About
The “Riot on Sunset Strip” weblog is an extension of Domenic Priore’s book “Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Last Stand in Hollywood” (Jawbone Press, London, 2007, foreword by Arthur Lee of Love). This space provides interactive room for Priore and you, the reader, to expand on subjects discussed in the book, as there never seems to be enough time and space to get all the good stuff into any “definitive” format. The Greater Los Angeles area discussed is inclusive of locations from Santa Barbara to San Clemente on the coastline, then inland to San Bernardino and Riverside… reaching all the way out to Palm Springs. The scene itself was a magnet, and people came to L..A. from all over the world during this time, partially because of the city’s ability to broadcast true art during those years. A sister city to Mod-era London, mid-’60s Hollywood was the rare media center tweaked by the progressive nature of all that was happening with the younger generation. By recognizing people, places and developments in the music, arts and activist movement of mid-’60s L.A., perhaps we can all better understand what has previously been overlooked or underestimated about this completely crucial time and place, and what it contributed to the positive social change that ’60s represented overall.