In our first LIVE episode of Season IX, BoA:Audio ventures to southern California in the 1960s and early 1970s with our guest Dave McGowan, author of Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream.
Over the course of this expansive conversation, we discuss the unique mix of personalities which resided in Laurel Canyon and helped launched the counterculture movement as well as why this whole turn of events looks, in retrospect, highly suspicious.
We’ll also learn about the historically forgotten originators of the hippie aesthetic, the secret government movie studio located in Laurel Canyon, a bizarre Nazi compound built in another nearby canyon, and other oddities from the area.
Altogether, it’s a compelling edition of the program which will likely have you taking a second look at the early days of rock music and wondering if hidden influences played a hand in shaping that historic era.
Extensive recap of highlights as well as MP3 & Streaming Audio linkage here:
