The City of Angels Music Tour of Los Angeles
REGISTRATIONS FOR THIS TOUR HAVE CLOSED
Roadie & Groupie Packages / 16 - 21 April 2010 [6 Days/5 Nights]
Rockstar Package / 16 - 24 April 2010 [9 Days/8 Nights]
Los Angeles is bold, brash and a magnet for many of the world's most successful performers. They honed their craft in the intimate venues on-and-off Sunset Strip, with hopes to be noticed by music industry heavyweights. Now they have our attention and we honour them by kicking off Rock and Pop Tours with the 2010 City Of Angels Music Tour of Los Angeles.
The way that Rock and Pop music is created and distributed has changed enormously over the years, so we will compare the classic with the current, as we visit music venues, studios, stadiums, guitar shops, homes, hotels, and attend great gigs. We will take you behind the scenes, into the studio, backstage, upstage, downstage and in some cases on-stage so you can get a small taste of what it really takes to weave a career path as a professional musician. Be ready to be rocked to your core as we uncover why Los Angeles is held in rock circuits as one of the most important cities for music on the planet. As in rock 'n' roll, anything can happen on a Rock and Pop Tour!
* please note that the itinerary dates of various activities may change. Additional items, experiences & surprises will be added thus altering various timings etc. Confirmed group members only, will be advised of these changes.
THE CITY OF ANGELS MUSIC TOUR ITINERARY
DAY 1 > Friday 16 April
TRAVEL & ARRIVAL DAY in L.A. / ROCK AND POP ROOFTOP WELCOME EVENT
DAY 2 > Saturday 17 April
ORIENTATION DAY / WALKING TOUR OF HOLLYWOOD / UNIVERSAL CITY WALK / GIBSON AMPHITHEATRE & MUSEUM / ROCK AND POP TRIVIA NIGHT
DAY 3 > Sunday 18 April
AND THE WINNER IS...DAY / L.A. LIVE / GRAMMY MUSEUM / MICK FLEETWOOD'S WINES & NOKIA LIVE
DAY 4 > Monday 19 April
ROCK SCHOOL DAY / THE ROCK AND POP HISTORY TOUR OF L.A.
DAY 5 > Tuesday 20 April
ROCK AND POP TOURS PRESENTS - THE EAGLES LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL
We start out at a leisurely pace as we have another big day ahead... with some free time to get ready for the night ahead - LONG ROAD OUT OF EDEN - THE EAGLES LIVE!
DAY 6 > Wednesday 21 April
ROCK AND POP RECORDING STUDIO EXPERIENCE
DAY 7 > Thursday 22 April
WE CAN LIVE BESIDE THE OCEAN... SANTA MONICA & VENICE BEACH
DAY 8 > Friday 23 April
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN - FREE TIME & THE FAREWELL GIG AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES
DAY 9 > Saturday 24 April
URBAN MUSIC TOUR / FAREWELL & DEPARTURES
Lest we forget that it will be ANZAC Day when you get home so you have a full day to recover and upload your photos.
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* please note that the itinerary dates of various activities may change. Additional items, experiences & surprises will be added thus altering various timings etc. Confirmed group members only, will be advised of these changes.
Background reading /// Rock and Pop Music in The City of Angels
As well as being one of the most important cities in the world in the film industry, Los Angeles is also one of the most important places in the world for the recorded music industry. Many landmarks in Los Angeles - such as Capitol Records, which resembles a stack of albums - are representative of this. A&M Records long occupied a studio off Sunset Boulevard built by Charlie Chaplin (who wrote the music for his own films). The Warner Brothers built a major recording business in addition to their film business. At the other end of the business, local Rhino Records began a reissue boom by digging through archives of old recordings and repackaging them for modern audiences.
During the 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles had a vibrant African-American musical community even when it was relatively small: a number of musical artists congregated around Central Avenue, and the community produced a number of great talents, including Charles Mingus, Buddy Collette, Gerald Wilson.
In the 1960s the Sunset Strip became a breeding ground for bands like The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and The Doors. The Beach Boys were founded in nearby Hawthorne.
Much hard rock has come out of Los Angeles, including hard rockers Van Halen from nearby Pasadena, "hair bands" like Mötley Crüe & Guns N' Roses, thrash metal acts like Metallica and Slayer, and also '90s rock bands such as KoЯn and especially Red Hot Chili Peppers.
There was a sizable punk rock movement which spawned the hardcore punk movement featuring bands like X, Black Flag and Wasted Youth. In the 1980s, the Paisley Underground movement was native to Los Angeles.
In the 1990s, Los Angeles' contribution to rock music continued with acclaimed artists such as Beck, Weezer, Sublime of Long Beach, Tool and Rage Against the Machine. At the end of the 1990s, the nu metal band Linkin Park was formed in Agoura, and was named after Lincoln Park in Santa Monica, near their recording studio.
In addition, the gangsta rap of N.W.A., and later the solo careers of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Snoop Dogg, among other acts, re-established Los Angeles (particularly the communities of Long Beach and Compton) as a centre of African-American musical development and G-funk as one of hip-hop's major living styles.
In the noughties L.A. has continued to draw the hopefuls to its clutches and we see its evolution continue whilst still strong with its links to the past. Rock and Pop will never be the same again...
Source: adapted from various sources including WikiPedia.