![]() Pat Crowe (“Tiny Tina”), a one-time tour manager for the Paul Dainty Corporation, kept house. Others, fearing its reputation, simply stayed away. The house became well known to musicians, roadies and girlfriends, along with most of Hollywood’s wannabes. Hello Sailor lived at this address from the end of August 1978 to mid-February 1979. Lisle Kinney and Harry Lyon rehearsing in LA. We continue past the ruins of the Harry Houdini mansion, turning up Lookout Mountain Ave and into Wonderland Ave. Turning up Laurel Canyon Boulevard, David points out the Canyon County Store (a one-time hangout for artists like Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Graham Nash and The Doors). Back then a billboard on Sunset Strip promoting your new record meant you’d really made it fast forward a few years and all that money would instead go into producing music videos. We weave our way through traffic, eventually picking up speed and turning into Sunset Strip with its monstrous look-at-me music billboards (one, a roller-skating Linda Ronstadt promoting her new Living In The USA album). Graham Brazier at a private Christmas party. When other stations were playing Donna Summer and The Bee Gees, K-ROQ would play new songs by Blondie, Elvis Costello, The Clash, B52s and Devo, mixed in with classic rock from Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, KISS and Led Zep. This was revolutionary programming for its time. It’s my first time in LA, my first time in the States, and everything’s good until we hit a massive traffic jam, all six lanes of freeway traffic going nowhere fast.Ĭut to the car radio, where one song blends into another with no ads, no interruptions. I don’t have sunglasses with me but it doesn’t matter. ![]() The sunshine’s so bright it burns your eyes. David’s son Richard is with us, and Lisle Kinney, the band’s bassist. I remember the day quite clearly, even now: I’ve just arrived in LA and I’m with Hello Sailor manager David Gapes, who’s driving, the sunroof down, radio on. Jeremy Templer was with them in LA for three months and tells the story. Instead, they went straight to Los Angeles in a bold bid for international success. The logical next step was Australia – that’s what every other NZ rock band had done. In fact, it almost looks like it could be the same piece of wood you see supporting the wheel in the composite photo from the film (click photos to enlarge).Hello Sailor’s debut album had gone gold and they had two Top 20 hits under their belt. Interestingly, in the photo composite below you can see what appears to be a single piece of wood exactly where I think the water wheel once stood. UPDATE: Having closely examined the film and the photos, I now believe the water wheel was set up on the far left side of the falls in a narrow gully that is today largely filled in with water. Matt says he will be devoting an upcoming post to 'Haldane of the Secret Service' which, after all, is a spy movie. Thank you, Matt! For all things espionage and spy-related in popular culture, be sure and check out Double O Section. Harry Houdini filmed scenes of his last movie, “Haldane of the Secret Service” in 1921, at the base of the Falls. It is built on the site of the famed Cotton Mill, which was destroyed by fire during the blizzard of 1888. The overlook has a good view of the Kinderhook Creek and Beaver Pond and Falls. The official Valatie website does include a mention of their Houdini connection:īeaver Cotton Mill Overlook. It is part of the Hudson Valley region of New York State and is 21 miles south of Albany. Valatie is located in the center of the town of Kinderhook in northern Columbia County.
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