naturalismo

your blog is beautifully written and the selections of music you share are perfect.

so nice to stumble upon something new and refreshing.

and… yes, such a good idea to trick friends with the music of manson. strange and say to say, but his music really could have been loved.

Edvard,

Thank Dementia for directing me here via her Blog, Coffin Conversations…

http://www.coffinconversations.com/charles-manson-murderer-and-musician/

I’ll write to you what I wrote to her about Manson:

What a sad tragic waste of a life full of potential, creativity and raw talent …

David …

mansons a darker leary.. and i love it. and i think devendra looks so much like charles

I think that the songs are interesting and from what I have read the music industry passed on him more for his bizarre and violent behavior than anything else. If he had actually been signed they probably would have propped him up with some studio musicians, but this just wouldn’t have worked out. There would have been fights and violence in the studio (kind of like with the WHO only with a higher body count and less music to show for the grief).

I guess character is destiny.

“Apparently Hollywood wasn’t impressed either as these recordings are absolutely impoverished and barely audible with zero tonal quality. Didn’t they have tape recorders and tube amplifiers in Hollywood in the late 1960’s?”

i think mr. stewart altogether misses the intentions, conventions, and tenets of the folk music genre and what it’s all about. some of the most beautiful music is laid down on a single track, spur of the moment. Mr. stewart, really, how many of your favorite musicians are truly ‘talented’? how many ham-fistedly masturbate on their guitars?

i’m not sayin manson was a great musician, or even a good one, and i’m not neccessarily saying i really enjoy the songs posted above (they are ‘nice’ though). i’m just saying you have missed the point altogether in your myopic rush to discredit this dude.

marilyn manson used his last name,or I made a mastake?

charles manson is god

I read somewhere that Terry Melcher paid a visit to Charlie and the Family at Spahn Ranch when he still had some mild but reluctant interest as a record producer in hearing and getting Charlie’s music recorded because of Dennis Wilson’s endorsement and pressuring. This was at a point in time after earlier attempts at getting Manson’s songs on tape in a recording studio proved futile because the sessions were so undisciplined and shambolic. Charlie was ill at ease about being recorded with just his voice and guitar in the sterile environment of the studio with a mike in his face and so on some songs he insisted on having Family members sit in and accompany him with their voices and other instruments. He felt more confident and comfortable in the campfire singalong atmosphere with all his girls giggling and joints being passed around. He didn’t listen to suggestions from the recording engineer nor did he listen to Bobby Beausoleil telling him that overdubbing could spiff and polish up the songs afterward. The recording engineer then suggested to Melcher that if they couldn’t get the music down on tape then maybe they should get it down on film. So that was why Melcher visited the Family at Spahn’s because of this secondary idea floating around about making a documentary film. He was there to scope out the place for this project and get a feel for what the Family was all about on their own home turf. While he was at Spahn’s he witnessed Charlie get into a violent altercation with a drunken stuntman/ranch hand. Apparently Charlie beat and kicked this guy to the ground. Melcher was so put off by seeing a side of Charlie he hadn’t seen before, a hairtrigger tempered and physically violent Manson that he cut the visit short and left. After that incident Melcher didn’t want to have anything further to do with Manson. At a second proposed visit where the Family girls cleaned house and baked cookies in anticipation of Melcher arriving, he failed to show up. It is said that Manson didn’t take the rejection very well and was angry at Melcher for failing to deliver on the promise of a recording contract. Melcher, however, says that he never made such a promise nor had a recording contract ever been discussed. One gets the feeling that Melcher’s brief involvement with Manson was just to appease Dennis Wilson and give the diminutive scruffy hippie guru a hearing and a chance but that overall he wasn’t all that impressed with what he had seen or heard. Not long after this first and only Spahn ranch visit Melcher moved out of the Cielo Drive residence he rented from Rudy Altobelli and Roman Polanski and wife Sharon Tate moved in.