They arrived in Hollywood chasing a dream, but the Southern boys in Hour Glass carried something LA couldn't package: roots too deep and real for the Sunset Strip. "We headed out to LA with stars painted in our eyes.... Things seemed to be happening then which, I guess, were hip things to be happening, but they scared me to death. I didn't like them. And then we didn't fit in too well musically. All our roots had been in R&B music. Through Duane, and especially Gregg, we got into the Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, John Mayall, the English blues.... When we got out there we ended up doing the whole Hollywood trip--the clothes, everything. Most of us felt awfully alienated." Johnny Sandlin 📷 Peter Martin (purportedly at the Monterey Pop Festival)