Graham Nash on Mama Cass
Graham Nash remembers Cass Elliot and her Laurel Canyon home, where Crosby Stills & Nash may have sung together for the first time, and the impact she had on his life and music. “I don’t know what my life would been like if I hadn’t met Cass.”

Graham Nash on Laurel Canyon
Graham Nash describes a day in the life in Laurel Canyon during the time he, David Crosby and Stephen Stills were composing the first Crosby, Stills & Nash album. “As an artist and a writer that wasn’t an existence that was better for me then.”

Graham Nash on “Our House”
Graham Nash recalls the Laurel Canyon house he shared with Joni Mitchell, the inspiration for Crosby Stills & Nash’s classic “Our House,” and shares the story behind the song. “Once you walked through the front door, everything disappeared.”

Graham Nash on Joni Mitchell
Graham Nash reflects on his relationship with Joni Mitchell, including their first meeting, David Crosby’s role in bringing them together, and Crosby’s own affair with Mitchell. “She picks up her guitar and starts to play me 20 of the greatest songs I’d ever heard in my life. And with every song I’m getting deeper and deeper in love with this woman.”

Graham Nash on the Manson murders and Altamont
Graham Nash on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s little-known performance at 1969’s disastrous Altamont Festival. “Everybody in our band knew that we needed to get on with our show and get out of there. This did not feel good…this was gonna be an ugly scene. It was obvious to everybody.”

Chris Hillman on The Byrds
The Byrds’ Chris Hillman recalls the early days of the Byrds. “We weren’t a rock band. We didn’t know anything from that stuff. We didn’t even know how you were supposed to be on the stage. We had come out of folk music. I was scared to death in the Byrds. I was a little guy in a back row playing the bass. But what we did, we did well.”

Chris Hillman on Laurel Canyon
Chris Hillman of the Byrds on how he found his house in Laurel Canyon and his brush with death when it suddenly burned to the ground. “Roger [McGuinn] was across the canyon…and filmed it. I lost everything I owned, including one of the best guitars I’ve ever had.”

Chris Hillman on Altamont
Chris Hillman describes the Flying Burrito Bros.’ performance at Altamont. “It was like entering the depths of hell. The level of feeling that day that was indescribable, just darkness. It was frightening.”

Chris Hillman on David Crosby
Chris Hillman recalls former Byrds bandmate David Crosby. “I really love the guy, he’s just one of those people in your life [who has] a bulls-eye on the front of his shirt.”

Miss Pamela on Frank Zappa
Miss Pamela, founding member of L.A.’s famed GTO groupie clique, talks about her days at Frank Zappa’s Laurel Canyon log cabin. [Zappa] said: “Why don’t you call yourselves the GTOs. Because you’re girls together outrageously.”

Miss Pamela on Jim Morrison
Miss Pamela recalls an encounter with Jim Morrison at his Laurel Canyon house. “I looked in the door and there was Jim with his leather pants halfway unzipped and no shirt. I mean, God’s greatest gift has to be this man.”

Miss Pamela on Laurel Canyon
Miss Pamela recalls her infatuation with Laurel Canyon…and the many musicians who lived there. “The Byrds were my favorite band and they lived there, so that was it for me. They made a point to live there: ‘this is where everyone cool lives.’”

Miss Pamela on Freaks, Hippies and other canyon dwellers
Miss Pamela on the Laurel Canyon vibe. “There were the hippies, the freaks, the flower children, the folkies–there were all different types of people in Laurel Canyon, but they all got along because that was the attitude of the day. The whole canyon was just permeated with this acceptance of each other.”