Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon : Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream

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David McGowan shared all the information he had gathered. Some of it was loosely threaded together, but he lets you draw your own conclusions. I’m still not sure I really grasp exactly all the nefarious things that were going on inside the Canyon, but I do believe that the CIA was involved in creating a counterculture movement that they could control. I think the moral of this story is to do our best not to be manipulated by the right or the left into being their stooges by being a distraction from the people who are really trying to make social change. Riots...are a distraction. Hippies...are a distraction. Trump...is a distraction. They all make the CIA smile. So what does all this prove? Well, nothing really. But if true, all these coincidences are strange. Then again, we are talking about California (where there are frequent wild fires and houses burn down all the time). There are other perfectly plausible explanations as to why all these people would end up in the entertainment capital of the United States and why those living in the fast lane tend to turn up dead a lot. Admittedly, most of the music is forgettable. With the exception of ‘Californa Dreaming’, Love’s Forever Changes, and ironically, Charles Manson, it’s dreary stuff. Only the most slovenly, beer-gutted boomer crying demented tears of nostalgia over the memory of his first joint could possibly find pleasure in the likes of Frank Zappa, or Crosby, Stills and Nash. 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. And it is not as if Jim Morrison’s story is in any way unique.

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Thomas McGrath: Am I right in presuming that you take it as a given fact that power networks are essentially infected by occultism? Are these cults essentially Satanic, or what? I looked into this and sure enough, Tork (then known as Peter Thorkelson) was in South America for a month or so, allegedly visiting family. But was he really? Or was he on some sort of “secret mission” as his pal Stills has implied in the past? Oddly, I have found no official biographical book on Tork and he is decidedly the most mysterious Monkee of the quartet.

Also in March of 1965, the first uniformed U.S. soldier officially sets foot on Vietnamese soil (although Special Forces units masquerading as ‘advisers’ and ‘trainers’ have 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, are slogging through the rice paddies of Vietnam. By the end of the year, U.S. troop strength will have surged to 200,000. He's collated a wonderful trove of pretty well known coincidences (and widened his net to take in some extremely tenuous ones) but alas (one of his favourite words annoyingly), it's just that, there's no corroborating evidence to support, the theory he's built around them, he's not interviewed anyone of any note, there are lots of "seems", "I feels" and "It goes without sayings", he's basically just collated a lot of stuff (some of it discredited now) of off Wikipedia and constructed a far fetched theory based on it. He has some good points and if he was at least a half a competent writer he could have made this into something interesting even without the evidence but, alas, he's incapable of that, which is a shame because there could very well be a few valid points buried in here a amongst the sarcasm and snarkiness, is he a CIA mole set up to discredit the theory? I can't think that anyone would publish this, unless that were the case so perhaps his sheer amateurism proves his point, who can tell? Certainly not David McGowan.

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And while Peter Tork, for instance, worked the coffeehouse folk scene in Greenwich Village and was friends with folkie Stephen “The Sarge” Stills, a guy who boasted he had spent time in Vietnam, likely before troops were sent there in the mid-1960’s. Am I? Imagine my raised eyebrow. I’ve read enough about this to begin to believe that, as crazy as any of this sounds,...it starts to make sense. The first step is to understand the agenda of the CIA. Following a similar path to Laurel Canyon was another influential artist on the forefront of the hippie movement: Frank Zappa . Frank’s father also worked for the military—serving as a chemical warfare specialist at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. Coincidentally, Edgewood also happens to be the official headquarters for many of the government’s MK-ULTRA mind control experiments. Zappa later materialized in Laurel Canyon in the late-1960s without having any compelling reason to do so. By highlighting these connections, McGowan implies that Zappa could be a product of these psychological experiments—a Manchurian candidate programmed as a child and activated in his 20s.Although his literary work was only one part of David’s life—among other things he was also a father, son, brother and businessman (he worked in construction—which may come as some surprise to readers of his books)—it was of course the part that Headpress knew him for, and we sincerely feel that he was one of the most talented authors we have had the privilege to publish, and that Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon was one of the best books we’ve ever released. Thomas McGrath: You propose that hippie culture was established to neutralise the anti-war movement. But I also interpreted your book as suggesting that, as far as you’re concerned, there’s also some resonance between what you term “psychedelic occultism” (the hippie counterculture) and the “elite” philosophy/theology? You think this was a second reason for its dissemination? Paulekas shows up in the underground film Mondo Hollywood and likely had allowed Satanist and suspected snuff-film creator Kenneth Anger to feature the three-year old Godo as his “Lucifer” in a film he was working on. It is then that Mansonite and former Grass Roots (a different “Grass Roots,” later renamed Love) guitarist Bobby "Cupid" Beausoleil becomes the Luciferian replacement. The author does warn readers that many of the anecdotes included in this book will t

Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon : Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops

This is emblematic of McGowan’s research style. He has a gift for identifying patterns between people, places and events that are largely overlooked, obfuscated, or written off by the mainstream narrative.

Sure, there could be a lot of coincidences (the writer of The Association's '66 cult-and-drug-flavored hit "Along Comes Mary," Tandyn Almer, just so happens to split L.A. and die in the spooky D.C. suburb of McLean, Virginia, where Morrison, John Phillips, Mama Cass Elliot, Peter Tork and others hung out in their early years), with all these covert ops, serial killers running around and funding that seems to come from nowhere. After all, who paid for all of this for so many years? As well; the writing did not pass muster, either. I found the author's style to be all over the place. McGowan frantically rattles off countless different famous people, locations, and events, with little-to-no regard for continuity... The author also drops in many superfluous asides to his writing frequently; saying things like "Are we supposed to believe...?", "Ya, sure...", and other snark remarks.