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Boulevard of dreams: Turn up the radio and head off along Sunset for a trip through music-making history. Everyone wanted to be here, but as the industry changes, what's next?

LOS ANGELES - Music man Lou Adler lives a few miles north of the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway, where, on a recent afternoon, an anonymous musician had plugged his red Fender electric guitar into an amp and was jamming for cash as cars waited at the stoplight.

The ax-man could have been mistaken as a hired hand placed there for effect to mark the spot where one of the most consequential music boulevards in America ends at the beach.

Raised in Boyle Heights, Adler, 83, has been a prime

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