{"id":24264,"date":"2017-05-19T17:52:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T00:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24264"},"modified":"2017-05-19T17:52:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T00:52:23","slug":"peace-love-and-topanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/peace-love-and-topanga\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace, Love and Topanga"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, Southern California\u00a0has Topanga, which some consider a throwback to hippie days, though its more fashionable moniker is “bohemian.” Tucked in the Santa Monica Mountains between Malibu and Los Angeles in an unincorporated area of L.A. County, famous musicians\u00a0that have performed, lived or gotten inspiration in the hidden gem that seems slightly untouched by freeways and urban life nearby are Neil Young, Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys,\u00a0Canned Heat, Spirit, Little Feat, Spanky and Our Gang, Taj Mahal, Emmylou Harris, Bob Denver, Neil Diamond, Etta James and Jim Morrison. Rumor has it that Morrison was inspired to write “Roadhouse Blues” about the drive up Topanga Canyon Boulevard.<\/p>\n

It is fitting that\u00a0Topanga Days festival<\/a> on Memorial Weekend May 27-29, 2017 features bands such as Jefferson Starship (jeffersonstarship.net) formed in San Francisco in 1974 by Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Marty Balin, David Freiberg, Johny Barbata, Pete Sears, Craig Chaquico and Papa John Creach. If you miss\u00a0Topanga Days,\u00a0you can see Jefferson Starship (with original band member David Freiberg) in other California locales:<\/p>\n

May 25 Belly Up Solana Beach, CA
\nMay 26 Coach House Concert Hall San Juan Capistrano, CA
\nMay 27 Topanga Days Topanga, CA
\nJun 10 Cushing Memorial Amphitheater Mill Valley, CA
\nJul 28 Cornerstone Berkeley, CA
\nJul 29 Burbank Starlight Bowl Burbank, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, Southern California\u00a0has Topanga, which some consider a throwback to hippie days, though its more fashionable moniker is “bohemian.” Tucked in the Santa Monica Mountains between Malibu and Los Angeles in an unincorporated area of L.A. County, famous musicians\u00a0that have performed, lived or gotten inspiration in the hidden gem that seems slightly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}