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Post by postmodernmonk on Jan 5, 2013 7:25:01 GMT 10
Whole Lotta Helter Skelter (Soundhog)
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Post by Rareclan on Jan 5, 2013 9:20:43 GMT 10
Was Lennon Irish ? Who cares..............peace and love are still alive ! U2 claimed Helter Skelter back from Charles Manson, really ! ! ! U2, peace and love only if it pays well ;D en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_MansonHelter Skelter Main article: Helter Skelter (Manson scenario) In the first days of November 1968, Manson established the Family at alternative headquarters in Death Valley's environs, where they occupied two unused or little-used ranches, Myers and Barker.[22][27] The former, to which the group had initially headed, was owned by the grandmother of a new woman in the Family. The latter was owned by an elderly, local woman to whom Manson presented himself and a male Family member as musicians in need of a place congenial to their work. When the woman agreed to let them stay there if they'd fix up things, Manson honored her with one of the Beach Boys' gold records,[27] several of which he had been given by Dennis Wilson.[28] While back at Spahn Ranch, no later than December, Manson and Watson visited a Topanga Canyon acquaintance who played them the Beatles' White Album, then recently released.[22][29][30] Manson became obsessed with the group.[31] At McNeil, he had told fellow inmates, including Alvin Karpis, that he could surpass the group in fame;[2]:200–202, 265[32] to the Family, he spoke of the group as "the soul" and "part of 'the hole in the infinite'. "[30] For some time, Manson had been saying that racial tension between blacks and whites was growing and that blacks would soon rise up in rebellion in America's cities.[33][34] He had emphasized Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, which had taken place on April 4, 1968.[27] On a bitterly cold New Year's Eve at Myers Ranch, the Family members, gathered outside around a large fire, listened as Manson explained that the social turmoil he had been predicting had also been predicted by the Beatles.[30] The White Album songs, he declared, told it all, although in code. In fact, he maintained (or would soon maintain), the album was directed at the Family itself, an elect group that was being instructed to preserve the worthy from the impending disaster.[33][34] In early January 1969, the Family escaped the desert's cold and positioned itself to monitor L.A.'s supposed tension by moving to a canary-yellow home in Canoga Park, not far from the Spahn Ranch.[2]:244–247[30][35] Because this locale would allow the group to remain "submerged beneath the awareness of the outside world",[2]:244–247[36] Manson called it the Yellow Submarine, another Beatles reference. There, Family members prepared for the impending apocalypse,[37][38] which, around the campfire, Manson had termed "Helter Skelter", after the song of that name. By February, Manson's vision was complete. The Family would create an album whose songs, as subtle as those of the Beatles, would trigger the predicted chaos. Ghastly murders of whites by blacks would be met with retaliation, and a split between racist and non-racist whites would yield whites' self-annihilation. Blacks' triumph, as it were, would merely precede their being ruled by the Family, which would ride out the conflict in "the bottomless pit"—a secret city beneath Death Valley.[39] At the Canoga Park house, while Family members worked on vehicles and pored over maps to prepare for their desert escape, they also worked on songs for their world-changing album. When they were told Terry Melcher was to come to the house to hear the material, the women prepared a meal and cleaned the place; but Melcher never arrived.[33][37]
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Post by Wes Gear on Jan 5, 2013 17:57:21 GMT 10
Whole Lotta Helter Skelter (Soundhog) That's f__king awesome, thanks Postmodernmonk.
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Post by brillbilly on Jan 14, 2013 22:54:34 GMT 10
awesome vids!
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