508 --> 00:20:07,119 - Terry Melcher subleased that house 405 00:20:07,163 --> 00:20:09,774 to Roman and Sharon. 406 00:20:09,818 --> 00:20:13,604 - So people thought the target could be Melcher. 407 00:20:13,647 --> 00:20:15,780 - I answered the front doorbell. 408 00:20:15,824 --> 00:20:17,826 There were two detectives. 409 00:20:17,869 --> 00:20:20,132 "Do you know anybody who would want to kill you?" 410 00:20:20,176 --> 00:20:21,351 And I said, "Well, no." 411 00:20:21,394 --> 00:20:22,787 He said, "Well, did you ever 412 00:20:22,831 --> 00:20:24,658 meet a fellow named Charles Manson?" 413 00:20:24,702 --> 00:20:26,356 I said, "Charles Manson? 414 00:20:26,399 --> 00:20:27,923 "The guy who plays a guitar 415 00:20:27,966 --> 00:20:30,708 and all the girls sing in the background?" 416 00:20:37,715 --> 00:20:40,892 - Manson was one of many disgruntled young people 417 00:20:40,936 --> 00:20:42,807 who tried to get his music recorded, 418 00:20:42,851 --> 00:20:44,809 and he happened to be a crazy guy 419 00:20:44,853 --> 00:20:47,638 who took a lot of drugs and had a following. 420 00:20:53,165 --> 00:20:56,995 - Two of the girls who worked on that scene 421 00:20:57,039 --> 00:21:00,129 who were there, I went to high school with. 422 00:21:00,172 --> 00:21:03,872 The Manson murders were close to everybody. 423 00:21:05,874 --> 00:21:08,790 - We found out later that Bobby Beausoleil, 424 00:21:08,833 --> 00:21:11,531 he had killed somebody. 425 00:21:11,575 --> 00:21:15,884 Nobody could imagine that he would be involved in that. 426 00:21:19,931 --> 00:21:21,977 - Suddenly hippies were not harmless anymore. 427 00:21:22,020 --> 00:21:25,023 Hippies became dangerous. 428 00:21:25,067 --> 00:21:26,982 When Manson happened, 429 00:21:27,025 --> 00:21:29,462 all of a sudden, every hippie was looked at 430 00:21:29,506 --> 00:21:32,857 as possibly psycho killer. 431 00:21:32,901 --> 00:21:34,990 Who knows what drugs have done to these kids. 432 00:21:52,050 --> 00:21:56,011 - Because of Gram Parsons' friendship with The Stones, 433 00:21:56,054 --> 00:22:00,232 The Burritos were invited to play at this huge concert-- 434 00:22:00,276 --> 00:22:02,452 The Stones answer to Woodstock. 435 00:22:02,495 --> 00:22:04,280 All these young people were coming 436 00:22:04,323 --> 00:22:07,196 from all over the country to go to this free thing. 437 00:22:07,239 --> 00:22:09,415 - Our day started out bad. 438 00:22:09,459 --> 00:22:10,895 It was cold... 439 00:22:10,939 --> 00:22:14,333 way out in that Altamont Raceway. 440 00:22:14,377 --> 00:22:17,162 - We played it because Garcia had called Crosby 441 00:22:17,206 --> 00:22:19,164 and said, "You want to join The Grateful Dead? 442 00:22:19,208 --> 00:22:21,688 We're gonna do this thing down at the Raceway here?" 443 00:22:21,732 --> 00:22:23,429 We said, "Sounds like a good idea. 444 00:22:23,473 --> 00:22:24,996 We'll go." 445 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,781 - I was against Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 446 00:22:27,825 --> 00:22:29,261 being on the bill. 447 00:22:29,305 --> 00:22:30,959 I said, "I don't think you should go. 448 00:22:31,002 --> 00:22:34,310 If you want to go against me, I'm not going." 449 00:22:34,353 --> 00:22:37,922 The Hells Angels were gonna be doing all the security. 450 00:22:37,966 --> 00:22:40,794 And people applauded like that was a cool thing. 451 00:22:40,838 --> 00:22:43,754 The Rolling Stones had no clue. 452 00:22:43,797 --> 00:22:45,321 They didn't live in California. 453 00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:46,800 They were visitors. 454 00:22:46,844 --> 00:22:49,760 They romanticized the Angels. 455 00:22:49,803 --> 00:22:51,675 They were tattooed and rode bikes 456 00:22:51,718 --> 00:22:54,025 and were outlaws. 457 00:22:54,069 --> 00:22:57,507 The Rolling Stones didn't know what came with that reputation 458 00:22:57,550 --> 00:23:00,553 and how it was built. 459 00:23:00,597 --> 00:23:03,600 That was the only Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young show 460 00:23:03,643 --> 00:23:05,254 I ever missed. 461 00:23:06,820 --> 00:23:08,387 - Red Cross truck. 462 00:23:08,431 --> 00:23:09,954 - Excuse me. Which way is the stage? 463 00:23:09,998 --> 00:23:11,869 - I'm wading through the crowd. 464 00:23:11,913 --> 00:23:16,482 Good Lord, the Hells Angels were just crazy. 465 00:23:16,526 --> 00:23:20,182 They were like Vikings, ready to raid the monastery. 466 00:23:20,225 --> 00:23:22,401 - We're partying like you. 467 00:23:22,445 --> 00:23:24,664 Hey! 468 00:23:24,708 --> 00:23:26,362 - CSNY's coming offstage, 469 00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:29,104 and David says, "Be careful. Pay attention. 470 00:23:29,147 --> 00:23:30,670 I'm getting out of here." I said, "Really?" 471 00:23:30,714 --> 00:23:33,412 He says, "It's not a good deal." 472 00:23:33,456 --> 00:23:34,805 The Burritos, to our credit, 473 00:23:34,848 --> 00:23:37,112 got up and calmed everybody down. 474 00:23:37,155 --> 00:23:39,853 It's a different kind of music. 475 00:23:39,897 --> 00:23:42,552 - ♪ Well, I pulled out of Pittsburgh ♪ 476 00:23:42,595 --> 00:23:45,947 ♪ Rollin' down the Eastern Seaboard ♪ 477 00:23:45,990 --> 00:23:47,644 ♪ Got my diesel wound up 478 00:23:47,687 --> 00:23:51,561 ♪ And she's a-runnin' like never before ♪ 479 00:23:51,604 --> 00:23:54,564 ♪ There's a speed trap ahead, all right ♪ 480 00:23:54,607 --> 00:23:56,870 ♪ But I don't see cop in sight ♪ 481 00:23:56,914 --> 00:23:58,524 ♪ Six days on the road 482 00:23:58,568 --> 00:24:02,354 ♪ And I'm gonna make it home tonight ♪ 483 00:24:02,398 --> 00:24:04,008 ♪ Six days on the road 484 00:24:04,052 --> 00:24:06,184 ♪ And I'm gonna make it home tonight ♪ 485 00:24:06,228 --> 00:24:09,535 - But I could feel it, the tension, the darkness. 486 00:24:09,579 --> 00:24:11,929 Something wasn't right. 487 00:24:11,973 --> 00:24:14,584 Before that last note on the bass stopped ringing, 488 00:24:14,627 --> 00:24:17,065 I unplugged, put that thing in the case, 489 00:24:17,108 --> 00:24:18,675 and I got out of there. 490 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:29,729 - You can call them people flower children 491 00:24:29,773 --> 00:24:31,383 and this and that. 492 00:24:31,427 --> 00:24:33,690 Some of them people was loaded on some drugs 493 00:24:33,733 --> 00:24:35,953 that it's just too bad we wasn't loaded on 494 00:24:35,997 --> 00:24:40,566 because they come running off the hill yelling, "Aah." 495 00:24:40,610 --> 00:24:43,874 But when they jumped on an Angel, they got hurt. 496 00:24:43,917 --> 00:24:46,833 - This is Stefan Ponek, KSAN Radio, San Francisco. 497 00:24:46,877 --> 00:24:48,661 - You know what? They got got. 498 00:24:48,705 --> 00:24:51,055 - Someone was stabbed to death in front of the stage 499 00:24:51,099 --> 00:24:52,665 by a member of the Hells Angels. 500 00:24:52,709 --> 00:24:54,406 Nothing is confirmed on that... 501 00:24:54,450 --> 00:24:57,061 - In the end, it was the antithesis of Woodstock. 502 00:24:57,105 --> 00:24:58,671 People got run over. 503 00:24:58,715 --> 00:25:02,066 Four people died. 504 00:25:02,110 --> 00:25:04,329 - That was the end of the '60s. 505 00:25:04,373 --> 00:25:06,331 The assassinations, Vietnam, 506 00:25:06,375 --> 00:25:10,118 it had finally come full circle into this dark, dark abyss. 507 00:25:14,818 --> 00:25:16,472 - The President of the United States 508 00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:19,910 has just announced that a new attack into Cambodia 509 00:25:19,953 --> 00:25:21,129 was launched this evening 510 00:25:21,172 --> 00:25:24,610 by United States Armed Force. 511 00:25:24,654 --> 00:25:26,786 - Kent State University in Ohio 512 00:25:26,830 --> 00:25:29,267 has had campus violence for three nights. 513 00:25:29,311 --> 00:25:31,008 The students were protesting 514 00:25:31,052 --> 00:25:33,619 the American invasion of Cambodia. 515 00:25:33,663 --> 00:25:35,926 The National Guard was called in. 516 00:25:40,626 --> 00:25:43,760 - The guardsmen have fired 61 shots. 517 00:25:43,803 --> 00:25:45,109 Four students, 518 00:25:45,153 --> 00:25:48,808 two of them bystanders, are dead. 519 00:25:48,852 --> 00:25:51,115 - Kent State and more than 400 other institutions 520 00:25:51,159 --> 00:25:52,682 go on strike. 521 00:25:52,725 --> 00:25:54,814 The President says Americans face a crisis 522 00:25:54,858 --> 00:25:57,252 that could threatened the very survival of the nation. 523 00:25:57,295 --> 00:25:59,689 [Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Ohio"] 524 00:26:01,430 --> 00:26:04,172 - Neil saw the news about the girl laying there. 525 00:26:04,215 --> 00:26:06,348 Her friend bending over her. 526 00:26:08,915 --> 00:26:11,309 That night, he wrote the song. 527 00:26:11,353 --> 00:26:13,616 The next night, they recorded it. 528 00:26:13,659 --> 00:26:16,880 - ♪ Tin soldiers, and Nixon coming ♪ 529 00:26:16,923 --> 00:26:20,144 ♪ We're finally on our own 530 00:26:20,188 --> 00:26:23,147 ♪ This summer I hear the drumming ♪ 531 00:26:23,191 --> 00:26:26,019 ♪ Four dead in Ohio 532 00:26:26,063 --> 00:26:29,153 - I drove the record over to B. Mitchel Reed, 533 00:26:29,197 --> 00:26:32,896 the big DJ on FM radio in Los Angeles. 534 00:26:32,939 --> 00:26:34,811 And he played it that night. 535 00:26:37,118 --> 00:26:39,903 Neil was so moved, he couldn't help himself. 536 00:26:39,946 --> 00:26:42,210 And the rest of the guys were right there. 537 00:26:42,253 --> 00:26:45,691 - ♪ And found her dead on the ground ♪ 538 00:26:45,735 --> 00:26:49,173 ♪ How can you run when you know? ♪ 539 00:26:51,393 --> 00:26:53,830 - Our job is to take you on little emotional voyages. 540 00:26:53,873 --> 00:26:55,136 Make you boogie sometimes. 541 00:26:55,179 --> 00:26:56,659 Make you sad sometimes. 542 00:26:56,702 --> 00:26:59,140 Happy sometimes. 543 00:26:59,183 --> 00:27:02,578 Every once in a while, it's our job to be a witness. 544 00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:04,145 If your country starts shooting its own children 545 00:27:04,188 --> 00:27:05,624 while they're protesting, 546 00:27:05,668 --> 00:27:07,235 exercising their constitutional right, 547 00:27:07,278 --> 00:27:10,020 unarmed and on their own college campus... 548 00:27:10,063 --> 00:27:13,328 - ♪ Soldiers are cutting us down ♪ 549 00:27:13,371 --> 00:27:14,894 - That would be one of those times 550 00:27:14,938 --> 00:27:16,505 when you have to be a witness. 551 00:27:16,548 --> 00:27:18,289 And we were. 552 00:27:18,333 --> 00:27:20,378 - There was a very large shift. 553 00:27:20,422 --> 00:27:22,728 People were up in arms about the Vietnam War. 554 00:27:22,772 --> 00:27:26,558 They didn't like Nixon, Kent State, killing our kids 555 00:27:26,602 --> 00:27:28,343 because they have the God-given right 556 00:27:28,386 --> 00:27:30,083 to protest what their government 557 00:27:30,127 --> 00:27:31,737 was doing in their name. 558 00:27:31,781 --> 00:27:34,218 It shifted tremendously. 559 00:27:38,266 --> 00:27:41,312 - When I was in college, there was no separation 560 00:27:41,356 --> 00:27:44,402 between the issues of the day and the music 561 00:27:44,446 --> 00:27:47,144 that galvanized souls and brought people 562 00:27:47,188 --> 00:27:50,930 to not just march, but to change their minds. 563 00:27:50,974 --> 00:27:52,584 And singing songs about peace and love, 564 00:27:52,628 --> 00:27:54,325 it sounds corny, but that's what needed 565 00:27:54,369 --> 00:27:56,588 to happen in a war-torn era. 566 00:27:56,632 --> 00:27:59,287 ["Find the Cost of Freedom" playing] 567 00:27:59,330 --> 00:28:02,115 - The only outlets that we had for information 568 00:28:02,159 --> 00:28:05,075 were the press, television, radio, 569 00:28:05,118 --> 00:28:06,772 and concerts. 570 00:28:08,774 --> 00:28:10,733 Musicians felt that they could get the word 571 00:28:10,776 --> 00:28:12,387 out of a different opinion. 572 00:28:15,041 --> 00:28:21,352 - ♪ Find the cost of freedom 573 00:28:21,396 --> 00:28:26,183 ♪ Buried in the ground 574 00:28:28,141 --> 00:28:31,014 ♪ Mother Earth... 575 00:28:31,057 --> 00:28:32,624 - The Southern California sound 576 00:28:32,668 --> 00:28:35,540 was gentle yet rocking. 577 00:28:35,584 --> 00:28:37,716 - ♪ Lay your body... 578 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:42,025 - It was acoustic yet electrified. 579 00:28:42,068 --> 00:28:44,767 ["Peace Frog" playing] 580 00:28:44,810 --> 00:28:47,335 - And then there was The Doors. 581 00:28:47,378 --> 00:28:50,120 The Doors gave us 582 00:28:50,163 --> 00:28:54,690 the Southern California sound after dark. 583 00:28:54,733 --> 00:28:58,563 - ♪ Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven ♪ 584 00:28:58,607 --> 00:29:02,959 ♪ Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of Venice ♪ 585 00:29:03,002 --> 00:29:07,224 ♪ Blood in my love in the terrible summer ♪ 586 00:29:07,268 --> 00:29:11,402 ♪ Bloody red sun of fantastic LA ♪ 587 00:29:11,446 --> 00:29:15,058 The music can't help but reflecting things 588 00:29:15,101 --> 00:29:17,713 that are happening around you. 589 00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:19,149 The mood I get for most of it 590 00:29:19,192 --> 00:29:22,674 is kind of a heavy, gloomy feeling. 591 00:29:22,718 --> 00:29:27,026 ♪ Blood is the rose of mysterious union ♪ 592 00:29:27,070 --> 00:29:29,768 I like to do a song or a piece of music 593 00:29:29,812 --> 00:29:35,034 that's just a pure expression of joy. 594 00:29:35,078 --> 00:29:39,212 ["Love Street" playing] 595 00:29:39,256 --> 00:29:41,345 - "Love Street," that's one where I had the music, 596 00:29:41,389 --> 00:29:43,956 and he just came up with those words. 597 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,482 - ♪ She lives on Love Street ♪ 598 00:29:47,525 --> 00:29:49,527 - His girlfriend, Pam, had just moved 599 00:29:49,571 --> 00:29:52,356 into that place up above the country store there. 600 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,576 - ♪ She has a house and garden ♪ 601 00:29:54,619 --> 00:29:56,055 - She has a house and garden. 602 00:29:56,099 --> 00:29:57,709 I would like to see what happens. 603 00:29:57,753 --> 00:30:00,408 - ♪ I would like to see what happens ♪ 604 00:30:00,451 --> 00:30:03,236 - There's this store where the creatures meet. 605 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,327 That is the Canyon Country Store. 606 00:30:06,370 --> 00:30:09,242 The heart of Laurel Canyon. 607 00:30:09,286 --> 00:30:13,159 - ♪ I see you live on Love Street ♪ 608 00:30:13,203 --> 00:30:16,685 ♪ There's this store where the creatures meet ♪ 609 00:30:16,728 --> 00:30:21,298 ♪ I wonder what they do in there ♪ 610 00:30:21,342 --> 00:30:23,039 ♪ Summer Sunday 611 00:30:23,082 --> 00:30:24,780 - The first time I saw Laurel Canyon, 612 00:30:24,823 --> 00:30:28,261 there was a full-scale hippie infestation 613 00:30:28,305 --> 00:30:30,699 taking place at the Canyon Store. 614 00:30:30,742 --> 00:30:32,962 It was exciting to see that many people, 615 00:30:33,005 --> 00:30:36,487 that profusion of different styles of freakdom. 616 00:30:36,531 --> 00:30:38,707 I would come into Hollywood, and Laurel Canyon 617 00:30:38,750 --> 00:30:40,752 every chance I got after that. 618 00:30:42,754 --> 00:30:45,583 Laurel Canyon was a place that gave you the permission 619 00:30:45,627 --> 00:30:47,846 to ask who you were, to find out 620 00:30:47,890 --> 00:30:51,154 what this life held for you, and not be scrambling 621 00:30:51,197 --> 00:30:55,724 for some regimented job in a regimented society. 622 00:30:55,767 --> 00:30:59,292 - ♪ I would like to see what happens... ♪ 623 00:30:59,336 --> 00:31:01,556 - That was the creative lightning 624 00:31:01,599 --> 00:31:04,341 that was going on between people. 625 00:31:04,385 --> 00:31:06,735 - Jackson and I, we used to hang out a lot, 626 00:31:06,778 --> 00:31:08,389 not doing anything special. 627 00:31:08,432 --> 00:31:10,782 I always had my camera with me. 628 00:31:10,826 --> 00:31:12,610 In those days, it wasn't competitive. 629 00:31:12,654 --> 00:31:16,179 It wasn't like, you know, we got a single and you didn't. 630 00:31:16,222 --> 00:31:18,616 People were really encouraging each other. 631 00:31:18,660 --> 00:31:21,140 "Go for it. Do the best you can. 632 00:31:21,184 --> 00:31:23,969 Can't wait to hear your new song." 633 00:31:24,013 --> 00:31:26,319 It was great. 634 00:31:26,363 --> 00:31:29,148 - You'd go play in a bunch of different people's houses. 635 00:31:29,192 --> 00:31:31,803 David Crosby would show up. 636 00:31:31,847 --> 00:31:34,023 - A kid came in. He was way too pretty. 637 00:31:34,066 --> 00:31:35,764 And I said, "Hi, kid. What's your name?" 638 00:31:35,807 --> 00:31:38,810 He said, "Jackson." I said, "Sing me a song." 639 00:31:38,854 --> 00:31:41,987 And he sang me "Adam." 640 00:31:42,031 --> 00:31:43,554 And I said, "Oh, shit. 641 00:31:43,598 --> 00:31:45,513 Here comes the next wave." 642 00:31:45,556 --> 00:31:47,123 ["A Song For Adam" playing] 643 00:31:47,166 --> 00:31:50,300 - ♪ Though Adam was a friend of mine ♪ 644 00:31:50,343 --> 00:31:52,911 ♪ I did not know him well 645 00:31:52,955 --> 00:31:55,610 I was writing songs and playing open-mic night 646 00:31:55,653 --> 00:31:57,394 at the Troubadour. 647 00:31:57,438 --> 00:31:58,961 That was a fun hang, too, because you wind up 648 00:31:59,004 --> 00:32:00,702 waiting around for about four hours 649 00:32:00,745 --> 00:32:03,226 with a bunch of songwriters on the street, you know, 650 00:32:03,269 --> 00:32:06,403 just like waiting for this window to open. 651 00:32:06,447 --> 00:32:08,666 I met a lot of friends there. 652 00:32:08,710 --> 00:32:12,061 ♪ Now the story's told that Adam jumped ♪ 653 00:32:12,104 --> 00:32:16,413 ♪ But I'm thinking that he fell ♪ 654 00:32:16,457 --> 00:32:18,023 - Eventually they told me, like, "Kid, you don't have to-- 655 00:32:18,067 --> 00:32:19,547 "don't have to sign up anymore. 656 00:32:19,590 --> 00:32:22,375 If you're gonna come, just come." 657 00:32:22,419 --> 00:32:25,596 - Jackson's music just really touched something. 658 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,685 It was very emotional 659 00:32:27,729 --> 00:32:31,254 but in a quiet, calm way. 660 00:32:31,297 --> 00:32:34,431 - There were all these greats second-wave songwriters 661 00:32:34,475 --> 00:32:37,652 all hanging out together at the Troubadour bar. 662 00:32:37,695 --> 00:32:39,828 But no one had recorded yet. 663 00:32:39,871 --> 00:32:43,048 Everyone was on an equal footing. 664 00:32:43,092 --> 00:32:46,312 - I was in this duo Longbranch Pennywhistle 665 00:32:46,356 --> 00:32:48,271 with this guy name JD Souther. 666 00:32:48,314 --> 00:32:49,707 We started going to the Troubadour 667 00:32:49,751 --> 00:32:52,449 all the time, five nights a week. 668 00:32:52,493 --> 00:32:54,756 Out there in the bar, I would sit with people, 669 00:32:54,799 --> 00:32:56,148 and I would ask questions. 670 00:32:56,192 --> 00:32:57,715 Gene Clark would come in, 671 00:32:57,759 --> 00:32:59,717 and I'd talk with him about songwriting. 672 00:32:59,761 --> 00:33:01,893 And I ask him why'd The Byrds break up. 673 00:33:01,937 --> 00:33:04,635 The next day, the guys from Crosby, Stills & Nash. 674 00:33:04,679 --> 00:33:05,810 Who writes the songs? 675 00:33:05,854 --> 00:33:07,551 Where do they rehearse? 676 00:33:07,595 --> 00:33:10,380 I was trying to collect as much information as possible 677 00:33:10,423 --> 00:33:13,383 that could help me get to where I wanted to be. 678 00:33:15,472 --> 00:33:17,300 We had heard about this guy Jackson Browne. 679 00:33:17,343 --> 00:33:19,650 He'd been playing the same clubs we had, 680 00:33:19,694 --> 00:33:22,740 and we struck up a friendship. 681 00:33:22,784 --> 00:33:26,788 I learned so much from Jackson about songwriting. 682 00:33:26,831 --> 00:33:28,790 It was the beginning. 683 00:33:28,833 --> 00:33:33,011 - I met Jackson in 1970 before my first album came out. 684 00:33:33,055 --> 00:33:35,361 I loved his music. 685 00:33:35,405 --> 00:33:36,580 The thing about Jackson is that he's been 686 00:33:36,624 --> 00:33:38,582 a real established songwriter 687 00:33:38,626 --> 00:33:41,411 since the time he was about 17 or 18. 688 00:33:41,454 --> 00:33:43,021 I mean, I heard about his legend. 689 00:33:43,065 --> 00:33:45,633 - Since the time we ran into each other a year ago. 690 00:33:45,676 --> 00:33:47,765 - Oh, we played before either one of us had had an album. 691 00:33:47,809 --> 00:33:50,289 He found out about me and loved what I did, 692 00:33:50,333 --> 00:33:52,857 and we've been like brother and sister ever since. 693 00:33:52,901 --> 00:33:55,904 It was a fantastic time to be young 694 00:33:55,947 --> 00:33:58,123 and free. 695 00:33:58,167 --> 00:34:00,169 Able to party. 696 00:34:00,212 --> 00:34:03,128 Able to sleep around if you wanted to. 697 00:34:03,172 --> 00:34:06,088 Everybody lived within ten minutes of each other, 698 00:34:06,131 --> 00:34:07,959 and everybody was up late at night. 699 00:34:08,003 --> 00:34:09,657 We all could go down to the Troubadour 700 00:34:09,700 --> 00:34:12,355 and just run into a set of people that were there. 701 00:34:12,398 --> 00:34:13,922 ["These Days" playing] 702 00:34:13,965 --> 00:34:17,099 - ♪ Well, I've been out walking ♪ 703 00:34:20,406 --> 00:34:24,236 ♪ I don't do that much talking ♪ 704 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,718 ♪ These days 705 00:34:27,762 --> 00:34:33,681 ♪ These days 706 00:34:33,724 --> 00:34:36,727 Crosby told me about this really hip young agent, 707 00:34:36,771 --> 00:34:39,208 who, unlike most of the agents and managers, 708 00:34:39,251 --> 00:34:40,905 was one of us. 709 00:34:40,949 --> 00:34:43,821 The guy that can do business with the best of them. 710 00:34:43,865 --> 00:34:46,781 He's really smart, and he's honest. 711 00:34:46,824 --> 00:34:48,434 - It was incredible to be at the nexus 712 00:34:48,478 --> 00:34:50,045 of all that was happening. 713 00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:52,134 Very fertile period of time for songwriters 714 00:34:52,177 --> 00:34:54,876 and singers and musicians. 715 00:34:54,919 --> 00:34:56,834 - Geffen was only 24 or something. 716 00:34:56,878 --> 00:34:58,357 I was about 18. 717 00:34:58,401 --> 00:35:01,230 So I sent Geffen a demo. 718 00:35:01,273 --> 00:35:03,188 I didn't get a reply. 719 00:35:03,232 --> 00:35:06,409 ♪ And I had a lover 720 00:35:08,846 --> 00:35:11,022 - David calls me, and he says, "Elliot, 721 00:35:11,066 --> 00:35:12,981 "I'm gonna play you something that's one 722 00:35:13,024 --> 00:35:16,549 of the most moving things I've ever heard." 723 00:35:16,593 --> 00:35:19,727 - ♪ These days 724 00:35:19,770 --> 00:35:23,687 - You could hear him sobbing on the other end of the phone. 725 00:35:23,731 --> 00:35:27,430 - ♪ Now, if I seem to be afraid ♪ 726 00:35:27,473 --> 00:35:33,871 ♪ To live the life that I have made in song ♪ 727 00:35:35,481 --> 00:35:37,701 - Eventually got a call back from Geffen 728 00:35:37,745 --> 00:35:39,355 asking me to come in and meet. 729 00:35:39,398 --> 00:35:41,792 And when I met him, within about 20 minutes, 730 00:35:41,836 --> 00:35:43,925 he said, "Okay, I'll manage you." 731 00:35:43,968 --> 00:35:45,753 "You will?" 732 00:35:45,796 --> 00:35:47,755 It was like a dream. 733 00:35:47,798 --> 00:35:50,366 - Elliot Roberts and I, we were coming across a lot 734 00:35:50,409 --> 00:35:52,890 of new artists that big record companies 735 00:35:52,934 --> 00:35:54,370 weren't interested in. 736 00:35:54,413 --> 00:35:55,719 - We knew. 737 00:35:55,763 --> 00:35:58,200 We knew songs, and we knew artist, 738 00:35:58,243 --> 00:36:00,071 but we couldn't get a deal for Jackson. 739 00:36:00,115 --> 00:36:02,813 No one wanted it, so we decided we better start 740 00:36:02,857 --> 00:36:07,209 our own company for artists that we think are great. 741 00:36:07,252 --> 00:36:09,994 Between Joni and Crosby, Stills & Nash, 742 00:36:10,038 --> 00:36:13,128 we felt we were dealing with the cream of the crop. 743 00:36:13,171 --> 00:36:14,782 Let's do it ourselves. 744 00:36:14,825 --> 00:36:17,480 And we ended up forming Asylum. 745 00:36:21,702 --> 00:36:24,617 ["Doctor My Eyes" playing] 746 00:36:28,926 --> 00:36:32,408 - ♪ Doctor, my eyes have seen the years ♪ 747 00:36:32,451 --> 00:36:36,804 ♪ And the slow parade of fears without crying ♪ 748 00:36:36,847 --> 00:36:41,243 ♪ Now I want to understand 749 00:36:41,286 --> 00:36:44,115 ♪ I have done all that I could ♪ 750 00:36:44,159 --> 00:36:47,292 ♪ To see the evil and the good ♪ 751 00:36:47,336 --> 00:36:49,077 ♪ Without hiding 752 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,168 ♪ You must help me if you can ♪ 753 00:36:53,211 --> 00:36:57,302 ♪ Doctor, my eyes... 754 00:36:57,346 --> 00:36:58,782 - Jackson got a lot of airplay 755 00:36:58,826 --> 00:37:00,131 because of "Doctor My Eyes," 756 00:37:00,175 --> 00:37:02,699 and his records were hit records. 757 00:37:02,743 --> 00:37:08,009 - ♪ To leave them open for so long ♪ 758 00:37:10,794 --> 00:37:12,361 - Geffen-Roberts Management, 759 00:37:12,404 --> 00:37:14,363 they were brilliant at selecting acts, 760 00:37:14,406 --> 00:37:16,365 and they had their pick of all these young acts 761 00:37:16,408 --> 00:37:18,367 that were coming of age then. 762 00:37:18,410 --> 00:37:20,064 They were really good at promoting them 763 00:37:20,108 --> 00:37:22,937 and really good at making it all work. 764 00:37:22,980 --> 00:37:26,027 But it was hard to make a living as a musician 765 00:37:26,070 --> 00:37:27,811 if you didn't have hits. 766 00:37:27,855 --> 00:37:29,465 And the bands I was in weren't paying enough 767 00:37:29,508 --> 00:37:31,467 really to make it. 768 00:37:33,338 --> 00:37:35,514 - Please welcome The Flying Burrito Brothers. 769 00:37:37,125 --> 00:37:39,910 - ♪ It's a lazy day 770 00:37:42,695 --> 00:37:47,048 ♪ I'm down with nothing else to do ♪ 771 00:37:47,091 --> 00:37:50,051 ♪ It's a crazy day 772 00:37:52,793 --> 00:37:55,839 ♪ I got a thing that I want to try with you ♪ 773 00:37:57,928 --> 00:38:01,714 ♪ Now, baby, don't go away 774 00:38:01,758 --> 00:38:04,674 ♪ Please don't spoil my lazy day ♪ 775 00:38:04,717 --> 00:38:06,763 - I did the third album with The Burritos, 776 00:38:06,807 --> 00:38:09,766 but I was then thinking of leaving that band. 777 00:38:09,810 --> 00:38:11,202 I had to work. 778 00:38:13,030 --> 00:38:14,989 - Our A&R guy produced The Stone Poneys 779 00:38:15,032 --> 00:38:17,208 with Linda Ronstadt, and he started hiring me 780 00:38:17,252 --> 00:38:18,601 to work on sessions. 781 00:38:18,644 --> 00:38:20,037 I met Linda. 782 00:38:20,081 --> 00:38:21,822 I later was in her band. 783 00:38:21,865 --> 00:38:23,301 ["Walkin' Down The Line" playing] 784 00:38:23,345 --> 00:38:25,956 - ♪ Got my traveling shoes 785 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,525 ♪ Got on my traveling shoes 786 00:38:29,568 --> 00:38:31,266 ♪ I got my traveling shoes 787 00:38:31,309 --> 00:38:32,876 ♪ That I ain't gonna lose 788 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,878 ♪ I believe I got the walking blues ♪ 789 00:38:34,922 --> 00:38:37,402 ♪ I am walking down the line ♪ 790 00:38:37,446 --> 00:38:41,189 ♪ Well, I'm walking down the line ♪ 791 00:38:41,232 --> 00:38:43,278 ♪ Well, I'm walking down the line ♪ 792 00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:46,977 ♪ My feet will be flying to tell about my troubled mind ♪ 793 00:38:53,462 --> 00:38:55,768 - Linda, you really--you play country music with a difference. 794 00:38:55,812 --> 00:38:57,248 That's--that's wild. - Thank you. 795 00:38:57,292 --> 00:38:58,771 - How did you get into country music originally? 796 00:38:58,815 --> 00:39:00,730 - Well, I'm a country girl originally. 797 00:39:00,773 --> 00:39:02,123 - I would not have guessed that. 798 00:39:02,166 --> 00:39:03,341 - I grew up in Tucson, Arizona. 799 00:39:03,385 --> 00:39:05,343 - I see. I wonder if you'd introduce 800 00:39:05,387 --> 00:39:06,649 the guys in the back... 801 00:39:06,692 --> 00:39:08,433 - I loved the Southwest. 802 00:39:08,477 --> 00:39:10,131 I thought it was the greatest. 803 00:39:10,174 --> 00:39:13,003 But I knew that I couldn't work in Tucson 804 00:39:13,047 --> 00:39:15,701 like I could work in Los Angeles. 805 00:39:15,745 --> 00:39:17,790 I was into folk music in those days. 806 00:39:17,834 --> 00:39:19,009 The Ash Grove and The Troubadour 807 00:39:19,053 --> 00:39:20,924 being the two main places. 808 00:39:20,968 --> 00:39:23,579 To me, that was like artistic Shangri-La. 809 00:39:28,105 --> 00:39:30,891 Laurel Canyon... 810 00:39:30,934 --> 00:39:33,937 I lived up there for a while. We lived up Kirkwood. 811 00:39:33,981 --> 00:39:36,026 A lot of people lived together in the same house. 812 00:39:36,070 --> 00:39:38,420 It was just the people you knew from the Troubadour-- 813 00:39:38,463 --> 00:39:41,640 gigging musicians trying to pay the rent. 814 00:39:41,684 --> 00:39:43,251 We would play music, and you'd take a guitar, 815 00:39:43,294 --> 00:39:44,469 put on a harmony. 816 00:39:44,513 --> 00:39:46,210 It was just going on, 817 00:39:46,254 --> 00:39:47,951 and it was just a part of what you did. 818 00:39:47,995 --> 00:39:49,605 Nobody was famous then. 819 00:39:49,648 --> 00:39:51,215 We're just people that hung out there. 820 00:39:53,174 --> 00:39:56,177 - It had this air about it that it was exclusive 821 00:39:56,220 --> 00:39:59,397 but not exclusive to wealth. 822 00:39:59,441 --> 00:40:02,531 It was exclusive to spirit. 823 00:40:02,574 --> 00:40:04,098 And you'd think, 824 00:40:04,141 --> 00:40:05,795 "God, if I could only live in Laurel Canyon. 825 00:40:05,838 --> 00:40:07,188 It'd be so great to live in Laurel Canyon." 826 00:40:07,231 --> 00:40:08,667 Then you find out, "Oh, I can." 827 00:40:08,711 --> 00:40:10,669 ["New Hard Times" playing] 828 00:40:10,713 --> 00:40:13,846 - ♪ There's too much time to sun yourself ♪ 829 00:40:13,890 --> 00:40:15,936 - First time I saw Linda is when she played 830 00:40:15,979 --> 00:40:17,459 the Troubadour with The Stone Poneys. 831 00:40:17,502 --> 00:40:20,418 - ♪ You wonder about your old friends ♪ 832 00:40:20,462 --> 00:40:23,726 ♪ You think how hard you try ♪ 833 00:40:23,769 --> 00:40:25,336 ♪ You hunger for... 834 00:40:25,380 --> 00:40:27,773 - It was like you were seeing a goddess. 835 00:40:27,817 --> 00:40:30,037 The voice was so beautiful. 836 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,736 - ♪ And the new hard times 837 00:40:33,779 --> 00:40:36,217 ♪ Are here 838 00:40:36,260 --> 00:40:39,568 - We dated for two weeks, and then she said "Steve, 839 00:40:39,611 --> 00:40:42,527 do you often date women and not try to sleep with them?" 840 00:40:46,314 --> 00:40:48,794 - After Linda was in The Stone Poneys, 841 00:40:48,838 --> 00:40:51,667 Steve Martin would open for Linda at the Troubadour. 842 00:40:51,710 --> 00:40:53,147 - Ready to roll? My name is Steve Martin. 843 00:40:53,190 --> 00:40:54,235 I'll be out here in just a moment, 844 00:40:54,278 --> 00:40:55,801 and we're gonna start. 845 00:40:55,845 --> 00:40:57,281 We're starting in just a few moments, 846 00:40:57,325 --> 00:40:59,327 just waiting for the drugs to take effect, 847 00:40:59,370 --> 00:41:03,200 and then we'll get going. Okay. 848 00:41:03,244 --> 00:41:05,202 - He was a huge hit. 849 00:41:05,246 --> 00:41:09,293 - You know, when I... 850 00:41:11,034 --> 00:41:12,818 Is this on? Is this mic on? 851 00:41:12,862 --> 00:41:14,559 - We watched every set he did. 852 00:41:14,603 --> 00:41:16,387 We were just huge fans. 853 00:41:16,431 --> 00:41:19,216 He did some very crazy stuff there. 854 00:41:20,870 --> 00:41:22,263 - It's a perfect instrument for a comedian 855 00:41:22,306 --> 00:41:25,048 'cause it's real dumb. 856 00:41:25,092 --> 00:41:27,181 When you're playing the banjo, everything is okay. 857 00:41:27,224 --> 00:41:29,139 It's like, "Hey, Steve, your house is burning down." 858 00:41:29,183 --> 00:41:31,272 [upbeat banjo music playing 859 00:41:31,315 --> 00:41:32,577 Well, sing along. 860 00:41:34,492 --> 00:41:36,538 - We loved having him as an opener 861 00:41:36,581 --> 00:41:38,235 'cause he could kill the audience 862 00:41:38,279 --> 00:41:41,282 but without getting in the way of your music thing. 863 00:41:41,325 --> 00:41:45,112 - ♪ I fall 864 00:41:45,155 --> 00:41:50,465 ♪ To pieces 865 00:41:50,508 --> 00:41:56,471 ♪ Each time I see you again 866 00:41:56,514 --> 00:41:59,039 - Linda was a singer, technically, 867 00:41:59,082 --> 00:42:02,172 a song stylist, emotionally. 868 00:42:02,216 --> 00:42:06,133 - ♪ To pieces... 869 00:42:06,176 --> 00:42:09,092 - A storyteller with her voice. 870 00:42:09,136 --> 00:42:14,054 One of the most iconic voices of our generation. 871 00:42:14,097 --> 00:42:15,707 - Frank Sinatra never wrote any songs. 872 00:42:15,751 --> 00:42:17,622 Elvis Presley never wrote any songs. 873 00:42:17,666 --> 00:42:19,233 Neither did Linda Ronstadt, 874 00:42:19,276 --> 00:42:20,408 but she had the knack 875 00:42:20,451 --> 00:42:22,540 for picking out instinctively 876 00:42:22,584 --> 00:42:26,153 what songs were gonna be good for her. 877 00:42:26,196 --> 00:42:31,375 - ♪ But I tried, and I tried, but I... ♪ 878 00:42:31,419 --> 00:42:34,161 - It was all about what she could do with the song. 879 00:42:34,204 --> 00:42:36,685 Every songwriter wanted to get something to her 880 00:42:36,728 --> 00:42:38,469 and were very lucky when she did, 881 00:42:38,513 --> 00:42:41,037 because she brought so much to the party. 882 00:42:41,081 --> 00:42:43,039 She took over those songs. 883 00:42:43,083 --> 00:42:45,520 - ♪ You walk on by 884 00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:52,483 ♪ And I fall to pieces 885 00:42:56,879 --> 00:42:58,837 - Linda just walked past me in the Troubadour one night, 886 00:42:58,881 --> 00:43:00,274 and I said, "Hi. I'm John David. 887 00:43:00,317 --> 00:43:02,058 I think you should cook me dinner." 888 00:43:02,102 --> 00:43:03,712 And she said "Okay," gave me her phone number, 889 00:43:03,755 --> 00:43:05,105 and I called her. 890 00:43:06,845 --> 00:43:08,847 - We lived together about a year and a half. 891 00:43:08,891 --> 00:43:10,762 We used to have a really good time singing together. 892 00:43:10,806 --> 00:43:12,460 We used to have a really good time 893 00:43:12,503 --> 00:43:14,984 listening to music together. 894 00:43:15,027 --> 00:43:16,464 I'd hear him writing something down the hall, 895 00:43:16,507 --> 00:43:18,292 and I'd go down and listen, and I'd say, 896 00:43:18,335 --> 00:43:21,382 "I really like that. Teach it to me." 897 00:43:21,425 --> 00:43:24,080 - I had a little piano room in the back of the house. 898 00:43:24,124 --> 00:43:26,082 I kept getting halfway through "Faithless Love." 899 00:43:26,126 --> 00:43:28,128 She came padding down the hall and said, 900 00:43:28,171 --> 00:43:30,869 "I think it's really beautiful and I'd love to record it." 901 00:43:30,913 --> 00:43:34,482 - ♪ Faithless love 902 00:43:34,525 --> 00:43:36,266 - When Linda said she wants to record something, 903 00:43:36,310 --> 00:43:38,921 it's very encouraging. 904 00:43:38,964 --> 00:43:42,272 - ♪ Raindrops falling 905 00:43:42,316 --> 00:43:44,535 ♪ On a broken rose 906 00:43:44,579 --> 00:43:46,842 It was like having a tailor-made songwriter, you know? 907 00:43:49,061 --> 00:43:50,628 We'd go through some horrible row, 908 00:43:50,672 --> 00:43:52,239 and he'd write a song about it, and I'd sing it. 909 00:43:52,282 --> 00:43:55,024 It was great. 910 00:43:55,067 --> 00:43:58,854 ♪ And the night blows in 911 00:43:58,897 --> 00:44:02,466 ♪ Like the cold dark wind 912 00:44:02,510 --> 00:44:09,517 ♪ Faithless love 913 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:13,260 ♪ Like a river flow 914 00:44:13,303 --> 00:44:15,087 - Longbranch Pennywhistle here. 915 00:44:15,131 --> 00:44:16,785 I suppose you're wondering what that name meant. 916 00:44:16,828 --> 00:44:18,395 - The first Longbranch Pennywhistle album 917 00:44:18,439 --> 00:44:21,833 didn't exactly set the world on fire. 918 00:44:21,877 --> 00:44:23,357 They wouldn't make a second record 919 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:24,923 with our material. 920 00:44:24,967 --> 00:44:26,534 The point is we're songwriters. 921 00:44:26,577 --> 00:44:28,100 We're trying to learn to write songs. 922 00:44:28,144 --> 00:44:30,233 So we just said we're not gonna record. 923 00:44:30,277 --> 00:44:31,930 And we sat around, played a few gigs, 924 00:44:31,974 --> 00:44:35,543 and just waited to see what would happen. 925 00:44:35,586 --> 00:44:37,762 - JD and I, we got up there, 926 00:44:37,806 --> 00:44:41,331 and we did our little Longbranch Pennywhistle/ 927 00:44:41,375 --> 00:44:44,160 Everly Brothers thing. 928 00:44:44,204 --> 00:44:45,509 - Jackson Browne took me over 929 00:44:45,553 --> 00:44:46,858 to David Geffen's house one day. 930 00:44:46,902 --> 00:44:50,035 I played him a couple songs. 931 00:44:50,079 --> 00:44:53,169 - I told JD and Glenn that they needed to split up, 932 00:44:53,213 --> 00:44:55,954 that Longbranch Pennywhistle wasn't gonna work. 933 00:44:55,998 --> 00:44:57,782 And I told Glenn that he wasn't good enough 934 00:44:57,826 --> 00:44:59,219 to be a solo artist. 935 00:44:59,262 --> 00:45:01,221 He needed to put together a band. 936 00:45:01,264 --> 00:45:02,787 - I thought Glenn was so good, you know? 937 00:45:02,831 --> 00:45:04,659 I mean, I just thought he was great. 938 00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:06,269 And I told him that he was a hotshot. 939 00:45:06,313 --> 00:45:08,053 I said, "You're gonna do something someday, 940 00:45:08,097 --> 00:45:09,751 "but in the meantime you're starving to death. 941 00:45:09,794 --> 00:45:11,143 "Why don't you come and play music with me? 942 00:45:11,187 --> 00:45:13,058 We'll have a great time." 943 00:45:13,102 --> 00:45:14,538 And then, of course, 944 00:45:14,582 --> 00:45:16,236 I was walking through the Troubadour 945 00:45:16,279 --> 00:45:18,238 during the Hootenanny, and this band Shiloh got up 946 00:45:18,281 --> 00:45:19,674 and did my exact version 947 00:45:19,717 --> 00:45:21,371 of "Silver Threads and Golden Needles," 948 00:45:21,415 --> 00:45:22,590 note for note off the record, 949 00:45:22,633 --> 00:45:24,418 and I just went, "What?" 950 00:45:26,550 --> 00:45:29,031 I heard the drummer, and I thought he was really good. 951 00:45:29,074 --> 00:45:31,294 - I was lucky enough to be in the right place 952 00:45:31,338 --> 00:45:33,514 at the right time. 953 00:45:33,557 --> 00:45:35,994 Linda and her manager, John Boylan, 954 00:45:36,038 --> 00:45:38,475 they thought it might be cool to have a singing drummer. 955 00:45:38,519 --> 00:45:40,303 But I had to audition. 956 00:45:40,347 --> 00:45:42,566 And I auditioned at a house in Laurel Canyon, 957 00:45:42,610 --> 00:45:44,525 just off Kirkwood. 958 00:45:44,568 --> 00:45:46,178 And he said, "Look, do you want to go on the road 959 00:45:46,222 --> 00:45:47,832 with Linda Ronstadt for 200 bucks a week? 960 00:45:47,876 --> 00:45:51,140 And I said, "Sure." And that was that. 961 00:45:51,183 --> 00:45:54,535 - ♪ I got a feeling called the blues, oh, Lord ♪ 962 00:45:54,578 --> 00:45:57,407 ♪ Since my baby say good-bye 963 00:45:57,451 --> 00:46:00,454 ♪ And I don't know what I'd do ♪ 964 00:46:00,497 --> 00:46:02,847 ♪ All I do is sit and cry 965 00:46:02,891 --> 00:46:05,546 - Even though they were a backup band for Linda, 966 00:46:05,589 --> 00:46:09,898 everyone knew that Don and Glenn were writing great songs. 967 00:46:11,508 --> 00:46:14,294 That second wave-- people who came here 968 00:46:14,337 --> 00:46:17,079 to be successful-- 969 00:46:17,122 --> 00:46:19,516 started to move up. 970 00:46:24,695 --> 00:46:27,002 By this time Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 971 00:46:27,045 --> 00:46:29,961 was the biggest American band. 972 00:46:30,005 --> 00:46:32,007 They were at their height. 973 00:46:34,444 --> 00:46:36,751 - We got so big so fast. 974 00:46:36,794 --> 00:46:39,406 There were thoughts of people wanting to be Elvis 975 00:46:39,449 --> 00:46:41,016 or something. 976 00:46:44,585 --> 00:46:46,630 - We were all dealing with the first mad rush 977 00:46:46,674 --> 00:46:49,067 of real big-time success. 978 00:46:49,111 --> 00:46:51,635 It made for some interesting perspectives, 979 00:46:51,679 --> 00:46:54,551 let's put it that way. 980 00:46:54,595 --> 00:46:58,120 - We scripted our shows that we would do solo sets. 981 00:46:58,163 --> 00:47:00,296 I did two, David would do two, Stephen would do two, 982 00:47:00,340 --> 00:47:02,167 and Neil would do two. 983 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,606 One night, Dylan came to see us. 984 00:47:05,649 --> 00:47:07,651 ["Black Queen" playing] 985 00:47:07,695 --> 00:47:09,827 - ♪ Black queen 986 00:47:09,871 --> 00:47:11,263 - This time, because Dylan was there, 987 00:47:11,307 --> 00:47:13,309 Stephen did five songs. 988 00:47:16,007 --> 00:47:18,096 And that pissed me off righteously, 989 00:47:18,140 --> 00:47:20,055 'cause I knew why he was doing it, 990 00:47:20,098 --> 00:47:21,883 but we could have all have done that. 991 00:47:21,926 --> 00:47:23,885 We all had more than five songs to be able to play. 992 00:47:23,928 --> 00:47:25,626 We all wanted to impress Dylan. 993 00:47:25,669 --> 00:47:27,454 But he did it. 994 00:47:30,370 --> 00:47:32,372 ♪ Black queen 995 00:47:32,415 --> 00:47:35,462 - In the intermission, we were so infuriated with each other 996 00:47:35,505 --> 00:47:37,986 that as I'm talking to him and telling him exactly 997 00:47:38,029 --> 00:47:40,510 what I think about him, he's holding a Budweiser, 998 00:47:40,554 --> 00:47:43,600 and he's slowly gripping it and crushing the can. 999 00:47:43,644 --> 00:47:45,689 It was frothing all over the cup, 1000 00:47:45,733 --> 00:47:50,433 all down his hand with this maniacal energy. 1001 00:47:50,477 --> 00:47:51,913 And we went out 1002 00:47:51,956 --> 00:47:54,437 and played the greatest set we ever played. 1003 00:47:54,481 --> 00:47:56,308 It's hard to get mad at someone 1004 00:47:56,352 --> 00:47:59,224 who's just played one of the best songs you've heard. 1005 00:47:59,268 --> 00:48:02,140 It's always been the music that kept us together. 1006 00:48:08,408 --> 00:48:10,932 - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young rehearsed at Steven's house 1007 00:48:10,975 --> 00:48:12,890 in Laurel Canyon a whole lot. 1008 00:48:12,934 --> 00:48:14,718 And they were outside talking one day, 1009 00:48:14,762 --> 00:48:17,155 and I kind of walked out there, thinking, "Oh, 1010 00:48:17,199 --> 00:48:19,070 they're all in one group, I'll get a group shot." 1011 00:48:19,114 --> 00:48:20,898 So I walked up to take this picture. 1012 00:48:22,596 --> 00:48:24,554 Well, I didn't realize that their little meeting 1013 00:48:24,598 --> 00:48:27,470 was to have a little bumper dust, 1014 00:48:27,514 --> 00:48:30,212 what they call Peruvian marching powder, 1015 00:48:30,255 --> 00:48:32,257 which had reared its ugly head 1016 00:48:32,301 --> 00:48:36,436 in our beautiful God's herb community. 1017 00:48:36,479 --> 00:48:39,613 - We smoked a lot of pot because we liked getting high. 1018 00:48:39,656 --> 00:48:41,745 It made us feel creative. 1019 00:48:41,789 --> 00:48:44,356 But cocaine would keep that feeling for hours 1020 00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,576 instead of just fleetingly. 1021 00:48:46,620 --> 00:48:48,448 - Everybody was doing it. 1022 00:48:48,491 --> 00:48:50,667 People were wearing little gold spoons around their necks. 1023 00:48:50,711 --> 00:48:52,234 I mean, they weren't ashamed of the fact 1024 00:48:52,277 --> 00:48:54,497 they were doing drugs. 1025 00:48:54,541 --> 00:48:56,543 - Cocaine, methamphetamine, speed, 1026 00:48:56,586 --> 00:48:58,980 all the fake-energy stuff. 1027 00:48:59,023 --> 00:49:01,112 You think it's gonna help you ride into night 1028 00:49:01,156 --> 00:49:05,377 or stay with an idea, and maybe for a while it does. 1029 00:49:05,421 --> 00:49:08,250 The physical consequences of doing those drugs 1030 00:49:08,293 --> 00:49:10,731 eventually just compounds, and you don't know it 1031 00:49:10,774 --> 00:49:12,210 because you're high. 1032 00:49:14,865 --> 00:49:17,085 - Drug use is like a windy little road, 1033 00:49:17,128 --> 00:49:20,175 quite pretty at the onset. 1034 00:49:20,218 --> 00:49:23,091 Trees and flowers and birds singing. 1035 00:49:23,134 --> 00:49:24,875 And you can't see where the road goes 1036 00:49:24,919 --> 00:49:27,225 over the cliff. 1037 00:49:27,269 --> 00:49:29,706 The only thing is... it does. 1038 00:49:32,404 --> 00:49:33,884 The first people who gave me cocaine said, 1039 00:49:33,928 --> 00:49:36,321 "It's not addictive. Don't worry." 1040 00:49:36,365 --> 00:49:39,977 It was a pretty disorganized time in our lives. 1041 00:49:40,021 --> 00:49:44,547 Success had already had some adverse effects on us. 1042 00:49:44,591 --> 00:49:49,509 We were all feeling very separate. 1043 00:49:49,552 --> 00:49:52,337 - After a while, it became edgy, 1044 00:49:52,381 --> 00:49:56,211 colder, less truthful. 1045 00:49:56,254 --> 00:49:57,473 - You know, we can't it blended that way. 1046 00:49:57,517 --> 00:49:58,953 And not only that, but we can't-- 1047 00:49:58,996 --> 00:50:00,389 - That's a jack. - We can't rehearse it 1048 00:50:00,432 --> 00:50:02,478 so that it all makes sense together. 1049 00:50:02,522 --> 00:50:03,914 - I can't do it, man. 1050 00:50:03,958 --> 00:50:08,179 - I'm not gonna cop out an inch to fear. 1051 00:50:08,223 --> 00:50:10,399 And you've walked out two fucking days in a row, 1052 00:50:10,442 --> 00:50:12,053 you fucking hypocrite. 1053 00:50:12,096 --> 00:50:13,750 You piss me off. 1054 00:50:18,494 --> 00:50:21,628 - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young soon ended. 1055 00:50:21,671 --> 00:50:24,544 Success breeds change 1056 00:50:24,587 --> 00:50:26,850 for everybody, for anybody. 1057 00:50:26,894 --> 00:50:28,199 ["Love Me Like A Man" playing] 1058 00:50:28,243 --> 00:50:32,377 - ♪ I need someone to love me 1059 00:50:32,421 --> 00:50:36,294 ♪ I want someone to understand ♪ 1060 00:50:36,338 --> 00:50:38,601 I was on the road nine or ten months. 1061 00:50:38,645 --> 00:50:41,735 I couldn't wait to get back to California. 1062 00:50:41,778 --> 00:50:45,347 ♪ Won't have to put himself above me ♪ 1063 00:50:45,390 --> 00:50:48,785 ♪ When he loves me 1064 00:50:48,829 --> 00:50:50,439 ♪ Like a man 1065 00:50:52,572 --> 00:50:55,400 I sailed into Laurel Canyon, rented a place, 1066 00:50:55,444 --> 00:50:59,100 and I was gonna make my third album with Little Feat. 1067 00:50:59,143 --> 00:51:01,929 And that's pretty much who I hung out with. 1068 00:51:01,972 --> 00:51:04,627 - When I finally moved up into the Canyon, 1069 00:51:04,671 --> 00:51:06,455 I was already a member of Little Feat. 1070 00:51:06,498 --> 00:51:08,109 That was the '70s. 1071 00:51:08,152 --> 00:51:10,372 People like Bonnie Raitt were living there. 1072 00:51:10,415 --> 00:51:14,245 More and more people had discovered Laurel Canyon, 1073 00:51:14,289 --> 00:51:16,683 which is kind of funny because Laurel Canyon 1074 00:51:16,726 --> 00:51:19,642 way back when was home to Tom Mix, 1075 00:51:19,686 --> 00:51:22,645 and Houdini had a house up there. 1076 00:51:29,609 --> 00:51:32,220 And then Zappa and all the different variations 1077 00:51:32,263 --> 00:51:33,874 of The Mothers. 1078 00:51:37,617 --> 00:51:39,836 Lowell George was a member of The Mothers 1079 00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,186 until he started Little Feat. 1080 00:51:46,713 --> 00:51:48,584 The one thing Lowell told me when I joined the band, 1081 00:51:48,628 --> 00:51:51,369 he says, "Rule number one, there is no rules." 1082 00:51:53,023 --> 00:51:56,026 - Oh, give me a break, Lowell. 1083 00:51:56,070 --> 00:51:58,376 Lowell George plays in a band called Little Feat, 1084 00:51:58,420 --> 00:52:00,552 and he sings-- he's the singer 1085 00:52:00,596 --> 00:52:03,947 and guitar player and the writer. 1086 00:52:03,991 --> 00:52:08,343 And for those of you who can't see, he's cute, too. 1087 00:52:11,128 --> 00:52:14,262 Coming out to LA and starting out in the early '70s, 1088 00:52:14,305 --> 00:52:17,178 it really was a cross-"pollinization." 1089 00:52:17,221 --> 00:52:19,267 It was the greatest gift to that era. 1090 00:52:19,310 --> 00:52:22,836 ♪ When you get home, baby 1091 00:52:22,879 --> 00:52:25,926 ♪ Write me a few of your lines ♪ 1092 00:52:25,969 --> 00:52:28,711 Country music, blues, R&B, all intermingled, 1093 00:52:28,755 --> 00:52:30,234 and it became just part and parcel 1094 00:52:30,278 --> 00:52:32,062 of the music that we loved. 1095 00:52:32,106 --> 00:52:33,498 We didn't have to put it in a box. 1096 00:52:33,542 --> 00:52:37,024 ♪ Write me a few of your lines ♪ 1097 00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,770 ♪ That'll be consolation 1098 00:52:43,813 --> 00:52:46,598 ♪ Lord Honey, oh, my worried mind ♪ 1099 00:52:49,863 --> 00:52:52,866 Little Feat was like me-- more roots-oriented. 1100 00:52:52,909 --> 00:52:55,433 The kind of music that they did was R&B-ish, 1101 00:52:55,477 --> 00:52:57,087 blues rock. 1102 00:52:57,131 --> 00:52:58,698 We straddled genres. 1103 00:53:00,743 --> 00:53:02,223 - One, two, testing, one. 1104 00:53:02,266 --> 00:53:03,615 ♪ Say hello 1105 00:53:03,659 --> 00:53:04,573 ♪ Yeah, yeah 1106 00:53:04,616 --> 00:53:05,530 Okay. 1107 00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,233 ["Long Distance Love" playing] 1108 00:53:19,153 --> 00:53:21,808 - Little Feat, they were extraordinary musicians. 1109 00:53:21,851 --> 00:53:25,376 Incorporated rhythm and blues and Delta blues, 1110 00:53:25,420 --> 00:53:28,553 boogie-woogie into rock and roll. 1111 00:53:28,597 --> 00:53:32,035 Some of it was radio friendly, and some of it wasn't. 1112 00:53:32,079 --> 00:53:35,778 - ♪ Hello, give me missing persons ♪ 1113 00:53:35,822 --> 00:53:40,130 ♪ They said, "What is it that you need?" ♪ 1114 00:53:40,174 --> 00:53:42,959 ♪ I said, "Whoa 1115 00:53:43,003 --> 00:53:45,005 ♪ I need her so" 1116 00:53:45,048 --> 00:53:49,792 ♪ They said, "You got to stop your pleading" ♪ 1117 00:53:49,836 --> 00:53:51,489 - How do you identify yourselves 1118 00:53:51,533 --> 00:53:53,753 in terms of the American musical scene? 1119 00:53:53,796 --> 00:53:55,189 - It's hard to say. 1120 00:53:55,232 --> 00:53:57,931 You know, we all write songs in the group, 1121 00:53:57,974 --> 00:54:00,760 and every song takes a different direction. 1122 00:54:00,803 --> 00:54:03,545 So it's really hard to pigeonhole 1123 00:54:03,588 --> 00:54:05,416 the kind of music we play. 1124 00:54:05,460 --> 00:54:08,985 ♪ Long distance love 1125 00:54:16,950 --> 00:54:20,823 - We were pushing boundaries, but from the press standpoint, 1126 00:54:20,867 --> 00:54:22,477 it was difficult for them to explain 1127 00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,131 just who the hell we were. 1128 00:54:27,525 --> 00:54:29,179 - We played how we felt, you know. 1129 00:54:29,223 --> 00:54:30,833 If they come up with a certain lyric 1130 00:54:30,877 --> 00:54:34,663 and everybody contributed their part to it, 1131 00:54:34,706 --> 00:54:36,796 then the music just came out like that. 1132 00:54:36,839 --> 00:54:38,058 It's sophisti-funk. 1133 00:54:38,101 --> 00:54:40,582 That was my name for it. 1134 00:54:40,625 --> 00:54:43,672 - ♪ Long distance love 1135 00:54:48,851 --> 00:54:52,072 - Why didn't Little Feat catch fire? 1136 00:54:52,115 --> 00:54:56,990 They are some of the best musicians on the planet. 1137 00:54:57,033 --> 00:54:58,687 - I really can't get up in the morning 1138 00:54:58,730 --> 00:55:02,299 and think about the goals of being successful, 1139 00:55:02,343 --> 00:55:04,171 'cause what is success? 1140 00:55:04,214 --> 00:55:05,868 I mean, it certainly isn't money. 1141 00:55:05,912 --> 00:55:08,871 Doing something that you really like doing 1142 00:55:08,915 --> 00:55:11,743 as a profession is really success to me. 1143 00:55:11,787 --> 00:55:13,180 I guess I'm doing it. 1144 00:55:13,223 --> 00:55:15,486 So I feel good about that. 1145 00:55:15,530 --> 00:55:18,620 - This was a time when music and art 1146 00:55:18,663 --> 00:55:20,274 was everything. 1147 00:55:20,317 --> 00:55:22,363 You lived for it. It was your life. 1148 00:55:22,406 --> 00:55:26,802 And the prosperity that it brought came second. 1149 00:55:26,846 --> 00:55:30,284 It was more important to make good music 1150 00:55:30,327 --> 00:55:32,416 than it was to make it 1151 00:55:32,460 --> 00:55:34,897 as a celebrity. 1152 00:55:34,941 --> 00:55:36,812 - You know, it's hard to draw a line 1153 00:55:36,856 --> 00:55:41,904 between aspiring to success and aspiring to artistry. 1154 00:55:41,948 --> 00:55:44,907 For example, Glenn Frey, who achieved artistry-- 1155 00:55:44,951 --> 00:55:47,170 I remember sitting with him. and he said, 1156 00:55:47,214 --> 00:55:51,609 "Oh, I want to be a rock-and-roll star so bad." 1157 00:55:54,134 --> 00:55:56,614 - Glenn had always had a plan for a band. 1158 00:55:56,658 --> 00:55:58,442 His gig with Linda was only temporary 1159 00:55:58,486 --> 00:56:00,488 as far as he was concerned. 1160 00:56:00,531 --> 00:56:02,272 He had this very detailed plan 1161 00:56:02,316 --> 00:56:03,752 about the band he wanted to start 1162 00:56:03,795 --> 00:56:05,754 and what kind of music we would do. 1163 00:56:05,797 --> 00:56:07,582 He recruited me, and, you know, 1164 00:56:07,625 --> 00:56:10,280 I became partners in that endeavor. 1165 00:56:12,326 --> 00:56:14,415 And after we got done with Linda's tour, 1166 00:56:14,458 --> 00:56:16,069 we went back to Los Angeles and started 1167 00:56:16,112 --> 00:56:18,941 the recruitment process for the Eagles. 1168 00:56:18,985 --> 00:56:21,117 - Glenn and Don both wrote at that time. 1169 00:56:21,161 --> 00:56:24,468 So they started talking about putting a band together, 1170 00:56:24,512 --> 00:56:28,298 and we told them they should get Randy Meisner to play bass 1171 00:56:28,342 --> 00:56:31,171 and Bernie Leadon, guitar player, 1172 00:56:31,214 --> 00:56:32,999 and they thought that was a good idea. 1173 00:56:33,042 --> 00:56:34,304 - I had a bluegrass background. 1174 00:56:34,348 --> 00:56:35,958 I had a folk background, 1175 00:56:36,002 --> 00:56:38,656 pop music background, rock and roll, top 40, 1176 00:56:38,700 --> 00:56:41,181 but I had never put it all together 1177 00:56:41,224 --> 00:56:43,531 in one thing until I enjoyed the Eagles. 1178 00:56:43,574 --> 00:56:45,098 - It was like people in love. 1179 00:56:45,141 --> 00:56:46,708 It was the greatest thing to see that band 1180 00:56:46,751 --> 00:56:48,840 when they first formed. 1181 00:56:48,884 --> 00:56:51,582 - We were very into the country-rock sound, 1182 00:56:51,626 --> 00:56:54,411 groups like Poco and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, 1183 00:56:54,455 --> 00:56:56,848 Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds. 1184 00:56:56,892 --> 00:56:58,763 - We were doing the same kind of cross-pollination 1185 00:56:58,807 --> 00:57:00,417 that those other bands had been doing 1186 00:57:00,461 --> 00:57:02,158 but with tougher rock. 1187 00:57:02,202 --> 00:57:06,510 ["Witchy Woman" playing] 1188 00:57:06,554 --> 00:57:08,860 One of the first songs we wrote was "Witchy Woman". 1189 00:57:08,904 --> 00:57:11,472 I wrote the music, and Don wrote the lyrics. 1190 00:57:11,515 --> 00:57:13,517 - ♪ Raven hair 1191 00:57:13,561 --> 00:57:16,346 ♪ And ruby lips 1192 00:57:16,390 --> 00:57:20,350 ♪ Sparks fly from her fingertips ♪ 1193 00:57:20,394 --> 00:57:22,657 - Our Texas artist friend Boyd Elder 1194 00:57:22,700 --> 00:57:25,355 had a big art gallery opening in Venice. 1195 00:57:25,399 --> 00:57:27,009 All of his friends came. 1196 00:57:27,053 --> 00:57:29,229 Most of the people lived in Laurel Canyon. 1197 00:57:29,272 --> 00:57:30,839 Everybody was there-- 1198 00:57:30,882 --> 00:57:35,365 Joni and Cass and most of the Turtles, 1199 00:57:35,409 --> 00:57:39,413 Jackson Browne and David Geffen. 1200 00:57:39,456 --> 00:57:41,241 The Eagles, they only had a few songs, 1201 00:57:41,284 --> 00:57:43,895 so they kept singing "Witchy Woman" over and over, 1202 00:57:43,939 --> 00:57:45,767 and everybody was dancing. 1203 00:57:45,810 --> 00:57:48,161 - We weren't really fit for public presentation 1204 00:57:48,204 --> 00:57:50,337 at that point. 1205 00:57:50,380 --> 00:57:52,034 But we were just happy to be hanging out 1206 00:57:52,078 --> 00:57:53,949 with that crowd. 1207 00:57:53,993 --> 00:57:55,907 It was a great scene because all the people trying 1208 00:57:55,951 --> 00:57:57,735 to write songs and trying to make records 1209 00:57:57,779 --> 00:58:00,042 were very supportive of one another. 1210 00:58:00,086 --> 00:58:02,305 Jackson Browne was a mentor to all of us 1211 00:58:02,349 --> 00:58:04,916 because he had broken through first. 1212 00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:08,311 And we all aspired to be what he was, 1213 00:58:08,355 --> 00:58:11,836 to write like that and have that kind of insight. 1214 00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:13,969 - ♪ Well, I'm a-running down the road ♪ 1215 00:58:14,013 --> 00:58:16,015 ♪ Trying to loosen my load 1216 00:58:16,058 --> 00:58:19,931 ♪ Got a world of trouble on my mind ♪ 1217 00:58:19,975 --> 00:58:23,587 ♪ Looking for a lover who won't blow my cover ♪ 1218 00:58:23,631 --> 00:58:26,199 ♪ She's so hard to find 1219 00:58:26,242 --> 00:58:29,811 ♪ Take it easy 1220 00:58:29,854 --> 00:58:33,597 ♪ Take it easy 1221 00:58:33,641 --> 00:58:35,469 - Jackson had started "Take It Easy" 1222 00:58:35,512 --> 00:58:37,079 and then abandoned it. 1223 00:58:37,123 --> 00:58:40,082 But he had played it for Glenn at some point. 1224 00:58:40,126 --> 00:58:42,084 When we were about to record our first album, 1225 00:58:42,128 --> 00:58:45,435 Glenn went to Jackson and said, "I'd like to try to finish it." 1226 00:58:45,479 --> 00:58:48,482 Jackson said, "Sure, have at it." 1227 00:58:48,525 --> 00:58:52,486 - ♪ Well, I'm a-standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona ♪ 1228 00:58:52,529 --> 00:58:55,271 ♪ Such a fine sight to see 1229 00:58:55,315 --> 00:58:58,927 ♪ It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford ♪ 1230 00:58:58,970 --> 00:59:01,799 ♪ Slowin' down to take a look at me ♪ 1231 00:59:01,843 --> 00:59:05,325 ♪ Well, come on, baby - ♪ Baby 1232 00:59:05,368 --> 00:59:08,806 - ♪ Don't say "maybe" - ♪ Maybe 1233 00:59:08,850 --> 00:59:12,332 - ♪ I got to know if your sweet love ♪ 1234 00:59:12,375 --> 00:59:15,944 ♪ Is gonna save me 1235 00:59:15,987 --> 00:59:19,339 ♪ Well, come on, baby - ♪ Baby 1236 00:59:19,382 --> 00:59:22,777 - ♪ Don't say "maybe" - ♪ Maybe 1237 00:59:22,820 --> 00:59:26,172 - ♪ I got to know if your sweet love ♪ 1238 00:59:26,215 --> 00:59:30,132 ♪ Is gonna save me - ♪ Is gonna save me 1239 00:59:30,176 --> 00:59:31,481 - ♪ Yeah 1240 00:59:38,706 --> 00:59:41,143 - Geffen pushed "Take It Easy" pretty hard 1241 00:59:41,187 --> 00:59:44,233 because Asylum Records was his new label. 1242 00:59:44,277 --> 00:59:45,974 Got in the top 20. 1243 00:59:46,017 --> 00:59:48,194 We had a lot of exposure with our first album-- 1244 00:59:48,237 --> 00:59:49,630 three hit singles. 1245 00:59:51,545 --> 00:59:53,112 - Oh, I think they were very ambitious, 1246 00:59:53,155 --> 00:59:54,504 particularly Glenn. 1247 00:59:54,548 --> 00:59:57,333 Glenn wanted to have a hit band. 1248 00:59:57,377 --> 00:59:59,161 - I wanted limousines 1249 00:59:59,205 --> 01:00:02,512 and adoring fans and girls. 1250 01:00:02,556 --> 01:00:06,386 There's no university that could've ever prepared me 1251 01:00:06,429 --> 01:00:09,302 for any of the things I needed to learn. 1252 01:00:11,695 --> 01:00:12,783 - Hi. - Hey. 1253 01:00:12,827 --> 01:00:13,915 - Hi. - How are you doing? 1254 01:00:13,958 --> 01:00:14,959 - Hi. - Hi, Jim. 1255 01:00:15,003 --> 01:00:16,483 - Oh, not again. - Hey, we get... 1256 01:00:16,526 --> 01:00:18,615 Oh, Jim. - We got to go now. 1257 01:00:18,659 --> 01:00:20,008 - When we first started The Doors, 1258 01:00:20,051 --> 01:00:22,053 each person was equally important. 1259 01:00:22,097 --> 01:00:25,187 As it progressed, Jim became the center of attention. 1260 01:00:25,231 --> 01:00:27,015 Morrison, Morrison, Morrison. 1261 01:00:27,058 --> 01:00:28,495 - Wait a while. Don't get out yet. 1262 01:00:28,538 --> 01:00:30,192 - We won't hurt him. 1263 01:00:30,236 --> 01:00:31,802 - So he was the one who had to live with it. 1264 01:00:31,846 --> 01:00:33,717 It was extremely difficult for him. 1265 01:00:33,761 --> 01:00:35,893 That's why he really started to drink as much as he did. 1266 01:00:35,937 --> 01:00:37,460 - Come on, girl. - What are you doing? Hey. 1267 01:00:41,116 --> 01:00:43,249 - Morrison always had a wild streak, 1268 01:00:43,292 --> 01:00:46,252 always a little crazy. 1269 01:00:46,295 --> 01:00:49,603 A few too many drinks, and he was right over the edge. 1270 01:00:49,646 --> 01:00:51,648 - ♪ Get together 1271 01:00:54,129 --> 01:00:56,436 - He touched the authorities in a way 1272 01:00:56,479 --> 01:00:59,221 that I've never seen anyone touch the authorities. 1273 01:00:59,265 --> 01:01:03,269 - ♪ Some outlaws lived by the side of a lake ♪ 1274 01:01:03,312 --> 01:01:07,229 ♪ The minister's daughter's in love with the snake ♪ 1275 01:01:07,273 --> 01:01:11,190 ♪ Who lives in a well by the side of the road ♪ 1276 01:01:11,233 --> 01:01:12,887 ♪ Wake up, girl 1277 01:01:12,930 --> 01:01:15,455 - It's a little nerve-racking sometimes, 1278 01:01:15,498 --> 01:01:18,632 but I thought he'd be one of those drunks 1279 01:01:18,675 --> 01:01:20,721 who lives to be 85 years old. 1280 01:01:27,336 --> 01:01:29,817 - We had an incident, perhaps was a turning point 1281 01:01:29,860 --> 01:01:33,081 in The Doors' career. 1282 01:01:33,124 --> 01:01:36,432 - I ain't talking about no revolution. 1283 01:01:38,304 --> 01:01:41,176 I'm talking about having a good time. 1284 01:01:41,220 --> 01:01:43,526 I'm talking about love. 1285 01:01:43,570 --> 01:01:45,311 - It was a horrible show, I have to say it. 1286 01:01:45,354 --> 01:01:48,314 Jim was so drunk. He couldn't sing right. 1287 01:01:52,492 --> 01:01:54,668 You're all a bunch of slaves. 1288 01:01:54,711 --> 01:01:56,539 - And Jim said, "What do you want from me?" 1289 01:01:56,583 --> 01:01:58,585 - People telling you what you're gonna do? 1290 01:01:58,628 --> 01:02:01,849 - "How about if I show you my cock?" 1291 01:02:01,892 --> 01:02:03,590 - He probably would've pulled it out 1292 01:02:03,633 --> 01:02:06,288 had Ray not told our equipment guy, Vince, 1293 01:02:06,332 --> 01:02:08,334 "Don't let him do it. Don't let him do it." 1294 01:02:11,206 --> 01:02:13,817 - We have taken out two warrants for Jim Morrison 1295 01:02:13,861 --> 01:02:15,819 for indecent exposure, 1296 01:02:15,863 --> 01:02:17,691 for the use of obscene languages 1297 01:02:17,734 --> 01:02:19,301 during his performance. 1298 01:02:19,345 --> 01:02:21,085 - Jim, do you have anything to say? 1299 01:02:21,129 --> 01:02:24,393 - I'm admitting the charge of the public profanity, 1300 01:02:24,437 --> 01:02:29,093 but I'm denying the exposure charge. 1301 01:02:29,137 --> 01:02:30,617 I told the audience, 1302 01:02:30,660 --> 01:02:32,445 "I realize that you're not really here 1303 01:02:32,488 --> 01:02:35,535 "to listen to some fairly good musicians. 1304 01:02:35,578 --> 01:02:37,014 "You know, you're here for something else, 1305 01:02:37,058 --> 01:02:40,670 and why not admit it?" 1306 01:02:40,714 --> 01:02:42,455 - "Is a trial date set?" 1307 01:02:42,498 --> 01:02:44,195 "Hey, man. You're putting me on a bummer. 1308 01:02:44,239 --> 01:02:46,763 Let's get on to another subject, all right?" 1309 01:02:46,807 --> 01:02:48,765 It's a rainy day in LA, 1310 01:02:48,809 --> 01:02:52,247 talking about this horrible nonsense. 1311 01:02:57,252 --> 01:03:00,516 - We were supposed to go on the rest of the tour. 1312 01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:03,345 We hear, "Oh, shit. The tour's canceled." 1313 01:03:03,389 --> 01:03:07,480 ["Crawling King Snake" playing] 1314 01:03:07,523 --> 01:03:09,046 - What do you plan to do in the future 1315 01:03:09,090 --> 01:03:10,700 as far as the band goes and everything else? 1316 01:03:10,744 --> 01:03:13,050 - Well, we have another album to do, 1317 01:03:13,094 --> 01:03:17,011 and we'll start cutting in a couple weeks. 1318 01:03:17,054 --> 01:03:20,928 - ♪ Well, I'm the Crawlin' King Snake ♪ 1319 01:03:20,971 --> 01:03:24,192 ♪ And I rule my den 1320 01:03:27,848 --> 01:03:32,331 ♪ Well, I'm the Crawlin' King Snake ♪ 1321 01:03:32,374 --> 01:03:35,377 ♪ And I rule my den 1322 01:03:39,599 --> 01:03:43,472 ♪ Come on, give me what I want ♪ 1323 01:03:43,516 --> 01:03:46,562 ♪ Ain't gonna crawl no more 1324 01:03:50,479 --> 01:03:52,916 - We were finishing up the album "L.A. Woman". 1325 01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:54,875 He said, "I'm going to Paris." 1326 01:03:54,918 --> 01:03:58,139 I said, "Whoa. What a good idea, man. 1327 01:03:58,182 --> 01:04:01,229 "Get away from all of this rock-and-roll thing 1328 01:04:01,272 --> 01:04:03,318 and become a poet again." 1329 01:04:06,669 --> 01:04:09,716 - The death of another rock musician was disclosed today, 1330 01:04:09,759 --> 01:04:12,414 Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors. 1331 01:04:12,458 --> 01:04:15,330 His manager said Morrison died six days ago in Paris 1332 01:04:15,374 --> 01:04:17,376 either of a heart attack or pneumonia, 1333 01:04:17,419 --> 01:04:20,640 but the death was kept secret to avoid a sensation. 1334 01:04:20,683 --> 01:04:23,077 He was buried in Paris in the same cemetery 1335 01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:27,081 where Balzac and other French immortals lie. 1336 01:04:27,124 --> 01:04:29,300 - I got a phone call from our manager 1337 01:04:29,344 --> 01:04:31,607 telling me Jim Morrison is dead. 1338 01:04:33,479 --> 01:04:34,784 Last thing I was going to believe 1339 01:04:34,828 --> 01:04:36,917 is Jim Morrison's dead in Paris. 1340 01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:40,007 He went there to clean up, to dry out. 1341 01:04:43,227 --> 01:04:47,754 He died 27 and a half, July 3, 1971, 1342 01:04:47,797 --> 01:04:51,018 outlaw, renegade, wild Dionysian poet. 1343 01:04:52,672 --> 01:04:54,500 And I miss him. 1344 01:05:03,509 --> 01:05:06,033 - Most people who make it in the music industry 1345 01:05:06,076 --> 01:05:07,817 are not prepared. 1346 01:05:07,861 --> 01:05:10,777 Success can be just as scary as failure, 1347 01:05:10,820 --> 01:05:13,519 if not scarier. 1348 01:05:13,562 --> 01:05:16,739 And some people don't actually live through it. 1349 01:05:16,783 --> 01:05:19,742 ♪ Desperado 1350 01:05:21,265 --> 01:05:26,096 ♪ Why don't you come to your senses? ♪ 1351 01:05:26,140 --> 01:05:30,623 ♪ You been out ridin' fences 1352 01:05:30,666 --> 01:05:34,409 ♪ For so long now 1353 01:05:34,453 --> 01:05:38,500 I moved to Laurel Canyon in early 1973 1354 01:05:38,544 --> 01:05:41,111 into a little house that was on stilts. 1355 01:05:41,155 --> 01:05:43,113 When the wind would blow, the house would sway. 1356 01:05:43,157 --> 01:05:45,855 Made me nervous. 1357 01:05:45,899 --> 01:05:48,162 It was formally occupied by Roger McGuinn, 1358 01:05:48,205 --> 01:05:50,904 the co-founder of The Byrds, so I took that as a good omen. 1359 01:05:50,947 --> 01:05:54,168 And I somehow got an old upright piano in there. 1360 01:05:54,211 --> 01:05:55,735 I don't know where it came from. 1361 01:05:55,778 --> 01:05:57,780 That was the year that Glenn and I 1362 01:05:57,824 --> 01:05:59,260 really started writing songs together. 1363 01:05:59,303 --> 01:06:01,044 He came to that house. 1364 01:06:01,088 --> 01:06:04,961 I showed him the little pieces that I had of "Desperado." 1365 01:06:05,005 --> 01:06:06,528 - We started writing "Desperado," 1366 01:06:06,572 --> 01:06:09,009 and we started writing "Tequila Sunrise." 1367 01:06:09,052 --> 01:06:10,706 And the more we started thinking about it, 1368 01:06:10,750 --> 01:06:12,534 the more this seemed like, 1369 01:06:12,578 --> 01:06:17,191 "Well, maybe this is kind of a country-rock opera. 1370 01:06:17,234 --> 01:06:19,410 "Write it all about the Old West. 1371 01:06:19,454 --> 01:06:22,239 "Why guys became outlaws, 1372 01:06:22,283 --> 01:06:23,763 "the romance of it, 1373 01:06:23,806 --> 01:06:27,418 the tragedy of it, the fame." 1374 01:06:27,462 --> 01:06:31,118 - I, like most of the guys of my generation, 1375 01:06:31,161 --> 01:06:35,252 felt like The Eagles had written Desperado for us. 1376 01:06:35,296 --> 01:06:38,255 Rock musicians and guitar players 1377 01:06:38,299 --> 01:06:42,608 were like gunslingers in the Old West. 1378 01:06:42,651 --> 01:06:44,697 - In our youthful exuberance and cockiness, 1379 01:06:44,740 --> 01:06:47,221 we tried to make that analogy, yeah. 1380 01:06:47,264 --> 01:06:48,875 We didn't exactly rob banks, 1381 01:06:48,918 --> 01:06:51,007 but we did have a similar lifestyle in that 1382 01:06:51,051 --> 01:06:54,750 we would go from city to city, and we had a life on the road. 1383 01:06:54,794 --> 01:06:56,012 There was drinking, and there was gambling. 1384 01:06:56,056 --> 01:06:57,840 There were women. 1385 01:06:57,884 --> 01:06:59,973 So we liked to think of ourselves as being outside 1386 01:07:00,016 --> 01:07:01,801 the norms of society. 1387 01:07:01,844 --> 01:07:03,411 And we were in a sense. 1388 01:07:05,326 --> 01:07:08,503 - The "Desperado" album is one of the finest pieces 1389 01:07:08,547 --> 01:07:09,678 of music ever written, 1390 01:07:09,722 --> 01:07:12,899 but the album wasn't making it. 1391 01:07:12,942 --> 01:07:14,814 - We made a concept album, which didn't make 1392 01:07:14,857 --> 01:07:16,816 the record company happy at all. 1393 01:07:16,859 --> 01:07:18,948 The song "Desperado" was not a hit for us 1394 01:07:18,992 --> 01:07:20,950 until Linda Ronstadt recorded it. 1395 01:07:20,994 --> 01:07:22,952 She gave it wings. 1396 01:07:22,996 --> 01:07:24,650 - We'd like to introduce someone 1397 01:07:24,693 --> 01:07:27,304 who was very instrumental in putting our band, 1398 01:07:27,348 --> 01:07:29,045 The Eagles, together. 1399 01:07:29,089 --> 01:07:30,786 Would you welcome Linda Ronstadt? 1400 01:07:38,315 --> 01:07:42,406 - ♪ Desperado 1401 01:07:42,450 --> 01:07:47,498 ♪ Why don't you come to your senses? ♪ 1402 01:07:47,542 --> 01:07:51,894 ♪ You been out ridin' fences ♪ 1403 01:07:51,938 --> 01:07:54,984 ♪ For so long now 1404 01:07:55,028 --> 01:07:58,684 ♪ Oh, you're a hard one 1405 01:07:58,727 --> 01:08:03,906 ♪ But I know that you got your reasons ♪ 1406 01:08:03,950 --> 01:08:08,258 ♪ These things that are pleasin' you ♪ 1407 01:08:08,302 --> 01:08:11,479 ♪ Can hurt you somehow 1408 01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:18,007 - ♪ Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime? ♪ 1409 01:08:18,051 --> 01:08:21,663 ♪ The sky won't snow, and the sun won't shine ♪ 1410 01:08:21,707 --> 01:08:24,187 - There's no question she resurrected that song 1411 01:08:24,231 --> 01:08:27,495 and helped keep The Eagles away from the sophomore slump. 1412 01:08:29,715 --> 01:08:33,066 - ♪ You're losin' all your highs and lows ♪ 1413 01:08:33,109 --> 01:08:35,677 - The Eagles, they kept their circle. 1414 01:08:35,721 --> 01:08:37,940 That's what I always liked about them most, 1415 01:08:37,984 --> 01:08:40,247 the loyalty to each other 1416 01:08:40,290 --> 01:08:43,729 in those early Laurel Canyon years. 1417 01:08:43,772 --> 01:08:46,296 - ♪ Desperado 1418 01:08:46,340 --> 01:08:48,734 - The best band in the United States of America, 1419 01:08:48,777 --> 01:08:50,213 The Eagles. 1420 01:08:50,257 --> 01:08:53,173 ["Already Gone" playing] 1421 01:09:02,704 --> 01:09:05,315 - ♪ Well, I heard some people talkin' ♪ 1422 01:09:05,359 --> 01:09:09,319 ♪ Just the other day 1423 01:09:09,363 --> 01:09:14,324 ♪ And they said you were gonna put me on a shelf ♪ 1424 01:09:14,368 --> 01:09:16,109 - The Eagles were not pioneers. 1425 01:09:16,152 --> 01:09:17,763 The Eagles were settlers. 1426 01:09:17,806 --> 01:09:19,852 But I do believe that we did a pretty good job 1427 01:09:19,895 --> 01:09:22,593 of cultivating the land that we settled. 1428 01:09:22,637 --> 01:09:26,554 We put ourselves into it and made it uniquely our own. 1429 01:09:28,164 --> 01:09:32,995 - ♪ 'Cause I'm already gone 1430 01:09:33,039 --> 01:09:35,781 - The whole California country-rock thing exploded 1431 01:09:35,824 --> 01:09:38,392 with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Poco, 1432 01:09:38,435 --> 01:09:41,961 Linda, Jackson, and the Burrito Brothers, 1433 01:09:42,004 --> 01:09:44,398 but The Eagles kicked that to the next level. 1434 01:09:44,441 --> 01:09:47,096 It was the dominant musical form of the '70s 1435 01:09:47,140 --> 01:09:48,271 in this country. 1436 01:09:54,930 --> 01:09:56,802 - I don't think any of us had any idea 1437 01:09:56,845 --> 01:10:00,153 how big the tsunami of sales that was coming, 1438 01:10:00,196 --> 01:10:01,328 was gonna be. 1439 01:10:01,371 --> 01:10:05,767 ["Take It To The Limit" playing] 1440 01:10:05,811 --> 01:10:09,640 - When we got to The Eagles and the later generations 1441 01:10:09,684 --> 01:10:13,775 of great bands, the entire business changed. 1442 01:10:22,958 --> 01:10:25,134 - Things got so big so fast 1443 01:10:25,178 --> 01:10:30,139 that places like the Troubadour became too small. 1444 01:10:30,183 --> 01:10:33,403 - What changed was the people went to coliseums to play. 1445 01:10:33,447 --> 01:10:34,883 We didn't see each other as much. 1446 01:10:34,927 --> 01:10:36,580 As soon as we went into arenas, 1447 01:10:36,624 --> 01:10:39,496 we didn't go and see each other. 1448 01:10:39,540 --> 01:10:44,632 - ♪ And I never knew 1449 01:10:46,852 --> 01:10:51,030 ♪ You know I've always been a dreamer ♪ 1450 01:10:51,073 --> 01:10:53,510 - You feed the machine that is the record business, 1451 01:10:53,554 --> 01:10:55,382 and the monster wants more. 1452 01:10:55,425 --> 01:10:59,342 Every artist has a peak, a creative peak, a sales peak, 1453 01:10:59,386 --> 01:11:02,432 and then comes the pressure of trying to repeat that. 1454 01:11:02,476 --> 01:11:05,609 You get caught up in this swirling vortex of success 1455 01:11:05,653 --> 01:11:08,177 and money and fame and pressure. 1456 01:11:11,050 --> 01:11:14,444 - As people became very, very successful, 1457 01:11:14,488 --> 01:11:16,316 the camaraderie changed. 1458 01:11:16,359 --> 01:11:18,318 People started guarding their songs. 1459 01:11:18,361 --> 01:11:20,494 You didn't want to give up one of your melodies 1460 01:11:20,537 --> 01:11:22,409 to somebody else. 1461 01:11:22,452 --> 01:11:26,195 Over time, people started moving out of Laurel Canyon, 1462 01:11:26,239 --> 01:11:29,068 getting a better place in a better neighborhood. 1463 01:11:29,111 --> 01:11:30,939 - ♪ You got to take it 1464 01:11:30,983 --> 01:11:37,816 ♪ To the limit one more time 1465 01:11:39,513 --> 01:11:41,341 Thank you. 1466 01:11:41,384 --> 01:11:43,865 - The business started burning people out, 1467 01:11:43,909 --> 01:11:46,955 and you were overworked on the road so much 1468 01:11:46,999 --> 01:11:50,176 and played more than you should play. 1469 01:11:50,219 --> 01:11:52,004 - You managed to keep pretty busy. 1470 01:11:52,047 --> 01:11:53,266 I know, 'cause we've been trying for two years 1471 01:11:53,309 --> 01:11:54,833 to get you on the show. 1472 01:11:54,876 --> 01:11:57,270 - I wanted to ask you, when you do have any time 1473 01:11:57,313 --> 01:11:58,793 in that busy schedule of yours, 1474 01:11:58,837 --> 01:12:00,447 how do you like to spend it best? 1475 01:12:00,490 --> 01:12:03,145 - Besides playing with my child, which is obvious, I think, 1476 01:12:03,189 --> 01:12:05,452 for any mother, you know, especially a mother who works. 1477 01:12:05,495 --> 01:12:06,888 You know, when you have to spend a little time away, 1478 01:12:06,932 --> 01:12:09,978 you really relish that time at home. 1479 01:12:10,022 --> 01:12:12,763 My mom was a very loving person, 1480 01:12:12,807 --> 01:12:16,289 but she also traveled a lot. 1481 01:12:16,332 --> 01:12:19,205 - Cass, now that you're such a giant star in the firmament, 1482 01:12:19,248 --> 01:12:20,423 is this your life? 1483 01:12:20,467 --> 01:12:21,816 Is it ever going to change? 1484 01:12:21,860 --> 01:12:23,513 - Well, I wouldn't like to have to work 1485 01:12:23,557 --> 01:12:25,037 as much as I'm working now. 1486 01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:27,256 Nobody wants to work that hard. 1487 01:12:27,300 --> 01:12:30,129 I'd like to go back to school... 1488 01:12:30,172 --> 01:12:32,783 - She closed a two-week sold-out engagement 1489 01:12:32,827 --> 01:12:34,916 at the London Palladium. 1490 01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:37,963 She had stayed up for 40 hours. 1491 01:12:38,006 --> 01:12:40,966 She went to sleep and had a heart attack in her sleep. 1492 01:12:41,009 --> 01:12:42,576 - "Mama" Cass Elliot, 1493 01:12:42,619 --> 01:12:44,621 a pop star who won fame with the group called 1494 01:12:44,665 --> 01:12:46,928 The Mamas and Papas, died today in London. 1495 01:12:46,972 --> 01:12:48,147 She was 33. 1496 01:12:48,190 --> 01:12:49,583 Ms. Elliot was in England 1497 01:12:49,626 --> 01:12:52,194 for concert and nightclub appearances. 1498 01:12:52,238 --> 01:12:55,197 - It was a big shock. That, to me, was a big shock. 1499 01:12:55,241 --> 01:12:58,244 She was a Los Angeleno. 1500 01:12:58,287 --> 01:13:00,986 She was one of us, you know, one of ours. 1501 01:13:01,029 --> 01:13:02,813 It had a big impact. 1502 01:13:02,857 --> 01:13:04,815 It just wasn't the same anymore. 1503 01:13:07,122 --> 01:13:09,168 - Out of that loss, for me, personally, 1504 01:13:09,211 --> 01:13:11,387 came a blessing. 1505 01:13:11,431 --> 01:13:13,912 My wife, Leah, and I raised Owen 1506 01:13:13,955 --> 01:13:16,305 after Cass passed away. 1507 01:13:16,349 --> 01:13:19,265 But the loss of Cass was traumatic, 1508 01:13:19,308 --> 01:13:20,875 not only for us. 1509 01:13:20,919 --> 01:13:23,617 It was a huge loss for the music community 1510 01:13:23,660 --> 01:13:25,662 and the brother and sisterhood 1511 01:13:25,706 --> 01:13:27,838 that had developed in Laurel Canyon. 1512 01:13:36,891 --> 01:13:39,285 - Mama Cass, 1513 01:13:39,328 --> 01:13:43,028 she put a lot of social things into motion 1514 01:13:43,071 --> 01:13:44,855 and changed people's lives. 1515 01:13:47,336 --> 01:13:50,905 She was sent by the angels. 1516 01:13:50,949 --> 01:13:53,081 A teacher to all of us. 1517 01:13:53,125 --> 01:13:55,214 As we all are to each other. 1518 01:13:57,694 --> 01:13:59,305 When I first picked up a camera, 1519 01:13:59,348 --> 01:14:02,047 it was as a folk musician, 1520 01:14:02,090 --> 01:14:06,834 quietly taking pictures, documenting, to learn. 1521 01:14:07,922 --> 01:14:10,011 Not consciously. 1522 01:14:10,055 --> 01:14:12,492 But when I saw that first picture on the wall, 1523 01:14:12,535 --> 01:14:15,799 glowing in color like it was alive, 1524 01:14:15,843 --> 01:14:18,237 that's when I became a photographer. 1525 01:14:28,987 --> 01:14:33,774 There's a reason that these people became so well-known. 1526 01:14:33,817 --> 01:14:37,473 They had amazing talent for life, really... 1527 01:14:37,517 --> 01:14:39,910 for singing, writing songs, 1528 01:14:39,954 --> 01:14:42,000 thinking poetically. 1529 01:14:43,784 --> 01:14:45,351 What is it really about? 1530 01:14:45,394 --> 01:14:46,917 Why are we here? 1531 01:14:46,961 --> 01:14:49,485 What is this wonderful experience? 1532 01:14:49,529 --> 01:14:51,574 What's the best way to live it? 1533 01:14:51,618 --> 01:14:53,707 And that's Laurel Canyon. 1534 01:15:00,366 --> 01:15:02,498 - If you believe in God, 1535 01:15:02,542 --> 01:15:05,153 it's like God said, 1536 01:15:05,197 --> 01:15:07,416 "Okay, kids, I'm gonna show you 1537 01:15:07,460 --> 01:15:10,289 "what the Garden of Eden was like. 1538 01:15:10,332 --> 01:15:15,033 And you get to live and play and love." 1539 01:15:15,076 --> 01:15:17,687 We embraced it all, 1540 01:15:17,731 --> 01:15:20,777 and it was wonderful. 1541 01:15:20,821 --> 01:15:23,519 - Laurel Canyon's become a name for a thing, 1542 01:15:23,563 --> 01:15:25,652 and it's really just a myth. 1543 01:15:25,695 --> 01:15:28,785 Places become focal points 1544 01:15:28,829 --> 01:15:31,397 for breaking out of convention. 1545 01:15:31,440 --> 01:15:33,834 What was happening in Laurel Canyon 1546 01:15:33,877 --> 01:15:38,578 was the universe cracking open and revealing secrets. 1547 01:15:38,621 --> 01:15:42,408 It was just about a time, the creative awakening. 1548 01:15:45,019 --> 01:15:49,023 - There are periods in history when there are peaks. 1549 01:15:49,067 --> 01:15:51,460 And nobody really knows why-- 1550 01:15:51,504 --> 01:15:54,028 Paris in the '30s, 1551 01:15:54,072 --> 01:15:56,726 the Renaissance in Italy, 1552 01:15:56,770 --> 01:16:00,295 Los Angeles in around '65, '75. 1553 01:16:00,339 --> 01:16:02,384 Very hard to define it. 1554 01:16:02,428 --> 01:16:04,517 But the proof's in the pudding. 1555 01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:05,909 The music's there. 1556 01:16:08,477 --> 01:16:11,350 ["Turn! Turn! Turn!" playing] 1557 01:16:22,709 --> 01:16:27,192 - ♪ To everything, turn, turn, turn ♪ 1558 01:16:27,235 --> 01:16:32,153 ♪ There is a season, turn, turn, turn ♪ 1559 01:16:32,197 --> 01:16:35,983 ♪ And a time to every purpose ♪ 1560 01:16:36,026 --> 01:16:39,378 ♪ Under Heaven 1561 01:16:39,421 --> 01:16:42,903 ♪ A time to be born, a time to die ♪ 1562 01:16:42,946 --> 01:16:46,907 ♪ A time to plant, a time to reap ♪ 1563 01:16:46,950 --> 01:16:50,737 ♪ A time to kill, a time to heal ♪ 1564 01:16:50,780 --> 01:16:53,435 ♪ A time to laugh 1565 01:16:53,479 --> 01:16:58,223 ♪ A time to weep 1566 01:16:58,266 --> 01:17:03,228 ♪ To everything, turn, turn, turn ♪ 1567 01:17:03,271 --> 01:17:08,363 ♪ There is a season, turn, turn, turn ♪ 1568 01:17:08,407 --> 01:17:12,193 ♪ And a time to every purpose ♪ 1569 01:17:12,237 --> 01:17:15,588 ♪ Under Heaven 1570 01:17:15,631 --> 01:17:19,331 ♪ A time to build up, a time to break down ♪ 1571 01:17:19,374 --> 01:17:24,118 ♪ A time to dance, a time to mourn ♪ 1572 01:17:24,162 --> 01:17:27,208 ♪ A time to cast away stones 1573 01:17:27,252 --> 01:17:30,255 ♪ A time to gather 1574 01:17:30,298 --> 01:17:33,432 ♪ Stones together 111804

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