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A Special Time In Rock: 1966 On The Sunset Strip

Roy Trakin, Los Angeles Times, 1991

THE SUMMER of 1966 on L.A.'s Sunset Strip was a time when many young musicians thought anything was possible. A teenager from the San Fernando Valley might wind up jamming with Jimi Hendrix, while a 14-year-old hitchhiking on Sunset Boulevard could get picked up by Phil Spector's limousine.

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