![]() ![]() So that’s what happened after the gold rush.” Neil Young 1970 And the film took place on the day California was supposed to go into the ocean. Really what was in my mind was that the gold rush in effect created California. It’s not a linear, regular storytelling kind of film. And after he read this screenplay, he wrote the After The Gold Rush album in three weeks. He had had writer’s block for months, and his record company was after him. ![]() Neil was living in Topanga then too, and a copy of it somehow got to him. Stockwell picks up the story when one of his Topanga Canyon neighbors got involved: “I came back home to Topanga Canyon and wrote After The Gold Rush. At the very end, the hero is standing in the Corral parking lot watching this huge wave come, and this house is surfing along, and as the house comes at him, he turns the knob - and that’s the end of the movie.” Stockwell titled the planned film ‘After the Gold Rush’. It involves the Kabbalah it involved a lot of arcane stuff.” Shannon Forbes, producer’s David Briggs partner at the time, remembers more details about that script: “It was sort of an end-of-the-world movie. Stockwell later said: “I was going to write a movie that was personal, a Jungian self-discovery of the gnosis. On the set of the latter film Hopper suggested to Stockwell that he write a screenplay. He starred in movies such as Psych-Out with Susan Strasberg and Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie. In the late 1960s Dean Stockwell, already with a rich acting career that started at an early age in the 1940s, immersed himself in the Topanga Canyon hippie culture. We will review these albums in their order of release, and we start with an album based on a screenplay for a film that never saw the light of day. While the first half of the year was mostly dedicated to band activities, including the release of the album Déjà Vu, the single Ohio and a tour of the US, all members focused on solo albums later in the year. ![]()
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