linda ronstadt was also. i was drawn by those beacons. it became home. l.a. is infectious.: why not nashville? >> i got there, even to this day, in retrospect, i understand. it is a different business. the business there is songwriting. the way in the door it is songwriting. ironically, at because i've read most of my career, -- written most of my career, but i was approaching it from a performance standpoint. i needed to get in and night clubs and present the material that way. there is more opportunity now to perform and to make inroads that way. but it was not that way in the 1970's. it was a company town that was in the business of songwriting. you had to get a job as a staff songwriter. i should have been knocking on the doors of publishing companies. it would not given me the life that i had had. ice started playing the club's -- i started playing the clubs from the valley. it was called the cal-punk kind of movement. that allowed me the opportunity to go on this side of the hill. to play club lingerie. tavis: in a place like l.a., who sells this in l.a.? and >> 517 .

>> the protesters have a stage, they have personalties, i believe linda ronstadt is one of them, sheriffystem at the tent compound. >> while licensing fees keep us from playing the music on television, arpaio had it blasting throughout tent city. so much so our audio technician couldn't properly adjust for it on his mixer. >> i actually can't turn my system down far enough to get it to not distort. i had to turn it completely off. it's ridiculous. that's flat out painful. >> i don't know what's going on. i would just like some, you know, i'm a smooth jazz guy, myself. a little kenny g. >> oh, that's linda. remember her? she used to be a singer, you know she's here leading this demonstration against me. so the least i can do is play some nice songs for all our inmates that are on lockdown. locked everybody down. no visitors, because of this demonstration. >> he probably doesn't want us to hear what's going on out there. the lady's cool, i respect old ladies, don't get me wrong. but when you're trying to sleep because you've got to go to work, and it's loud as hell, you're trying to sleep,