Boss Angeles!: A Map and Guide to LA Rock'n'Roll Landmarks 1955-1965 (Herb Lester Associates Guides to the Unexpected)

A map and guide to where it was at in Los Angeles from the dawn of rock'n'roll to the beginnings of punk – from Central Avenue R&B clubs to Rodney's English Disco.
Featured are homes and hangouts, recording studios and label HQs, with an assortment of characters that includes Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Bobby Fuller, Joan Baez, Gram Parsons, Janis Joplin, he Mamas & Papas, Byrds, Love, Runaways, Beach Boys and many more.
Written and researched by Deke Dickerson, singer, songwriter, guitarist and film composer.

Deke Dickerson has devoted his long career to keeping America’s roots music alive while interjecting new creativity into genres of music that flourished in decades previous. He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 22 and proceeded to found his primary band, Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-Fonics.
Dickerson is currently writing the official biography of guitar legend Merle Travis. Dickerson is well known as a historian of roots music and regularly contributes liner notes to reissue projects for such labels as Capitol, RCA, Bear Family, and Sundazed.

Fiction, reality and the otherworldly co-exist in Herb Lester’s universe. Since 2010, our illustrated maps have documented the distinctive in
the world’s great cities as well as charting locations associated with literature, rock’n’roll, the occult and wider pop culture. Increasingly untethered to the real world, our range of notepads from fictional hotels make ideal souvenirs from places no one can visit.