Inside The LC: The Strange Story of Laurel Canyon and the Hippie Generation

[Michelle420]

Part I

• U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. - Jim Morrison's father
  • earliest on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene is Jim Morrison
• Frank Zappa
  • ‘Log Cabin’ – which sat right in the heart of Laurel Canyon, at the crossroads of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Avenue – Zappa will play host to virtually every musician who passes through the canyon in the mid- to late-1960s.
  • Zappa (born, curiously enough, on the Winter Solstice of 1940) never really made a secret of the fact that he had nothing but contempt for the ‘hippie’ culture that he helped create and that he surrounded himself with.
  • Francis Zappa (father) was, in case you were wondering, a chemical warfare specialist assigned to – where else? – the Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood is, of course, the longtime home of America’s chemical warfare program, as well as a facility frequently cited as being deeply enmeshed in MK-ULTRA operations.
  • Zappa’s manager, by the way, is a shadowy character by the name of Herb Cohen, who had come out to L.A. from the Bronx with his brother Mutt just before the music and club scene began heating up. Cohen, a former U.S. Marine, had spent a few years traveling the world before his arrival on the Laurel Canyon scene. Those travels, curiously, had taken him to the Congo in 1961, at the very time that leftist Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was being tortured and killed by our very own CIA.
  • Gail Zappa (wife), known formerly as Adelaide Sloatman. Gail hails from a long line of career Naval officers, including her father, who spent his life working on classified nuclear weapons research for the U.S. Navy.
  • Gail had attended a Naval kindergarten with “Mr. Mojo Risin’” himself, Jim Morrison
  • Jim Morrison had later attended the same Alexandria, Virginia high school as two other future Laurel Canyon luminaries – John Phillips and Cass Elliott.

Laurel Canyon - David McGowan report

pretty interesting connections lots of other chapters with interesting stuff.

 

[MisterBeale]

Part I

• U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. - Jim Morrison's father
  • earliest on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene is Jim Morrison
• Frank Zappa
  • ‘Log Cabin’ – which sat right in the heart of Laurel Canyon, at the crossroads of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Avenue – Zappa will play host to virtually every musician who passes through the canyon in the mid- to late-1960s.
  • Zappa (born, curiously enough, on the Winter Solstice of 1940) never really made a secret of the fact that he had nothing but contempt for the ‘hippie’ culture that he helped create and that he surrounded himself with.
  • Francis Zappa (father) was, in case you were wondering, a chemical warfare specialist assigned to – where else? – the Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood is, of course, the longtime home of America’s chemical warfare program, as well as a facility frequently cited as being deeply enmeshed in MK-ULTRA operations.
  • Zappa’s manager, by the way, is a shadowy character by the name of Herb Cohen, who had come out to L.A. from the Bronx with his brother Mutt just before the music and club scene began heating up. Cohen, a former U.S. Marine, had spent a few years traveling the world before his arrival on the Laurel Canyon scene. Those travels, curiously, had taken him to the Congo in 1961, at the very time that leftist Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was being tortured and killed by our very own CIA.
  • Gail Zappa (wife), known formerly as Adelaide Sloatman. Gail hails from a long line of career Naval officers, including her father, who spent his life working on classified nuclear weapons research for the U.S. Navy.
  • Gail had attended a Naval kindergarten with “Mr. Mojo Risin’” himself, Jim Morrison
  • Jim Morrison had later attended the same Alexandria, Virginia high school as two other future Laurel Canyon luminaries – John Phillips and Cass Elliott.

Laurel Canyon - David McGowan report

pretty interesting connections lots of other chapters with interesting stuff.

I remember I studied the counter culture in my humanities, and I wrote a paper on it in my honors English for my freshmen requirement at my state college.

I never really understood, why on Earth the Merry Pranksters had such a bad conflict with Timothy Leary. I thought it was such a great thrill when I met professor Leary my sophomore year. . . some of the details of that night I won't get into on this site.

Years later I would find out the information that you had just posted and that Leary was, yes, in fact, CIA. He has also been an agent provocateur in the Black Panthers, but I am still not sure why the FBI and CIA would be at odds. I suppose for the same reason they are provoking racial tensions, class tensions, and other sectarian tensions now.

"ordo ab chao"

A great cross study, of the same topics and events, is to read Hunter Thompson's, "Hell's Angels" & Tom Wolf's "Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test." I can't say whether either of these authors are propagandists for the establishment or not. If I had to bet on it, I would say the Thompson is not, and Wolf is. But, who the hell can say?

 

[Michelle420]

He also wrote a good book on programmed to kill connecting many serial killers to the same mental hospitals before their killing sprees