[ichabod1]

Laurel Canyon was where the LA groups were hatched. Palo Alto, Haight Ashbury, and later Ken Kesey’s ranch in Eugene, OR was where the Norcal crowd hung out. So important that they started in Palo ALto because that’s where all the acid was coming from at first. Later, Augustus Stanley Owsley III became the big underground acid manufacturer, kind of the real life breaking bad, but then he got busted, but served only a little time and became the Dead’s head sound man. Spooks, all of them. Groups who travel are great for carrying clandestine messages from town to town. Performers been spooks forever.

How bout Jeff “Skunk” Baxter who, when not playing guitar for the Doobie Brothers writes national security papers on electronic security for the department of defense.

[bagster]

I hadn't heard about the Doobie Brothers guy. I didn't like them much either.

Please tell me Peter Frampton was a CIA op. I hated his so called music and couldn't understand why he was popular and all my friends thought he was the ginchiest.

[tang-soo]

So important that they started in Palo ALto because that’s where all the acid was coming from at first. Later, Augustus Stanley Owsley III became the big underground acid manufacturer, kind of the real life breaking bad, but then he got busted, but served only a little time and became the Dead’s head sound man.

So a big-time acid manufacture gets arrested, but servers only a short time? That is part of the contention made by David McGowen in his book about Laurel Canyon, that the young people that were children of Military Intel and Clown parents were protected from serving during Viet Nam and never arrested for drug issues, or if they were, served little or no time.

Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream Paperback – Illustrated, April 30, 2014