one for public nudity and one for sexual predation =Zappas manager, by the way, is a shadowy character by the name of Herb Cohen, who had come out to L.A. from the Bronx with his brother Mutt just before the music and club scene began heating up. Cohen, a former U.S. Marine, had spent a few years traveling the world before his arrival on the Laurel Canyon scene. Those travels, curiously, had taken him to the Congo in 1961, at the very time that leftist Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was being tortured and killed by our very own CIA. Not to worry though; according to one of Zappas biographers, Cohen wasnt in the Congo on some kind of nefarious intelligence mission. No, he was there, believe it or not, to supply arms to Lumumba in defiance of the CIA. Because, you know, that is the kind of thing that globetrotting ex-Marines did in those days (as well see soon enough when we take a look at another Laurel Canyon luminary).
Making up the other half of Laurel Canyons First Family is Franks wife, Gail Zappa, known formerly as Adelaide Sloatman. Gail hails from a long line of career Naval officers, including her father, who spent his life working on classified nuclear weapons research for the U.S. Navy. Gail herself had once worked as a secretary for the Office of Naval Research and Development (she also once told an interviewer that she had heard voices all [her] life). Many years before their nearly simultaneous arrival in Laurel Canyon, Gail had attended a Naval kindergarten with Mr. Mojo Risin himself, Jim Morrison (it is claimed that, as children, Gail once hit Jim over the head with a hammer). The very same Jim Morrison had later attended the same Alexandria, Virginia high school as two other future Laurel Canyon luminaries John Phillips and Cass Elliott.
Papa John Phillips, more so than probably any of the other illustrious residents of Laurel Canyon, will play a major role in spreading the emerging youth counterculture across America. His contribution will be twofold: first, he will co-organize (along with Manson associate Terry Melcher) the famed Monterrey Pop Festival, which, through unprecedented media exposure, will give mainstream America its first real look at the music and fashions of the nascent hippie movement. Second, Phillips will pen an insipid song known as San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair), which will quickly rise to the top of the charts. Along with the Monterrey Pop Festival, the song will be instrumental in luring the disenfranchised (a preponderance of whom are underage runaways) to San Francisco to create the Haight-Asbury phenomenon and the famed 1967 Summer of Love.
Before arriving in Laurel Canyon and opening the doors of his home to the soon-to-be famous, the already famous, and the infamous (such as the aforementioned Charlie Manson, whose Family also spent time at the Log Cabin and at the Laurel Canyon home of Mama Cass Elliot, which, in case you didnt know, sat right across the street from the Laurel Canyon home of Abigail Folger and Voytek Frykowski, but lets not get ahead of ourselves here), John Edmund Andrew Phillips was, shockingly enough, yet another child of the military/intelligence complex. The son of U.S. Marine Corp Captain Claude Andrew Phillips and a mother who claimed to have psychic and telekinetic powers, John attended a series of elite military prep schools in the Washington, D.C. area, culminating in an appointment to the prestigious U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis
After leaving Annapolis, John married Susie Adams, a direct descendant of Founding Father John Adams. Susies father, James Adams, Jr., had been involved in what Susie described as cloak-and-dagger stuff with the Air Force in Vienna, or what we like to call covert intelligence operations. Susie herself would later find employment at the Pentagon, alongside John Phillips older sister, Rosie, who dutifully reported to work at the complex for nearly thirty years. Johns mother, Dene Phillips, also worked for most of her life for the federal government in some unspecified capacity. And Johns older brother, Tommy, was a battle-scarred former U.S. Marine who found work as a cop on the Alexandria police force, albeit one with a disciplinary record for exhibiting a violent streak when dealing with people of color.
John Phillips, of course though surrounded throughout his life by military/intelligence personnel did not involve himself in such matters. Or so we are to believe. Before succeeding in his musical career, however, John did seem to find himself, quite innocently of course, in some rather unusual places. One such place was Havana, Cuba, where Phillips arrived at the very height of the Cuban Revolution.obama arrested several times outside of detroit ...where are the pictures just askin
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UpjoanCrawford 2 years ago
@UpjoanCrawford as bad as your puns ????
ulekunkle 1 year ago
@UpjoanCrawford ...i know,,,your big reply is gonna be "It took you that long to come up with that ?" ,,,but in doing battle with the dimwits on youtube,,,after awhile that sort of thing becomes ,,,,,,,,, unnatural......
ulekunkle 1 year ago