I finished this book. Started it when I got it a month or so ago but put it down one day and didn't read any books for that while. Had the thing sitting here staring at me but I know these types of books are mentally draining so I stopped and reloaded.
Now that I'm done, I don't know what to believe. I really know little of the LC scene except various trivia and very little of the inner workings of the bands and such. I'm into Purple, Yes, The Beatles, Sabbath and the English rock of the time, and not so much on the LC congregation.
That bears suspicion in itself. How the hell did all these supposedly great musicians get there, all into one little area, and create all this influential music? There was no record industry, so the book says, there until after the scene happened. So, why there?
Really. Why there? The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Doors, Zappa, CSN&Y, The Monkees, Steppenwolf, Joni Mitchell....
Ok so the list is large. You've also got The Beach Boys involved, which brings in the Manson Clan, luckily for Brian he was a bit checked out at the time so he never got caught up with the murders. And how come no one told me about Landry, his "doctor" that had him "checked out" for a decade or so? I happened to watch the flick Love & Mercy a couple weeks before I picked up the book again. Seriously, a car salesman saved his life? That really gets a just.....wow.
That's one of the places it get's really sick. I don't know if this is true but did ALL of The Beach Boys marry underage girls, by most states statues, by the time they were thirty-ish? That's what he claims.
You've got all the murders mentioned in the book, which I haven't bookmarked the book and have references for, but these murders did happen so who knows of the connection but you do have the Manson murders directly connected to LC and then later you have the Wonderland Murders up there. One of the guys from Three Dog Night was supposed to go by there that night to buy drugs yet didn't, fell asleep IIRC, so could have been a fifth murder that night.
There's a pic of Jim Morrison with his dad shortly before he became the lizard king. Well, supposedly of him. Very hard to tell. Short haired and "true". If true, and his dad was, as alleged, an admiral on the ship that threw U.S.A into the Vietnam War via the Gulf Of Tonkin Incident, which is known to be false these days. We know that was a lie.
I've only found that one pic of him and his dad, which is no good. The fact that he lied and said his parents were dead says something, though, but the press seemingly never followed up?
So how did Jim, who didn't play any instruments, write all these songs and how did he go from the straight laced kid, supposedly, in the photograph, suddenly out of nowhere become The Lizard King? If he didn't play any instruments how could he write songs? He's "The American Poet", as the poster said, yet how did he write songs? Poetry, one thing, songs, another. And if he became a cultural icon by music with no training also how did The Byrds and BF get jobs? How did these made up bands exist, and not like The Monkees who had some experience?
I'm a gonna stop here but look up Lookout Mountain Laboratory, the movie studio ran by the MIC that was atop the whole scene. I wonder what the military was up to there with their fully equipped movie studio, and this all happened in one little tiny community.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lookout+mo...t=brave&ia=web
Listen to the interview I linked above. Tell me I'm tripping on this story. Please, I'd like to know. I could probably give you a very long winded and detailed description of say, Deep Purple's, career. Yet, I really do know nothing about the Laurel Canyon scene.
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