23-04-2018, 08:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 23-04-2018, 08:39 PM by David Andrews.)
Mae Brussell turned us on to a lot of things, but often to a depth that she herself could not master. Robbie Macintosh of AWB - hardly a political - snorted too much heroin while drinking and could not be revived. Gran Parsons - not a political - mainlined morphine while drinking and demanded a second hit. Jack Kerouac - not a political - drank all day for years until his liver hemorrhaged, and was never in life the cultural figure he became in death. Vinnie Taylor of Sha Na Na - an act as incendiary as The Muppets? Oh, please.
You could go on with Mae's list for some time, reducing it to a definitely suspicious few. It wouldn't be hard to imagine who wanted Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix dead, and who would want Phil Ochs silenced.
Don't forget, too, that corporations with ties to the MIC were involved. For instance, at the time of her death, Columbia Records was trying to break Janis Joplin as a solo act, backed by studio pros instead of the too-counterculture Big Brother & the Holding Company. Her death spiked sales, but another couple of albums in the can would have increased revenues. On the other hand, Hendrix's very disputed exit was good for his management and the record label.
Operation Chaos did exist, and is mentioned as a domestic "surveillance" program in Douglas Valentine's The CIA and Organized Crime.
You could go on with Mae's list for some time, reducing it to a definitely suspicious few. It wouldn't be hard to imagine who wanted Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix dead, and who would want Phil Ochs silenced.
Don't forget, too, that corporations with ties to the MIC were involved. For instance, at the time of her death, Columbia Records was trying to break Janis Joplin as a solo act, backed by studio pros instead of the too-counterculture Big Brother & the Holding Company. Her death spiked sales, but another couple of albums in the can would have increased revenues. On the other hand, Hendrix's very disputed exit was good for his management and the record label.
Operation Chaos did exist, and is mentioned as a domestic "surveillance" program in Douglas Valentine's The CIA and Organized Crime.