Michelle420
Diamond Member
Part I
- U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling Vietnamās Tonkin Gulf. - Jim Morrison's father
- earliest on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene is Jim Morrison
- Frank Zappa
- āLog Cabinā ā which sat right in the heart of Laurel Canyon, at the crossroads of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Avenue ā 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 āhippieā 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 ā where else? ā the Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood is, of course, the longtime home of Americaās chemical warfare program, as well as a facility frequently cited as being deeply enmeshed in MK-ULTRA operations.
- Zappaās 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 āMr. Mojo Risināā himself, Jim Morrison
- Jim Morrison had later attended the same Alexandria, Virginia high school as two other future Laurel Canyon luminaries ā John Phillips and Cass Elliott.
Laurel Canyon - David McGowan report
pretty interesting connections lots of other chapters with interesting stuff.