Directed by Sasha and Anne Christine Von Wetter
Mastered by Planet Group Entertainment
Copyright 2011
During the 1970s, Topanga Canyon, nestled in the California mountains just behind Malibu, became a Mecca for many of Hollywood’s top musical performers. These musicians and their artist friends blended in naturally with the latter day hippies and long-time eccentrics that made up this laid-back community...a 'stoners' throw from Los Angeles.
This is the inside story of an iconoclast culture, filled with impromptu and staged musical performances by noted Topanga residents Billy Preston, Lowell George, Fred Tackett, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Spanky McFarlane, Bob Hite, Canned Heat, Gary Farr and others. The late Herta Ware Geer, former wife of actor Will Geer reminisces about the singular Topanga lifestyle, as Billy Preston rides through the canyon in his beloved cowboy garb.
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