[Ipg-smz] So bummed

Stephen Lawton sl at afab.com
Fri Feb 22 06:18:58 UTC 2019


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. 

 

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.

 

 

Stephen

 

 

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From: Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] On Behalf Of Pam Baker
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:20 PM
To: Ken Hess; Ipg-smz at netpress.org
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] So bummed

 

Dang. I hate that

 

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 2:39 PM Ken Hess <kenneth.hess at gmail.com> wrote:

about Peter Tork. RIP.




Thanks,

 

Ken

 

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