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/
Boy, is this an interesting interviiew. Thank you for sharing it. Sounds like Manson was never going in a wholesome direction. Kinda good Knapp was not around him long and he seems to have better radar than Dennis Wilson.
Is this published material? I’d like to share it but I don’t want to screw up your rights somehow.
I’m from that exact era. I was in Topanga canyon about 73 for a daytrip and I swear the whole little area we were in was filled with that Manson gang. They kind of walked all around us, eyeing us, my boyfriend was driving a vw van and I think that was their focus. Made us feel very uncomfortable so we got out of there.