Legends Of The Canyon

The mid to late 1960s was a time of change in America. The Viet Nam War, Nixon’s White House, environmental and social concerns, equal rights and poverty were just a few of the issues facing the American people.

Young people, teens and early twenties, began to question social norms and the ‘establishment’. Folk music was on a high and the British Invasion with its sweet upbeat tempo clashed with the more socially conscious Folk crowd. Then something remarkable happened.


A small group of American musicians and songwriters began to infuse Rock and Roll with Folk, Jazz, the Blues, Country/Western and even mystical Far East music to create a whole new genre of music.


Chiefly inspired by such notable Folk singers as Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie a new generation of performers formed groups that would revolutionize American music. Remarkably a huge portion of those performers took up residence in Laurel Canyon just outside of Los Angeles.


The Mamas and Papas, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, America, Buffalo Springfield and dozens more drew their inspiration from nature, each other and of course, drugs and sex.


In Image Entertainment’s new DVD ‘Legends Of The Canyon’, hosted and narrated by photographer Henry Diltz, many of the surviving members of each band recount the exciting and often turbulent times they lived through. Hear first-hand accounts of the power struggle behind the bands, the lavish and hedonistic lifestyles and the tragic young deaths and altered lives of many of the young performers.


Relive the days of Woodstock: peace, love and freedom as seen through the eyes of those who witnessed and took part in it all. Along with the film documentary and music clips the DVD also includes seldom or never-seen-before concerts and interviews, photos and a 20-page color booklet.


It’s far out man!