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The Beach Boys Pt. 2: Endless Bummer, Hollywood Paranoia, Onstage Fist Fights, Incest, and Cocaine · DISGRACELAND

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Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of double Elvis, Dennis Wilson, his
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Speaker 1: relationship to Charles Manson, his state of mind, and the
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Speaker 1: wild ups and downs of the Beach Boys. Is a
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Speaker 1: story that is so complex that two episodes are needed
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Speaker 1: to properly tell it. If you're just getting hit to
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Speaker 1: this now, I suggest you hit pause and go back
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Speaker 1: to Disgraceland Episode forty seven, or part one of the
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Speaker 1: Beach Boys Saga, where we discuss the band's creative rivalry
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Speaker 1: with the Beatles, drummer Dennis Wilson's falling in with the
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Speaker 1: Manson family, and the gruesome murders of Sharon Tate, Jay
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Speaker 1: Sebring and others unlucky enough to be hanging out at
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Speaker 1: ten zero five zero Colo Drive on the night of
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Speaker 1: August eighth, nineteen sixty nine. In this episode, we get
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Speaker 1: into the Beach Boys coming apart in a very public
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Speaker 1: way in the truly great music made by their rivals,
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Speaker 1: the Beatles, unlike the music played at the top of
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Speaker 1: the show that wasn't great music that was a preset
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Speaker 1: loop for my mellotron called three Rings Sous of Magic
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Speaker 1: MK two. I played you that loop because I can't
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Speaker 1: afford the rights to Say Say by Paul McCartney and
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Speaker 1: Michael Jackson. And why would I play you that specific
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Speaker 1: slice of tearful con Man Cheese? Could I afford it?
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Speaker 1: Because that was the number one song in America on
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Speaker 1: December twenty eighth, nineteen eighty three, And that was the
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Speaker 1: day the Beach Boys Dennis Wilson went for a swim
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Speaker 1: in the Pacific Ocean and never came back. On this
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Speaker 1: episode con Man Cheese, the Demise of the Beach Boys,
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Speaker 1: a dead surfer in Charles Manson's Long Shadow, I'm Jake
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Speaker 1: Brennan in this this Disgraceland. Saturday morning, early Hollywood was
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Speaker 1: still asleep. Birds were singing, Sprinklers were sprinkling. It was hot,
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Speaker 1: real hot, even for August. There was a sense of
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Speaker 1: hope like always. It was, after all, Hollywood Land nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty nine, a different kind of place, a different kind
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Speaker 1: of time. Who knew what this day or the next
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Speaker 1: night would bring. The party was on. The party was endless,
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Speaker 1: It was all innocent. It was all free love, nearly
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Speaker 1: free drugs, new ideas, a noticeable shift in the establishment paradigm.
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Speaker 1: The Hippies were on the ascent. The squares were positioning
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Speaker 1: themselves to not let the door hit them in the ass.
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Speaker 1: But no matter the cut of the bell bottoms, the
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Speaker 1: width of one's lapel, or the opulent design and fabric
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Speaker 1: of one's ascot. The rich, the powerful, the famous, they
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Speaker 1: ran this town. This was a company town. For you
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Speaker 1: were only as relevant as your last picture, which meant
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Speaker 1: that Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate were about as relevant
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Speaker 1: as you could be. On August ninth, nineteen sixty nine,
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Speaker 1: the telephones started ringing almost as soon as the morning
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Speaker 1: tennis lessons wrapped up, just as the early bird coffee
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Speaker 1: carafts were being wheeled out in place of the late
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Speaker 1: morning Bloody Mary's and early afternoon Tom Collins. Steve McQueen
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Speaker 1: could have used any and all of the above. He
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Speaker 1: was late to rise and hung over, and there was
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Speaker 1: a sharp ringing in his head. He peeled off the sheet.
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Speaker 1: He was naked, and so was the beautiful dancer lying
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Speaker 1: next to him. He took note of her tropican of body.
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Speaker 1: His eyes bleary, scanned his bedroom for the phone, and
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Speaker 1: that ringing like an axe to his skull. He leaned
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Speaker 1: over to the bottom of the bed on all fours
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Speaker 1: like a dog. The sun blasting through the windows, blinding
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Speaker 1: and annoying him at the same time. Where the fuck
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Speaker 1: was that phone? He saw the coiled cord on the floor,
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Speaker 1: half hidden from the clothes his jeans, T shirt, belt,
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Speaker 1: big ass buckle, leather moccasins, hers, mini skirt, haltertop, pocahontas vest,
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Speaker 1: go go boots. The sight of it all had him
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Speaker 1: horny again. Then he went to grab the telephone cord
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Speaker 1: and toppled off the end of the bed, head first
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Speaker 1: onto the floor. Fuck, more ringing, more pain. But he
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Speaker 1: had the cord in his hand now and began spooling
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Speaker 1: it toward him with two hands like some third world fishermen. Finally,
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Speaker 1: the damn phone was in reach. He clutched the receiver,
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Speaker 1: picked it up off its handle, and on the other
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Speaker 1: end heard a dial tone. He had Sharon and Roman's
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Speaker 1: Coello drive phone number committed to memory, and began dialing furiously.
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Speaker 1: The number you have dialed is not in service. Please
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Speaker 1: check the number and dial again. Steve hung up and
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Speaker 1: tried again, same thing. What the hell? He tried a
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Speaker 1: third time, eager to connect with his buddy Jay Sebring,
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Speaker 1: who he knew would be at his friend Sharon's house
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Speaker 1: on that morning, knowing of course, that Roman was out
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Speaker 1: of town and that Jay was haplessly holding out for
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Speaker 1: Sharon to get hip and dump the two short a
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Speaker 1: list director for him hairdresser to the Stars, Steve knew
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Speaker 1: his buddy Jay was a sap for Sharon, but still
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Speaker 1: Steve needed to apologize for blowing them both off the
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Speaker 1: night before. He was supposed to join them at Ciellow
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Speaker 1: Drive for a little party, but wound up in bed
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Speaker 1: with Pocahontas instead. Jay would understand, Sharon would roll her
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Speaker 1: eyes all the same. Steve wanted to explain himself, but
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Speaker 1: Jay Sebring wasn't available. Quite the contrary, his body was
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Speaker 1: in the process of being bagged, zipped and sent off
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Speaker 1: to the city Morgue. Elsewhere throughout Hollywood on that morning,
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Speaker 1: the telephones kept bringing The news was fresh and spreading fast.
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Speaker 1: Bob Evans got the news from George Hamilton, who got
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Speaker 1: the news from Joan Diddy, and who heard it from
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Speaker 1: Lenny Down. Lenny, who's husband Dominic was on the other
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Speaker 1: coast producing a film, got all the news first. Bob
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Speaker 1: called Warren, who called Jack, who called no one, but
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Speaker 1: went into the next room with the Playboy mansion. He
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Speaker 1: woke up and to tell anyone who would listen. Dennis
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Speaker 1: Hopper wasn't shocked. He knew something like this was coming.
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Speaker 1: It further fueled as paranoia, he told Peter Fondo. Of course,
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Speaker 1: he got word to Casavevas, who called me, who told Frank.
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Speaker 1: Frank Lua Gasket went all alpha and called the boys
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Speaker 1: in Chicago, who shook their heads and dismissed the whole
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Speaker 1: thing as hippie dippy bullshit. The Sinatra sisters told Big Nancy,
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Speaker 1: who told Frank Junior, who hid in his room and
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Speaker 1: pissed himself a little. His father would kill him if
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Speaker 1: he found out, so he told his mom about his
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Speaker 1: piss jeans, and Big Nancy had the maid take care
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Speaker 1: of it, and then called Lenny, who of course already
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Speaker 1: had the news hours ago, and hung up. Annoyed on
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Speaker 1: missus Frank Sinatra to call mister British Kennedy aka Peter
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Speaker 1: Laufer down in Palm Springs, who was trying to get
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Speaker 1: through to Roona Barrett to find out what the hell
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Speaker 1: was happening of in Hollywood. Roona's phone was ringing up
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Speaker 1: the hook, of course, and when it wasn't. She was
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Speaker 1: dialing everyone in a rolodex for answers. Paul Newman had none.
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Speaker 1: He was shook. His friend Jay Seabring was murdered with
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Speaker 1: his friend Sharon Tate. Why Paul picked up the phone
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Speaker 1: and tried to get some answers of his own. He
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Speaker 1: dialed the phone, rang and rang and rank some more,
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Speaker 1: and finally it was answered. On the other end, Jay
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Speaker 1: Sebring and Paul Newman's mutual friend, Steve McQueen spoke. What
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Speaker 1: Paul could tell by the vinegar in Steve's voice that
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Speaker 1: he just rusted McQueen from a thick, drunken sleep. Steve,
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Speaker 1: wake up, it's Paul. Jay's dead, murdered with Sharon. Steve McQueen,
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Speaker 1: convinced he was in the middle of a bad dream,
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Speaker 1: quickly hung up the phone. He blinked his eyes as
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Speaker 1: his cobweb mind snapped too fuck. Wait, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: what the hell was that all about? Was that Newman?
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Speaker 1: Steve didn't have Paul Newman's numbers, so he couldn't call
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Speaker 1: him back. He then tried Jay again. Damn it. McQueen
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Speaker 1: slammed the receiver down into its handle. Pocohonta spoke up
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Speaker 1: asked her one night leading man what the matter was.
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Speaker 1: He promptly told her to shut up and go back
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Speaker 1: to bed. She got hip and took the direction. Steve
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Speaker 1: then picked up the phone and dialed the number of
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Speaker 1: his one other friend who might know what the hell
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Speaker 1: was going on up at the Yellow Drive. His acid buddy,
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Speaker 1: his fellow skirt chaser, a gearhead, his friend with the gonorrhea,
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Speaker 1: and the twitchy guru the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson. Dennis
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Speaker 1: Wilson could feel the paranoia everywhere he went in Hollywood.
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Speaker 1: Everyone was paranoid. The killings at Roman and Sharon's, along
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Speaker 1: with the disturbingly similar stabbing murders of upper middle class
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Speaker 1: Los Felez residents Leno and Rosemary LaBianca the very next night,
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Speaker 1: had Hollywood stars on edge, without any arrests, without any
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Speaker 1: real suspects. Anyone who was anyone, along with everyone who wasn't,
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Speaker 1: couldn't help but wonder if they were next. Especially Dennis Wilson,
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Speaker 1: the rumors about the Cielo Drive crime scene had him
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Speaker 1: more than just a little freaked out. While the press,
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Speaker 1: the public, and Hollywood illuminati focused on the rumors a
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Speaker 1: drug deal gone wrong, there were of course, drugs found
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Speaker 1: in Jay's Porsche. Or was it an orgy that went
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Speaker 1: off the rails with too much LSD, or perhaps the
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Speaker 1: real life satanic interpretation of Rosemary's Baby. Whatever it was,
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Speaker 1: the darkness was real, and Dennis had good reason to
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Speaker 1: believe that he may have stirred it, and that the
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Speaker 1: demonic boomerang may have just headed straight back toward him.
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Speaker 1: As such, the whole saga was infinitely chilling. The stabbings,
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Speaker 1: the needless successive stabbings, dozens and dozens of cuts, many
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Speaker 1: post mortem. Why it was sadistic for pleasure or practice training?
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Speaker 1: It felt like ritual. Dennis remembered Charlie's rituals at Cielo Drive.
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Speaker 1: The word pig had been scrawled in blood on the
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Speaker 1: door at the Labyanca crime scene in Los Felez. The
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Speaker 1: next night, the word war had been carved Intolino Labianca's
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Speaker 1: belly and misspelled on the wall, and blood held through Skelter.
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Speaker 1: Dennis remembered Charlie's obsession with the White album. Helter Skelter
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Speaker 1: was on the white album, And then of course there
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Speaker 1: was the address. It was Roman and Sharon's play, sure,
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Speaker 1: but it was also Terry and Candy's place before that,
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Speaker 1: Dennis remembered being there just seven months ago with Charlie.
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Speaker 1: So while the paranoia drove the Mamas and Papa's Michelle
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Speaker 1: Phillips to shop for handguns and Warren Batty to install
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Speaker 1: an elaborate security system, Dennis Wilson doubled down on cocaine
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Speaker 1: Helter Skelter. Paul McCartney heard the criticism and said the
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Speaker 1: song was about a rollercoaster. Charles Manson heard the song
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Speaker 1: and said it was a secret message to him from
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Speaker 1: the Beatles, telling him to start a race war. Dennis
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Speaker 1: Wilson heard the song and was reminded of the wild
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Speaker 1: ups and downs of a cocaine binge, which is where
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Speaker 1: his head was at lately. The sprawling opus known as
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Speaker 1: the White Album was full of tracks just as eclectic
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Speaker 1: and inscrutable as Helter Skelter, a psychedelic oral diorama of
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Speaker 1: obscure meaning recorded by the big band of the planet,
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Speaker 1: the Beatles, for the biggest mass market audience in the
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Speaker 1: history of the world, to be interpreted in as many
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Speaker 1: ways as they had listeners, which is to say millions.
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Speaker 1: The White Album was the fading promise of the sixties,
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Speaker 1: Revolution one and nine Blackbird back in the USSR. The
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Speaker 1: latter song a little bit of a piss take on
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Speaker 1: the Beach Boys themselves, and a song that Mike Love
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Speaker 1: claimed to help his friend Paul McCartney write. The lyrics
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Speaker 1: to these tunes rubbed up against the foreshadowed nihilism of
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Speaker 1: the coming decade, with songs like Happiness is a Warm Gun,
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Speaker 1: I'm So Tired, Piggies and near Blues. It was a
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Speaker 1: newfound cynicism for the Beatles, one that had always been
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Speaker 1: there but never quite so pronounced on record, and Charles
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Speaker 1: Manson bit down hard. Piggyes was the gutting of the
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Speaker 1: pigs and the establishment, Thus pig and Sharon Tate's blood
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Speaker 1: on the door. The Blackbird was the coming race wars
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Speaker 1: called the Arms, where the Blacks would rise up against
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Speaker 1: their white oppressors, wipe them out and create a power
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Speaker 1: vacuum for Charlie's charm and to eventually rule the world.
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Speaker 1: Thus war carved Intolino Laveanca's belly. Sexy Sadie was about
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Speaker 1: Manson family member Susan Atkins, thus the name Sadie Mae Bluttz.
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Speaker 1: Revolution one and nine, Happiness is a warm gun. Were
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Speaker 1: anthems compelling Charlie to rise up and kick off the
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Speaker 1: race war, get down to the business of ruling the
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Speaker 1: world once and for all, an exact same revenge on
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Speaker 1: the pigs and the establishment who ignored and ridiculed him,
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Speaker 1: And of course helter skelter to catch all lyrical messaging
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Speaker 1: that encapsulated Charlie's entirely fucked up worldview. All of it
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Speaker 1: was right there on wax for anyone to hear plain
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Speaker 1: a day, of course, you had to be a complete
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Speaker 1: psychopath to hear in the Beatles songs what Charles Manson heard,
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Speaker 1: the rest of the world heard one of the greatest
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Speaker 1: albums of all time, most definitely the greatest double album
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Speaker 1: of all time. The record was a smash hit, selling
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Speaker 1: more than three point three million copies in the US
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Speaker 1: alone during its first four days of release. The mid
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Speaker 1: sixties friendly competition between the Beatles and the Beach Boys
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Speaker 1: with a decisive victor, and it was hard for the
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Speaker 1: Beach Boys, facing a four album critical and commercial slump,
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Speaker 1: not to glance silently at their own frontman Brian and
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Speaker 1: feel that if it weren't for his mental health problems,
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Speaker 1: it could have been them and not the Beatles who
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Speaker 1: defined what was clearly an important moment in time. It
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Speaker 1: could have been Smile, not the White Album. And had
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Speaker 1: it been, what if any messages would Charlie Manison have
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Speaker 1: vibed on? Where? How would the Beach Boys lyrics compel
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Speaker 1: others toward darkness or toward light? Why? How had it
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Speaker 1: gone so wrong? What if? So? Side? Helter Skelter was
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Speaker 1: on everyone's mind. Seven dead, so much blood, so many questions,
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Speaker 1: no arrests, no suspects. Hollywood Land, USA, nineteen sixty nine.
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Speaker 1: Creep City Fall was settling in around Tinseltown, and with
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Speaker 1: it a chill alongside the knowledge that the killers were
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Speaker 1: still out there. Dennis was at his friend Greg's place.
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Speaker 1: What's a small gathering. Gregg and his wife had just
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Speaker 1: lost their baby. It was a miscarriage, nowhere near as
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Speaker 1: gruesome a loss as their friend Romans, but a shared grief.
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Speaker 1: Dennis was trying to cheer them up, but the mood
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Speaker 1: was somber. He decided to play the piano, sing a
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Speaker 1: song or two, try to take everybody's minds off of
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Speaker 1: the rampant paranoia that had consumed their little community for
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Speaker 1: the past several weeks, drinks flowed and glasses clinked, the
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Speaker 1: grass was passed, Piano keys tapped out soft melodies. Sorrows
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Speaker 1: were on the verge of drowning. And then the door
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Speaker 1: burst open, and through it none other than the man
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Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson feared most, Charles Manson. Charlie was in rare form.
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Speaker 1: Even for him. It was clear to all in attendance
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Speaker 1: that he'd been on a tear tweaked out to the max,
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Speaker 1: processing the paranoia in his own way, clearly showing the
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Speaker 1: effects of coping through endless tabs of acid and hippie
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Speaker 1: death cult sex or whatever the hell it was. Charlie
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Speaker 1: got up to on his own with his family out
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Speaker 1: its spawn ranch. He was wearing a giant sombrero and
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Speaker 1: his eyes were doing that crazy shitthouse rat trick again,
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Speaker 1: rolling around endlessly in his sockets. He lapped the party,
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Speaker 1: spewing random hippie bullshit. He smelled like shit, he looked
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Speaker 1: like shit, and he scared shitless most everyone he got
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Speaker 1: close to. He approached Dennis and got right up in
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Speaker 1: his face. Brother, where have you been? I've been to
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Speaker 1: the moon and now I'm back. Neil Armstrong had been
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Speaker 1: the first American to walk on the Moon only a
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Speaker 1: month earlier. It wasn't surprising to anybody that Charlie would
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Speaker 1: try bending history to prop himself up. Dennis said nothing,
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Speaker 1: kept his head down, kept playing the piano. Charlie's eyes somersaulted,
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Speaker 1: and he got up quick and bounced, leaving the party
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Speaker 1: almost as quickly as he'd arrived. Everyone was freaked the
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Speaker 1: fuck out, and they were even more freaked out a
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Speaker 1: month or so later when they learned Charlie had been
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Speaker 1: arrested out in Death Valley. He was brought in by
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Speaker 1: the County Sheriff's Department on grand theft, auto and minor
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Speaker 1: arson charges related to the family squatting in caves along
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Speaker 1: the valley's edge, ripping and repainting cars to doom buggies
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Speaker 1: through the desert with and to sometimes sell for quick cash.
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Speaker 1: But once the authorities had Charlie in custody, it was
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Speaker 1: only a matter of time before the pieces of the
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Speaker 1: puzzle started clicking together. Just who was Charles Manson and
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Speaker 1: who were the members of his so called family, and
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Speaker 1: what in the hell were they doing out in the desert,
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Speaker 1: and what was with that unexplained murder the one where
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Speaker 1: the drug deal went bad a couple months back, where
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Speaker 1: political piggy was written in blood on the wall, the
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Speaker 1: murder that led to the arrest of Manson family member
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Speaker 1: Bobby Boselet. That scene sure felt a lot like the
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Speaker 1: Tate LaBianca crime scenes. California law enforcement had a hunch
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Speaker 1: that they had their man. Charles Manson was charged with
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Speaker 1: conspiracy in seven charges of murder for the Tate Labyanka
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Speaker 1: Kilsprey's and it resulted in a nationwide media circus of
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Speaker 1: a trial, the longest trial ever in California at the time.
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Speaker 1: One were prosecutors to prove that Charles Manson orchestrated in
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Speaker 1: order the gruesome murders, but did not commit them himself.
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Speaker 1: When the news broke in December of sixty nine about
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Speaker 1: the charges against Charlie, Dennis Wilson's heart sank. Dennis showed
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Speaker 1: Charlie the house on Sea Drive. Dennis introduced Charlie to
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Speaker 1: Terry Melcher when he lived there. Dennis got Charlie's hopes up.
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Speaker 1: Dennis opened up a new world to Charlie, a world
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Speaker 1: that closed itself off to him and stoked his rage.
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Speaker 1: Of course, it all made sense Dennis believed it before
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Speaker 1: the newsman even said it. So he drank, so he
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Speaker 1: did more and more drugs and an effort to not
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Speaker 1: feel in an effort to outrun the guilt and the
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Speaker 1: paranoia and the fear was real. Even with Charlie behind bars,
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Speaker 1: along with most of his family members, their real names exposed.
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Speaker 1: Susan Atkins aka Sadie made Gluts aka Sexy Sadie, Patricia
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Speaker 1: Crenwinkle aka Big Patty aka Yellow aka Katie, Charles Watson
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Speaker 1: aka Texts, Lynette From aka Squeaky, Catherine Cher aka Gypsy,
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Speaker 1: Sondra Good aka Blue, Bobby Bolsoleigh, Leslie Van Houghton, Mary Brunner,
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Speaker 1: and future informants and star witnesses Paul Watkins and Linda
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Speaker 1: Kasabian jail or no jail. Dennis was still freaked. Charlie's
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Speaker 1: reach was long and legit, and there were still other
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Speaker 1: members of the Manson family on the outside and who
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Speaker 1: knew what Charlie was capable of compelling them to do.
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Speaker 1: It was December nineteen sixty nine, in those cold days
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Speaker 1: between Christmas and New Year's when Dennis started finding stray
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Speaker 1: bullets in and around his front door, and there were
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Speaker 1: also little notes left on his doorstep and in his mailbox,
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Speaker 1: the one that simply said you can't get away from me.
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Speaker 1: That one cut Dennis good. And of course there was
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Speaker 1: the creepy, crawling Charlie's girls. Those still on the outside
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Speaker 1: would sneak into Dennis's home while he was sleeping and
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Speaker 1: move his furniture around to fuck with him. One morning,
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Speaker 1: he woke up to find his piano in a different
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Speaker 1: part of his house. But nothing chilled Dennis Wilson more
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Speaker 1: than waking up in the dead of night next to
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend with two dark figures hovering above his bed,
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Speaker 1: knives drawn, pointing straight at Dennis's neck. He said nothing.
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Speaker 1: Neither did the two women standing above him. They just
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Speaker 1: grinned demonically, giggled softly, and creepily crawled out into the night.
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. After this word, word word, Dennis
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Speaker 1: Wilson couldn't see straight. Something was off. This is supposed
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Speaker 1: to be the part of the set where he shined,
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Speaker 1: where he emerged from behind the drum kit to take
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Speaker 1: center stage and sing lead on the tune his brother
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Speaker 1: carl wrote, Angel Come Home, And usually that was the
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Speaker 1: case Dennis, No matter how high or drunk during their sets,
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Speaker 1: always nailed this tune. In fact, the drugs and alcohol
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Speaker 1: usually contributed to his vulnerability and thus his on stage appeal,
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Speaker 1: crooning into the mic like Venice era Jim Morrison crossed
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Speaker 1: with some imaginary hippie version of Dean Martin. Dennis Wilson
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Speaker 1: was in control when he had this song rolling over
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Speaker 1: his lips, but not tonight. He literally couldn't see straight.
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Speaker 1: His focus was off, and his focus was being pulled
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Speaker 1: sideward toward the direction of his cousin, Mike Love, singing
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Speaker 1: backing vocals stage left into Dennis's estimation, not doing a
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Speaker 1: very good job. Was he sabotaging Dennis's moment? That's all
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Speaker 1: he could think about. He loved Mike, but he also
20:29
Speaker 1: hated Mike. Mike Love was everything Dennis was not straight, focused, determined.
20:35
Speaker 1: Dennis was a shabby, drug and alcohol addicted mess, and
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Speaker 1: they both wanted the same thing for the Beach Boys
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Speaker 1: to remain relevant and successful, but both came at it
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Speaker 1: from opposite angles and thus believed the other's efforts to
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Speaker 1: salvage the band were actually efforts to sabotage the band.
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Speaker 1: Dennis with his self destruction and Mike with his determination.
20:55
Speaker 1: Plus Dennis knew Mike never forgave him for tearing off
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Speaker 1: with his wife Suzanne back during the whole Charlie era.
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Speaker 1: Not only that, Mike was especially pissed that Dennis and
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Speaker 1: Suzanne left Mike's kids alone to be babysat by Manson
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Speaker 1: family member Susan Atkins aka the notorious Sadie Mae Glutts,
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Speaker 1: the one directly responsible, along with Tex Watson, for viciously
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Speaker 1: murdering Sharon Tate along with the others at Colo Drive
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Speaker 1: on that night. Now ten years in the rear view,
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Speaker 1: Charlie was eventually sentenced to death for the Tate LaBianca murders,
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Speaker 1: but that was commuted to life when California banned the
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Speaker 1: death penalty a year after his conviction in the name
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Speaker 1: of mercy. Charlie Fucking Manson would live to a ripe
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Speaker 1: old age, but Dennis would never forget that time. It
21:39
Speaker 1: was always with him, the madness of it, the guilt,
21:41
Speaker 1: the grief. He would never talk about it, though, not
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Speaker 1: to anyone, but he thought about it often. It always
21:47
Speaker 1: came back to Charlie. When the family was arrested En
21:53
Speaker 1: mass for the car robbery scam and Death Valley. It
21:56
Speaker 1: was Susan Adkins Sadie May, already under suspicion of a
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Speaker 1: different murder, who gossiped to jailbirds about the Tate LaBianca murders.
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Speaker 1: The jail birds ratted Sadie out, and the dominoes began
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Speaker 1: to fall, with each brick laid in the dark mythology
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Speaker 1: of the Manson family. The knot in Dennis Wilson's gut
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Speaker 1: tightened that other murder that Sadie may have been involved with.
22:17
Speaker 1: A mescaline dealer named Gary Hinman. Manson family member Bobby
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Speaker 1: Bosley made a deal to sell a batch of Gary's
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Speaker 1: drugs to a biker gang, the Straight Satans, who came
22:27
Speaker 1: back demanding a refund for what they claimed was actually
22:30
Speaker 1: a bad batch of strychnine. Bobby, Sadie May, and other
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Speaker 1: family member Mary Brunner confronted Hinman and ended up stabbing
22:38
Speaker 1: him through the heart and using his blood to make
22:40
Speaker 1: the scene nice and witchy, just the way Charlie liked it.
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Speaker 1: This was the run up murder to the Tate LaBianca murders.
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Speaker 1: Soon enough, investigators connected the witchy blood on the wall,
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Speaker 1: the Hindman scene with the blood on the wall, the
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Speaker 1: Tate Labanca scenes and connected to Charlie through Sadie May.
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Speaker 1: The DA had their suspect, Charles Manson hip death cult later,
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Speaker 1: and Dennis Wilson watched in shock as prosecutors moved quick
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Speaker 1: to try his one time friend for the most gruesome
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Speaker 1: murders in recent American history Hinman, Tate LaBianca, and even
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Speaker 1: the dead stuntman Shorty Shay, the one they dug up
23:16
Speaker 1: at its Spawn ranch. It all made sense. Dennis could
23:19
Speaker 1: certainly believe it. To him, Charlie was a phantom everywhere,
23:23
Speaker 1: haunting him. How close had he come? How far had
23:26
Speaker 1: he gone? Astray? He wasn't in danger, but he never
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Speaker 1: felt safe. Charlie was in jail forever and forever on
23:35
Speaker 1: Dennis's mind, even right now in front of a sold
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Speaker 1: out crowd at LA's Universal Amphitheater, looking for some of
23:41
Speaker 1: those endless summer beach boys vibes. But Dennis Wilson couldn't deliver.
23:46
Speaker 1: He couldn't get Charlie out of his head, so he
23:48
Speaker 1: focused on Mike Love. Why was Mike staring at him?
23:52
Speaker 1: Why was Mike singing out of key? Why was Charlie
23:54
Speaker 1: staring at him, And why was Charlie singing out of key?
23:57
Speaker 1: Why did Charlie have to botch the audition with ry
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Speaker 1: Mike never would have done that. Mike would have shown
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Speaker 1: up and nailed his part. That was the thing about Mike,
24:05
Speaker 1: always on time, always in tune. But Charlie, No, Charlie
24:08
Speaker 1: was a fuck up. Charlie was never in tune, unlike Mike.
24:11
Speaker 1: But wait, why wasn't Mike in tune right now? Was
24:14
Speaker 1: it Mike? It must have been. He was too tall,
24:16
Speaker 1: too bald to be Charlie. Besides, Charlie was in jail.
24:20
Speaker 1: Dennis rapped the song the polite applause, and he hated
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Speaker 1: Mike for it. He headed back to take a seat
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Speaker 1: behind the drums, stopping at the piano to climb up
24:27
Speaker 1: on top of it to rant at the audience. The
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Speaker 1: audience didn't know what the hell was going on, neither
24:32
Speaker 1: did his bandmates. Mike was grinning, Dennis was embarrassing himself,
24:37
Speaker 1: and Mike, it seemed, was celebrating his failure. Dennis knew it.
24:41
Speaker 1: Who the fuck did this guy think he was? Anyway,
24:44
Speaker 1: Dennis was detained by his own security and pulled backstage,
24:47
Speaker 1: Mike Love laughed to get back into the next song,
24:52
Speaker 1: and the band was cooking now. Dennis re emerged and
24:55
Speaker 1: began shouting. Mike kept singing, doing his job a pros pro.
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Speaker 1: Dennis tried to follow suit, sat down at his kit
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Speaker 1: and readied himself for the next song. Mike was talking
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Speaker 1: into the mic between tunes. Dennis couldn't make out what
25:08
Speaker 1: he was saying, but he was sure Mike was fucking
25:10
Speaker 1: with him, goating him on poking fun. Dennis always feared
25:14
Speaker 1: Mike resented him for sleeping with his wife, for his
25:17
Speaker 1: relationship with his brother Brian, the creative leader of the band,
25:20
Speaker 1: for Dennis's obvious appeal with their female fans, and most recently,
25:24
Speaker 1: for the creative success of Dennis's solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue.
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Speaker 1: Dennis knew it got Mike's goat. It was an honest, tender,
25:31
Speaker 1: an emotionally raw creative statement that established Dennis as a
25:35
Speaker 1: serious artist in the minds of critics. It was something
25:38
Speaker 1: Dennis knew Mike could never achieve on his own. An
25:41
Speaker 1: Angel Come Home, though a Beach Boys song, was performed
25:44
Speaker 1: live in the style of most of the tunes on
25:47
Speaker 1: Dennis's solo record, and that's partly why Dennis loved performing it.
25:51
Speaker 1: It reminded the audience of who he was outside of
25:53
Speaker 1: the shadow of his brothers and his cousin Mike, and that,
25:57
Speaker 1: to Dennis's mind, anyway, was why Mike had sabatae the
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Speaker 1: tune and fucked with them on stage. Fuck this guy,
26:04
Speaker 1: Dennis snapped, kicked the drums off the riseer, leaped up
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Speaker 1: from behind him, and charged his cousin at the front
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Speaker 1: of the stage. When Mike saw Dennis coming, he laughed
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Speaker 1: at first, but when he saw the manic look in
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Speaker 1: his little cousin's eyes, he knew shit was real. Mike
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Speaker 1: bolted for the side stage. The audience could not believe
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Speaker 1: what they were seeing. Was this some kind of joke,
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Speaker 1: some stage playful family feud. Dennis caught up with Mike
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Speaker 1: at the side of the stage and began to pummel them.
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Speaker 1: Mike fought back hard. The two tussled, pounding each other
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Speaker 1: with a pent up aggression of jealous teenage boys. Security
26:34
Speaker 1: pulled them apart and attained Dennis for a second time. Backstage.
26:37
Speaker 1: A brief intermission was called for and the audience, all
26:41
Speaker 1: six thousand of them, shared the same look, the one
26:43
Speaker 1: that said what the fuck. Shortly the band reappeared on
26:48
Speaker 1: stage with four smiles. Dennis stumbled to a mike and
26:52
Speaker 1: started repeating the mantra, I Love Mike Love, I Love
26:56
Speaker 1: Mike Love. I Love Mike Love. Mike kept his stance
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Speaker 1: for the rest of the set. His little cousin Dennis
27:03
Speaker 1: had appeared, was finally gone. It wasn't revenge so much
27:30
Speaker 1: as it was a giant fuck you to whom exactly
27:33
Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson wasn't sure. But Dennis's life at the dawn
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Speaker 1: of the nineteen eighties was like some elaborate performance ar
27:39
Speaker 1: at piece gone wrong. The once handsome avatar for Southern
27:43
Speaker 1: California's surf culture and the promise of the nineteen sixties
27:47
Speaker 1: had descended into a drugged out zombie roaming the Venice
27:50
Speaker 1: boardwalk in search of his next score in his next lay.
27:53
Speaker 1: Ousted from his own band in the late seventies until
27:56
Speaker 1: he proved himself clean enough to return to the stage
27:58
Speaker 1: and frankly, did not kill himself. Dennis Wilson, by nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty one, was thirty six years old and on a
28:05
Speaker 1: mission it scene to snart all of the cocaine in
28:08
Speaker 1: southern California, while at the same time drinking all of
28:11
Speaker 1: the alcohol he could get his hands on and doing
28:13
Speaker 1: it in the company of a sixteen year old. She
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Speaker 1: was a friend of his teenage daughter, and her name
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Speaker 1: was Sean Love. And if that last name sounds familiar,
28:23
Speaker 1: it's because Sean Love claims she was the daughter of
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Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson's cousin and bandmate, Mike Love, making her Dennis's niece.
28:31
Speaker 1: And when the sixteen year old Shawn gave birth to
28:34
Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson's son, which meant that Dennis Wilson, lifelong pain
28:38
Speaker 1: in the ass to his cousin Mike, was now Mike's
28:41
Speaker 1: fucked up, drug addicted son in law. For all intents
28:44
Speaker 1: and purposes, it certainly seemed like there was an intent there.
28:48
Speaker 1: As for Dennis and Sean's son's relationship to his father
28:52
Speaker 1: and grandfather, I can't even do the incest math. It's
28:55
Speaker 1: so messed up. It should also be noted that Mike
28:58
Speaker 1: Love has denied that Seawn is his daughter, but Dennis
29:00
Speaker 1: seemed to accept, if not relish, the connection. The vindictiveness
29:05
Speaker 1: was a distraction, and so was fatherhood. Dennis Loved his
29:09
Speaker 1: new son, but otherwise his life was a mess. Everywhere
29:12
Speaker 1: he looked, he saw the ghost of Charles Manson cruising
29:16
Speaker 1: the boardwalk. He saw Charlie everywhere. Charlie was in jail,
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Speaker 1: but he was also in Dennis Wilson's head and messing
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Speaker 1: with him endlessly. The promise in the innocence of the
29:27
Speaker 1: sixties was long gone. So long endless summer, Hello, endless bummer.
29:32
Speaker 1: The nihilism of the seventies gave way to the greed
29:34
Speaker 1: of the eighties, and what was shaping up to be
29:36
Speaker 1: for Dennis Wilson at least a drag of a decade.
29:39
Speaker 1: Charlie don't surf, maybe, sure, but Charlie do kill, and
29:44
Speaker 1: Dennis would never forget. He saw Charlie shoot down that
29:47
Speaker 1: dude up by Spawns with an sixteen. The swarm of
29:50
Speaker 1: twenty two caliber bullets nearly saw the dude in half.
29:53
Speaker 1: Charlie and his girls then went to work stat bawling
29:56
Speaker 1: up the body and stuffing it into a well or
29:58
Speaker 1: was it a shallow grave out by Shorty Shay in
30:01
Speaker 1: the desert. Dennis wasn't sure. All he knew was that
30:04
Speaker 1: Charlie was for real and he was out there, even
30:07
Speaker 1: when he wasn't, even when he was behind bars. To Dennis,
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Speaker 1: Charlie was everywhere and nowhere, all at once, God the devil.
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Speaker 1: What's the difference. Once you've crossed the line transcended, there
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Speaker 1: is no salvation. Dennis's brother, Brian knew this was true.
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Speaker 1: He crossed the line, he transcended. He was far from innocent,
30:28
Speaker 1: he was mad, he was a genius and whatever you
30:31
Speaker 1: called him, Brian had suffered a real and acute mental
30:34
Speaker 1: health crisis at the worst moment when everyone was counting
30:38
Speaker 1: on him. Smile was Brian Wilson's ghost. It was like
30:41
Speaker 1: the sixties had imploded inside of Brian and taking him
30:44
Speaker 1: down with the decade. Early on, and when Brian most
30:47
Speaker 1: needed his brother, his original muse, Dennis, the only beach
30:51
Speaker 1: boy who actually served. When Brian was stuck or hanging
30:54
Speaker 1: out there on the fragile limbs of creative madness and
30:57
Speaker 1: mental illness. Dennis was distracted, enthralled by the Charlatan guru
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Speaker 1: Charles Manson. But that was one of those things for
31:05
Speaker 1: Dennis to feel, not to say, and the results were devastating,
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Speaker 1: because when the sixties curdled inside of Charlie, manson stewing
31:13
Speaker 1: like they had inside Brian Wilson. Charlie didn't retreat into
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Speaker 1: a sandbox of creative madness. He exploded violently out into
31:21
Speaker 1: the world. The weight of choosing the wrong guru, of
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Speaker 1: choosing Charlie over Brian became Dennis Wilson's burden to bear forever.
31:30
Speaker 1: Though Brian held no grudge, Dennis held the grudge against himself.
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Speaker 1: Just fine. Dennis heard the knock on the door to
31:38
Speaker 1: his Venice apartment and dispatched the kid, the one who
31:41
Speaker 1: just saved his life, the Beach Boys fan who somehow
31:44
Speaker 1: wrangled his way into Dennis's mid afternoon coke party to
31:47
Speaker 1: ultimately smother Dennis in his embrace, literally after Dennis had
31:51
Speaker 1: lit himself on fire attempting to light his fireplace with
31:54
Speaker 1: lighter fluid. And the kid was all right, he could stay.
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Speaker 1: Dennis would allow it. It was a festive time, the
32:01
Speaker 1: new year was once again around the corner, but the
32:04
Speaker 1: kid would have to earn his keep, fetch more coke
32:07
Speaker 1: vodka and answer the door when necessary. Dennis was at
32:11
Speaker 1: the piano picking out the notes to Old lang Syne,
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Speaker 1: and the knocking continued the door. The kid snabbed too,
32:18
Speaker 1: and beat his own coke fueled beeline to see who
32:21
Speaker 1: was knocking. When he opened it, his shifty gack, confused
32:24
Speaker 1: jaw nearly hit the floor. There he was, the gentle
32:28
Speaker 1: surfer bear himself, Brian Wilson, all three hundred pounds of him,
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Speaker 1: his hair greasy, his beard shaggy, foll dripping with spittle,
32:37
Speaker 1: his stench intense. Dennis was all he said to the boy.
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Speaker 1: The boy said nothing, stood gobsmacked in the face of
32:45
Speaker 1: his hero. Brian pushed past him into the apartment, saw
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Speaker 1: his little brother at the piano, sat down next to him,
32:51
Speaker 1: pulled out an ounce of cocaine, plopped it down on
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Speaker 1: top of the piano, and dove into it, side by
32:56
Speaker 1: side with Dennis. Together, with cocaine white peppering their scragly beards,
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Speaker 1: they pumped out a talk chalk duet version of God
33:03
Speaker 1: only Knows. They followed it up with a reprise of
33:06
Speaker 1: Old Lang Zion. This version coke fueled and slightly out
33:09
Speaker 1: of tune, but decidedly more festive. It was madness, but
33:13
Speaker 1: it was true love, brotherly love. Dennis truly loved his
33:18
Speaker 1: brother Brian. He was a genius, and geniuses can be frail,
33:22
Speaker 1: But Brian also took more abuse than any of his
33:24
Speaker 1: younger brothers from Murray, their disciplinarian father, who was himself
33:28
Speaker 1: a failed musician and jealous of the boy's success. Brian
33:31
Speaker 1: shielded his younger brothers from Murray's wrath as much as
33:34
Speaker 1: he could, and the abuse wrought havoc on his psyche.
33:38
Speaker 1: Just google Murray Wilson letter for a glimpse of his
33:40
Speaker 1: fatherly advice. It's eight pages of anything but fun, fun fun.
33:45
Speaker 1: But despite his father's failings, Dennis Wilson loved his dad,
33:49
Speaker 1: who passed back in seventy three. Dennis loved him, just
33:52
Speaker 1: like he loved Brian, and of course, like he loved
33:54
Speaker 1: his brother Karl and their bandmate Al and if he
33:56
Speaker 1: were being honest with himself, deep down, he even loved
33:59
Speaker 1: his Mike. But Dennis Wilson had no agency when it
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Speaker 1: came to showing that love. His life by the time
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three year old around was a complete and
34:09
Speaker 1: total disgrace. He bounced in and out of the band,
34:12
Speaker 1: in and out of relationships, and in and out of consciousness.
34:16
Speaker 1: He was completely consumed by cocaine and alcohol and taken
34:19
Speaker 1: to roaming around the Venice boardwalk, looking like a common
34:22
Speaker 1: street bump. As the Beach Boys with Mike Love at
34:26
Speaker 1: the Helm, did their best to remain relevant in their
34:28
Speaker 1: third decade, Dennis descended deeper into oblivion, and Charlie Manson,
34:32
Speaker 1: as usual, was on his mind. Dennis song daily on
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Speaker 1: the boardwalk, mostly struggling to hang on, just like he
34:40
Speaker 1: was panhandling and playing songs out of time on his
34:43
Speaker 1: beat up acoustic. Dennis would see him. The locals called
34:46
Speaker 1: him slave and Dave, but Dennis knew it was Charlie,
34:49
Speaker 1: or at least slave in Dave's busking body had been
34:52
Speaker 1: possessed by Charlie as a means to forever fuck with Dennis.
34:56
Speaker 1: Dennis joined him in song on the boardwalk frequently. It
34:59
Speaker 1: was the holidays and they had a halfway decent version
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Speaker 1: of Little Saint Nick. But Charlie could never keep time.
35:05
Speaker 1: Dennis wandered. It was December twenty eighth, nineteen eighty three, again,
35:11
Speaker 1: those in between holidays days festive if you had a
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Speaker 1: family to gather with, downright bleak if you didn't, and
35:18
Speaker 1: it was cold on the boardwalk, Dennis ran into some
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Speaker 1: friends and they were having a little party on a
35:23
Speaker 1: boat in the Maria. It was right where Dennis used
35:25
Speaker 1: to dock his boat, but that was a lifetime ago,
35:28
Speaker 1: and Dennis ate. They all did, and of course they drank.
35:32
Speaker 1: Dennis entertained he was good for that, always was, ever
35:35
Speaker 1: the smiling entertainer. He was feeling himself and decided that
35:39
Speaker 1: despite the chill in the air, a swim was in order.
35:42
Speaker 1: Right there in the marina. Off of the boat, he
35:45
Speaker 1: dove in and swam down to the ocean floor. He
35:48
Speaker 1: could see his reflection in the port side of the
35:50
Speaker 1: boat docked next to the one he dove off. His
35:53
Speaker 1: underwater image shocked him. He was younger, looking a better
35:57
Speaker 1: version of himself. He swam up for air and dove
35:59
Speaker 1: back down again. His reflection compelled him. Where had this
36:05
Speaker 1: version of himself gone, he wondered. He swam up for
36:09
Speaker 1: air once more and took another dive. His reflection had
36:12
Speaker 1: now changed. It morphed. It was older, longer hair, big,
36:15
Speaker 1: hippie beard. Dennis swam up again for air. He could
36:19
Speaker 1: feel himself getting tired, but dove back down. His reflection
36:23
Speaker 1: was there at a greet him waiting, but Dennis swore
36:26
Speaker 1: it was snarling back at him now, and those eyes
36:28
Speaker 1: he recognized, those eyes, rocking back and forth, somersaulting in
36:33
Speaker 1: their sockets, taunting him. Dennis knew it then. It wasn't
36:36
Speaker 1: his reflection, it was Charlie's. Dennis opened his mouth to
36:41
Speaker 1: shout to fend off this guru creep, once and for all,
36:44
Speaker 1: to get rid of the ghost. His mouth filled with water.
36:48
Speaker 1: He shouted once more more water. It ballooned his lungs.
36:52
Speaker 1: Dennis gasp. He tried to break for air, swim to
36:55
Speaker 1: the surface, but his arms were no use to him.
36:57
Speaker 1: He was too tired, he was too drunk. It's too
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Speaker 1: far gone. He looked into Charlie's eyes, He closed his
37:04
Speaker 1: own and transcended the Pacific Ocean, blue behind bars. When
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Speaker 1: Charles Manson heard of his old friends drowning, he said
37:13
Speaker 1: of the incident, Dennis Wilson was killed by my shadow
37:17
Speaker 1: because he took my music and changed the words from
37:19
Speaker 1: my soul. And so Dennis Wilson ceased to exist, which
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