The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon
 and the Birth of the Hippie Generation

   by ANITA SANDS HERNANDEZ

"There’s something happening here --What it is --ain’t exactly clear"

FIRST, A FEW BRIEF NOTES ON THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND OF THIS PERIOD.
Join me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane
to a time nearly four-and-a-half decades ago --- a time when America last
had uniformed ground troops fighting a sustained and bloody battle to
impose, uhmm, ‘democracy’ on a sovereign nation. It is the first week of
August, 1964, and U.S. warships under the command of U.S. Navy Admiral
George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while
patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. This event, subsequently dubbed the
‘Tonkin Gulf Incident,’ which was totally manufactured by LBJ, a total
LIE. The commander of another Battleship not Morrison, STOCKDALE, wrote as much in
his autobiography, that it was thunder & LIGHTNING on the horizon. That
nobody was shooting at them! But this ‘incident’ will result in the
immediate passing by the U.S. Congress of the obviously pre-drafted
Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which will, in turn, quickly lead to America’s
deep immersion into the bloody Vietnam quagmire. BASED ON LBJ’s LIE. LBJ
the man who murdered JFK.(click on that URL)

Before it is over, well over fifty six thousand American bodies --- along with
literally millions of Southeast Asian bodies --- will litter the
battlefields of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. For the record, the Tonkin
Gulf Incident appears to differ somewhat from other alleged provocations
that have driven this country to war. This was not, as we have seen so
many times before, a ‘false flag’ operation (which is to say, an
operation that involves Uncle Sam attacking A LOT OF PEOPLE, then pointing an
accusatory finger at someone else). Arabs. Assad. Terrorists. It was also not, as we have also
seen on more than one occasion, an attack that was quite deliberately
provoked. No, what the Tonkin Gulf incident actually was, as it turns
out, is an ‘attack’ that never took place at all. The entire incident,
as has been all but officially acknowledged, was spun from whole cloth.
(It is quite possible, however, that the intent was to provoke a
defensive response, which could then be cast as an unprovoked attack on
U.S ships. The ships in question were on an intelligence mission and
were operating in a decidedly provocative manner. It is quite possible
that when Vietnamese forces failed to respond as anticipated, Uncle Sam
decided to just pretend as though they had.)

Nevertheless, by early February 1965, the U.S. will --- without a
declaration of war and with no valid reason to wage one --- begin
indiscriminately bombing North Vietnam. By March of that same year, the
infamous 'Operation Rolling Thunder' will have commenced. Over the
course of the next three-and-a-half years, millions of tons of bombs,
missiles, rockets, incendiary devices and chemical warfare agents will
be dumped on the people of Vietnam in what can only be described as one
of the worst crimes against humanity ever perpetrated on this planet.

Also in March of 1965, the first uniformed U.S. soldier will officially
set foot on Vietnamese soil (although Special Forces units masquerading
as ‘advisers’ and ‘trainers’ had been there for at least four years, and
likely much longer). By April 1965, fully 25,000 uniformed American
kids, most still teenagers barely out of high school, will be slogging
through the rice paddies of Vietnam. By the end of the year, U.S. troop
strength will have surged to 200,000.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world in those early months of 1965, a new
‘scene’ is just beginning to take shape in the city of Los Angeles. In a
geographically and socially isolated community known as Laurel Canyon ---
a heavily wooded, rustic, serene, yet vaguely ominous slice of LA
nestled in the hills that separate the Los Angeles basin from the San
Fernando Valley --- musicians, singers and songwriters suddenly begin to
gather as though summoned there by some unseen Pied Piper. Within
months, the ‘hippie/flower child’ movement will be given birth there,
along with the new style of music that will provide the soundtrack for
the tumultuous second half of the 1960s.

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Let’s time machine ourselves back to LAUREL CANYON during the PSYCHDELIC
60’s. The canyon is a green, woodsy winding mule trail through the
Hollywood Hills, turned into a well-traveled but slightly perilous, two
lane boulevard winding its tree-covered, shady way from the trashy but
High Rent Sunset Strip to the even trashier but way Lower Rent San
Fernando Valley.

Laurel Canyon in the middle was way better than both ends. It was rural,
folksy, oak-covered, never had been burned, ever ---a favorite area for
musicians, dealers, hippies and stoners. It was in fact, the WEED center
of L.A.. More dime baggies there than in any city in America. And as
music follows weed, an uncanny number of comedians, (Lenny lived there,)
and rock music superstars will emerge from Laurel Canyon beginning in
the mid-1960s and through the decade of the 1970s.

The first to drop an album will be The Byrds, whose biggest star will
prove to be David Crosby. The band’s debut effort, 'Mr. Tambourine Man,'
will be released on the Summer Solstice of 1965. It will quickly be
followed by releases from the John Phillips-led Mamas and the Papas ('If
You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears,' January 1966), Love with Arthur Lee
('Love,' May 1966), Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention ('Freak
Out,' June 1966), Buffalo Springfield, featuring Stephen Stills and Neil
Young ('Buffalo Springfield,' October 1966), and The Doors ('The Doors,'
January 1967).

One of the earliest on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene is Jim
Morrison, the enigmatic lead singer of The Doors. Jim will quickly
become one of the most iconic, controversial, critically acclaimed, and
influential figures to take up residence in Laurel Canyon. Curiously
enough though, the self-proclaimed 'Lizard King' has another claim to
fame as well, albeit one that none of his numerous chroniclers will feel
is of much relevance to his career and possible untimely death: he is
the son, as it turns out, of the aforementioned Admiral George Stephen
Morrison.

And so it is that, even while the father is actively conspiring to
fabricate an incident that will be used to massively accelerate an
illegal war, the son is positioning himself to become an icon of the
‘hippie’/anti-war crowd. Nothing unusual about that, I suppose. It is,
you know, a small world and all that. And it is not as if Jim Morrison’s
story is in any way unique.

During the early years of its heyday, Laurel Canyon’s father figure is
the rather eccentric personality known as Frank Zappa. Though he and his
various Mothers of Invention line-ups will never attain the commercial
success of the band headed by the admiral’s son, Frank will be a hugely
influential figure among his contemporaries. Ensconced in an abode
dubbed the ‘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. He will also discover and sign
numerous acts to his various Laurel Canyon-based record labels. Many of
these acts will be rather bizarre and somewhat obscure characters (think
Captain Beefheart and Larry 'Wild Man' Fischer), but some of them, such
as psychedelic rocker cum shock-rocker Alice Cooper, will go on to
superstardom.

Zappa, along with certain members of his sizable entourage (the ‘Log
Cabin’ was run as an early commune, with numerous hangers-on occupying
various rooms in the main house and the guest house, as well as in the
peculiar caves and tunnels lacing the grounds of the home; far from the
quaint homestead the name seems to imply, by the way, the ‘Log Cabin’
was a cavernous five-level home that featured a 2,000+ square-foot
living room with three massive chandeliers and an enormous
floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace), will also be instrumental in
introducing the look and attitude that will define the ‘hippie’
counterculture (although the Zappa crew preferred the label ‘Freak’).
Nevertheless, 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.

Given that Zappa was, by numerous accounts, a rigidly authoritarian
control-freak and a supporter of U.S. military actions in Southeast
Asia, it is perhaps not surprising that he would not feel a kinship with
the youth movement that he helped nurture. And it is probably safe to
say that Frank’s dad also had little regard for the youth culture of the
1960s, given that Francis Zappa 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. Curiously enough, Frank Zappa literally
grew up at the Edgewood Arsenal, having lived the first seven years of
his life in military housing on the grounds of the facility. The family
later moved to Lancaster,California, near Edwards Air Force Base, where
Francis Zappa continued to busy himself with doing classified work for
the military/intelligence complex. His son, meanwhile, prepped himself
to become an icon of the peace & love crowd. Again, nothing unusual
about that, I suppose.

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. Not
to worry though; according to one of Zappa’s biographers, Cohen wasn’t
in the Congo on some kind of nefarious intelligence mission. No, he was
there, believe it or not, to supply arms to Lumumba 'in defiance of the
CIA.' Because, you know, that is the kind of thing that globetrotting
ex-Marines did in those days (as we’ll see soon enough when we take a
look at another Laurel Canyon luminary).

Making up the other half of Laurel Canyon’s First Family is Frank’s
wife, Gail Zappa, 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 herself had once worked as a secretary for the Office of Naval
Research and Development (she also once told an interviewer that she had
'heard voices all [her] life'). Many years before their nearly
simultaneous arrival in Laurel Canyon, Gail had attended a Naval
kindergarten with 'Mr. Mojo Risin’' himself, Jim Morrison (it is claimed
that, as children, Gail once hit Jim over the head with a hammer). The
very same Jim Morrison had later attended the same Alexandria,Virginia
high school as two other future LaurelCanyon luminaries --- John Phillips
and Cass Elliott.

'Papa' John Phillips, more so than probably any of the other illustrious
residents of Laurel Canyon , will play a major role in spreading the
emerging youth ‘counterculture’ across America. His contribution will be
twofold: first, he will co-organize (along with Manson associate Terry
Melcher) the famed Monterrey Pop Festival, which, through unprecedented
media exposure, will give mainstream America its first real look at the
music and fashions of the nascent ‘hippie’ movement. Second, Phillips
will pen an insipid song known as 'San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear
Flowers in Your Hair),' which will quickly rise to the top of the
charts. Along with the Monterrey Pop Festival, the song will be
instrumental in luring the disenfranchised (a preponderance of whom are
underage runaways) to San Francisco to create the Haight-Asbury
phenomenon and the famed 1967 'Summer of Love.'

Before arriving in Laurel Canyon and opening the doors of his home to
the soon-to-be famous, the already famous, and the infamous (such as the
aforementioned Charlie Manson, whose ‘Family’ also spent time at the Log
Cabin and at the Laurel Canyon home of 'Mama' Cass Elliot, which, in
case you didn’t know, sat right across the street from the Laurel Canyon
home of Abigail Folger and Voytek Frykowski, but let’s not get ahead of
ourselves here), John  Phillips (Mama/Poppa) was, shockingly enough, yet
another child of the military/intelligence complex. The son of U.S.
Marine Corp Captain Claude Andrew Phillips and a mother who claimed to
have psychic and telekinetic powers, John attended a series of elite
military prep schools in the Washington,D.C. area, culminating in an
appointment to the prestigious U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis

After leaving Annapolis, John married Susie Adams, a direct descendant
of ‘Founding Father’ John Adams. Susie’s father, James Adams, Jr., had
been involved in what Susie described as 'cloak-and-dagger stuff with
the Air Force in Vienna,' or what we like to call covert intelligence
operations. Susie herself would later find employment at the Pentagon,
alongside John Phillip’s older sister, Rosie, who dutifully reported to
work at the complex for nearly thirty years. John’s mother, ‘Dene’
Phillips, also worked for most of her life for the federal government in
some unspecified capacity. And John’s older brother, Tommy, was a
battle-scarred former U.S. Marine who found work as a cop on the
Alexandria police force, albeit one with a disciplinary record for
exhibiting a violent streak when dealing with people of color.

John Phillips, of course --- though surrounded throughout his life by
military/intelligence personnel --- did not involve himself in such
matters. Or so we are to believe. Before succeeding in his musical
career, however, John did seem to find himself, quite innocently of
course, in some rather unusual places. One such place was Havana, Cuba,
where Phillips arrived at the very height of the Cuban Revolution. For
the record, Phillips has claimed that he went to Havana as nothing more
than a concerned private citizen, with the intention of --- you’re going
to love this one --- 'fighting for Castro.' Because, as I mentioned
earlier, a lot of folks in those days traveled abroad to thwart CIA
operations before taking up residence in Laurel Canyon and joining the
‘hippie’ generation. During the two weeks or so that the Cuban Missile
Crisis played out, a few years after Castro took power, Phillips found
himself cooling his heels in Jacksonville, Florida --- alongside,
coincidentally I’m sure, the Mayport Naval Station.

Anyway, let’s move on to yet another of Laurel Canyon’s earliest and
brightest stars, Mr. Stephen Stills. Stills will have the distinction of
being a founding member of two of Laurel Canyon’s most acclaimed and
beloved bands: Buffalo Springfield, and, needless to say, Crosby, Stills
& Nash. In addition, Stills will pen perhaps the first, and certainly
one of the most enduring anthems of the 60s generation, 'For What It’s
Worth,' the opening lines of which appear at the top of this post
(Stills’ follow-up single will be entitled 'Bluebird,' which,
coincidentally or not, happens to be the original codename assigned to
the MK-ULTRA program).

Before his arrival in Laurel Canyon, Stephen Stills was the product of
yet another career military family. Raised partly in Texas, young
Stephen spent large swaths of his childhood in El Salvador, Costa Rica,
the Panama Canal Zone, and various other parts of Central America ---
alongside his father, who was, we can be fairly certain, helping to
spread ‘democracy’ to the unwashed masses in that endearingly American
way. As with the rest of our cast of characters, Stills was educated
primarily at schools on military bases and at elite military academies.
Among his contemporaries in Laurel Canyon, he was widely viewed as
having an abrasive, authoritarian personality. Nothing unusual about any
of that, of course, as we have already seen with the rest of our cast of
characters.(My mother taught Hannah Stills, his sister, modern painting.)

There is, however, an even more curious aspect to the Stephen Stills
story: Stephen will later tell anyone who will sit and listen that he
had served time for Uncle Sam in the jungles of Vietnam. These tales
will be universally dismissed by chroniclers of the era as nothing more
than drug-induced delusions. Such a thing couldn’t possibly be true, it
will be claimed, since Stills arrived on the Laurel Canyon scene at the
very time that the first uniformed troops began shipping out and he
remained in the public eye thereafter. And it will of course be quite
true that Stephen Stills could not have served with uniformed ground
troops in Vietnam, but what will be ignored is the undeniable fact that
the U.S. had thousands of ‘advisers’ --- which is to say, CIA/Special
Forces operatives --- operating in the country for a good many years
before the arrival of the first official ground troops. What will also
be ignored is that, given his background, his age, and the timeline of
events, Stephen Stills not only could indeed have seen action in
Vietnam, he would seem to have been a prime candidate for such an
assignment. After which, of course, he could rather quickly become ---
stop me if you’ve heard this one before --- an icon of the peace
generation.

Another of those icons, and one of Laurel Canyon’s most flamboyant
residents, is a young man by the name of David Crosby, founding member
of the seminal Laurel Canyon band the Byrds, as well as, of course,
Crosby, Stills & Nash. Crosby is, not surprisingly, the son of an
Annapolis graduate and WWII military intelligence officer, Major Floyd
Delafield Crosby. Like others in this story, Floyd Crosby spent much of
his post-service time traveling the world. Those travels landed him in
places like Haiti, where he paid a visit in 1927, when the country just
happened to be, coincidentally of course, under military occupation by
the U.S. Marines. One of the Marines doing that occupying was a guy that
we met earlier by the name of Captain Claude Andrew Phillips.

But David Crosby is much more than just the son of Major Floyd Delafield
Crosby. David Van Cortlandt Crosby, as it turns out, is a scion of the
closely intertwined Van Cortlandt, Van Schuyler and Van Rensselaer
families. And while you’re probably thinking, 'the Van Who families?,' I
can assure you that if you plug those names in over at Wikipedia, you
can spend a pretty fair amount of time reading up on the power wielded
by this clan for the last, oh, two-and-a-quarter centuries or so.
Suffice it to say that the Crosby family tree includes a truly dizzying
array of US senators and congressmen, state senators and assemblymen,
governors, mayors, judges, Supreme Court justices, Revolutionary and
Civil War generals, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and
members of the Continental Congress. It also includes, I should hasten
to add --- for those of you with a taste for such things --- more than a few
high-ranking Masons. Stephen Van Rensselaer III, for example, reportedly
served as Grand Master of Masons for New York. And if all that isn’t
impressive enough, according to the New England Genealogical Society,
David Van Cortlandt Crosby is also a direct descendant of ‘Founding
Fathers’ and Federalist Papers’ authors Alexander Hamilton and John Jay.

If there is, as many believe, a network of elite families that has
shaped national and world events for a very long time, then it is
probably safe to say that David Crosby is a bloodline member of that
clan (which may explain, come to think of it, why his semen seems to be
in such demand in certain circles --- because, if we’re being honest here,
it certainly can’t be due to his looks or talent.) If America had
royalty, then David Crosby would probably be a Duke, or a Prince, or
something similar (I’m not really sure how that shit works). But other
than that, he is just a normal, run-of-the-mill kind of guy who just
happened to shine as one of Laurel Canyon’s brightest stars. And who, I
guess I should add, has a real fondness for guns, especially handguns,
which he has maintained a sizable collection of for his entire life.
According to those closest to him, it is a rare occasion when Mr. Crosby
is not packing heat (John Phillips also owned and sometimes carried
handguns). And according to Crosby himself, he has, on at least one
occasion, discharged a firearm in anger at another human being. All of
which made him, of course, an obvious choice for the Flower Children to
rally around.

Another shining star on the Laurel Canyon scene, just a few years later,
will be singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, who is --- are you getting as
bored with this as I am? --- the product of a career military family.
Browne’s father was assigned to post-war ‘reconstruction’ work in
Germany, which very likely means that he was in the employ of the OSS,
precursor to the CIA. As readers of my 'Understanding the F-Word' may
recall, U.S. involvement in post-war reconstruction in Germany largely
consisted of maintaining as much of the Nazi infrastructure as possible
while shielding war criminals from capture and prosecution. Against that
backdrop, Jackson Browne was born in a military hospital in
Heidelberg,Germany. Some two decades later, he emerged as 'oh, never
mind.'

Let’s talk instead about three other Laurel Canyon vocalists who will
rise to dizzying heights of fame and fortune: Gerry Beckley, Dan Peek
and Dewey Bunnell. Individually, these three names are probably unknown
to virtually all readers; but collectively, as the band America, the
three will score huge hits in the early ‘70s with such songs as 'Ventura
Highway,' 'A Horse With No Name,' and the Wizard of Oz-themed 'The Tin
Man.' I guess I probably don’t need to add here that all three of these
lads were products of the military/intelligence community. Beckley ’s
dad was the commander of the now-defunct West Ruislip USAF base near
London,England, a facility deeply immersed in intelligence operations.
Bunnell’s and Peek’s fathers were both career Air Force officers serving
under Beckley’s dad at West Ruislip, which is where the three boys first
met. So, you following along? Do we catch a trend here?

Take note that All these genetic MILITARY gene KIDS became avid
POTSMOKERS do a total 180, rebel against family tradition, become stoner
MUSICIANS and instant hits and transformers of SOCIETY--. BIGTIME! Then
4 years later, Charlie Manson appears and DOPE IS OUT! But the
psychdelic Seeds planted by these boys which appeared to die out ---(
Society reverted to linear, square and neat after MANSON,) the seeds lay
in the soil dormant. Until, as if by signal, today all those stoner kids
who lay around inhaling boo and music have GROWN UP ---and these 60s kids
are voting an ethnic socialist into the presidency after an American
Economic Meltdown. An evolutionary JOLT that took a mere forty
years!There appears to be a second law in genetics. Spectrum End Bounce
or the 180 paradigm.

We could also, I suppose, discuss Mike Nesmith of the Monkees and Cory
Wells of Three Dog Night (two more hugely successful Laurel Canyon
bands), who both arrived in LA not long after serving time with the U.S.
Air Force. Nesmith also inherited a family fortune estimated at $25
million. Gram Parsons, who would briefly replace David Crosby in The
Byrds before fronting The Flying Burrito Brothers, was the son of Major
Cecil Ingram 'Coon Dog' Connor II, a decorated military officer and
bomber pilot who reportedly flew over 50 combat missions. Parsons was
also an heir, on his mother’s side, to the formidable Snively family
fortune. Said to be the wealthiest family in the exclusive enclave of
Winter Haven, Florida, the Snively family was the proud owner of Snively
Groves, Inc., which reportedly owned as much as 1/3 of all the citrus
groves in the state of Florida.

And so it goes as one scrolls through the roster of LaurelCanyon
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. Every once in a while, you will
also stumble across a former child actor, like the aforementioned
Brandon DeWilde, or Monkee Mickey Dolenz, or eccentric prodigy Van Dyke
Parks. You might also encounter some former mental patients, such as
James Taylor, who spent time in two different mental institutions in
Massachusetts before hitting the Laurel Canyon scene, or Larry 'Wild
Man' Fischer, who was institutionalized repeatedly during his teen
years, once for attacking his mother with a knife (an act that was
gleefully mocked by Zappa on the cover of Fischer’s first album).
Finally, you might find the offspring of an organized crime figure, like
Warren Zevon, the son of William 'Stumpy' Zevon, a lieutenant for
infamous LA crimelord Mickey Cohen.

All these folks gathered nearly simultaneously along the narrow, winding
roads of Laurel Canyon. They came from across the country --- although the
Washington, DC area was noticeably over-represented --- as well as from
Canada and England. They came even though, at the time, there wasn't
much of a pop music industry in Los Angeles. They came even though, at
the time, there was no live pop music scene to speak of. They came even
though, in retrospect, there was no discernable reason for them to do
so.

It would, of course, make sense these days for an aspiring musician to
venture out to Los Angeles. But in those days, the centers of the music
universe were Nashville, Detroit and New York. It wasn’t the industry
that drew the Laurel Canyon crowd, you see, but rather the Laurel Canyon
crowd that transformed Los Angeles into the epicenter of the music
industry. To what then do we attribute this unprecedented gathering of
future musical superstars in the hills above Los Angeles? What was it
that inspired them all to head out west? Perhaps Neil Young said it best
when he told an interviewer that he couldn’t really say why he headed
out to LA circa 1966; he and others 'were just going like Lemmings.'

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ANOTHER GOOD MEMORY, OUR SUNSET STRIP HANGOUT: CHEZ PAULETTE

NETPAL WROTE:
The "Hippie left" now owns too much property and has a lot to lose if they "speak up".
They weren't saints. Consider this. It was NOT politics or some altruistic reason that hippies appeared.
It was for "self-interest" reasons called "The Draft". Especially in 1971 when "College Deferments" were eliminated. Notice that is when the riots on campus really began to heat up! (I was there - and a member of SDS -  when approximately 50,000 people surrounded the ROTC building on UCONN's
campus and burnt it to the ground. Any "Uniform" seen on campus was verbally harassed and/or beaten.) All knew that we had "nothing to lose" and that the PIGS only reacted to situations when it was clear that there would be "No more business as usual". There is strength in numbers and we picked a look that we knew the "Straights" despised and would not imitate. If a draft is instituted today, it would not be long before you witnessed the same reaction from the youth again, in my opinion.

A Brit net pal writes:
ANITA! That was pathetic. May I quote you:
Take note that All these genetic MILITARY gene KIDS became avid
POTSMOKERS do a total 180, rebel against family tradition, become stoner
MUSICIANS and instant hits and transformers of SOCIETY--. BIGTIME! Then
4 years later, Charlie Manson appears and DOPE IS OUT! But the
psychdelic Seeds planted by these boys which appeared to die out ---
Society reverted to linear, square and neat after druggie MANSON,) the seeds lay
in the soil dormant. Until, as if by signal, today all those stoner kids
who lay around inhaling boo and music have GROWN UP ---and these 60s kids
are voting an ethnic socialist into the presidency after an American
Economic Meltdown. An evolutionary JOLT that took a mere forty
years ! There appears to be a second law in genetics. Spectrum End Bounce
or the 180 paradigm."

It is MY BASIC THESIS, that these kids were NOT CIA plants, or
DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE TRAINEES, they were the BLOWBACK
of militarized parents. ZAPPA's dad a BIO WAR specialist blows the mind!
At the center of the killing zone.All the other admirals and such? AMAZING
coinky-dinks~? Don't think so. It's blowback. The equal and opposite REACTION
phenomenon. Those kids hated their authoritarian parents & got radicalized. End of mystery!

MY BRIT PAL GOES ON:
Really - this is a terrible defense, a disappointing article. The economic meltdown really kicked in after Obama - and still hasnt played out yet. What is an 'ethnic socialist' ? Evolutionary jolt - yes, I suppose so as the ' r '' has been dropped ! I suppose I take your point that the electorate thought they would be getting Sidney Freakin' Poitier - ......oh we've never had a BLACK president before ! And a Democrat too ! How 'right on'.
But Obama was, as Alex Jones points out, a front man, intended to harken back to the Kennedy era and get votes on that basis. A perfect front man for addled 'liberals', Ahhh he's BLACK too. Wow. Isn't that special...

Yet there is a danger - which I think you have unwittingly added to that this signifies a return to that consciousness.
 There is NO return to late 60's consciousness.   Obama is a neocon. Yep - thats right. He is a neo con dressed up as a liberal.  Liberals are really the soft underbelly of the same neocon beast. People are fooled by the Democrat/Republican thing.  Obama is a man who endorses torture (re; Bradley Manning, Guantanamo etc) but who says he is libertarian.  The late 60's were entirely different. Late 60's consciousness even caused the rich (or more accurately offspring of the rich to reject their rich establishment parents values - that ISNT happening now)
Is your article an argument for the 60's generation or against? I couldn't tell."

I HAVE NO ARGUMENT here, I found the article, felt it pointed out some weird law of 180 degree blowback Just a fascinating, apocryphal bit o'history. Authoritarian parents engender rebels. HIGH CLASS authoritarians engender TALENTED SUPER REBELS. Look, Obama's MA was RAND THINK TANK! He was a dope smoking Marxist in college. A true believer.  As Hillary was.  Probably Bill too but sex, drugs and rocknroll cleared HIS mind.

Now, I want to go back before LAUREL CANYON and trace the antecedents of HIPPIEDOM.  The Lightyear 66 scene started WAY before L.A. in San Francisco actually with North Beach, Ferlenghetti, Lipton, Kerouac and company. The idea of some alternative way of living something which from On the Road and the Dharma Bums a later younger generation would pick up on and follow. Morrison and Hendrix went way back to Native American influences.

Joe Strummer and The CLASH (a PUNK group) were well aware of this which is why at the same time they were singing about Victor Jara and the Santiago Stadium (remember the film 'Missing'? the CLASH had Allen Ginsberg reciting poetry on their album Combat Rock). Haight Ashbury '66 perhaps preceeded and was more of a focal point. The idea of priviledge was initially apparent. The hippie movement - a vague generalisation, was often wealthy and middle class (which is why punk came along for the peasants) but what you need touch upon - apart from your paragraph at the top was that these 'flower children' ran into a CLASH with their parents. It was an active rebellion against their former values - an awakening perhaps. Many didn't have the courage to follow through or know where to take it - but you should watch the recent docu on CSNY before you judge.

When they started their tour they were filmed and were shit. Pretty lame. They begin to find their feet again when they sing 'Lets impeach the President' at which point half their own audience  boo and walk out while half cheer. Later the audience who walk out are interviewed and give a load of redneck responses - mainly saying that they will shoot, hang, lynch CSNY and how dare they sing against their brave president and the 'boys in Iraq'.

So-called 'fans' who were expecting a laid back endorsement of their own prejudices were not only disappointed - they were raging mad and the rednecks come out in force.

Later in the doc they get in touch with a 'boy who 'served' in Iraq - a soldier who, after his experiences in Iraq has turned to writing anti-war songs which he sings at their concert.

The tour turns into an anti war protest tour supported by the mothers of troops who have died in the war - MOSTLY WORKING CLASS. CHECK OUT: http://www.csny.com/ (for which preferably you will need to plug in speakers to your computer!)

This at a time when the vast majority of contemporary mainstream groups (Dixie Chicks & co. excluded) were silent regarding the war.

Yes - that generation were sold to the 'Obama Deception' but this is before recent developmens like Alex Jones and Assange - which still hasnt really caught on yet.

People like CSNY & co. were aware of their establishment backgrounds - they were aware of it themselves - they rebelled to an extent - greatly up to '69 when the movement was defeated in Paris.. This is why punk came along. And the punks now ? Anti war punks are a bit thin on the ground - and that was my generation - it died with Joe Strummer.  Dope didnt go out with Manson - since Marley  co. were smokers. Manson was a nazi into hard drugs and sending dupes out to do his dirty work.

Totally disagree with you about David Crosby's songwriting talents by the way - even if I havent heared his stuff for years now (apart from the deja vu documentary) he is still a great songwriter.

THIS WEBSITE's poster, researcher/ writer Anita Sands Hernandez answers: " I found that LAUREL CANYON article online and while I may have added a comment or two  I didn't write the thing! The real birth of the BEATS was in PARIS France with Jean Paul SARTE. It was an existential philosophical movement which tho BORN in PARIS out of re-sprouting French Revolution roots, quickly crossed the pond to NYC & especially North Beach in San Francisco. Ferlenghetti, Lipton, Jack Kerouac helmed it there, see Kerouac's novel made into a film:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Subterraneans

I studied writing in San Miguel de Allende, at the Instituto, under the North Beach Congregationalist Presbyterian priest who ran the bread and wine mission there on upper Grant st. to feed the hungry and who inspired the Kerouac Ginsberg set from the gitgo and worked for MGM as consultant during filming of that KEROUAC novel. Today, 2011, he's a novelist /painter by the name of Pierre DeLattre, now creating great art out of TAOS, New Mexico. Google him. phone him up, Interview Pierre about the facts, the real start of the 'beat generation'  He was on the set for that big 1959 MGM studios George Peppard / Leslie Caron film "THE SUBTERRANEANS" --  of the late fifties. Gerry Mulligan played a trumpet jazz score. I remember that. MGM cut the vitals off it tho, to fit it for standard studio pap. There are Google sound  bytes of Gerry Mulligan and the jazz score. Amazon still has that jazz score! It was that good.

IMDB REVIEW: Reviled by the original Beats, most notably Allen Ginsberg, and now virtually unobtainable in video form (let alone DVD) from any source, The Subterraneans has been derided as a Hollywood hatchet job bearing very little resemblance to the Kerouac book on which its based. The plot is simple, disillusioned writer, George Peppard, explores the 'subterranean' depths of San Francisco's North Beach district circa 1959 looking for anybody who will share his jaded perspective on life and finds romance amongst the Beatniks in the form of slightly touched Leslie Caron (original book's black female love interest is replaced by a French girl for Hollywood palates). Script is similarly lightweight, with intermittent nods to the language of the Beats and a clumsy attempt to re-create the famous Ginsberg "Howl" reading, but nevertheless the movie as a whole is stangely compelling in a historical sense, not as a faithful representation of Beat culture, but rather as a view on how the Beats were commoditized and became 'Beatniks'. If you have an interest in the popular culture of the time, daddio, then like, seek this flick out, if you're a serious Beat scholar, stay away."

THE INTERESTING THING TO PONDER, is Existential Jean Paul Sarte the father of the BEATS? Did a PARIS LEFT bank philosophy cross to North Beach? Did it stop in NYC and if so, where in NYC did it show itself? Did the Kerouac BEAT generation then leave Frisco, go 'on the road,' to L.A. and fertilize and parent the HIPPIES of Laurel Canyon? We know that from LAUREL CANYON sprang the music, HIPPIEDOM and the ANTI WAR MOVEMENT. It passed through song lyrics to all Americas and Britain where the goofy Beatles eventually flowered as truly beautiful Hippie consciousness. along the way picking up all the disaffected children of the planet like a magnet attracts iron filings? I mean, you talk 20th century who else is there but the BEATLES? Have we got that right? Is the thigh bone connected to the hip bone? And the second big question, where is that consciousness manifesting today? The boomers are not doing much and they're the potential bakers of the 21st century pie who've slowly persisted as the secret, hidden yeast in the dough that was slowly rising all these years and now perhaps will flower with the GREAT DEPRESSION immediately in front of us.  Cuz we need training in how to face utter poverty with a merry prankster, holistic devotion, non material and stoic at the same time.

WELL I WROTE DELATTRE and he answered:
Q: Tell me how BEATS became HIPPIES. ARE THEY SAME THING?

Lawrence Ferlighetti arrived in north beach from paris to set up City Lights book store.
Q: Were YOU PART OF that BOOKSTORE? PARTICIPANT?CLIENT author?
At that time you were feeding homeless?

A.  Ferlenghetti was deep into sartre and existentialism; I love the man so THE ROOTS that I SUSPECTED leading back to JPS and Exist were there and PROB INFECTED other BOAT PROWS like KEROUAC.

Q: WHO ELSE? TAKE THOSE PHILOSOPHIES INTO YOUR LSD VISION, I guess YOU CAN BUILD a new genetic WORKING MODEL for what? religion? Social guide? Ethical guide?

A:  Must tell you his poems are a steal from the style of a French poet whose name escapes me.

 PUT IT ON YOUR UNCONSCIOUS LIST OF THINGS TO SOLVE Baudelaire, rimbaud? SEE LIST of some others at end of this email. So what next?

A. Larry lipton took the beat scene to Venice Beach. Store there.

Q: WOW! A MAP, YOU GOT THE MAP!

A: Michael Murphy, after a stint at the shri aurobindu ashram in India moved to Stanford to study
philosophy, his aunts got panicky about their hot springs at big sur after a murder.

Q: A MURDER GENERATED A PHILOSOPHER TAKING OVER ESALEN! WOW. LIGHTNING BOLT
FROM GOD. WHOSE/? And what was BIG SUR THEN?  HOW MIDDLE CLASS WAS IT, or was there a 'special' population around?

A: Nothing much. His AUNT asked him to take over.  I moved out there to see if that's what i wanted to share in,
but i left. My first wife (of 3,) Lois stayed to become executive secretary of Esalen and died on an ecstasy overdose. MDA.

Q: YOU WERE NOT THERE? MDA right? No organic drugs around at time? NO LSD?
This MDA some kind of kitchen concoction or lab ?

A: Don't know. Esalen was the big transformative scene after the beats.

Q: So they came there to group, hang out,  refuel, learn, study, meditate what else?,
A; The hippies were largely the product of an LSD mental culture, plus some hare krishna.
Yogi Bhapu FOUNDED that HK movement in 66 in NYC. Read this pg. he took it back to india in 1975. started one there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness

Q: WHEN DID ACID, MESCALINE start and in what city?
A:  (no answer from Pierre so I googled) LSD first appeared in the US in 1949. Because of its potent psychotomimetic effects, it was believed to be useful in producing model psychosis for evaluation. As an experimental drug in the 1950s, LSD was used by psychiatrists and psychologists for the treatment of alcoholism and many neuroses.

LSD use also was believed to enhance creativity and promote well-being. By the late 1950s, use of LSD had been proposed as a way to achieve intellectual and spiritual awakening and enlightenment. Initial studies in the early 1960s concluded that the drug was safe. By the mid 1960s, reports of increasing illicit abuse and adverse effects in patients treated with LSD led the federal government to begin regulation and restriction of its use.

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Brit pal writes again "Anita: "WW1 is the key - it was a holocaust which changed everything and usurped pre WW1 ways. Hitler was a soldier who served in WW1 and WWII properly speaking  was ONE WAR with a hiatus inbetween.  The hippie movement goes back to Kerouac but KEROUAC goes back to art nouveau directly - This was a revolutionary spiritual, artistic movement before it became commodified -hence the hippie movement using a lot of the art nouveau graphics and also the art nouveau politics of anarchism (mutual co-operation) orientalism (hence Buddhism and Zen) and ruralism and also drug taking.

Confessions of an Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincy and William Morris - two  'alternative' or dissident Victorians albeit YIN ones, who also linked back to ancient mysteries/ pre Saxon culture which was (almost) wiped out by genocide which people like William Morris, and it was these energies that Jimmy Hendrix and co, reconnected to..  And George Bernard SHAW represented the fully intellectual, yang flowering of their headset. He got up on a soap box in Hyde Park to foment brilliantly  against the war and Fasicsm and Socialism and took the train to outlying cities to lecture on the anti-war movement. Writer philosopher Sidney Webb was his mentor and compatriot in this work.  VOLUNTEER WORK, not paid.
 

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