Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon : Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream

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Was it mere luck that kept all of the Laurel Canyon stars out of jail and out of the military during the turbulent decade that was the 1960’s? The question posed is why, if these people were really challenging the status quo, did the state not use its law enforcement powers to silence troublemakers? How did the "counterculture" get national TV and radio exposure during a time when media was at least as tightly controlled as it is today, and at least as beholden to "the establishment? Also recommended but not available on Audible: McGowan's "Programmed To Kill" takes the same approach to all of your favorite serial killers and finds . As the story is usually told, the 1960s countercultural movement posed a rather serious threat to the status quo.

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In the case of Satanism, it is, to me, a way to covertly sell a fascist mindset, which is the direction the country, and the rest of the world, is moving. The very first rock concert I ever attended was Three Dog Night circa 1973 – a Laurel Canyon band, though I did not know that until about five years ago. Just a few years later he would be asking the world to ‘break on through to the other side” and to “light his fire.

Using anti-war celebrities and singers as puppets, government agents with a vested interest in the war-industry could dictate the ‘other side’s’ talking points. One of these is the fact that a lot of the 1960s musicans did not play their own instruments, but were mainly vocal groups supported by the Wrecking Crew, a bunch of studio musicians employed by the major labels. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon is the very strange, but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a hippie utopia.

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It is quite possible that when Vietnamese forces failed to respond as anticipated, Uncle Sam decided to just pretend as though they had. Also, he seems to labouring under the misapprehension that hippies were all Gandhi-style pacifists, and that when a musician owned or enjoyed guns there’s some sinister double standard at work, meaning they’re not who they say they are. Zappa later materialized in Laurel Canyon in the late-1960s without having any compelling reason to do so. Many of the bands went on to become wildly popular and their music influenced a generation of young people to ‘turn on, tune in, and drop out. Also present that day, and featured in the Maysles brothers’ film gyrating atop a raised platform near the stage, was the King of the Freaks himself, Vito Paulekas.

Mix had once owned the "Log Cabin" (future home of Frank Zappa) and Spahn Ranch (where the Manson Family lived). Many of the deaths he claims are "suspicious" appear nothing more than stupid people doing stupid things that resulted in their demise.

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Someone got clean from heroin but twenty-five years later - relapses and OD's - and that's suspicious? Over its lifetime, the studio produced some 19,000 classified motion pictures – more than all the Hollywood studios combined (which I guess makes Laurel Canyon the real ‘motion picture capital of the world’).

Also floating about the periphery were various political operatives, up-and-coming politicians and intelligence personnel – the same sort of people who gave birth to many of the rock stars populating the canyon. Bon Homme Richard, which was involved in the very Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to escalation of the Vietnam War.

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Is it a coincidence that all of the Southern California rock bands, major and minor, had family ties to the Pentagon/CIA? DAVID McGOWAN was born and raised in Torrance, California, just twenty miles south of Laurel Canyon.

I don't know whether to give this book 1 star for lack of proof that would really tie all this stuff together or 5 stars. The ships in question were on an intelligence mission and were operating in a decidedly provocative manner. These drugs were being manufactured for distribution on the street to turn the anti-war movement into navel-gazing morons. The sheer amount of musicians in the Laurel Canyon scene whose parents worked in military intelligence. We’ve seen most of the approved and authorized bios of bands like The Byrds, The Mamas and the Papas, Buffalo Springfield, The Doors and so on.