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<p>I lived in the SF Valley and OC during the late 70s, working for
consumer audio electronics manufacturers. It's where I caught the
home-brew computer bug. <br>
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<p>I did sound mixes at Rats Studio in Cahuenga Pass..... and yes,
designed disco installations when I wasn't working 12hr shifts at
JBL. Thump thumpa. <br>
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<p>This was after mixing Leonard Cohen one night in Toronto a few
years before. He didn't like my mix. At the time, I didn't like
his music. Now I can play a dozen of his songs.... if not very
well. A wise person once told me not to quit my day gig.<br>
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<p>Tom</p>
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<div dir="auto">Huh! Great story. I lived in North Hollywood in
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<div dir="auto">Mac</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>In the mid-1960s I lived in
North Hollywood, Calif. There was a band that used
to play in an elderly woman’s garage (elderly? I’m
probably older now than she was then). It wasn’t a
very good band but they practiced a lot and
improved. Years later I came to learn that it was
the Monkees practicing in Mickey Dolenz’s
grandmother’s garage. The studio had put the band
together and they were just getting to know each
other. I never did go to visit the band – at that
point in my life I was a lot more interested in
playing and listening to baseball than listening to
a band try to figure out what it was. Years later
two of my sisters-in-law ended up working for Mike
Nesmith as babysitters. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>In 1967, about a year after
the Monkees was formed, a new TV live dance show
starting filming in the Los Angeles area – The
Groovy Show. It generally filmed near Santa Monica
Pier, but would occasionally film at local parks
around the LA. It once took over the baseball
diamond where I’d play to film an episode. I ended
up meeting Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys. Ah,
to live in LA during the ‘60s. Rock & roll.
Griffith Park love-ins with the Jefferson Airplane
(when they weren’t in San Francisco), and a ton of
great bands playing free concerts in parks every
weekend. That – and the Monkees.</span></p>
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