tell me about it. yes.. well i m telling the people at home. that s why esurance is making the whole experience surprisingly painless. so, you never have to talk about it, unless you re their spokesperson. esurance. it s surprisingly painless. this year i took some time off from touring and went off on some adventures of my own. and this is kind of a a letter back home. ooh, california, oh, california, i m coming home oh, make me feel good rock n roll band i m your biggest fan california, i m coming home
last night. the cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, a rock music group, is dead. he was 27. the early years of the 70s are sad in music. because you lose people. and you lose the beatles. the small gathering is only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may one day view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire. the beatles are breaking up. it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll, as we understood it in the 1960s, was no longer with us. there will never be another beatles. never. i wonder what i m doing here with no drummers and nothing like that. you might know, i lost my old band or i left it. imagine there s no heaven
the ramones are part of a wider new york scene. you had people like patti smith. i m an artist. rock n roll is my art. the new york dolls. the dead boys. rock and roll anybody can play. and richard hell. i belong to the races. richard hell was one to cut his own hair. ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. he was the king of the punks. the safety pin thing, for instance, is his. it s pretty clear he invented that. hey, ho, let s go punk in the united states is musical aberration, a statement of sorts of what music is and how it ought to be placed. in england, punk rock is not a musical statement, it is a social one. if punk has a home territory, it is here on kings road in london, the same street that launched the mini skirt and the mood of the swinging 60s. kings road belongs to punk rockers. what s this done for us? nothing.
oh, make me feel good rock n roll band i m your biggest fan california, i m coming home you look to the horizon that you want to move toward. and that horizon was here in l.a. that s where the record companies were. and there s lots of sun. the way i got to california was just really simple. i got there in a 57 chevy by skipping my finals that year in college. virtually nobody was from southern california. they re all drawn to the light. and the light is the troubadour club. things happened gradually until we played the troubadour club in los angeles. it holds 250 people. happened on the first night. every great songwriter, came through, jackson brown, j.d., henley and frey, linda ronstadt, joni mitchell, james taylor. the big sea change was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. is it difficult to reveal it constantly to so many people?
vernacular of the record business, where big is nearly nothing, zeppelin is very big. to get around, zeppelin uses a chartered 707, the kind of plane president nixon uses. the president s plane doesn t have an organ or 15-foot mirrored bar, nor in the private quarters does it have two bedrooms and a fireplace. i m a bit upset it doesn t have a pool table onboard. apart from that, i think this is the best way to travel. americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that s $700 million more than the whole movie industry grosses from ticket sales in one year. about three-times the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. i m telling you rock n roll basically is no different than ibm, xerox, sarah lee, chevrolet, supply and demand, it s the same business. rock n roll had been a gritty novelty business.