This is excellent,, I've added it to my favourites 
in Explorer,, SGRoy, Montreal, Canada

Great web page, great stories. keep up the good work.

Does anyone remember the name of the Noel Harrison song 
that received considerable AM airplay circa '67 It was probably 
a track off the "Collage" Album? It's not the "Thomas Crown 
Affair",that track comes up in searches which Noel recorded for 
the sountrack

thankyou, Chumpchange chumpchange50@earthlink.net

i felt compelled to drop you a quick comment and let you know 
how much I loved your site! I really enjoyed reading your stories 
about Leon -- wonderful stuff....i will check back often for updates 
to the site -- the only thing i would request is more photos of Leon! 
-J.Starkey, oklahoma, jayson@ecmstudio.com

and wrote me a note. I was manager of the Omnibus 
Coffee House ( Franklin & Chuenga) and Psychedelic Supermarket
( on Hollywood a Las palmas)_ which i believe you refer to as 
Bizzar Bizzar, as that was also a named we used. I also was 
involved with the Love Ins with Mike Raven. Your site brought 
back a flood of memories, and I wouldn't be suprised if our paths
 didn't cross. Aron Key/ aka Pieman is alive and well in NYC; 
pieman@aol.com

Do you remember Mel & gary jacobson owners of the Psychedelic 
Supermarket? They were from NYC and Gary was a parapalegic on 
crutches, Mel was always snapping his fingers going " head, head, 
all lodge and no waiting." Mel was murdered in the Store in '69. 
Know Gene Gold who was harry neilson's best friend and a Tiger 
beat reporter? Rusty Goheen with long red hair and ran Junk 
Jewelry in the Psychedelic Supermarket? Zappa was our silent 
partner and an old friend from Sansusi Temple of Immortality, 
along with Vito and Fraternity of Man.

Love your site, email me Let's flashback...
LOL Happy Holidays Tommy Kelly TKelly48@yahoo.com

Hi There, Any chance that you have or know where to locate 
a photo of the Fifth Estate coffehouse and the Fred C. Dobbs 
coffee house on the strip in the late 60's early 70's? 
Thanks Robbie

Yo! Sup? Dude, I know Cooker, and his daugter and his ex wife. 
His ex wife drives me to school every morning and his daughter 
(Annette) is one of my bestest friends. Just thought i was kewl 
and wanted to share it. mmmk....bye

Roland Dupree was a then famous dance instructor & sometime 
choreagrapher

Great to see a site devoted to new and old exotic art and dance... 
check out our site on old time strippers at.. Bootlegburlesque.com 
EMail ..RedLiteRay@aol.com

Hi there. This is a great website. I was looking for info about 
Wildman Fisher. I'm suprised that you haven't received more responses. 
I know of some of the whereabouts of some of the people on your list. 
The Yellow Pages may have had a drummer named Terry Rae. He was 
kind of like the Pied Piper of 1966 leading many of my brother's musician 
friends from the South Bay to the Sunset Strip.

My brother, Ken Roland, was part of a band called Burnside (aka U.S. Males) 
that was signed to United Artist records and recorded one single that was 
eventually shelved. A one-hitless wonder! Burnside used to rotate with 
October Country, Eddie James & his brother's band, Pacific Ocean, and, 
if I'm not mistaken, Yellow Balloon at Gazzari's. Mr Gazarri died several 
years ago. Ken told me many stories of '66 and 67. He met Jim Morrison 
there after the singer had heaved in the club toilet! Ken said he was 
surprised at his shy manner and limp handshake. Seemingly out of character!

Of the others on your list I can name a few. Brandon De Wilde was tragically 
killed in an auto accident back in the 70's.

I believe Bobby Keyes still plays for The Stones when they tour.

Carl Radle is dead.

Sky Saxon has been around the block a time or two and still emerges from 
time to time. There's plenty out there on the Net about him.

I'm friends with a guy named Chris Darrow who is very tight with Kim Fowley. 
Proabably from back in those days. Fowley is still around doing something, 
I'd imagine. I met him and Bingemheimer once when they made appearances 
at Wallach(sp?) Music City around '69. Rodney was very nice. Kim was kind 
of distant and at the time looked like Chuck Connors to me.

Barry McGuire is an evangelical Christian(born-again) and has been for many 
years. He's touring and recording with Terry Talbot from Mason Profit.

Buffalo Springfield is spread all over the place. There was a tribute band 
that was fronted by Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin. I don't think there 
still performing but I did see a concert release on DVD. Of course, Stills 
and Young are quite visible. Richie Furay, arguably the most talented band 
member, has been a pastor at an evangelical church in Colorado for many 
years. He tours on occassion and plays small clubs. Don't know what Jim 
Messina is doing these days.

I've heard it rumored that Arthur Lee has been in and out of prison over 
the years. Love was once the premire band of the Hollywood Summer of 
Love 60's but oddly have been mostly forgotten. Interesting how history 
changes.

Those are a few of the people that I recognized. The only folks I have 
personal contact with is Terry Rae who I think played drums for The Yellow 
Pages. He also told me he played for The Palace Guard but I couldn't find 
his name in the Hulaballo line up.

There ya go! I'd love to hear from you!

Oh yeah, sadly, my brother died five years ago of an accidental overdose. 
In the past he had engineered at Sound City Studios and had actually 
worked on the song Signs with the Five Man Electrical Band. He was 46 
when he died. He built a recording studio in back of our mom's house in 
La Verne. I still use it for my own work.

take care, Terry Roland

Message to Terry Roland: I have gotten a large response on the website. 
The guestbook was much larger, but I lost the entries once when I uploaded.
Wanted you to know that I appreciated your comments and would love to 
respond, but you never left an email address. Please do if you get a chance 
or email me directly: DeedrickN@cs.com Nancy

hello and it was a pleasure comming to this web site. I grew up listening 
to alot of these great people threw my father. I love the fact that you 
took the time to remember and tribute this site to them. i have added 
this site onto my favs also. take care and keep up the good work! i'll 
spread the word of this site. thank you, Mimi

"What I have read and seen so far about that period, would have given me 
the wrong impression, had I not lived there myself. The Jim Morrison movie 
for instance, was disturbing--the way we were portrayed. It was misleading. 
Whose impression was THAT?! ...and oh so negative! That's not the way I 
remember it, folks." ***That was Oliver Stone's self serving portrayal of The 
Doors and the sixties. Jim never set Pamela's house on fire, the group never 
made a Buick commercial, Danny Sugerman was a fourteen year old punk 
who was routinely booted OUT of the office whenever anything important 
was going on (suddenly he's calling himself their MANAGER???) and, in the 
words of Ray Manzarek, "Darkness, WHAT darkness? We had a good time 
godammit!" I personally watched the spirit of Morrison try to give Oliver 
Stone a not-so-suttle hint one day on Venice Beach. The crew was shooting 
one of the beach scenes, the day was sunny and nto even the slightest 
breeze stirred among the clouds. A boom, which was securely tied down, 
suddenly toppled over, along with its three hundred thousand dollar cargo, 
a Panaflex camera. It's target? Not Val Kilmer, who was standing directly 
in the path of the falling boom, but Stone himself. It was almost as if the 
boom magically steered itself toward the egotistical director's skull. Ninety 
fiver per cent of the script for "The Doors" was utter and absolute bullshit, 
and it is a trademark of most Oliver Stone movies. They are brilliantly 
crafted and they feature superb storytelling, but the truth is almost always 
lost because Stone worships not at the altar of Truth, but at the altar of the 
Almighty Dollar, the focus group, the committee. That's okay when one is 
purposely fictionalizing a story, but "The Doors" was supposed to be a rock 
and roll biography, and the truth is not merely an option, it's a requirement.
 Manzarek himself was warned by Stone's team of lawyers not to grumble 
about the bullshit content of the movie before its release. Had Stone 
decided to produce something along the lines of "The Rose", it would 
have been okay, but then he wouldnt be able to name the movie "The Doors". Perhaps it would have wound up being called "The Holes"!

Jeffery J. Haas

I want to see pic's of Janice Joplin thank you

Roland Dupree is a legendary dancer/choreographer whose career has 
spanned some 60 years. He started as a lead dancer in Hollywood 
productions during the hey-day of the Studio System. When he was 
barely a teen-ager, he was a featured dancer in the "jivin' jacks and jills" 
studio dance group, was chosen to be the spritely figure against which 
every frame of the Disney animated film, Peter Pan, was traced, and 
was co-starring in Hollywood films with Shirley Temple and other young 
Hollywood stars of the time. He opened a studio in the heart of Hollywood 
on La Cienega and later on 3rd Street, where he trained and taught master
 classes to just about every conceivable Hollywood star and dance virtuoso. 
The list includes dance greats like Juliet Prowse and Hollywood icons like 
James Dean. Mr. Dupree started a scholarship program and trained dancers 
who have become the new generation of dance stars. The choreographers 
for all the great dance productions of the seventies and eighties (including 
MTV videos and major productions like Michael Jackson Tours, Paula Abdul 
videos,and Emmy, Oscar and Tony awards programs) have all trained with 
Roland Dupree at one point or another. Posing the triple threat of Ballet, 
Tap, and Jazz, Dupree's dance career has spanned many decades and 
outlived many "flavors of the month". During the period between the 
sixties-eighties Roland Dupree was known in all the a-list party circuits 
and his mercurial personality and dry-wit made him a favorite with 
normaly prickly mega-stars and divas. On any given weekday at Dupree 
Dance Studio it would not be unusual to find David Bowie, visiting 
members of the American Ballet Theatre, or a variety of "it" television 
and film stars observing , taking, or performing in the dance space. For 
the past 25 years, Mr. Dupree has continued to develop scholarship talent, 
do select Hollywood choreography gigs, and produce his internationally 
known dance convention and competition: Dupree Dance Hollywood Expos. 
Although Mr. Dupree has taken time to enjoy some of the fruits of his 
labors in his homes in the Southwest, he is still very involved in the dance 
world and continues to scout and develop talent and stars of tomorrow.

Gail married Frank Zappa

Always loved Fleetwood mac etc in love with stevie nicks what can i do now ?

The title of the Noel Harrison song I was looking for is,"A Young Girl"
and it is a track from his first self-titled Album.

If your looking for a Bitchen internet Radio Station go to, 
www.kdradio.com

They play everything!!! Also,visit the Message Board and try to identify 
the Mystery Song,Lyrics to the songs are Posted.Recent artist represented 
are, The Yardbirds,"Happenings,10 years TimeAgo" Iron Butterfly,
"Unconscious Power" and the Merry-Go Round,"You're A Very Lovely 
Woman".....

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Hi, I was a big New York groupie in the mid sixties and up until the 
early eighties. I was with Joe Dallesandro of TRASH and he was the 
most B.O.R.I.N.G person I ever hung with. HE was a very mediocre 
lover. Have lots of goodies to share with all. Nice site.

Jimmy Greenspoon is living in Show Low, AR with his wife Karen.

Fantastic Site, Great Memories...I was around the Strip in 65/66 and 
here's a few comings and goings of folks I knew:

Arthur Lee is out of prison, as of November 2001 and he has re-recorded 
and rearraged some of his Love classics on an independently released 
album. I'm told he is in great voice and doing well.

I knew both Irving Azoff and Bob Nutt and I'm wonder if anyone has 
an update on Bob...he was a nice guy...Irving, of course, everyone 
knows about.

Someone told me Sky Saxon was a carpenter in Marin county for awhile, 
but he's been an MIA for several years.

I ran into Roger McGuinn one the day Jerry Garcia died in Boston..1996???
 He is living in Florida and doing a big internet music site. I read just 
recently that he was nominated for a Grammy for a folk duets album he 
independently produced and recorded.

Bryan Mcclean and Ken Forsi are dead, Aurthr Lee just got out 
of prison and is living at the same place he always had.

This is nice; greatest memories. My friend Woody & I used to 
hang w. Eastside Kids. Mike and David Dowd headed it. they 
shoulda gone farther, but... Mike passed on many yrs. ago...
violently I heard. What happened to Dave, I don't know.... 
It was a great time to explore your head and have some great fun.
 Defintely a huge asterik on the linear line of life!

my name is steve hall better known back in the gazzaries days 
as ballsey hallsey the drummer for many rock groups.i knew bill 
and his sister very well some times after a late gig at his place 
i would sleep at his home.i came up in the van halen , quit riot, 
stormer,yankee rose,days they were good days hollywood was 
very alive with new talent it was a very exciting time in my life. 
there was know better women in world than the women of hollywod. 
i now live in palm spring ca,im a gsm for a large honda deaership 
by the name of unicars honda.go figure i have lots of memorys and 
photos and stories of those days they were the best ever 
gotta go buy

y

Great Website I am looking for any info I can get on Buddy Miles. 
In particular I remember seeing an article on his gorgeous Harley 
trike in some bike mag. Damned if I can remember which mag. 
It was approximately 1977. I have discovered that it was not 
Easyriders mag. In the past few months, I have been searching 
everywhere for that mag with the wonderful pics and writeup. 
The closest I have got was a picture of it on a yahoo site. 
Can anyone out there help me find this info. Thanks.......
Frank frakow@telus.net

Hey, this is Brian Goff. I met you at Norman's house out in 
Bondville about a year ago. We were visiting before we moved 
here to Kentucky. We couldn't find him the last time we were there. 
If you have any whereabouts of Norm, let us know. We sure do 
miss him! He was our neighbor in Urbana (the duplex on Olympian Dr.) 
Thanx for all of your help. Brian and Julie Goff and kids

hello loved your website, its very awsume, im very interested in the 
70,s its my faverette year, and everything involved with it, even 
thought i was born in 1962. tell me what are you like, freddy thomas

"Sky Saxon has been around the block a time or two and still emerges 
from time to time. There's plenty out there on the Net about him." 
----------I made acquaintances with Sky Saxon many years ago at a 
festival called "Dead Hippie". Turns out he was neighbors with another 
dear friend out in Hawaii, where he apparently had another house. 
I wonder if he's moved back to the mainland, or if he still divides his 
time between the two. JeffH

I only got to live the Hollywood stories through your eyes but I didn't 
miss out on Rod Steward and the faces. You can see how stoned I 
was in the photo I attached. (Houston 1972) I was back In Champaign, 
Il living in an old house on Springfield Ave. that was divided into apts. 
with REO Speedwagon. By the way, saw Bob Nutt two days ago in the 
Esquire. He drives a cab now. Guess we will hook up this week and party 
in Tulsa. Remember when I stole Dixie's corvette?

I lived in Eugene, Oregon in the early '90's where I had the distinct 
pleasure of meeting the one and only Miss Cynderella of the GTO's. 
She was sipping on a Big Gulp laced with vodka outside the 7-11 at 
the corner of 7th and Blair. I don't remember exactly, but I think it 
was the fall of 1994. Her face, though somewhat worn over time, 
was nonetheless beautiful (my god, those delicate cheekbones). 
She told me her name was Cynthia Cale-Binion, had a faint German 
accent. I saw her several times after that, even being invited into her 
apartment where she was living with a man whose name I forget, 
but she told me that he ran point in Vietnam. He was soft spoken 
and smiled at me in such a way that made me feel at ease yet cut 
through me. She and I talked on many occasions where she revealed 
that she was a GTO and, of course, I went and picked up a cassette 
of "Permanent Damage" which I still have. As we got to know each 
other better, she revealed that she was riding bikes with her best 
friend Nico (of the Velvet Underground) when Nico fell, her head hit 
a stone and was killed (real tears from her eyes when she told me 
the story). She wrote the opening track on Permanent Damage 
(and I think played the harpsichord, too) "The Eureka Springs 
Garbage Lady" which was a true story that her parents passed on 
to her from their honeymoon. I thought the song poked fun at the 
poor, obsessed woman but Cynthia was quick to point out that she 
thought the woman's peril was romantic (which, of course, it is). 
The picture of the garbage lady in the cassette sleeve was taken 
from her parents photo album. Living in a dingy apartment in the 
"felony flats" of Eugene's west side, she personified for me the lost 
dream of the summer of love. I was deeply affected by her quiet, 
persistent adherence to those ideals of love, freedom and acceptance 
in the midst of the cruel realities she endured. She was the most 
tragic, tender soul I've ever met and I often wonder where she is 
now and if those sad eyes have found the happiness they deserve. 
Michael

I stumbled onto your web site by accident and I just can't quit reading it. 
I can't wait for your book. The only "person" I have any info on and I'm 
sure you do by now, is Barry McGuire, who committed suicide. 
Thanks for a great time.

Hi, Nancy. Chuck Blackwell and his wife are still around, living near Tulsa.
 "Sweet" Emily Smith is still around, too. She is still in touch with Leon. 
Diane Sullivan is also alive and well and still living in Leon's old house 
in L.A.

HELLO, IM TERRY RAE, I WAS IN THE PALACE GUARD AFTER EMITT LEFT. 
IT WAS DON,JOHN,DAVE,RICK,CHUCK AND MYSELF. THERE WAS NO 
OTHER MEMBERS OTHER THAN TEDDY ROONEY WHO PLAYED BASS WITH 
US TOWARD THE END OF AN EAST COAST TOUR. THANKS, JUST WANTED 
TO CLEAR THAT UP FOR ANYONE WHO CARES....... TERRY