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Charles Manson the Music Man: Lost Records and a Prosecutorial Song too Crazy to Sing · DISGRACELAND

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  Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. Disgrayland is
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  Speaker 1: a production of Double Elvis. The stories about Charles Manson's
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  Speaker 1: attempted musical career are insane, like way more insane than people.
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  Speaker 1: I usually say this about in and out of Juvie
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  Speaker 1: in jail since childhood. Charles Manson learned guitar in prison
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  Speaker 1: from the last of the Great Depression era gangsters. He
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  Speaker 1: made music industry connections in jail two the Rolling Stones
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  Speaker 1: and Graham Parsons, road mangler Phil Kaufman among them. Then,
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  Speaker 1: during the Summer of Love, Charlie bounced from prison and
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  Speaker 1: took his act to San Francisco, formed a drug soaked
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  Speaker 1: sex cult, moved the whole fan way down to LA
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  Speaker 1: and before you could say celebrity orgy, he was hanging
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  Speaker 1: with Neil Young, the Mamas and the Papas and the
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  Speaker 1: Beach Boys. Charlie Manson was about to be the breakout
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  Speaker 1: star of nineteen sixty nine. Because Charles Manson made great
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  Speaker 1: music in his own mind anyway, unlike that music I
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  Speaker 1: played for you at the top of the show that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't great music. That was a preset loop for my
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  Speaker 1: melotron called swamp Smoocher MK two. I played you that
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  Speaker 1: loop because I can't afford the rights to Hello, I
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  Speaker 1: Love You by the Doors. And why would I play
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  Speaker 1: you that specific slice of brain scream cheese? Could I
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  Speaker 1: afford it? Because that was the number one song in
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  Speaker 1: America on August eighth, nineteen sixty eight, And that was
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  Speaker 1: the day that Charles Manson sat in the Van Nuys
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  Speaker 1: studio and recorded what would become his own album entitled Lie.
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  Speaker 1: The Love and Terror came on this episode Creepy Crawling Hip,
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  Speaker 1: Missing Records, Misguided rock Stars, the Crime of the Century
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  Speaker 1: in Charles Manson the music Man, I'm Jake Brennan, and
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  Speaker 1: this is disgrace silent. What do you mean you don't
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  Speaker 1: want the record? Just what I said, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: the record. I can't sell it. You can't sell it.
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  Speaker 1: You see who's on the cover, man, it's Charles Manson,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't sell it. Just what I said, I
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  Speaker 1: can't sell it. Fuck Phil Kaufman was pissed. Fucking hippies.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't do anything right. Neither could most people. He could,
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  Speaker 1: but Phil Kaufman wasn't most people. He was as qualified
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  Speaker 1: a music industry road manager as there ever was. The
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  Speaker 1: road mangler, that's what they called him, or that's what
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  Speaker 1: he called himself, didn't matter. It suited as leather, wearing
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  Speaker 1: a Harley riding tattoo, having image and fuck all attitude.
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  Speaker 1: Just fine, asked Mick Jagger, asked Graham Parsons. Guys like
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  Speaker 1: Mick and Graham would kick out the jams. Phil would
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  Speaker 1: get you out of them right now. He had his
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  Speaker 1: own jam to get out of them, which was why
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  Speaker 1: he was not in Los Angeles and why he was
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco. He needed money. He was broke, and
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  Speaker 1: he needed to offload these boxes of records he paid
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  Speaker 1: to have pressed up. And this fucking hippie wasn't seeing
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  Speaker 1: things the way he needed to be seeing things Phil
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  Speaker 1: Kaufman's way. And you've got an entrepreneurial bone in your body.
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  Speaker 1: This is Charles Manson on the cover of this album.
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  Speaker 1: And the hippie behind the counter at the record store
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  Speaker 1: went back into his old rat I know, which is
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  Speaker 1: why I can't sell it. God damn it, you little
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  Speaker 1: know hers han't fucking you even heard it. It's damn good,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is doesn't matter. Dude is a killer.
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  Speaker 1: That's the whole goddamn point. Hippies full of shit as usual.
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  Speaker 1: The revolution most certainly would not be televised, but the
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  Speaker 1: circus would. That's what was happening downtown. When he got
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  Speaker 1: back home here in La a fucking circus. Phil sat
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  Speaker 1: on the porch of his bungalow and van ny Is
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  Speaker 1: thinking about it. What a shit show, Charlie, all those
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  Speaker 1: murders and now all those cameras every day while they
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  Speaker 1: strolled Charles Manson into court to stand trial for first
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  Speaker 1: degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder seven murders to
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  Speaker 1: be exact, was it worth it? Phil knew Charlie and
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  Speaker 1: Phil nude that Charlie likely thought it was all worth it,
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  Speaker 1: a handful of dead squares for a lifetime of fame
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  Speaker 1: or infamy. Rather, if you asked Charlie a year ago
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  Speaker 1: about that five to one, he'd pass five to one.
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  Speaker 1: He'd take his chance as working the ranks of the
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood music industry power structure to try to get his
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  Speaker 1: music out into the world, which is what he'd been
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  Speaker 1: doing to some degree of success over the past two years.
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  Speaker 1: The Beach Boys, Dennis Fuckstick Wilson loved Charlie's music so
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  Speaker 1: much that he moved Charlie into his mansion up on Sunset,
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  Speaker 1: moved in all Charlie's girls too. Phil suspected that that's
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  Speaker 1: what Dennis the Fuckstick really loved Charlie's girls. Phil knew
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  Speaker 1: about their powers firsthand. After Charlie got busted and they
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  Speaker 1: went and rounded up Manson family members Susan Atkins, Leslie
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  Speaker 1: van Houghton, and Patricia creenwickl have paraded them in handcuffs
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  Speaker 1: across the television screen. Phil Kaufman remarked to himself, I
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  Speaker 1: had sex with every last one of those murderouses. It's
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  Speaker 1: because Phil and Charlie were tight. Phil and Charlie did
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  Speaker 1: time out of Terminal Island federal time. Charlie was in
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  Speaker 1: for blowing probation on earlier charges from forgery and pimping
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  Speaker 1: to grand theft, auto Phil for smuggling grass. Charlie made
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  Speaker 1: an impression, all five foot two of them. Making an
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  Speaker 1: impression was essential if he wanted to survive a lengthy
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  Speaker 1: stint and lock up, and Charlie certainly made enough of
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  Speaker 1: an impression on the notorious Alvin Creepy Carpas from former
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  Speaker 1: public Enemy number one, Mob Barker's gang. They locked up
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  Speaker 1: Creepy Carpas in thirty six for kidnapping, never mind o
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  Speaker 1: the murders and robbery he'd committed. Creepy Carpas was Jay
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  Speaker 1: Edgar Hoover's first personal arrest, and somehow in prison he
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  Speaker 1: got his hands on a guitar, and that got Charlie interested.
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  Speaker 1: So Charlie worked his charm on old Creepy Carpas and
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  Speaker 1: got him to share his guitar and teach Charlie a
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  Speaker 1: thing or two. Charlie practiced as best he could whenever
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  Speaker 1: he could, working his tiny little hands and his tiny
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  Speaker 1: little fingers over the acoustics neck trying with not much
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  Speaker 1: success to hold those high action strings down, but Charlie
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  Speaker 1: kept at it. Frankie Lang, the dude who sang mule train,
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  Speaker 1: That's who Charlie sounded like. His voice wasn't unpleasant, not
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  Speaker 1: that the screws noticed. One guard went up to Charlie
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  Speaker 1: when he was practicing in his cell, loud, no doubt,
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  Speaker 1: annoying others on the block. The guard shouted, piped down manson,
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  Speaker 1: or you'll never get out of here. Charlie just looked
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  Speaker 1: at him and said, get out aware, man, the wizard.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie had that wizard vibe. That's what Dennis Wilson called him.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie could lay that shit out thick, that guru vibe.
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  Speaker 1: He'd figured out what you were thinking before you knew
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  Speaker 1: you were thinking it. And then by the time you
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  Speaker 1: worked yourself around of figuring out what it was you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do or say, Charlie would beat you to
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  Speaker 1: the point, repeat your thoughts or desires back to you,
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  Speaker 1: and blow your mind in the process. At least it
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  Speaker 1: did most people. That shit didn't work on Phil Coffin, though,
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  Speaker 1: but it worked plenty on Dennis Wilson. Dennis thought Charlie
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  Speaker 1: was the future and the past and most certainly the present.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis brought his buddy Terry Melcher, the famous record producer
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  Speaker 1: the dude who recorded The Birds and the Raiders, around
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  Speaker 1: to hear Charlie's rap, and Terry also bought him, if
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  Speaker 1: not in on Charlie's music, then in on Charlie's girls.
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  Speaker 1: Terry especially like sixteen year old ruth Anne Morehouse. Ruth
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  Speaker 1: Anne was the crown jewel in Charlie's Harrow or better put,
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  Speaker 1: his so called family. Charlie had over a dozen girls,
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  Speaker 1: all of them young, some like Ruth Anne Well underage,
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  Speaker 1: living with him out of the broke down Spawn movie
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  Speaker 1: ranch in Chatsworth, outside of la It was as communal
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  Speaker 1: as communal could get. Charlie, his girls and the few
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  Speaker 1: men who Charlie tolerated, Tex Watson, Clem Grogan and Charlie's
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  Speaker 1: old band buddy Bobby Bosley among them, shared everything food, sex,
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  Speaker 1: trips to the far out LSD stratosphere, and of course,
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  Speaker 1: as a matter of survival. In the hand to mouth world,
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  Speaker 1: they existed in criminal activity. So in big wig music industry,
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  Speaker 1: dudes like Dennis Wilson and Terry Melcher took an interest
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  Speaker 1: in Charlie's music. Charlie shared his women. Charlie hoped it
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  Speaker 1: would help him get his record made. It didn't. And
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  Speaker 1: that's in part what had Phil Kaufman still caught up
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  Speaker 1: in Charles Manson's world a year after his arrest while
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  Speaker 1: he sat on trial for murder. And it's why Phil
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  Speaker 1: was sitting up late in his Van Nuys home on
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  Speaker 1: this night with a loaded three fifty seven magnum in
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  Speaker 1: his hand, lamenting this man sized Hippie Pain in the Ass,
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  Speaker 1: the records, boxes of them, boxes of Charles Manson's debut
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  Speaker 1: solo record, Lie the Love and Terror Call. He and
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  Speaker 1: Charlie struck a bargain after Charlie's arrest. If Phil paid
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  Speaker 1: to manufacture the album, then Charlie reasoned that Phil could
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  Speaker 1: have the rights to the album. Phil thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a good bargain, and at the time so did Charlie.
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  Speaker 1: But Phil couldn't sell the record. So now Charlie wanted
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  Speaker 1: the boxes of records back so that he could sell
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  Speaker 1: them himself, even if he was currently in jail on
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  Speaker 1: trial for murder. Nah. Phil was getting his money back,
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  Speaker 1: but Charlie was desperate. He needed to feed his family,
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  Speaker 1: so Charlie put his family to work from behind bars,
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  Speaker 1: told them to go take what was his his music.
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  Speaker 1: Phil sat it was late quiet. His roommate Einstein Eddie,
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  Speaker 1: all fifteen feet of him, was asleep. Eddie was big, tall,
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  Speaker 1: all right, He wasn't quite fifteen feet, but with enough
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  Speaker 1: Jack Daniels, he knew he could appear to be. When
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  Speaker 1: he snored, he could hear him from the back of
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  Speaker 1: the house. But Phil couldn't hear him. Now, maybe Einstein
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  Speaker 1: Eddie was up. He kept weird hours. Los Angeles was asleep, though,
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  Speaker 1: and the night was still dead sounding. Phil kept watch
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  Speaker 1: over his small front yard from his posts and his
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  Speaker 1: screened out porch. There just as suspected fucking hippies worms
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  Speaker 1: crawling on their bellies off the sidewalk on Chandler Boulevard
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  Speaker 1: and onto his front yard. There were four that Phil
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  Speaker 1: could see, and all of them haden eyes in their
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  Speaker 1: mouths as they squirmed over the dirt and burnt grass
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  Speaker 1: toward Phil Kaufman's house. Phil stood quietly. The old floorboards
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  Speaker 1: on his porch creaked lightly, and the hippie worms were
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  Speaker 1: none the wiser, and they kept up their crawl. Phil
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  Speaker 1: took aim with his three fifty seven magnum and the
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  Speaker 1: hippies kept crawling. As soon as the lead hippie hit
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  Speaker 1: the front step, Phil kicked open the screen door and screamed,
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  Speaker 1: stick them up. The hippie sprung up and stood stone still.
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  Speaker 1: What the fuck are you doing? Phil asked. The lead
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  Speaker 1: worms spoke up first, Charlie sent us, he said. The
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  Speaker 1: three other hippies, all women, just stared at Phil menacingly.
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  Speaker 1: Phil felt the chill work its way over his burly
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  Speaker 1: arms and up to his neck. He had the gun,
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  Speaker 1: but they had the numbers. He could get off a shot,
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  Speaker 1: but all four were close. It could pounce. Phil didn't
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  Speaker 1: take any chances. He moved closer, stuck his pistol right
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  Speaker 1: into the face of the headworm. That cold steel on
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  Speaker 1: your flesh. It straightened you out quick, and the hippie
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  Speaker 1: spoke stammered, we don't want any trouble. We just want
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  Speaker 1: the music. Charlie wants his music, that's all. Phil spoke
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  Speaker 1: through his clenched teeth. It ain't Charlie's music. I paid
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  Speaker 1: for it. It's mine to sell. And the worm said nothing.
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  Speaker 1: The three menacing hippie girls behind him started an inch
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  Speaker 1: toward Phil, unconcerned with the gun and their family members Grill,
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  Speaker 1: stop moving, or I swear to fucking God, I'll blow
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  Speaker 1: his head off. The girls kept up their slow march
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  Speaker 1: and held their stony stare. Phil didn't want to shoot.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't shoot. The girls knew it. The headworm lost
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  Speaker 1: control of his bladder in a slow scare trickle. Phil
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  Speaker 1: told him again, stop fucking moving, or I'll shoot. The
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  Speaker 1: girls kept creeping toward him. Just then a ruckus from
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in back of Phil. A short blast of stumbling,
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  Speaker 1: fumbling fury came rushing out from behind the standoff and
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  Speaker 1: out of Phil's house. The front door swung open and
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  Speaker 1: into the yard. Einstein Edy came barreling out, fully naked,
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  Speaker 1: all fifteen feet of them, with his giant ball swinging
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  Speaker 1: in the dead valley are he scared back the girls
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  Speaker 1: and get the drop on them with the shotgun he
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  Speaker 1: was holding. Now they all had their hands up and
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  Speaker 1: Phil Kaufman was smiling. One of the hippies spoke, don't
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  Speaker 1: shoot us, mister, we just want Charlie's music. Phil ignored her.
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  Speaker 1: Get on your bellies, all of you. They did is
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  Speaker 1: Phil said, now do that thing you do, the only
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  Speaker 1: thing you're good at, you fucking worms, crawl off my property.
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  Speaker 1: And with that the hippies dropped under their bellies, turned
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  Speaker 1: around and did with their leader. Charles Manson had taught
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  Speaker 1: them how to do the creepy crawl, this time off
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  Speaker 1: Phil Kaufman's property and without Charles Manson's music. The Topanga
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  Speaker 1: Canyon house party was in full swing. It was nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight, post Summer of Love freak vibes flying everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Frank Zappas stood in the kitchen, holding court a group
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  Speaker 1: of young girls hanging on his every word. Frank was
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  Speaker 1: on his own trip. Charlie was well aware Frank was
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  Speaker 1: like Phil, impenetrable to Charlie's wizard ways. That didn't matter
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  Speaker 1: much to Charlie. For every Frank and Phil, there were
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  Speaker 1: scores of Squeakies and Gypsies and ruth Anne's and Sadie Mays.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie had grouped his own girls together outrageously, and they
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  Speaker 1: hung on his every word. Every breath is more like it.
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  Speaker 1: After getting out of prison, Charlie took his wizard stick
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  Speaker 1: north to San Francisco and got himself a family, a
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  Speaker 1: little commune where he was the king b He scoured
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  Speaker 1: the hate, rounded up young teenage runaways, wrapped togetherness and
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  Speaker 1: sexual liberation, dropped endless tabs of LSD, and offered a
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  Speaker 1: new view of the American dream, freedom outside of the establishment,
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  Speaker 1: a new family free of judgment and expectation, you know,
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  Speaker 1: neuvo hippie rationalizations to avoid just about any responsibility and
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  Speaker 1: indulge one's every desire. Charlie pitched its ji with that
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  Speaker 1: dode sincerity most modern day gurus at the time had mastered.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie studied at the feet of the masters l Ron Hubbard,
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  Speaker 1: Robert de Grimston and mel Lyman cult leaders, all the
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  Speaker 1: respective heads of the Church of Scientology the process in
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  Speaker 1: the Fort Hill community. By the time Charlie resurfaced in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles in early nineteen sixty eight, Papa had a
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  Speaker 1: brand new back, girls in music. Everywhere Charlie Manson went
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  Speaker 1: and that's what people expected, girls and music. His girls
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  Speaker 1: followed him everywhere. Guru was the word most associated with Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: but really he was more like a pimp. If a
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  Speaker 1: pimp in dirty hippie rags equals guru, then okay. But
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  Speaker 1: Charlie's main moo was providing access to sex with young
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  Speaker 1: girls in exchange for a whole slew of goods and access.
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  Speaker 1: Sex for alcohol, sex for drugs, sex for transportation, sex
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  Speaker 1: for clothing, sex for shelter, sex for a good time,
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  Speaker 1: sex for whatever. If you were running around Hollywood in
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  Speaker 1: the late nineteen sixties, it was well known that Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Manson could get you laid and with young young girls.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth Anne Morehouse was sixteen, as was Barbara Hoyt and Angela.
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  Speaker 1: Lansbury's daughter Deirdre was just fifteen. Dean Martin's daughter Deana
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  Speaker 1: was eighteen, but despite her relatively advanced age, Charlie was
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  Speaker 1: especially into her. He gave Deana Martin a ring to
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  Speaker 1: try and persuade her to join his family. Deanna took
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  Speaker 1: the ring, but didn't take the bait. She bounced no matter.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie had many recruits, and many of them were here
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  Speaker 1: with him on this night in Topanga Canyon. At this
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  Speaker 1: house party, Charlie hung in the back room with his
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  Speaker 1: new pal, Bobby Boselet. Bobby could play. He was a
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  Speaker 1: real musician. Bobby was skeptical of Charlie at first, but
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  Speaker 1: once Charlie took off with that guitar of his and
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  Speaker 1: those deranged space jam spoken word wraps, Bobby was as
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  Speaker 1: enraptured as everyone else. They jammed Charlie on acoustic and
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  Speaker 1: vocals and Bobby on melodica. Shit was wild. Charlie had something,
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  Speaker 1: Bobby knew it, and Bobby had something besides musical prowess,
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  Speaker 1: he had capabilities. Charlie lacked the criminal kind. Sure, Charlie
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  Speaker 1: was an ex calm, but he wasn't a heavy. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't straighten out a drug dealer who'd burned Charlie on
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  Speaker 1: a bad deal, Nor was he as convincing a hang
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  Speaker 1: with the biker gangs who increasingly were making their way
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  Speaker 1: out to Spot Ranch where Charlie was living with his family,
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  Speaker 1: with the expectation of sex and good times. Bobby Bosley
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  Speaker 1: could hang. He had weight to him, not literally figuratively.
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  Speaker 1: He was a man's man in a man's world. Plus
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  Speaker 1: he could really play melodica, guitar. Whatever. Bobby was a musician.
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Lee knew it. Bobby briefly joined Lee's psychedelic folk
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  Speaker 1: rock group The Grassroots, who later went on to changed
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  Speaker 1: their name to Love, and filmmaker Kenneth Anger knew it too,
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  Speaker 1: which is why Anger chose Bobby Bosley the star in
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  Speaker 1: his film Lucifer Rising. It was Bobby's ticket, It was
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  Speaker 1: the gig that was going to launch his career as
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  Speaker 1: a musician. But Anger's production was troubled, and by nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight, Bobby Bosle had left the project, cut out
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  Speaker 1: the middleman, to go straight to la and be his
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  Speaker 1: own man. Except Charles Manson had other ideas. Charlie needed
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  Speaker 1: Bobby to score some mescaline for his buddies in the
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  Speaker 1: Straight Satan's motorcycle Club Bikers Bad Dudes. Bobby went to
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  Speaker 1: a friend of the family, a young music teacher named
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  Speaker 1: Gary Hinman, who supplied the mescaline to Bobby, who delivered
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  Speaker 1: the straight Satans cash and courier the drugs back to
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  Speaker 1: the violent motorcycle club, all of whom were none too
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  Speaker 1: happy to learn that the drugs were bogus. Bobby was
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  Speaker 1: shocked and Charlie was furious. Charlie broke the deal for
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  Speaker 1: the straight Satans. Bobby made him look bad, fucked up
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  Speaker 1: his image, played for a fool. Charlie couldn't look bad
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  Speaker 1: in front of the Straight Satans. It challenged his authority,
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  Speaker 1: his manhood. How could Bobby do this to him? Bobby
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  Speaker 1: knew his way around a guitar, but apparently not around
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  Speaker 1: a drug deal. Bobby would have to make it right.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie sent Bobby over to Gary Hinman's, the music teacher,
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  Speaker 1: to sort this out. For the Straight Satans, the money
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  Speaker 1: or the drugs, Bobby, don't fuck this up. In late
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  Speaker 1: July nineteen sixty nine, Bobby Boselet weaseled his way into
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  Speaker 1: Gary Hinman's isolated to Panga Canyon home with Susan Sadie
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  Speaker 1: May Atkins, and Mary Brunner of the Manson family. He
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  Speaker 1: was not in the mood for explanations. Gary Hinman had
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: none anyway. Bobby was enraged. Sadie, May and Mary were bloodthirsty,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: blitzed on acid, and hell bent on avenging this embarrassment
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to their father, to their Guru, their leader, their Jesus,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: their Charlie. They watched as Bobby pistol whipped the coward
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: music teacher, who swore he had no money. He offered
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: to sign over his two cars. Two cars. How the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: fuck did a music teacher have two cars. Bobby wasn't
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: having it. This wasn't the deal, Get the money, kill
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the pig. He picked up the phone and called Charlie, who,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: sensing things were not going as planned, rushed over and
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: into the house and, in a wild fury, pulled a
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: knife and brought it down quick across the music teacher's face.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Blood splattered everywhere. The girls looked pleased. Bobby looked almost
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: as horrified as the music teacher, who screeched in terror.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Charlie looked Bobby dead in the eye and said, that's
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: how you be a Man, and then exited the apartment.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Bobby and the girls were left to clean up the mess.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Mary Brunner quickly rummaged the apartment for a needle and
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a thread and began to sew the music teacher's face
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: back together. It wasn't working. The music teacher wailed away.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Bobby didn't know what to do. He phoned Charlie again.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Charlie told him, you know what to do. It clicked
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: for Bobby. He dropped the phone, grabbed his knife, rushed
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: back into the apartment and stabbed the music teacher twice.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: The girls dipped a rag into the music teacher's blood
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: enough to paint the wall with their gurus chosen message,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: political piggies. It was a head fake, make the cops
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: think the murder was politically charged, some violent act carried
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: out by the radical New Left. It didn't work. Ten
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: days later, Bobby Bossile was pulled over driving the dead
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: man's car with the murder. Webon on him and booked
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in charge with the murder of the music teacher Gary Hinman.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Bobby Bousile was behind bars and Charles Manson needed a
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: new pal to jam with. We'll be right back after
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: this We're We're, We're. Neil Young didn't need the motorcycle anyway,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Charlie looked like he could really use it. Neil sat
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: in awe Charlie as Charlie played and sang. Neil wasn't
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the only one. It was beach boy Dennis Wilson's house,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and Dennis was a bigger fan of Charlie's than Neil.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Neil moved fast. He thought Charles Manson was the next
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Bob Dylan. All he needed was a band, well and
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: some wheels. So Neil gave Charlie his motorcycle. Charlie was
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: eternally grateful. Neil went one click further. He approached Warner
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Brothers Records label president Moe Austin and told him he
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: just had to sign Charlie. Neil would recorded, he said,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: but Moe wasn't having it for whatever reason. So Dennis
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Wilson beat Neil Young to the Charles Manson punch. Dennis
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: moved Charlie and his girls into his house to live
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: with him full time, and he brought Charlie into the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: studio to record with his brothers and the Beach Boys.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: It was a disaster of epic proportions. Recording studios can
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: be unforgiving to the unseasoned musician, and in nineteen sixty eight,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: that's exactly what Charles Manson was. He could string Neil
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Young or Dennis Wilson along through some never ending core
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: progression on a beat up acoustic spewing wild proclamations about
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: utopian end times, over bears and lsd tucked away in
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the back room of some Topanga Canyon house party, but
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: with the spotlight and all hearing capture of the studio
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: microphones trained on him, Charles Manson had no idea what
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the fuck it was that he was doing, and to
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson and his brother Brian's studio engineer, it showed immediately.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Charlie fiddled with his acoustic tried and failed to keep time.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: When the engineer suggested he buy for Katie's guitar, playing
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: from his singing and overdubb the vocals later, Charlie just
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: ignored him and instead invited into the studio his six
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: female family members he'd brought along to join him in song.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Dennis tried his best to get the situation under control,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: but in the end nothing came of it. Charles Manson
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: was incapable of taking any sort of direction. Charles Manson
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: wasn't the direction taking type. Charles Manson was the type
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: who gave direction. The session busted up, but Dennis Wilson
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: was still determined to introduce Charles Manson's music to the world.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: If Dennis couldn't get Charlie's magic down on tape, then
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: his friend Bird's producer, Terry Melcher most certainly would be
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: able to. Dennis helped arrange for an audition, this time
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: on more familiar ground. Terry would head out to Charlie's
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: place at Spawn Ranch to hear Charlie singing play and
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: determine whether or not he wanted to bring him into
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the studio for a session, and hopefully, as Charlie wanted,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: signed Charles Manson to an exclusive recording and distribution contract.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Charlie had his girls go to town on their grimy digs.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: They cleaned, they cooked, They did their best to make
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: hospitable their home at Spawn Ranch, the old Western TV
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and movie lot out in the desert, but it was
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: like putting lipstick on a pig. The ranch was decrepit,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: falling apart in most every way. No matter what the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: girls did. It was obvious Charlie and the girls were
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: living below the poverty level in a complete hand to
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: mouth manner. Terry melcher, son of international film star our
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Darris Day and massive success in his own right in
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the music business, couldn't help the field bad for Charlie
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and his family. They were barely hanging on living life
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: in the same manner. Charlie played his music poorly, fast,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and extremely loose. When it came time for Charlie to
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: play for Terry, he was, as usual, completely blitzed on LSD.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: He did his thing, strum some poorly formed chords, saying
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: whatever nonsense hippie pros popped into his head and encouraged
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: his girls to back him up on vocals. Sometimes, if
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the mood was writing and whatever cocktail drugs and alcohol
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: was perfectly calibrated and flowing in the right direction through
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Charlie and his girls at the exact right time, and
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the quote unquote magic happened then and only then was
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Charlie able to whip off something approaching a song And
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: depending on the state of the audience he was playing
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to say Neil Young ripped on blow or Dennis Wilson
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: relaxed in the afterglow of a Manson family orgy, that
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: song might even pass as entertainment. But tonight was not
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: one of those nights. Charlie bombed Terry Melcher, felt bad
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: for him, and gave him all the money he had
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: in his pockets fifty bucks. It was the worst mistake
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of his life. Charlie mis interpreted Terry's charity as an
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: advance on a future record contract, a future record contract
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: that Terry Melcher had no intention of entering into with
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Charles Manson. Terry refused nearly all future overtures from Charlie.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Charlie couldn't understand it. He was relentless in his pursuit
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: of Terry. He went to his home up in the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Hollywood Hills Ciellow Drive, but Terry had moved. He went
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: to his buddy Dennis Wilson to inquire about Terry, but
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Dennis had moved out of his own house and left
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Charlie and his girls behind, only to be evicted by
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Dennis's manager. Suddenly, Charles Manson, who up until very recently
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: was quite literally the toast of the town, welcomed into
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the inner circle by Frank Zappan young, and Dennis Wilson
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: was now oh. Charlie was enraged, but not nearly as
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: angry as he was when he finally caught up to
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: his old friend Dennis Wilson. There he was the beach
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Boy in all his sunny California surfer boy glory on
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: national television, on the highly rated Mike Douglas Show, millions
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: of people watching at home, and Dennis was leading his
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: brothers and cousins and the beach Boys through a version
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: of one of Charlie's songs without Charlie knowing about it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: And even worse, Dennis had changed Charlie's words. Dennis had
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: changed Charlie's title from Cease to Exist to never Learn
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: not to Love? What the fuck was that? Words were sacred,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: The message was sacred, The words the message that was
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: literally all Charlie had, and Dennis Wilson had just fucked
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: him out of both, just like Dennis had fucked every
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: last one of Charlie's girls. Was humiliated and furious Dennis Wilson,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Terry Melcher, One way or another, someone was going to pay.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Music was sacred. Music spoke to Charlie. Music told him
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: what to do. Music made clear the path, This was
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: all temporary. The hand of mouth, lifestyle, prison pimping, dumpster diving,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: guided dude, ranch tours at George Spawns, hanging on for
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: dear life and death, Valley Doom Buggy attacked the grand
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: theft auto crooked drug deals with straight, Satan's dead music teachers,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: sweating ungrateful music industry executives, debasing yourself to get ahead
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: in life, swallowing your pride. The music told them that
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: there was an end to the subjugation foisted upon Charlie
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: and his family by the man. The music told him
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the end times were near. Not his music, the Beatles' music,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: particularly the music of the so called White album Revolution nine, Blackbird,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Sexy Sadie, Piggy's Rocky Raccoon, Happiness is a warm gun,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and of course helter skelter. The words in each song
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: gripped Charles Vnson For Charlie, the Beatles' White Album was
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: more than the group's ninth studio album, on which each
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: member flexed their individual solo chops. For Charlie and by extension,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: for Charlie's family, the White Album was a call to
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: arms to destroy them now and to compel an inevitable
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: utopian future where he would be king. If fame in
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: this world was impossible, then in the next Charlie, the Guru,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the Wizard, the Devil, the Lord Jesus Christ, as he
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: saw himself, Charles Manson, the son of Man, the man
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: of Song, would finally get a chance to live up
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to his potential, to share his gift, to teach the
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: world to sing in perfect harmony. And if anyone needed proof,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: they need look no further than the Bible with its
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Book of Revelation, which provided Charlie an apocalyptic starter kit
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: in ancient texts that confirmed what he heard buried in
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the grooves of the white album. Revolution nine clearly was
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a reference to Revelation of chapter nine, and yes, both
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Revolution and Revelation were coming. Sexy Sadie was a tribute
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to Charlie's girl, Susan. Sadie made glutz Atkins, piggies, mocked,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the squares and the man. Rocky Raccoon and Blackbird were
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: calls to Black America to start a race war and
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: helter skelter, and that was the sound the race war itself.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: If Dennis Wilson and Terry Melcher weren't Charlie's ticket out.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Then the white album was and it all started with murder,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: which was fine, was Charlie. He'd had it. The thick
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: thumb of the man had been gouging at his bloodshot
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: eye for too long, Terry blowing him off, Dennis stealing
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: his music, twin humiliations deserving of nothing short of brutal vengeance.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Charlie and most of his family have been binging on
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: countless tabs of LSD for days. The Manson family's chief,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Tex Watson, have been spinning out on not only
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: LSD but also on toloash aka Belladonna aka the Devil's Route,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: a highly hallucinogenic plant that bent your mind and made
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the effects of LSD seem like child's play. When teamed together,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the two drugs were a wrecking ball of insanity and destruction.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Dennis Terry pigs, That's all they were. Establishment swine them
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: in their whole lot. Everyone they came in contact with
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Hollywood knew Hollywood. Charlie laughed this new idea that somehow
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the young beautiful people who hung out at Coellow Drive
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and at Zappa's Place and over a cast Elliot's where
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: somehow rebellious was pathetic. What the Dennis Wilson or Terry Melcher,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: or even Peter Fonda or Dennis Hopper for that matter,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: actually know about being rebellious. They played rebels in front
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: of the cameras, Neil Young played one in front of
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the microphone. But it was all the same. He was
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: a fucking charlatan like the rest, doomed to a plastic eternity,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: a life of hypocrisy, lived from on high in his
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: cocaine tower. They knew nothing counter culture. It was a
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: fucking joke, a sham, a marketing slogan, just like the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Summer of love. These soulless automatons lived the same debotched,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: greed filled, shallow lives their powerful parents did before them.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: They just did it with longer hair and fringe and
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: grass in place of pomade, black ties and highballs. They
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: were the establishment. Charlie was the counter culture, the real
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: counter culture, music as revolution, the songwriter, a poet, the troubadour,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: an authentic mirror to your heart, the rebel in reality.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: He was all of these things. Fonda, Hobber, Neil, Dennis,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Terry they were not, and now it was time for
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: them to pay first murder, then revolution, sacrifice the piggies
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to ignite a war, and who better than the pigs
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: from up on Cello Drive. They were all there constantly
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: on any given night, living the high life. Dennis took
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Charlie there to see Terry before Tex was there recently
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: to try and get some money off Terry for Charlie
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: to help him pay for studio time or to bail
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: out a friend. Text couldn't remember exactly. All he could
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: remember was Terry's movie star girlfriend kicking him out of
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: her kitchen. Tex knew the house, even if he didn't
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: know the new tenants, Sharon Tate, the actress, and her
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: A list director husband Roman Polanski, or their house guests,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Roman's friend voy Tech Freikowski and his girlfriend, the heiress
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Abagail Folger, and Sharon's ex lover and bet friend hairstylist
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: to the stars, Jay Seabring. Charlie had had it with
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of them. He told Text to take Sadie
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: and Katie and lend the Kassebian and the quote go
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: up to the house where Terry Melcher used to live
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: and kill them, cut them up, hang them from the rafters,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: which was exactly what Tex Watson did. He and the
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: girls clad in all black, Texts with a gun. The
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: girls with knives snuck onto the property at Ciello, pumped
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: four bullets into the first person that came upon, Stephen Parent,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: a friend of the homes caretaker, who was on his
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: way out, and they then used their creepy crawl technique
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: to gain entry into the house. When they came upon
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: the homes four inhabitants, who were all either stoned, half asleep,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: or some combination of the two, Charlie's killers quickly rounded
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: them up. Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant, was
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: especially frightened. All four were bound. Voy Tech Fraikowski asked
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Tex Watson while he was there, Text replied, I'm the devil,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: and I'm here to do the Devil's business. In the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Devil's business they did. Everybody was rounded up and bound.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Jay Seabring pleaded for Sharon Tate, eight months pregnant, and
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: got a bullet and seven stab wounds from Texts for
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: his trouble. Voytech Fraikowski slipped his bindings and booked it.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Made it as far as the lawn when Text took
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: him down with two bullets and cracked his skull with
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: his pistol grip. As the girls descended with their blades,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: they stabbed Voytech fifty one times. Abigail Folger ran too,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: but Katie Kreenwigle caught her on the lawn and brought
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the knife down twenty eight times. Abigail's final haunting words
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I give up. I'm already dead. Take me. Sharon Tate,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: alone in the home, begged for her child's life, and
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: instead they stabbed her first in the stomach, sixteen cuts
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: in total. Before they left, Sadie Mayakins dipped a finger
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: in Sharon Tate's blood, tasted it. Then she took a
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: pile out of the blood and used it to smear
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: the word pig on the wall. The rusting iron smell
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: of the blood pulled and smeared everywhere would haunt the
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: house for months. The next night, Charlie instructed Tex, Sadie, Katie, Linda,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: and this time Leslie Van Houghten to go out and
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: do the same thing kill this time, though in a
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: different neighborhood, a neighborhood he knew well. Three three zero
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: one Waverley Drive in Los Felis. The house by Griffith Park,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: next door to Charlie's old prison buddy Phil Kaufman's last
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: place before we moved to Van Nuys. Charlie came with
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: them to show them how to do it right. He
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: in text creepy crawled into the house, waking two random
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: innocent Los Angelinos, Leno and Rosemary la Bianca. Charlie promised
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: they were just being robbed, tied them up, then ducked
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: out with one instruction to text make sure everyone gets
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: their hands dirty, and when Charlie walked out, the girls
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: walked in. Text took Leno in the living room. The
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: girls surrounded Rosemary in the bedroom, text impaled Leno Labanca
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: in the throat with a bayonet and then ran him
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: through eleven more times until the man pleaded, like Abigail
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Folger before him, don't stab me anymore. I'm dead. I'm dead. Sadie,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Katie and Lulu loaded up on kitchen knives and stabbed
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Rosemary to death with her own housewares, over and over
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: as she could hear her husband screams from the other room,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and before they left, Patricia Katie cranwinkled at the towel
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: and Lino Labanca's blood and used it to smear the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: words rise and death to pigs on the walls and
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: helped their skelter on the refrigerator. Most gruesome, Katie carved
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: the word war into Lino Labanca's stomach, then left the
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: blade and carving fork sticking out of the victim's body.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Because for Charlie, if the piggies weren't going to anoint
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: him as their prophet, if they weren't going to give
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: him a career in music, then war was exactly what
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: he was going to give them. Or so went the
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: District Attorney's office, thinking of Vincent Bouliosi. Phil Coffin couldn't
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: believe the bullshit he was hearing. Sitting in the La
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: County Hall of Justice, a year and five months after
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the murders, thirteen months after Charlie, Sadie, Linda and Katie
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: had been charged with what was now known as the
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Tate LaBianca murders. Phil out of hand at the Buliosi.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Dude was slick, just like a sixty one Ford Falcon Square.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: But slick did Buliosi actually believe the fantastical nonsense he
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: was trying to get the jury to buy down on Charlie.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Phil's Charlie using the murders to mastermind a global race war,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: wherein he would burrow away into the center of the
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Earth with his family to wait out the race war
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: and overthrow the establishment of the man of Whitey by
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the Black race, so that he could then emerge from
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: his subterranean exile to lead what he deemed to be
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: an inferior race and capable of leading themselves in a
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: newfound Earth Eden. This was the supposed reason Charles Manson
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: killed Sharon Tate, j Seabring, Voytech Fraikowski, Abigail Folger, Stephen Parentleno,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: and Rosemary LaBianca. Buliosi was shilling this out with a
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: straight face, and incredibly, the judge, the jury, the press,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: they were all buying it. Well, wait, there was more.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Why did Charlie choose to kill at Ciello Drive of
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: all places? Buliosi rhetorically posed the question to provide himself
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: with a reason to respond, because Charlie wanted to kill
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Terry Melcher. Phil Kaufman was incredulous. What because Phil knew
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  Speaker 1: that Charlie knew that Terry Melcher no longer lived at
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  Speaker 1: Coello Drive and that Charlie knew exactly who did live
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  Speaker 1: at Siello Drive, and so did Tex Watson and Phil
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  Speaker 1: also knew that Vincent Buliosi, the Deputy DA with the
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  Speaker 1: full investigative way to the LA County behind him, knew
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  Speaker 1: that Charlie knew that Terry Melcher no longer lived at
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  Speaker 1: Coello Drive. If Charles Manson wanted to kill Terry Melcher,
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  Speaker 1: why didn't he go to Terry Melcher's house instead of
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  Speaker 1: Sharon Tates? And in Phil Kaufman's estimation, if he, a
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  Speaker 1: half drunk, half assed rock and roll manager, could figure
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  Speaker 1: this out with next to no effort at all, how
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  Speaker 1: the hell was it that the chief prosecutor couldn't something
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  Speaker 1: was real wrong. Vuliosi pressed his case. It wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: the White album and it wasn't just Helter Skelter in
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Revelation. In LSD envisioned Race Wars, it
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  Speaker 1: was revenge, revenge for Charlie against Terry Melcher for not
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  Speaker 1: making him a rock and roll star, because, after all,
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  Speaker 1: Charles Manson was nothing more than a delusional hippie with
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  Speaker 1: zero musical talent coursing through his synthetically infused veins that
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  Speaker 1: was it. Phil Kaufman had heard enough. He stood up
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  Speaker 1: and walked out of the courtroom. He had some records
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  Speaker 1: to sell. Charles Manson, the music Man's records Lie the
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  Speaker 1: Love and Terror call. It wouldn't be easy. Charles Manson
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  Speaker 1: at the moment was toxic. But that would change, just
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  Speaker 1: like the order of the day. The sixties gave way
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  Speaker 1: to the seventies, the seventies to the eighties, the eighties
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  Speaker 1: to the nineties, and so on. Every new generation at
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  Speaker 1: their core the same as the one before, craven, hedonistic, power, mad,
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  Speaker 1: pushing the limits, and by the time the eighties hit,
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  Speaker 1: a new crop of quote unquote rebels made their own scene,
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  Speaker 1: punk rockers, hardcore kids, latch key children of Charlie's baby
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  Speaker 1: boom generation who legitimately could give a fuck about easy riders.
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  Speaker 1: These were true, raging bulls, real rebels. They screamed their
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  Speaker 1: truth into their microphones with that same Manson modus operandi,
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  Speaker 1: in short, fucked the world. They plastered Charlie on their
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  Speaker 1: concert flyers and T shirts and began what was to
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  Speaker 1: become a decades long discovery and dissemination of Charles Manson's music.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie's songs were covered and recorded by the likes of
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  Speaker 1: Red Cross, Gigi Allen, and even George McFly himself. Crispin
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  Speaker 1: Glover Guns and arguably the biggest rock group in the
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  Speaker 1: world at the time, included charlie song look at Your
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  Speaker 1: Game Girl on their Spaghetti Incident. Teenage alt rock heart
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  Speaker 1: throw Evan Dando of the Lemonads recorded Charlie's song your
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  Speaker 1: Home Is Where You're Happy Black Flags Henry Rawlins went
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  Speaker 1: on to produce some of Charlie's unfinished recordings, the most excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Jonestown Massacre provided real beauty with their interpretation of
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Charles Manson's Arkansas. With their recorded version Arkansas Revisited. Marilyn
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  Speaker 1: Manson took his stage name from Charles Manson. Nine Inch
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  Speaker 1: Nails's Trent Resner moved into the sight of the Manson
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  Speaker 1: family's first murders. But you heard that right. He moved
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  Speaker 1: into the house Sharon Tate's house on Colo Drive where
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: she was slaughtered, using the house as inspiration for countless
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  Speaker 1: hours of music recorded there, some of which ended up
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  Speaker 1: on the Nine Inch Nails EP. Broken and Trent Resner
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the first musician to move into the house that
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  Speaker 1: was once a gruesome crime scene. No late nineteen sixty nine,
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  Speaker 1: Terry Melcher moved back into the home on Coello Drive
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  Speaker 1: after the murders. Now why if, as Chief Prosecutor Vincent
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  Speaker 1: Buliosi alleged, Charles Manson sent his killers to Cielo Drive
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  Speaker 1: to kill Terry Melcher, would Terry Melcher moved back into
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  Speaker 1: the home, Especially if, as Buliosi also asserted, Terry Melcher,
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  Speaker 1: like the rest of Hollywood, in the aftermath of the
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  Speaker 1: slangs on Siello Drive, feared for his life. Melcher was
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  Speaker 1: afraid Manson wanted a murder. Manson was a failed musician,
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  Speaker 1: But was he? All these years later, all these recordings
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  Speaker 1: of Charles Manson's music by mega musicians, Charlie's music living
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  Speaker 1: on from one generation to the next forevermore, doesn't sound
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  Speaker 1: like a quote unquote failed musician To me, If Vincent
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  Speaker 1: Buliosi lied about this, what else could he have lied about?
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