1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. Disgrayland is 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: a production of Double Elvis. The stories about Charles Manson's 4 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: attempted musical career are insane, like way more insane than people. 5 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: I usually say this about in and out of Juvie 6 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: in jail since childhood. Charles Manson learned guitar in prison 7 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: from the last of the Great Depression era gangsters. He 8 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 1: made music industry connections in jail two the Rolling Stones 9 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,840 Speaker 1: and Graham Parsons, road mangler Phil Kaufman among them. Then, 10 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: during the Summer of Love, Charlie bounced from prison and 11 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: took his act to San Francisco, formed a drug soaked 12 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: sex cult, moved the whole fan way down to LA 13 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: and before you could say celebrity orgy, he was hanging 14 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: with Neil Young, the Mamas and the Papas and the 15 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 1: Beach Boys. Charlie Manson was about to be the breakout 16 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: star of nineteen sixty nine. Because Charles Manson made great 17 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: music in his own mind anyway, unlike that music I 18 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: played for you at the top of the show that 19 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: wasn't great music. That was a preset loop for my 20 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: melotron called swamp Smoocher MK two. I played you that 21 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: loop because I can't afford the rights to Hello, I 22 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: Love You by the Doors. And why would I play 23 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: you that specific slice of brain scream cheese? Could I 24 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: afford it? Because that was the number one song in 25 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: America on August eighth, nineteen sixty eight, And that was 26 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: the day that Charles Manson sat in the Van Nuys 27 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: studio and recorded what would become his own album entitled Lie. 28 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: The Love and Terror came on this episode Creepy Crawling Hip, 29 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: Missing Records, Misguided rock Stars, the Crime of the Century 30 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: in Charles Manson the music Man, I'm Jake Brennan, and 31 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: this is disgrace silent. What do you mean you don't 32 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: want the record? Just what I said, I don't want 33 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: the record. I can't sell it. You can't sell it. 34 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: You see who's on the cover, man, it's Charles Manson, 35 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: and you can't sell it. Just what I said, I 36 00:02:52,880 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: can't sell it. Fuck Phil Kaufman was pissed. Fucking hippies. 37 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:04,399 Speaker 1: They couldn't do anything right. Neither could most people. He could, 38 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,399 Speaker 1: but Phil Kaufman wasn't most people. He was as qualified 39 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: a music industry road manager as there ever was. The 40 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: road mangler, that's what they called him, or that's what 41 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: he called himself, didn't matter. It suited as leather, wearing 42 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: a Harley riding tattoo, having image and fuck all attitude. 43 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: Just fine, asked Mick Jagger, asked Graham Parsons. Guys like 44 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: Mick and Graham would kick out the jams. Phil would 45 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: get you out of them right now. He had his 46 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: own jam to get out of them, which was why 47 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: he was not in Los Angeles and why he was 48 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: in San Francisco. He needed money. He was broke, and 49 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: he needed to offload these boxes of records he paid 50 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: to have pressed up. And this fucking hippie wasn't seeing 51 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: things the way he needed to be seeing things Phil 52 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: Kaufman's way. And you've got an entrepreneurial bone in your body. 53 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: This is Charles Manson on the cover of this album. 54 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: And the hippie behind the counter at the record store 55 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: went back into his old rat I know, which is 56 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: why I can't sell it. God damn it, you little 57 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: know hers han't fucking you even heard it. It's damn good, 58 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: is what it is doesn't matter. Dude is a killer. 59 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: That's the whole goddamn point. Hippies full of shit as usual. 60 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: The revolution most certainly would not be televised, but the 61 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: circus would. That's what was happening downtown. When he got 62 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: back home here in La a fucking circus. Phil sat 63 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: on the porch of his bungalow and van ny Is 64 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: thinking about it. What a shit show, Charlie, all those 65 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: murders and now all those cameras every day while they 66 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: strolled Charles Manson into court to stand trial for first 67 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder seven murders to 68 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: be exact, was it worth it? Phil knew Charlie and 69 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: Phil nude that Charlie likely thought it was all worth it, 70 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 1: a handful of dead squares for a lifetime of fame 71 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: or infamy. Rather, if you asked Charlie a year ago 72 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: about that five to one, he'd pass five to one. 73 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: He'd take his chance as working the ranks of the 74 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: Hollywood music industry power structure to try to get his 75 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: music out into the world, which is what he'd been 76 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: doing to some degree of success over the past two years. 77 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: The Beach Boys, Dennis Fuckstick Wilson loved Charlie's music so 78 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: much that he moved Charlie into his mansion up on Sunset, 79 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: moved in all Charlie's girls too. Phil suspected that that's 80 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: what Dennis the Fuckstick really loved Charlie's girls. Phil knew 81 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: about their powers firsthand. After Charlie got busted and they 82 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,239 Speaker 1: went and rounded up Manson family members Susan Atkins, Leslie 83 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: van Houghton, and Patricia creenwickl have paraded them in handcuffs 84 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 1: across the television screen. Phil Kaufman remarked to himself, I 85 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: had sex with every last one of those murderouses. It's 86 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: because Phil and Charlie were tight. Phil and Charlie did 87 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: time out of Terminal Island federal time. Charlie was in 88 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: for blowing probation on earlier charges from forgery and pimping 89 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: to grand theft, auto Phil for smuggling grass. Charlie made 90 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: an impression, all five foot two of them. Making an 91 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 1: impression was essential if he wanted to survive a lengthy 92 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: stint and lock up, and Charlie certainly made enough of 93 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,119 Speaker 1: an impression on the notorious Alvin Creepy Carpas from former 94 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: public Enemy number one, Mob Barker's gang. They locked up 95 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: Creepy Carpas in thirty six for kidnapping, never mind o 96 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: the murders and robbery he'd committed. Creepy Carpas was Jay 97 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: Edgar Hoover's first personal arrest, and somehow in prison he 98 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: got his hands on a guitar, and that got Charlie interested. 99 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: So Charlie worked his charm on old Creepy Carpas and 100 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: got him to share his guitar and teach Charlie a 101 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: thing or two. Charlie practiced as best he could whenever 102 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: he could, working his tiny little hands and his tiny 103 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 1: little fingers over the acoustics neck trying with not much 104 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: success to hold those high action strings down, but Charlie 105 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: kept at it. Frankie Lang, the dude who sang mule train, 106 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 1: That's who Charlie sounded like. His voice wasn't unpleasant, not 107 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: that the screws noticed. One guard went up to Charlie 108 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: when he was practicing in his cell, loud, no doubt, 109 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: annoying others on the block. The guard shouted, piped down manson, 110 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: or you'll never get out of here. Charlie just looked 111 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: at him and said, get out aware, man, the wizard. 112 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: Charlie had that wizard vibe. That's what Dennis Wilson called him. 113 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: Charlie could lay that shit out thick, that guru vibe. 114 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: He'd figured out what you were thinking before you knew 115 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: you were thinking it. And then by the time you 116 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: worked yourself around of figuring out what it was you 117 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: wanted to do or say, Charlie would beat you to 118 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: the point, repeat your thoughts or desires back to you, 119 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: and blow your mind in the process. At least it 120 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: did most people. That shit didn't work on Phil Coffin, though, 121 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: but it worked plenty on Dennis Wilson. Dennis thought Charlie 122 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: was the future and the past and most certainly the present. 123 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: Dennis brought his buddy Terry Melcher, the famous record producer 124 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: the dude who recorded The Birds and the Raiders, around 125 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: to hear Charlie's rap, and Terry also bought him, if 126 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: not in on Charlie's music, then in on Charlie's girls. 127 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: Terry especially like sixteen year old ruth Anne Morehouse. Ruth 128 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: Anne was the crown jewel in Charlie's Harrow or better put, 129 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: his so called family. Charlie had over a dozen girls, 130 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: all of them young, some like Ruth Anne Well underage, 131 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: living with him out of the broke down Spawn movie 132 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: ranch in Chatsworth, outside of la It was as communal 133 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: as communal could get. Charlie, his girls and the few 134 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:36,199 Speaker 1: men who Charlie tolerated, Tex Watson, Clem Grogan and Charlie's 135 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: old band buddy Bobby Bosley among them, shared everything food, sex, 136 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: trips to the far out LSD stratosphere, and of course, 137 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: as a matter of survival. In the hand to mouth world, 138 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: they existed in criminal activity. So in big wig music industry, 139 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 1: dudes like Dennis Wilson and Terry Melcher took an interest 140 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: in Charlie's music. Charlie shared his women. Charlie hoped it 141 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: would help him get his record made. It didn't. And 142 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: that's in part what had Phil Kaufman still caught up 143 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: in Charles Manson's world a year after his arrest while 144 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: he sat on trial for murder. And it's why Phil 145 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: was sitting up late in his Van Nuys home on 146 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 1: this night with a loaded three fifty seven magnum in 147 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: his hand, lamenting this man sized Hippie Pain in the Ass, 148 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: the records, boxes of them, boxes of Charles Manson's debut 149 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: solo record, Lie the Love and Terror Call. He and 150 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: Charlie struck a bargain after Charlie's arrest. If Phil paid 151 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: to manufacture the album, then Charlie reasoned that Phil could 152 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 1: have the rights to the album. Phil thought it was 153 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 1: a good bargain, and at the time so did Charlie. 154 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: But Phil couldn't sell the record. So now Charlie wanted 155 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: the boxes of records back so that he could sell 156 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: them himself, even if he was currently in jail on 157 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: trial for murder. Nah. Phil was getting his money back, 158 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: but Charlie was desperate. He needed to feed his family, 159 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: so Charlie put his family to work from behind bars, 160 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: told them to go take what was his his music. 161 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 1: Phil sat it was late quiet. His roommate Einstein Eddie, 162 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: all fifteen feet of him, was asleep. Eddie was big, tall, 163 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 1: all right, He wasn't quite fifteen feet, but with enough 164 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: Jack Daniels, he knew he could appear to be. When 165 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: he snored, he could hear him from the back of 166 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: the house. But Phil couldn't hear him. Now, maybe Einstein 167 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: Eddie was up. He kept weird hours. Los Angeles was asleep, though, 168 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: and the night was still dead sounding. Phil kept watch 169 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: over his small front yard from his posts and his 170 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: screened out porch. There just as suspected fucking hippies worms 171 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: crawling on their bellies off the sidewalk on Chandler Boulevard 172 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: and onto his front yard. There were four that Phil 173 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: could see, and all of them haden eyes in their 174 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: mouths as they squirmed over the dirt and burnt grass 175 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: toward Phil Kaufman's house. Phil stood quietly. The old floorboards 176 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: on his porch creaked lightly, and the hippie worms were 177 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: none the wiser, and they kept up their crawl. Phil 178 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: took aim with his three fifty seven magnum and the 179 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: hippies kept crawling. As soon as the lead hippie hit 180 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 1: the front step, Phil kicked open the screen door and screamed, 181 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: stick them up. The hippie sprung up and stood stone still. 182 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: What the fuck are you doing? Phil asked. The lead 183 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: worms spoke up first, Charlie sent us, he said. The 184 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 1: three other hippies, all women, just stared at Phil menacingly. 185 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: Phil felt the chill work its way over his burly 186 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: arms and up to his neck. He had the gun, 187 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: but they had the numbers. He could get off a shot, 188 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: but all four were close. It could pounce. Phil didn't 189 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: take any chances. He moved closer, stuck his pistol right 190 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: into the face of the headworm. That cold steel on 191 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: your flesh. It straightened you out quick, and the hippie 192 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: spoke stammered, we don't want any trouble. We just want 193 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: the music. Charlie wants his music, that's all. Phil spoke 194 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: through his clenched teeth. It ain't Charlie's music. I paid 195 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: for it. It's mine to sell. And the worm said nothing. 196 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: The three menacing hippie girls behind him started an inch 197 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: toward Phil, unconcerned with the gun and their family members Grill, 198 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: stop moving, or I swear to fucking God, I'll blow 199 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: his head off. The girls kept up their slow march 200 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: and held their stony stare. Phil didn't want to shoot. 201 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: He couldn't shoot. The girls knew it. The headworm lost 202 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: control of his bladder in a slow scare trickle. Phil 203 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: told him again, stop fucking moving, or I'll shoot. The 204 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,839 Speaker 1: girls kept creeping toward him. Just then a ruckus from 205 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: somewhere in back of Phil. A short blast of stumbling, 206 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 1: fumbling fury came rushing out from behind the standoff and 207 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: out of Phil's house. The front door swung open and 208 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: into the yard. Einstein Edy came barreling out, fully naked, 209 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: all fifteen feet of them, with his giant ball swinging 210 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: in the dead valley are he scared back the girls 211 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: and get the drop on them with the shotgun he 212 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: was holding. Now they all had their hands up and 213 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: Phil Kaufman was smiling. One of the hippies spoke, don't 214 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: shoot us, mister, we just want Charlie's music. Phil ignored her. 215 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 1: Get on your bellies, all of you. They did is 216 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: Phil said, now do that thing you do, the only 217 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: thing you're good at, you fucking worms, crawl off my property. 218 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: And with that the hippies dropped under their bellies, turned 219 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: around and did with their leader. Charles Manson had taught 220 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: them how to do the creepy crawl, this time off 221 00:13:33,960 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: Phil Kaufman's property and without Charles Manson's music. The Topanga 222 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: Canyon house party was in full swing. It was nineteen 223 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 1: sixty eight, post Summer of Love freak vibes flying everywhere. 224 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: Frank Zappas stood in the kitchen, holding court a group 225 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: of young girls hanging on his every word. Frank was 226 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: on his own trip. Charlie was well aware Frank was 227 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: like Phil, impenetrable to Charlie's wizard ways. That didn't matter 228 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: much to Charlie. For every Frank and Phil, there were 229 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: scores of Squeakies and Gypsies and ruth Anne's and Sadie Mays. 230 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: Charlie had grouped his own girls together outrageously, and they 231 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: hung on his every word. Every breath is more like it. 232 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: After getting out of prison, Charlie took his wizard stick 233 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: north to San Francisco and got himself a family, a 234 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: little commune where he was the king b He scoured 235 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: the hate, rounded up young teenage runaways, wrapped togetherness and 236 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: sexual liberation, dropped endless tabs of LSD, and offered a 237 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: new view of the American dream, freedom outside of the establishment, 238 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: a new family free of judgment and expectation, you know, 239 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: neuvo hippie rationalizations to avoid just about any responsibility and 240 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: indulge one's every desire. Charlie pitched its ji with that 241 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: dode sincerity most modern day gurus at the time had mastered. 242 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: Charlie studied at the feet of the masters l Ron Hubbard, 243 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 1: Robert de Grimston and mel Lyman cult leaders, all the 244 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: respective heads of the Church of Scientology the process in 245 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: the Fort Hill community. By the time Charlie resurfaced in 246 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: Los Angeles in early nineteen sixty eight, Papa had a 247 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: brand new back, girls in music. Everywhere Charlie Manson went 248 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: and that's what people expected, girls and music. His girls 249 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: followed him everywhere. Guru was the word most associated with Charlie, 250 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: but really he was more like a pimp. If a 251 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 1: pimp in dirty hippie rags equals guru, then okay. But 252 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: Charlie's main moo was providing access to sex with young 253 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: girls in exchange for a whole slew of goods and access. 254 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: Sex for alcohol, sex for drugs, sex for transportation, sex 255 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: for clothing, sex for shelter, sex for a good time, 256 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 1: sex for whatever. If you were running around Hollywood in 257 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: the late nineteen sixties, it was well known that Charlie 258 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: Manson could get you laid and with young young girls. 259 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: Ruth Anne Morehouse was sixteen, as was Barbara Hoyt and Angela. 260 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: Lansbury's daughter Deirdre was just fifteen. Dean Martin's daughter Deana 261 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: was eighteen, but despite her relatively advanced age, Charlie was 262 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: especially into her. He gave Deana Martin a ring to 263 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: try and persuade her to join his family. Deanna took 264 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: the ring, but didn't take the bait. She bounced no matter. 265 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: Charlie had many recruits, and many of them were here 266 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: with him on this night in Topanga Canyon. At this 267 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: house party, Charlie hung in the back room with his 268 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: new pal, Bobby Boselet. Bobby could play. He was a 269 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: real musician. Bobby was skeptical of Charlie at first, but 270 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 1: once Charlie took off with that guitar of his and 271 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 1: those deranged space jam spoken word wraps, Bobby was as 272 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: enraptured as everyone else. They jammed Charlie on acoustic and 273 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 1: vocals and Bobby on melodica. Shit was wild. Charlie had something, 274 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 1: Bobby knew it, and Bobby had something besides musical prowess, 275 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: he had capabilities. Charlie lacked the criminal kind. Sure, Charlie 276 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 1: was an ex calm, but he wasn't a heavy. He 277 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: couldn't straighten out a drug dealer who'd burned Charlie on 278 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,640 Speaker 1: a bad deal, Nor was he as convincing a hang 279 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 1: with the biker gangs who increasingly were making their way 280 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: out to Spot Ranch where Charlie was living with his family, 281 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 1: with the expectation of sex and good times. Bobby Bosley 282 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: could hang. He had weight to him, not literally figuratively. 283 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: He was a man's man in a man's world. Plus 284 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: he could really play melodica, guitar. Whatever. Bobby was a musician. 285 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: Arthur Lee knew it. Bobby briefly joined Lee's psychedelic folk 286 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 1: rock group The Grassroots, who later went on to changed 287 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: their name to Love, and filmmaker Kenneth Anger knew it too, 288 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: which is why Anger chose Bobby Bosley the star in 289 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: his film Lucifer Rising. It was Bobby's ticket, It was 290 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: the gig that was going to launch his career as 291 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,959 Speaker 1: a musician. But Anger's production was troubled, and by nineteen 292 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: sixty eight, Bobby Bosle had left the project, cut out 293 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: the middleman, to go straight to la and be his 294 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: own man. Except Charles Manson had other ideas. Charlie needed 295 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: Bobby to score some mescaline for his buddies in the 296 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: Straight Satan's motorcycle Club Bikers Bad Dudes. Bobby went to 297 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: a friend of the family, a young music teacher named 298 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 1: Gary Hinman, who supplied the mescaline to Bobby, who delivered 299 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 1: the straight Satans cash and courier the drugs back to 300 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: the violent motorcycle club, all of whom were none too 301 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: happy to learn that the drugs were bogus. Bobby was 302 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: shocked and Charlie was furious. Charlie broke the deal for 303 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: the straight Satans. Bobby made him look bad, fucked up 304 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: his image, played for a fool. Charlie couldn't look bad 305 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: in front of the Straight Satans. It challenged his authority, 306 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: his manhood. How could Bobby do this to him? Bobby 307 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: knew his way around a guitar, but apparently not around 308 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: a drug deal. Bobby would have to make it right. 309 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: Charlie sent Bobby over to Gary Hinman's, the music teacher, 310 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: to sort this out. For the Straight Satans, the money 311 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: or the drugs, Bobby, don't fuck this up. In late 312 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: July nineteen sixty nine, Bobby Boselet weaseled his way into 313 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: Gary Hinman's isolated to Panga Canyon home with Susan Sadie 314 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,919 Speaker 1: May Atkins, and Mary Brunner of the Manson family. He 315 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,440 Speaker 1: was not in the mood for explanations. Gary Hinman had 316 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: none anyway. Bobby was enraged. Sadie, May and Mary were bloodthirsty, 317 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: blitzed on acid, and hell bent on avenging this embarrassment 318 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 1: to their father, to their Guru, their leader, their Jesus, 319 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 1: their Charlie. They watched as Bobby pistol whipped the coward 320 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: music teacher, who swore he had no money. He offered 321 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 1: to sign over his two cars. Two cars. How the 322 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: fuck did a music teacher have two cars. Bobby wasn't 323 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: having it. This wasn't the deal, Get the money, kill 324 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: the pig. He picked up the phone and called Charlie, who, 325 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 1: sensing things were not going as planned, rushed over and 326 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: into the house and, in a wild fury, pulled a 327 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 1: knife and brought it down quick across the music teacher's face. 328 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: Blood splattered everywhere. The girls looked pleased. Bobby looked almost 329 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 1: as horrified as the music teacher, who screeched in terror. 330 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: Charlie looked Bobby dead in the eye and said, that's 331 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: how you be a Man, and then exited the apartment. 332 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 1: Bobby and the girls were left to clean up the mess. 333 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: Mary Brunner quickly rummaged the apartment for a needle and 334 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: a thread and began to sew the music teacher's face 335 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: back together. It wasn't working. The music teacher wailed away. 336 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 1: Bobby didn't know what to do. He phoned Charlie again. 337 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: Charlie told him, you know what to do. It clicked 338 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: for Bobby. He dropped the phone, grabbed his knife, rushed 339 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: back into the apartment and stabbed the music teacher twice. 340 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: The girls dipped a rag into the music teacher's blood 341 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: enough to paint the wall with their gurus chosen message, 342 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: political piggies. It was a head fake, make the cops 343 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: think the murder was politically charged, some violent act carried 344 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: out by the radical New Left. It didn't work. Ten 345 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: days later, Bobby Bossile was pulled over driving the dead 346 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 1: man's car with the murder. Webon on him and booked 347 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: in charge with the murder of the music teacher Gary Hinman. 348 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: Bobby Bousile was behind bars and Charles Manson needed a 349 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 1: new pal to jam with. We'll be right back after 350 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 1: this We're We're, We're. Neil Young didn't need the motorcycle anyway, 351 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: Charlie looked like he could really use it. Neil sat 352 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: in awe Charlie as Charlie played and sang. Neil wasn't 353 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: the only one. It was beach boy Dennis Wilson's house, 354 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: and Dennis was a bigger fan of Charlie's than Neil. 355 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,120 Speaker 1: Neil moved fast. He thought Charles Manson was the next 356 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: Bob Dylan. All he needed was a band, well and 357 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: some wheels. So Neil gave Charlie his motorcycle. Charlie was 358 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: eternally grateful. Neil went one click further. He approached Warner 359 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: Brothers Records label president Moe Austin and told him he 360 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: just had to sign Charlie. Neil would recorded, he said, 361 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: but Moe wasn't having it for whatever reason. So Dennis 362 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: Wilson beat Neil Young to the Charles Manson punch. Dennis 363 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 1: moved Charlie and his girls into his house to live 364 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 1: with him full time, and he brought Charlie into the 365 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: studio to record with his brothers and the Beach Boys. 366 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: It was a disaster of epic proportions. Recording studios can 367 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: be unforgiving to the unseasoned musician, and in nineteen sixty eight, 368 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: that's exactly what Charles Manson was. He could string Neil 369 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: Young or Dennis Wilson along through some never ending core 370 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: progression on a beat up acoustic spewing wild proclamations about 371 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: utopian end times, over bears and lsd tucked away in 372 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: the back room of some Topanga Canyon house party, but 373 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 1: with the spotlight and all hearing capture of the studio 374 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 1: microphones trained on him, Charles Manson had no idea what 375 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 1: the fuck it was that he was doing, and to 376 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson and his brother Brian's studio engineer, it showed immediately. 377 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: Charlie fiddled with his acoustic tried and failed to keep time. 378 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: When the engineer suggested he buy for Katie's guitar, playing 379 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 1: from his singing and overdubb the vocals later, Charlie just 380 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: ignored him and instead invited into the studio his six 381 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: female family members he'd brought along to join him in song. 382 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: Dennis tried his best to get the situation under control, 383 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: but in the end nothing came of it. Charles Manson 384 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: was incapable of taking any sort of direction. Charles Manson 385 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: wasn't the direction taking type. Charles Manson was the type 386 00:23:54,760 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: who gave direction. The session busted up, but Dennis Wilson 387 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: was still determined to introduce Charles Manson's music to the world. 388 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: If Dennis couldn't get Charlie's magic down on tape, then 389 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: his friend Bird's producer, Terry Melcher most certainly would be 390 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,679 Speaker 1: able to. Dennis helped arrange for an audition, this time 391 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 1: on more familiar ground. Terry would head out to Charlie's 392 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: place at Spawn Ranch to hear Charlie singing play and 393 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: determine whether or not he wanted to bring him into 394 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: the studio for a session, and hopefully, as Charlie wanted, 395 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: signed Charles Manson to an exclusive recording and distribution contract. 396 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: Charlie had his girls go to town on their grimy digs. 397 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,880 Speaker 1: They cleaned, they cooked, They did their best to make 398 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 1: hospitable their home at Spawn Ranch, the old Western TV 399 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,439 Speaker 1: and movie lot out in the desert, but it was 400 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: like putting lipstick on a pig. The ranch was decrepit, 401 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 1: falling apart in most every way. No matter what the 402 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: girls did. It was obvious Charlie and the girls were 403 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: living below the poverty level in a complete hand to 404 00:24:55,600 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: mouth manner. Terry melcher, son of international film star our 405 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: Darris Day and massive success in his own right in 406 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 1: the music business, couldn't help the field bad for Charlie 407 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 1: and his family. They were barely hanging on living life 408 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: in the same manner. Charlie played his music poorly, fast, 409 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: and extremely loose. When it came time for Charlie to 410 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: play for Terry, he was, as usual, completely blitzed on LSD. 411 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: He did his thing, strum some poorly formed chords, saying 412 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: whatever nonsense hippie pros popped into his head and encouraged 413 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 1: his girls to back him up on vocals. Sometimes, if 414 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 1: the mood was writing and whatever cocktail drugs and alcohol 415 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: was perfectly calibrated and flowing in the right direction through 416 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: Charlie and his girls at the exact right time, and 417 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: the quote unquote magic happened then and only then was 418 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: Charlie able to whip off something approaching a song And 419 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: depending on the state of the audience he was playing 420 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: to say Neil Young ripped on blow or Dennis Wilson 421 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: relaxed in the afterglow of a Manson family orgy, that 422 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 1: song might even pass as entertainment. But tonight was not 423 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: one of those nights. Charlie bombed Terry Melcher, felt bad 424 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: for him, and gave him all the money he had 425 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: in his pockets fifty bucks. It was the worst mistake 426 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: of his life. Charlie mis interpreted Terry's charity as an 427 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: advance on a future record contract, a future record contract 428 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: that Terry Melcher had no intention of entering into with 429 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: Charles Manson. Terry refused nearly all future overtures from Charlie. 430 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: Charlie couldn't understand it. He was relentless in his pursuit 431 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: of Terry. He went to his home up in the 432 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: Hollywood Hills Ciellow Drive, but Terry had moved. He went 433 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 1: to his buddy Dennis Wilson to inquire about Terry, but 434 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: Dennis had moved out of his own house and left 435 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: Charlie and his girls behind, only to be evicted by 436 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: Dennis's manager. Suddenly, Charles Manson, who up until very recently 437 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: was quite literally the toast of the town, welcomed into 438 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,360 Speaker 1: the inner circle by Frank Zappan young, and Dennis Wilson 439 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: was now oh. Charlie was enraged, but not nearly as 440 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: angry as he was when he finally caught up to 441 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: his old friend Dennis Wilson. There he was the beach 442 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: Boy in all his sunny California surfer boy glory on 443 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,880 Speaker 1: national television, on the highly rated Mike Douglas Show, millions 444 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: of people watching at home, and Dennis was leading his 445 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: brothers and cousins and the beach Boys through a version 446 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: of one of Charlie's songs without Charlie knowing about it. 447 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: And even worse, Dennis had changed Charlie's words. Dennis had 448 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: changed Charlie's title from Cease to Exist to never Learn 449 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 1: not to Love? What the fuck was that? Words were sacred, 450 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 1: The message was sacred, The words the message that was 451 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: literally all Charlie had, and Dennis Wilson had just fucked 452 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: him out of both, just like Dennis had fucked every 453 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: last one of Charlie's girls. Was humiliated and furious Dennis Wilson, 454 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: Terry Melcher, One way or another, someone was going to pay. 455 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: Music was sacred. Music spoke to Charlie. Music told him 456 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: what to do. Music made clear the path, This was 457 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: all temporary. The hand of mouth, lifestyle, prison pimping, dumpster diving, 458 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: guided dude, ranch tours at George Spawns, hanging on for 459 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: dear life and death, Valley Doom Buggy attacked the grand 460 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: theft auto crooked drug deals with straight, Satan's dead music teachers, 461 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 1: sweating ungrateful music industry executives, debasing yourself to get ahead 462 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: in life, swallowing your pride. The music told them that 463 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: there was an end to the subjugation foisted upon Charlie 464 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: and his family by the man. The music told him 465 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: the end times were near. Not his music, the Beatles' music, 466 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: particularly the music of the so called White album Revolution nine, Blackbird, 467 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: Sexy Sadie, Piggy's Rocky Raccoon, Happiness is a warm gun, 468 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: and of course helter skelter. The words in each song 469 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 1: gripped Charles Vnson For Charlie, the Beatles' White Album was 470 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 1: more than the group's ninth studio album, on which each 471 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 1: member flexed their individual solo chops. For Charlie and by extension, 472 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: for Charlie's family, the White Album was a call to 473 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 1: arms to destroy them now and to compel an inevitable 474 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: utopian future where he would be king. If fame in 475 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: this world was impossible, then in the next Charlie, the Guru, 476 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: the Wizard, the Devil, the Lord Jesus Christ, as he 477 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: saw himself, Charles Manson, the son of Man, the man 478 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: of Song, would finally get a chance to live up 479 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: to his potential, to share his gift, to teach the 480 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: world to sing in perfect harmony. And if anyone needed proof, 481 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: they need look no further than the Bible with its 482 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: Book of Revelation, which provided Charlie an apocalyptic starter kit 483 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: in ancient texts that confirmed what he heard buried in 484 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: the grooves of the white album. Revolution nine clearly was 485 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: a reference to Revelation of chapter nine, and yes, both 486 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: Revolution and Revelation were coming. Sexy Sadie was a tribute 487 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 1: to Charlie's girl, Susan. Sadie made glutz Atkins, piggies, mocked, 488 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 1: the squares and the man. Rocky Raccoon and Blackbird were 489 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 1: calls to Black America to start a race war and 490 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: helter skelter, and that was the sound the race war itself. 491 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: If Dennis Wilson and Terry Melcher weren't Charlie's ticket out. 492 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 1: Then the white album was and it all started with murder, 493 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: which was fine, was Charlie. He'd had it. The thick 494 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: thumb of the man had been gouging at his bloodshot 495 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: eye for too long, Terry blowing him off, Dennis stealing 496 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: his music, twin humiliations deserving of nothing short of brutal vengeance. 497 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 1: Charlie and most of his family have been binging on 498 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: countless tabs of LSD for days. The Manson family's chief, 499 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Tex Watson, have been spinning out on not only 500 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: LSD but also on toloash aka Belladonna aka the Devil's Route, 501 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 1: a highly hallucinogenic plant that bent your mind and made 502 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: the effects of LSD seem like child's play. When teamed together, 503 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: the two drugs were a wrecking ball of insanity and destruction. 504 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: Dennis Terry pigs, That's all they were. Establishment swine them 505 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: in their whole lot. Everyone they came in contact with 506 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,760 Speaker 1: Hollywood knew Hollywood. Charlie laughed this new idea that somehow 507 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: the young beautiful people who hung out at Coellow Drive 508 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 1: and at Zappa's Place and over a cast Elliot's where 509 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 1: somehow rebellious was pathetic. What the Dennis Wilson or Terry Melcher, 510 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 1: or even Peter Fonda or Dennis Hopper for that matter, 511 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 1: actually know about being rebellious. They played rebels in front 512 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: of the cameras, Neil Young played one in front of 513 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: the microphone. But it was all the same. He was 514 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: a fucking charlatan like the rest, doomed to a plastic eternity, 515 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: a life of hypocrisy, lived from on high in his 516 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: cocaine tower. They knew nothing counter culture. It was a 517 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: fucking joke, a sham, a marketing slogan, just like the 518 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,719 Speaker 1: Summer of love. These soulless automatons lived the same debotched, 519 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: greed filled, shallow lives their powerful parents did before them. 520 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: They just did it with longer hair and fringe and 521 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 1: grass in place of pomade, black ties and highballs. They 522 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: were the establishment. Charlie was the counter culture, the real 523 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: counter culture, music as revolution, the songwriter, a poet, the troubadour, 524 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 1: an authentic mirror to your heart, the rebel in reality. 525 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: He was all of these things. Fonda, Hobber, Neil, Dennis, 526 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 1: Terry they were not, and now it was time for 527 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: them to pay first murder, then revolution, sacrifice the piggies 528 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 1: to ignite a war, and who better than the pigs 529 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: from up on Cello Drive. They were all there constantly 530 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: on any given night, living the high life. Dennis took 531 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: Charlie there to see Terry before Tex was there recently 532 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: to try and get some money off Terry for Charlie 533 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: to help him pay for studio time or to bail 534 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: out a friend. Text couldn't remember exactly. All he could 535 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 1: remember was Terry's movie star girlfriend kicking him out of 536 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: her kitchen. Tex knew the house, even if he didn't 537 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: know the new tenants, Sharon Tate, the actress, and her 538 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: A list director husband Roman Polanski, or their house guests, 539 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: Roman's friend voy Tech Freikowski and his girlfriend, the heiress 540 00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 1: Abagail Folger, and Sharon's ex lover and bet friend hairstylist 541 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: to the stars, Jay Seabring. Charlie had had it with 542 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: a lot of them. He told Text to take Sadie 543 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 1: and Katie and lend the Kassebian and the quote go 544 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,799 Speaker 1: up to the house where Terry Melcher used to live 545 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 1: and kill them, cut them up, hang them from the rafters, 546 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: which was exactly what Tex Watson did. He and the 547 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,319 Speaker 1: girls clad in all black, Texts with a gun. The 548 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: girls with knives snuck onto the property at Ciello, pumped 549 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 1: four bullets into the first person that came upon, Stephen Parent, 550 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,640 Speaker 1: a friend of the homes caretaker, who was on his 551 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 1: way out, and they then used their creepy crawl technique 552 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,919 Speaker 1: to gain entry into the house. When they came upon 553 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 1: the homes four inhabitants, who were all either stoned, half asleep, 554 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: or some combination of the two, Charlie's killers quickly rounded 555 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 1: them up. Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant, was 556 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:56,839 Speaker 1: especially frightened. All four were bound. Voy Tech Fraikowski asked 557 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:01,160 Speaker 1: Tex Watson while he was there, Text replied, I'm the devil, 558 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,880 Speaker 1: and I'm here to do the Devil's business. In the 559 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:09,640 Speaker 1: Devil's business they did. Everybody was rounded up and bound. 560 00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 1: Jay Seabring pleaded for Sharon Tate, eight months pregnant, and 561 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 1: got a bullet and seven stab wounds from Texts for 562 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 1: his trouble. Voytech Fraikowski slipped his bindings and booked it. 563 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,719 Speaker 1: Made it as far as the lawn when Text took 564 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: him down with two bullets and cracked his skull with 565 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 1: his pistol grip. As the girls descended with their blades, 566 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: they stabbed Voytech fifty one times. Abigail Folger ran too, 567 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: but Katie Kreenwigle caught her on the lawn and brought 568 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,800 Speaker 1: the knife down twenty eight times. Abigail's final haunting words 569 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:45,360 Speaker 1: I give up. I'm already dead. Take me. Sharon Tate, 570 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: alone in the home, begged for her child's life, and 571 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:53,600 Speaker 1: instead they stabbed her first in the stomach, sixteen cuts 572 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:58,760 Speaker 1: in total. Before they left, Sadie Mayakins dipped a finger 573 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 1: in Sharon Tate's blood, tasted it. Then she took a 574 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 1: pile out of the blood and used it to smear 575 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: the word pig on the wall. The rusting iron smell 576 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,840 Speaker 1: of the blood pulled and smeared everywhere would haunt the 577 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:18,440 Speaker 1: house for months. The next night, Charlie instructed Tex, Sadie, Katie, Linda, 578 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,080 Speaker 1: and this time Leslie Van Houghten to go out and 579 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:25,000 Speaker 1: do the same thing kill this time, though in a 580 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,840 Speaker 1: different neighborhood, a neighborhood he knew well. Three three zero 581 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 1: one Waverley Drive in Los Felis. The house by Griffith Park, 582 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,919 Speaker 1: next door to Charlie's old prison buddy Phil Kaufman's last 583 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 1: place before we moved to Van Nuys. Charlie came with 584 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,719 Speaker 1: them to show them how to do it right. He 585 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,280 Speaker 1: in text creepy crawled into the house, waking two random 586 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:50,320 Speaker 1: innocent Los Angelinos, Leno and Rosemary la Bianca. Charlie promised 587 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,760 Speaker 1: they were just being robbed, tied them up, then ducked 588 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 1: out with one instruction to text make sure everyone gets 589 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,440 Speaker 1: their hands dirty, and when Charlie walked out, the girls 590 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,759 Speaker 1: walked in. Text took Leno in the living room. The 591 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,920 Speaker 1: girls surrounded Rosemary in the bedroom, text impaled Leno Labanca 592 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,399 Speaker 1: in the throat with a bayonet and then ran him 593 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,320 Speaker 1: through eleven more times until the man pleaded, like Abigail 594 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:20,000 Speaker 1: Folger before him, don't stab me anymore. I'm dead. I'm dead. Sadie, 595 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 1: Katie and Lulu loaded up on kitchen knives and stabbed 596 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 1: Rosemary to death with her own housewares, over and over 597 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,719 Speaker 1: as she could hear her husband screams from the other room, 598 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,680 Speaker 1: and before they left, Patricia Katie cranwinkled at the towel 599 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,279 Speaker 1: and Lino Labanca's blood and used it to smear the 600 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: words rise and death to pigs on the walls and 601 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:42,840 Speaker 1: helped their skelter on the refrigerator. Most gruesome, Katie carved 602 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 1: the word war into Lino Labanca's stomach, then left the 603 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,719 Speaker 1: blade and carving fork sticking out of the victim's body. 604 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,640 Speaker 1: Because for Charlie, if the piggies weren't going to anoint 605 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 1: him as their prophet, if they weren't going to give 606 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,400 Speaker 1: him a career in music, then war was exactly what 607 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,080 Speaker 1: he was going to give them. Or so went the 608 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:09,240 Speaker 1: District Attorney's office, thinking of Vincent Bouliosi. Phil Coffin couldn't 609 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,719 Speaker 1: believe the bullshit he was hearing. Sitting in the La 610 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,879 Speaker 1: County Hall of Justice, a year and five months after 611 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:20,080 Speaker 1: the murders, thirteen months after Charlie, Sadie, Linda and Katie 612 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,400 Speaker 1: had been charged with what was now known as the 613 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,359 Speaker 1: Tate LaBianca murders. Phil out of hand at the Buliosi. 614 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:31,560 Speaker 1: Dude was slick, just like a sixty one Ford Falcon Square. 615 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 1: But slick did Buliosi actually believe the fantastical nonsense he 616 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,800 Speaker 1: was trying to get the jury to buy down on Charlie. 617 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:44,439 Speaker 1: Phil's Charlie using the murders to mastermind a global race war, 618 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,279 Speaker 1: wherein he would burrow away into the center of the 619 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,359 Speaker 1: Earth with his family to wait out the race war 620 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,400 Speaker 1: and overthrow the establishment of the man of Whitey by 621 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,440 Speaker 1: the Black race, so that he could then emerge from 622 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,840 Speaker 1: his subterranean exile to lead what he deemed to be 623 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,360 Speaker 1: an inferior race and capable of leading themselves in a 624 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:04,880 Speaker 1: newfound Earth Eden. This was the supposed reason Charles Manson 625 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:10,759 Speaker 1: killed Sharon Tate, j Seabring, Voytech Fraikowski, Abigail Folger, Stephen Parentleno, 626 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,640 Speaker 1: and Rosemary LaBianca. Buliosi was shilling this out with a 627 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,160 Speaker 1: straight face, and incredibly, the judge, the jury, the press, 628 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,080 Speaker 1: they were all buying it. Well, wait, there was more. 629 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,960 Speaker 1: Why did Charlie choose to kill at Ciello Drive of 630 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,880 Speaker 1: all places? Buliosi rhetorically posed the question to provide himself 631 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,200 Speaker 1: with a reason to respond, because Charlie wanted to kill 632 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:37,879 Speaker 1: Terry Melcher. Phil Kaufman was incredulous. What because Phil knew 633 00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,680 Speaker 1: that Charlie knew that Terry Melcher no longer lived at 634 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,719 Speaker 1: Coello Drive and that Charlie knew exactly who did live 635 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 1: at Siello Drive, and so did Tex Watson and Phil 636 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,239 Speaker 1: also knew that Vincent Buliosi, the Deputy DA with the 637 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,279 Speaker 1: full investigative way to the LA County behind him, knew 638 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,719 Speaker 1: that Charlie knew that Terry Melcher no longer lived at 639 00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,880 Speaker 1: Coello Drive. If Charles Manson wanted to kill Terry Melcher, 640 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,640 Speaker 1: why didn't he go to Terry Melcher's house instead of 641 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:06,880 Speaker 1: Sharon Tates? And in Phil Kaufman's estimation, if he, a 642 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,800 Speaker 1: half drunk, half assed rock and roll manager, could figure 643 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,359 Speaker 1: this out with next to no effort at all, how 644 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,040 Speaker 1: the hell was it that the chief prosecutor couldn't something 645 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:21,719 Speaker 1: was real wrong. Vuliosi pressed his case. It wasn't just 646 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,160 Speaker 1: the White album and it wasn't just Helter Skelter in 647 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,839 Speaker 1: the Book of Revelation. In LSD envisioned Race Wars, it 648 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 1: was revenge, revenge for Charlie against Terry Melcher for not 649 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,920 Speaker 1: making him a rock and roll star, because, after all, 650 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,160 Speaker 1: Charles Manson was nothing more than a delusional hippie with 651 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:42,960 Speaker 1: zero musical talent coursing through his synthetically infused veins that 652 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,120 Speaker 1: was it. Phil Kaufman had heard enough. He stood up 653 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,800 Speaker 1: and walked out of the courtroom. He had some records 654 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:53,160 Speaker 1: to sell. Charles Manson, the music Man's records Lie the 655 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:57,440 Speaker 1: Love and Terror call. It wouldn't be easy. Charles Manson 656 00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:02,680 Speaker 1: at the moment was toxic. But that would change, just 657 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 1: like the order of the day. The sixties gave way 658 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,560 Speaker 1: to the seventies, the seventies to the eighties, the eighties 659 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,960 Speaker 1: to the nineties, and so on. Every new generation at 660 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,759 Speaker 1: their core the same as the one before, craven, hedonistic, power, mad, 661 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,319 Speaker 1: pushing the limits, and by the time the eighties hit, 662 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,880 Speaker 1: a new crop of quote unquote rebels made their own scene, 663 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,920 Speaker 1: punk rockers, hardcore kids, latch key children of Charlie's baby 664 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,800 Speaker 1: boom generation who legitimately could give a fuck about easy riders. 665 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 1: These were true, raging bulls, real rebels. They screamed their 666 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:40,640 Speaker 1: truth into their microphones with that same Manson modus operandi, 667 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,680 Speaker 1: in short, fucked the world. They plastered Charlie on their 668 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,160 Speaker 1: concert flyers and T shirts and began what was to 669 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,560 Speaker 1: become a decades long discovery and dissemination of Charles Manson's music. 670 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,960 Speaker 1: Charlie's songs were covered and recorded by the likes of 671 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,440 Speaker 1: Red Cross, Gigi Allen, and even George McFly himself. Crispin 672 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,279 Speaker 1: Glover Guns and arguably the biggest rock group in the 673 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,080 Speaker 1: world at the time, included charlie song look at Your 674 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,919 Speaker 1: Game Girl on their Spaghetti Incident. Teenage alt rock heart 675 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:12,279 Speaker 1: throw Evan Dando of the Lemonads recorded Charlie's song your 676 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:15,839 Speaker 1: Home Is Where You're Happy Black Flags Henry Rawlins went 677 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,880 Speaker 1: on to produce some of Charlie's unfinished recordings, the most excellent. 678 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:24,239 Speaker 1: Brian Jonestown Massacre provided real beauty with their interpretation of 679 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:29,880 Speaker 1: Charles Manson's Arkansas. With their recorded version Arkansas Revisited. Marilyn 680 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:34,040 Speaker 1: Manson took his stage name from Charles Manson. Nine Inch 681 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,480 Speaker 1: Nails's Trent Resner moved into the sight of the Manson 682 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,280 Speaker 1: family's first murders. But you heard that right. He moved 683 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,279 Speaker 1: into the house Sharon Tate's house on Colo Drive where 684 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,960 Speaker 1: she was slaughtered, using the house as inspiration for countless 685 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,080 Speaker 1: hours of music recorded there, some of which ended up 686 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,560 Speaker 1: on the Nine Inch Nails EP. Broken and Trent Resner 687 00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,960 Speaker 1: wasn't the first musician to move into the house that 688 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,960 Speaker 1: was once a gruesome crime scene. No late nineteen sixty nine, 689 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,480 Speaker 1: Terry Melcher moved back into the home on Coello Drive 690 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:11,920 Speaker 1: after the murders. Now why if, as Chief Prosecutor Vincent 691 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,720 Speaker 1: Buliosi alleged, Charles Manson sent his killers to Cielo Drive 692 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,400 Speaker 1: to kill Terry Melcher, would Terry Melcher moved back into 693 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:24,080 Speaker 1: the home, Especially if, as Buliosi also asserted, Terry Melcher, 694 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,239 Speaker 1: like the rest of Hollywood, in the aftermath of the 695 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:30,160 Speaker 1: slangs on Siello Drive, feared for his life. Melcher was 696 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,360 Speaker 1: afraid Manson wanted a murder. Manson was a failed musician, 697 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,400 Speaker 1: But was he? All these years later, all these recordings 698 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:43,880 Speaker 1: of Charles Manson's music by mega musicians, Charlie's music living 699 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:48,200 Speaker 1: on from one generation to the next forevermore, doesn't sound 700 00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,720 Speaker 1: like a quote unquote failed musician To me, If Vincent 701 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,680 Speaker 1: Buliosi lied about this, what else could he have lied about? 702 00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:01,840 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan in this side of Disgraceland is to 703 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:17,840 Speaker 1: be continued. Disgraceland was created by Yours Truly and is 704 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,480 Speaker 1: produced in partnership with Double Elvis. Credits for this episode 705 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,360 Speaker 1: can be found on the show notes page at disgracelampod 706 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,200 Speaker 1: dot com. 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