[sonova]

Young became one of the most revered artists on the planet

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Uhh..I guess if one places all artists in order from worst to best, all are one of the best, except for the worst one.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . at a time when Manson was an up and coming talent, one that had started to make waves in California and caught Young’s attention."

That's not how I remember it. From things I read at the time, he was a no-talent weirdo with artistic and musical pretensions, kind of like a sane version of Yoko Ono. He was a hanger-on type, familiar to most musicians.

[Steely Tom]

I think Manson was a "hang around" at a lot of studio sessions and parties in the middle of the '60s. I think he brought drugs and chicks and was off the wall, which the artistes thought was groovy.

He actually got the idea he was one of them. When Terry Melcher told someone he (Manson) didn't have the talent, the word got back to him, and he didn't take it well.

[ought-six]

Manson an up-and-coming music talent? Is this author on drugs?

[Reddy]

“a time when Manson was an up and coming talent,”

Rewriting history.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I’ll never understand in a million years how a short psychotic sleaze like Manson could get all those women to basically become slaves to him, to the point that they would have sex with him and even murder on his orders. What the hell? I remember when I was in my 20s just getting a date was like winning the lottery and usually that’s with women who looked like Helen Thomas.

[Salman]

That whole era of music is cursed.

[Kevmo]

My wife used to work with Ernie Knapp when they were architects together at Phillips Metsch Sweeney Moore in Santa Barbara.

“I WAS IN A BAND WITH CHARLES MANSON.”–ERNIE KNAPP
An Interview by Sonny Vincent

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you an interview I did recently in 2014 with a special man named Ernie Knapp, a man who played in Charlie Manson’s band way before Charlie and his ‘family’ went on to be involved with the creepy crawly Tate/La Bianca murders. Ernie went on to be the bass player for The Beach Boys and, even later after that, was in my band for a while....

https://sonnyvincent77.wordpress.com/i-was-in-in-a-band-with-charles-manson-ernie-knapp-2/

[frithguild]

Manson cannot be understood well until you have an appreciation of the opportunities that the use of heavy hallucinogens present for persuading people through symbolism, the innate amity Manson had to do just that and the immunity Mason enjoyed through MK-Ultra

[Jane Austen]

Interesting.

[Jane Austen]

Interesting.

[PAR35]

Manson used to hang with the Beach Boys and they stole and modified one of his songs.

[ArtDodger]

Even today, it is quite amazing the level of celebrity that one can hang around with when one is a drug and prostitute provider.