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

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It delves into politics and military too, revealing connections between Governmental figures and these hedonistic thrill-seekers that the average music fan would never have imagined.

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The "proof" for such wild claims presented here closely resembles the popular meme of the frantic guy connecting strings together on a wall of newspaper clippings:

The uncanny, lightning-fast speed with which the L.A. scene (starting with manufactured group The Byrds) were promoted by the corporate media. Photographer Man Ray, for example, is a compelling suspect given that the posing of Ms. Short’s body appeared to mimic the Minotaur, one of his better-known photographs.”

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McGowan’s assertion: This can't all be explained away with the dreamy word "serendipity." It was all too weird. Someone -- or a group of someones -- was pulling the strings, and with some end in mind. Chapters on The Byrds’ troubled Gene Clark and (later) Gram Parsons, along with iron-fisted tyrants like Frank Zappa, Stephen Stills, Arthur Lee and Captain Beefheart; and sex maniacs (and likely incestuous pedophiles) including various Beach Boys and “Papa” John Phillips, all seem to point to something much more hidden and sinister going on in Laurel Canyon. After all, these perceived peaceful hippies had a rather violent, authoritarian streak about them - quite counter to the image one usually conjures when imagining the happy vibes emanating from the Mamas and the Papas as they perform "California Dreamin'" on a TV variety show. Author David McGowan was born and raised in Torrance, California, just twenty miles south of Laurel Canyon. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in psychology and has, since 1990, run a small business in the greater Los Angeles area.During his legendary music career, Morrison mastered little more than a tambourine and a microphone, claiming that a majority of his song’s lyrics were composed during the course of a summer spent tripping on LSD. This anecdote provides the perfect cover story to explain how he became such a prolific songwriter in the span of only a few months.

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Thomas McGrath: You propose that hippie culture was established to neutralise the anti-war movement. But I also interpreted your book as suggesting that, as far as you’re concerned, there’s also some resonance between what you term “psychedelic occultism” (the hippie counterculture) and the “elite” philosophy/theology? You think this was a second reason for its dissemination? The propensity for Canyon-dwellers to avoid the military draft at the height of the war; the surprising number of music clubs that opened ‘just in time’ to popularize and publicize marginally-talented Laurel Canyon artists; or the mysterious and grisly deaths plaguing many of the musicians’ circles may seem like chance sequences or unrelated coincidences—but to McGowan they are worthy of documenting and examining. The central question of his book becomes a rhetorical one: “ How many coincidences does it take to make a conspiracy? ” urn:lcp:weirdscenesinsid0000mcgo:epub:37e7cd8d-8377-451e-87a8-a932038bd90f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier weirdscenesinsid0000mcgo Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2qrgq6pkbv Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781909394124 I have to say that after reading this book, I was a bit melancholy. I suppose that knowing many of your heroes were fakes and plants will do that to one.

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The author does warn readers that many of the anecdotes included in this book will tear down the fabric of the hippie dream, revealing the more sordid and disturbing private lives of some beloved musicians and influencers of the 60s and 70s.