Sunday, December 18, 2011

'67 Sunset Strip

Los Angeles rock and roll girls of 1967, daughters of Dionysus, spending wild days at love-ins and wild nights on the Sunset Strip. I've managed to convince myself that this particular free spirit could perhaps possibly be Miss Pamela of the GTO's, who road tested a Door, a Stone, a Who, a Zeppelin and two Burritos before settling with Michael Des Barres.


Hip sisters pose against walls plastered with icons of a happening scene - Love w/ Sons Of Adam at The Whisky, Columbia Records' Sparrow Are Now campaign, Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable and KRLA's 1966 Monster Halloween Freak-Off w/ The Seeds, Pop Art Experimental Band, Davie Allan & The Arrows, The New Generation and RAIN.





David Crosby interrupts The Byrds to make some political point or another - fur hat, STP Gretsch and all.

Chad Stuart of Chad & Jeremy, dedicated follower of fashion.

Love beads love child.

Direct from Toronto, Verve Forecast recording artists The Paupers, magic person Denny Gerrard in foreground, the haze of time resembling recreational smoke.

Monti Rock III, Puerto Rican hairdresser who used The Merv Griffin Show to launch an entertainment career with Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes at its pinnacle, accompanied here by the alleged Miss Pamela.


Barry McGuire at a love-in, Eve of Destruction in the rear view.

Rodney Bingenheimer w/ unidentified admiree.





The Velvet Underground's & Nico in the warm California sun, finally free of John and Lou's endless bickering.