iNFORMATiON FARM: Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly...
Rated • 1 review • american history, 60s culture • blogspot.com
On the rock gods of the 1960's west coast/LA scene:
From the page: 'And so it goes as one scrolls through the roster of Laurel Canyon superstars. What one finds, far more often than not, are the sons and daughters of the military/intelligence complex and the sons and daughters of extreme wealth and privilege - and oftentimes, you'll find both rolled into one convenient package.'
The egalitarianism of the day was of course just a pose; they lived high above us in the hills and fraternised with each other for the most part, aside from when they had to procure the seedy necessities of Babylon, the drugs, the flesh. I suspect they were just as debauched and opportunistic as Manson, Beausoleil and the rest. Unlike them however, they'd never admit their venality aside from profiting from the mere whiff of sulphur and y'know, in some ways, that makes them worse in my eyes.
And of course they didn't, they couldn't get caught.
From the page: 'And so it goes as one scrolls through the roster of Laurel Canyon superstars. What one finds, far more often than not, are the sons and daughters of the military/intelligence complex and the sons and daughters of extreme wealth and privilege - and oftentimes, you'll find both rolled into one convenient package.'
The egalitarianism of the day was of course just a pose; they lived high above us in the hills and fraternised with each other for the most part, aside from when they had to procure the seedy necessities of Babylon, the drugs, the flesh. I suspect they were just as debauched and opportunistic as Manson, Beausoleil and the rest. Unlike them however, they'd never admit their venality aside from profiting from the mere whiff of sulphur and y'know, in some ways, that makes them worse in my eyes.
And of course they didn't, they couldn't get caught.