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Poor in the dust bowl. When i wrote about the gunfight at the o. K. Corral which was not actually a gunfight and wasnt at the o. K. Corral, but the accidental shooting in an empty lot on fremont street just did not have the same sort of ring to would. The first people were going to write this history. Wanted to write about the settling of the last part of the american frontier. And about three and half years ago it occurred to me that a lot of that unique time in American History that we know as the late 60s is either getting completely forgotten or else people are sort of putting their own little twist on it. Oh, yeah. Some people say, a lot of sex and drugs. Wasnt that silly and cute. Other people remember the passion over the war, the students marching in the street. Other people remember the space age with the cold war still going on. Tom hayden said when i interviewed him for this book that he does not think there has ever ....
Opinion of the music, or charlie. the session fizzled. but the beachboys did play one of manson s songs on the mike douglas tv show. but dennis rewrote the words and the title. oh, dollarly was so angry that anybody would dare to change the lyric or anything he said. it was like misquoting him. so the beachboys were not the answer to manson s dreams. but there was one more chance. greg jacobson knew a man in los angeles who could snap his fingers and get him a contract. his name was terry melcher. one of l.a. s top music producers. in the late spring of kind, mel melcher agreed to come to spahnran ranch to hear him sing. charlie expected somebody to come out with a pen and say now here you have a contract with colombia records. ....