The tributes to Love founder Arthur Lee, who died last week of luekemia at 61, continue to pour in from around the world.

Lee lived in Laurel Canyon, as did former Doors drummer John Densmore, who penned this very nice tribute to his former neighbor and Doors mentor.

Lee’s name and legacy came up several times in my talk at the Egyptian Theater Saturday. Someone in the audience pointed out that Lee had name-checked the canyon in Love’s “You I’ll Be Following,” his meditation on the joys of tracking down one’s connection:

I went to Laurel
Tripped in the canyon
My head is still bent, but now
You I’ll be following….

Arthur Lee, founder of L.A.’s great proto-folk-psychedelic band Love, died of luekemia Thursday in his hometown of Memphis.

Lee always claimed he was the first rock musician to live in Laurel Canyon, and he may very well have been so.

In the course of conducting interviews for LAUREL CANYON, I spent several hours at Lee’s former house, featured in this short film, at the very top of the canyon. It’s a comfortable, spacious place with the filip of an indoor-outdoor swimming pool that divides the house into halves spanned by a bridge.

It was early winter the day I visited and as afternoon faded to night a thick fog blanketed the house, obscuring the views and making it nearly impossible to drive back down the canyon.

The house has the feel of an aerie, better approached on wing—just the place for a visionary to see the sights.