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"I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshippers who are called 'groupies.' Girls will give their bodies to musicians as you would give a sacrifice to a god." (Peters Brothers, What About Christian Rock, p. 17) ----Frank Zappa
[vid] David McGowan, Military Industrial Entertainment in Laurel Canyon, Trans Resister Radio interview David McGowan talks about his article series Inside the LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation
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Given that Zappa was, by numerous accounts, a rigidly authoritarian
control-freak and a supporter of U.S. military actions in Southeast Asia, it is
perhaps not surprising that he would not feel a kinship with the youth movement
that he helped nurture. And it is probably safe to say that Frank’s dad also had
little regard for the youth culture of the 1960s, given that Francis Zappa was,
in case you were wondering, a chemical warfare specialist assigned to – where
else? – the Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood is, of course, the longtime home of
America’s chemical warfare program, as well as a facility frequently cited as
being deeply enmeshed in MK-ULTRA operations. Curiously enough, Frank Zappa
literally grew up at the Edgewood Arsenal, having lived the first seven years of
his life in military housing on the grounds of the facility. The family later
moved to Lancaster, California, near Edwards Air Force Base, where Francis Zappa
continued to busy himself with doing classified work for the
military/intelligence complex. His son, meanwhile, prepped himself to become an
icon of the peace & love crowd. Again, nothing unusual about that, I suppose.
Making up the other half of Laurel
Canyon’s First Family is Frank’s 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. PART 1
Inside The LC by
Dave McGowan
''An orgonite flinger I used to correspond with was married to Frank Zappa's brother. She told me that Zappa's widow had recently brought the family together for a ritual to reinsert Frank Zappa's soul in an infant born into the family. My acquaintance was alarmed and creeped out--refused to participate. I'd already learned about this practice from someone credible who was brought up within the ancient oligarchy. I don't know if it's real but I think some of the more disgusting Tibetan (nominally Buddhist but I bet Buddha would disown them) orders practice that regularly.' Don Croft http://www.ethericwarriors.com/forum/research-and-development/5300
In other news, it appears as though Frank Zappa also displayed some of the same less-than-admirable qualities shared by Manson and Paulekas. As DesBarres observed, “Vito was just like Frank, he never got high either. They were both ringmasters who always wanted to be in control.” And as Barry Miles noted in his Zappa biography, Frank’s daughter Moon “recalls men with straggling beards, body odour and bad posture who crouched naked near her playthings …” Also, the “Zappa children watched porn with their parents and were encouraged in their own sexuality as soon as they reached puberty. When they became teenagers, Gail insisted they shower with their overnight guests in order to conserve water.” Because, you know, apparently the Zappas were having a hard time paying their water bill. [2008] Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation by Dave McGowan
Given that Zappa was, by numerous accounts, a rigidly authoritarian
control-freak and a supporter of U.S. military actions in Southeast Asia, it is
perhaps not surprising that he would not feel a kinship with the youth movement
that he helped nurture. And it is probably safe to say that Frank’s dad also had
little regard for the youth culture of the 1960s, given that Francis Zappa was,
in case you were wondering, a chemical warfare specialist assigned to – where
else? – the Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood is, of course, the longtime home of
America’s chemical warfare program, as well as a facility frequently cited as
being deeply enmeshed in MK-ULTRA operations. Curiously enough, Frank Zappa
literally grew up at the Edgewood Arsenal, having lived the first seven years of
his life in military housing on the grounds of the facility. The family later
moved to Lancaster, California, near Edwards Air Force Base, where Francis Zappa
continued to busy himself with doing classified work for the
military/intelligence complex. His son, meanwhile, prepped himself to become an
icon of the peace & love crowd. Again, nothing unusual about that, I suppose.
Zappa’s 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 Zappa’s
biographers, Cohen wasn’t 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 we’ll see soon enough when we
take a look at another Laurel Canyon luminary).
Inside The LC by
Dave McGowan
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When a reporter for the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
interviewed Frank Zappa for the commands news syndicate, the story was held by a
superior who demanded that Zappa – who had been rather hard on the army – answer
one more question: just who does he think will defend the country without the
army?
Zappa’s reply: “From what? The biggest threat to America today is it’s own
federal government…. Will the Army protect anybody from the FBI? The IRS? The
CIA? The Republican Party? The Democratic Party?....The biggest dangers we face
today don’t even need to sneak past our billion dollar defense system….they
issue the contracts for them.” The interview was not run.