Laurel Canyon Documentary: In The Making and Call For Material

Laurel Canyon Documentary

A documentary film with a working title of Laurel Canyon is in the process of gathering background materials and has issued a call.

The Laurel Canyon documentary will provide an up-close look at the lives of the musicians who inhabited it. Through a wealth of rare and newly unearthed footage and audio recordings, the documentary will feature an intimate portrait of the artists who created a music revolution of the '60s and '70s that would change popular culture. Alison Ellwood (History of the Eagles) will direct the feature-length film.

Celebrating the music of Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, The Mamas & The Papas, Carole King, The Doors, Frank Zappa, James Taylor, Eagles, and more, the film will be uniquely immersive and experiential, taking us back in time to a place where a rustic canyon in the heart of Los Angeles became a musical and cultural petri dish.

The film is executive produced by Frank Marshall, The Kennedy/Marshall Company; Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, Amblin Television; Craig Kallman and Mark Pinkus, Warner Music Group; Alex Gibney, Stacey Offman and Richard Perello, Jigsaw Productions; and Jeff Pollack. The film is produced by Ryan Suffern, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, and Erin Edeiken, Jigsaw Productions.

ATTENTION LAUREL CANYON MUSIC FANS:

Were you there? Or were your parents or grandparents hanging out in Laurel Canyon during the '60s and '70s?

If you or someone you know has visual or audio materials that document this historic music scene, we want to hear from you!

We’re looking for film footage (home movies or professionally captured footage), photos, taped interviews and other audio recordings. We're specifically interested in materials that feature the mentioned artists, the canyon, Hollywood, the Sunset strip and anything that evokes that time and place.

More details @ Laurel Canyon Documentary.

Photographer Henry Diltz, with his iconic photograph of Crosby, Stills and Nash 1969 debut album cover is featured prominently in the exhibit at the Grammy Museum exhibit "California Dreamin': The Sounds of Laurel Canyon, 1965 - 1977"

And, a fantastic, essential interview with album cover artist Gary Burden as he travels the streets of modern day Laurel Canyon.


Interview: Gary Burden (Album Cover Artist) on World Cafe: Sense of Place - LA

(Lots of Neil comments @ ~19:00).

Also, see:

• Laurel Canyon Exhibit at Grammy Museum: California Dreamin' Explores Music Scene in the ’60s, ’70s
• Neil Young Lyrics Analysis of song and album "On The Beach"
• Gary Burden: 1933 - 2018

More on Laurel Canyon in the 1960's is the definitive analysis of what was happening there and making it very CLEAR ... Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream by David McGowan.

peace

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