Comments on: Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation: Part II https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/ The Internet's Best Source for Disinformation-free News and Commentary! Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:04:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jay Matlock https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/#comment-33198 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:04:17 +0000 http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/?p=2007#comment-33198 In reply to Shrinking Violet.

Right. If Warlocks recorded their demo in ’65…

The Acid Tests started in… 1965, as well?

But this has all been leading up to then, thus far.

🤔

⚡️

]]> By: Reggie https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/#comment-29630 Wed, 22 Jan 2025 20:31:48 +0000 http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/?p=2007#comment-29630 In reply to Jim Coglietta.

Learning how to do research, or a quick internet search, is an important skill. It took me 15 seconds.
Hope this helps:
“Charles Manson’s music was a macabre sidenote”
20 November 2017
Mark Savage
BBC Music reporter
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42051100

]]> By: Member of prominent Rothschild family found dead after Laurel Canyon house fire – PFYT2 https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/#comment-29509 Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:59:57 +0000 http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/?p=2007#comment-29509 […] You can read a fair amount of the material from the Laurel Canyon book at the site maintained by David McGowan’s daughter- Center for an Informed America […]

]]> By: Lee Mitchelson https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/#comment-18235 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 18:07:36 +0000 http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/?p=2007#comment-18235 Looking back I became aware of just how many events I escaped by mere moments of not meeting just the wrong person. I was habitually in Laurel Canyon, usually Lookout Mountain Road, where rocker-wannabe acquaintances went, and one day at the front gate of Spawn Ranch on what was not my day to meet the Manson family. Did I look like a hippie? No. I was a conservative-dresser that worked at the Sunset Plaza branch of First Western Bank.
I drove by Zappa’s house every single work-day and knew Laurel Canyon Road like the back of my hand.
The most actually interesting observation I made while working on Sunset and living in Hollywood, were the gathering hippie protests of the war. The air was full of rock music and on every street corner the police were strategically placed. What I felt was disgust and confusion because double-messaging is designed to produce exactly that. I hated the war, my friends went and some died. What the hippies did about the war was my introduction to Liberals and their inability to add 2 plus 2 and come up with 4. Because much of their protest were aimed at the returning soldiers who had suffered so greatly and then came home and were spat on and vilified as though they were responsible for the corruption that sent them to Viet Nam. This was a very great betrayal of our own returning damaged warriors. The effects of this have never stopped in our society. It certainly inflamed the drug culture. Many of our guys went overseas clean and came home ruined by drugs.

]]> By: David Cobb https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/#comment-16308 Mon, 31 Jul 2023 22:59:30 +0000 http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/?p=2007#comment-16308 In reply to Chuck Bisfree.

You forget the whole hippie thing started with the Beatles and their hair-first reason to rebel–everything grew from there

]]> By: Shrinking Violet https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/#comment-14267 Sat, 21 Jan 2023 15:02:48 +0000 http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/?p=2007#comment-14267 Author seems to be saying that the Laurel Canyon crowd created the love-and-drugs hippies. What about the role of the Merry Pranksters?

]]> By: Marshall_Will https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/#comment-14199 Sun, 25 Dec 2022 06:02:32 +0000 http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/?p=2007#comment-14199 In reply to Chuck Bisfree.

“Faked? Proof please.”

Holly, head over to Miles W. Mathis’ Updates. He does a deep dive that’s very revealing. Keep in mind, in 1969 the avg. American simply wasn’t that media savvy. We had grainy, black & white photos in smudgy newspapers and Charles Cronkite on rabbit ear antenna tv. Miles breaks down the “crime scene” photos in depth. In retrospect, quite amateurish.

Sharon was after all an actress ( father Paul in military intel active in L.A at the time ) and Roman after all, a producer.

]]> By: Holly https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/#comment-14132 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 21:21:53 +0000 http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/?p=2007#comment-14132 In reply to Chuck Bisfree.

Faked? Proof please.

]]> By: Megan https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/#comment-13235 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 02:40:44 +0000 http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/?p=2007#comment-13235 In reply to eric eide.

Bobby Beausoleil, as a young man, bears a resemblance to Elmer Wayne Henley, a teenage accomplice of torturer/murderer Dean Corll. It is not whatsoever relevant to the Laurel Canyon people and events, or at least I cannot fathom how it could be.

]]> By: eric eide https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-ii/#comment-11687 Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:45:19 +0000 http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/?p=2007#comment-11687 Hardly dated and clearly pointed out that there seems to be bizarre coincidences or…deceptive coroners reports. The Manson murders are far from being widely known to be fake (whatever that means).

]]>