GOING FOR BAROQUE: THE LEFT BANKE STORY
With the death of Tom Finn last month, all four original members (Finn, Michael Brown, George Cameron, Steve...
1960’s
1960’s
THE DAWNING OF AQUARIUS: AN L.A. ARTIST REVISITS THE 1960S
The Sixties never died, at least not on the palette of Dawn Aquarius. Steeped in the music, lore,...
THE INTREPID TRAVELLER: KEN BABBS ON THE MERRY PRANKSTERS, THE BEATS, THE DEAD, WOODSTOCK, AND MUCH MORE
How did a basketball-playing Marine Corps lieutenant from Ohio become a driving force for the Merry Pranksters, an...
JONI MITCHELL: A RECKLESS DAUGHTER’S BRILLIANT JOURNEY
Joni Mitchell was a “folk singer” for two years, but she has been an artistic badass for more...
HOW HOLLYWOOD HANDLED THE HIPPIES
By the late 1960s, Hollywood had been infiltrated by psychedelia as a recreational pastime (pot, LSD, peyote were...
THE STORY BEHIND DINO VALENTI’S HEY JOE AND LET’S GET TOGETHER
This is a story about singer-songwriter Dino Valenti and two songs for which he has songwriting credit that...
MOOGS, THEREMINS, AND LSD: LOTHAR & THE HAND PEOPLE’S SUBVERSIVE PSYCHEDELIA
While Hendrix, Morrison and Joplin were setting the musical tone for 1960s counterculture, Denver-based Lothar & The Hand...
CAROL KAYE: THE BOSS OF THE BASS GUITAR
Carol Kaye started as a jazz solo guitarist, working the club scene of 1950s LA, when she was...
LISA LAW: CAPTURING THE SIXTIES AND BEYOND WITH HER TRUTH-TELLING CAMERA
Lisa Law and her camera, Dennis Hopper once said, caught “everyone” in the Sixties from the Beatles, Dylan...
ROGER MCGUINN: A NOTORIOUS BYRD BROTHER FINDS PEACE
Roger McGuinn, as a founding member and guiding force of The Byrds, had a huge impact on rock...
DUTCH NUGGETS: ORIGINAL 1960s’ ROCK & ROLL ‘ARTYFACTS’ THAT DEFY TIME
You’ve heard of the British Invasion, right? Well, ‘the Dutch Invasion’ that followed did not exactly storm the...
CHARLES MANSON’S SUMMER OF HATE
Fifty years ago, an ex-con, wannabe rock star named Charles Manson channeled all the paranoia, fear and hatred...
PHIL OCHS: BOUND FOR GLORY
A driving force of musical dissent in the 1960s, Phil Ochs (1940-1976) and his musical legacy are ripe...
DON’T GIMME NO LIP, CHILD: THE ‘STRANGE EFFECT’ OF DAVE BERRY
The UK hitmaker whose career began before The Beatles and still continues at age 80, was always one...