Headpress might have outdone themselves with their latest book, Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream by David McGowan. Anymore, it takes me about a week to finish a book, with the day job, writing, family obligations, and the ever-pressing need to sit on my ass and gorge on movies and shows.
That being said, I got Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon on Friday, and had it finished by Sunday morning. It’s entrancing. Once McGowan starts spinning his stories, you can’t help but fall under his spell — ironic, really, given the number of Svengali madmen who populate the pages of this book. I can’t imagine fact-checking this publication was anything but a nightmare, encompassing as it does hidden rooms, allegations of incest, mind control, government involvement, and outright murder, amongst the obvious discussion of drugs and deviant groupie use.
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