13-02-2013, 01:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 13-02-2013, 01:42 AM by Gerard Anfield.)
Keith Millea Wrote:Linda,
I'm not sure I understand this quote from the link you earlier provided.This one:
http://www.skilluminati.com/research/ent...d_curtain/
Quote:Of course, lets keep things in perspective, here. The 1960s were an incredible explosion of pure human love and positive energy. Everyone woke up to social injustice and racial prejudice and saved the world. I don't want to pretend that the "counterculture" was some sort of big mirage teevee show to keep people distracted. FBI never ran an operation called DEADHEAD, and they certainly never wrote any documents claiming that their employee, Jerry Garcia, was a huge help in "siphoning off student dissent and re-channeling it into self-destructive hedonism."
Is this guy trying to imply that Jerry Garcia worked for the FBI?Is this just sarcasm? :dontknow:
It all looks like a hit piece to me.IMHO
I see a lot of mention of "hit pieces." I was unfamiliar with the term until joining this site, and seen it mentioned a number of times regarding Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison and in particular McGowan's Inside the LC series. The thing I find most intriguing, of all the people that could have been "hit" in McGowan's series, is that he avoids 4 particular individuals. Even though THEIR story is so intrinsic to some of the goings on in the Laurel Canyon area, to leave them out is almost like leaving the Wizard out of Oz.
He does not mention The Beatles. If at all. And when it comes down to the portion of the story that goes into Monterey Pop, John Phillips, Terry Melcher, Charles Manson .. I mean that whole area of the story, is where if not 4 but at least 1 name should come up consistently. And that's Paul McCartney.
He of the persuasion to tell people LSD could stop war if politicians just took it. He who served on the board of directors of Monterey Pop, and was there in the beginning planning stages of the festival itself, right along with Phillips, and Melcher. And should McCartney (and The Beatles) really have one or two degrees of separation between them and Charles Manson? Maybe not. Well, not if your Vincent Bugliosi trying to prove that the Tate/LaBianca victims did not know their murderers. But it seems John Lennon knew the house they were murdered in sorta kinda.
I noticed it straight away that McGowan skipped, glided and gently avoided mentioning The Beatles in any way whatsoever, even though many portions directly related to them. But then you find out that the man who shot Mal Evans before he was going to release his memoirs/story about being the road manager/pa for The Beatles, was the same homicide investigating officer on the Sirhan Sirhan/RFK assassination case. Charles Higbie. Odd! Sirhan's lawyer was George E.Shibley. Shibley's the lawyer who visited Manson when he was due for parole in 1967. He's also around for the Manson Trial, but not as a lawyer, just as "an old friend of Charlie's." A very wealthy clientele Beverly Hills lawyer friend of Charlie's.
John Lennon. George Harrison. Lotsa LSD between the two of them. Kept their mouths shut. McCartney. 4 trips. Lays the blame on the reporter who asked him the question. (In the now defunct QUEEN magazine in the UK.) Can't find the original article, or who the reporter was. LIFE snapped part of the LSD comments for its 16th June 1967 issue, and blasted them for the American populace to read. Same day as the Monterey Pop Festival. Just in time!
I understand the hit piece argument. At the same time, I see the people McGowan "hits", and the ones he politely misses. I think it bears observance. The Process Church and Paul McCartney. Oh wait, he did contribute his thoughts on FEAR in their magazine.
So so much more to Paul Is Dead than anyone realises. So much more. And if you go chasing those LSD, Process Church, when did John Lennon actually meet Yoko Ono, Paul Is Dead just turns into a distraction technique. Because there's more there. Like the 10 people who all died of unnatural causes within a 3 year period AFTER he was "allegedly deceased." People who fell off roofs and got into car accidents, and committed suicide. Like those JFK deaths that happened AFTER his assassination. (Funnily enough a good portion of them seemed to be associated with Jack Ruby.)
Anyway, I digress. McGowan and avoiding The Beatles in his hit piece. He missed them. And I find that very interesting.