Jun 1, 2020
The beginning of our conversation about music, life, and growing up in 1970s Hollywood.
Show Notes:
0:00 - Why did The Professor and Mary Ann get screwed in season one of Gilligan’s Island by being lumped together as “the rest?”
0:55 - Something from our “hair days…”
Rogue Alley – City of Pain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=378gO3Qs2Jk
Rogue Alley was one of our bands in Hollywood.
5:50 - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and The Grand Strand – where we live now: https://www.cityofmyrtlebeach.com/
Tinder Box of the Carolinas – where we work: www.tinderboxcigars.com
Chris moved to Myrtle Beach in 1992. Roger in 2005.
8:20 – More about Rogue Alley
8:43 – The Yale Brothers were born in Miami but grew up in Hollywood. We actually attended three high schools there: Daniel Murphy High School, Hollywood Professional School and Hollywood High.
We're boomers who came of age in Hollywood. It was, as Chris says, “beautifully grungy” then.
10:25 - The Magic Hotel (now The Magic Castle Hotel) – our dad, Carl Yale, managed that place for ten years.
12:35 - The Yamashiro and The Magic Castle.
14:55 – Highland Gardens Hotel and Camp Hollywood.
15:25 – The front desk and the old switchboard at the Magic Hotel. Also – we knew every square inch of that place. We had a rehearsal room in the parking garage.
17:06 – Mystic Sound Studios and Mystic Records
20:00 – We thought we’d be rock stars in our teens.
21:22 – The Sunset Strip. Gazzarri’s, The Central (Viper Room), Whisky a Go Go, The Roxy – and the Bla Bla Café.
23:21 – The Gilligan’s Island question – answered.
Until next time.