'We were just regular guys that lived next door to each other, and we were all just working stiffs, making our music. It was an incredible time, an incredible place.'
Micky Dolenz says that explaining what happened in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon neighborhood from the mid-60s into the '70s"is a little bit likeBut Alison Ellwood, director of, the comprehensive two-part docuseries airing May 31 and June 7 on Epix, did find an answer in those varied viewpoints -- basically that there is no answer.
Laurel Canyon, of course, happened to become one of the greatest hotbeds in popular music history, thanks to its cavalcade of stars attracted by inexpensive housing and its proximity to the Sunset Strip.
"It's the kind of place that would naturally attract creative people," recalls Dolenz, who as a child visited Laurel Canyon with his father, who had a restaurant on the Sunset Strip."It was just a perfect storm -- the right place, the right time. And it was pretty casual; You would just see people walking up and down the streets, and everybody left their doors open. It was, I want to say a little bit like an extended family.
Chris Hillman -- an early Laurel Canyon resident, moving there during 1965 when he was with the Byrds -- says the environment fostered a cross-pollination that rubbed off on everybody's music."The diversity was fantastic," he says."You had Frank Zappa to the Turtles to the Monkees, the Mamas and the Papas...so many others, everybody who just lived in this within this one-mile area. It was beautiful.
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