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.

https://www.metv.com/stories/there-was-drama-on-gilligan-s-island-over-who-appeared-in-the-credits-and-when

Until next time.