The book starts with this shot of The Monkees' Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Davy Jones on the set of the show at the Columbia Studios at Gower Gulch because the author attended the press conference launching the popular TV series.
Neil Young at his home studio Broken Arrow Ranch in Northern California, caught after leaving Topanga Canyon in 1971, post-Harvest.
Stephen Stills and Neil Young when they were still talking, on tour with Buffalo Springfield, leaving their hearts in San Francisco.
KHJ mainstay "The Real" Don Steele owned the L.A. market from 1965-'75, where he ruled the local airwaves for nearly a decade.
The Byrds' Jim (later to be Roger) McGuinn in the Columbia Studios on Sunset and Gower during sessions for the first group album on the Columbia label, with PR guru Billy James.
XERB's signal came from south of the border, with a DJ named Wolfman Jack, pre-American Graffiti, pre-Midnight Special, where author Kubernik discovered many R&B records on the station's wild playlist.
Frank Zappa at a Hollywood rehearsal studio in the mid-'70s, during the Flo and Eddie era.
Jim Morrison takes an LSD trip at the Hollywood Bowl during a performance by The Doors in July, 1968, captured on the recent DVD release.
The Monkees captured while on tour in Chicago during a video shoot for "Daydream Believer."
The Byrds' bassist Chris Hillman during a break from the recording of the band's debut Collumbia album in Hollywood.
Early country-rock icons Poco with (l-r) George Grantham, Richie Furay, Rusty Young, Jim Messina and future Eagle Timothy B. Schmit.
KHJ DJ "The Real" Don Steele helped break many hit records back in the day on L.A. radio.
The Monkees' Micky Dolenz in his Laurel Canyon home with late wife Samantha and daughter Amy, who went on to become an actress.
The unveiling of the KHJ air staff aka "Boss Radio," circa 1965, when the format changed to "Top 30."
Graham Nash at the time of the first Crosby, Stills & Nash album at Wally Heider Studios in Hollywood.
One of the author's favorite local bands, The Chamber Brothers, open for The Doors, Steppenwolf and Sweetwater, at the infamous Hollywood Bowl show of July, 1968, performing "Time Will Come Today."
Joni Mitchell looking outside the window of her Laurel Canyon home on Lookout Mountain Avenue in 1970. Her house "was a very, very fine house."
KHJ DJs Frank Terry and "Humble" Harve hit the beach for a radio station promotion.
Ike and Tina Turner, opening for the Monkees at the Hollywood Bowl in 1967. The Monkees consistently showcased black talent as their opening acts, like Jimi Hendrix, the Fifth Dimension and Jewel "The Birds and the Bees" Akens.
Legendary producer Phil Spector leads the charge, producing the Modern Folk Quartet's "This Could be the Night" at Hollywood's famed Gold Star Studios, with lead vocalist-turned-photographer Henry Diltz at far right. The song became the theme for famed "Mayor of Sunset Strip," KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer's weekly show, Rodney on the ROQ.
The Monkees at Fred Niles' studio in Chicago while on tour, shooting the video for "Daydream Believer."
One of Henry Diltz's classic shots adorns author Harvey Kubernik's coffee table tome, lovingly detailing rock's origins on the AM/FM airwaves in L.A. during the '60s and '70s.