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Music / Musik » alt.fan.frank-zappa » Book Review: Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker
| Book Review: Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker [message #283481] |
Di, 20 Juni 2006 14:39 |
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REVIEW
Book Review: Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker
June 20, 2006
El Bicho
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/20/044624.php
Laurel Canyon : The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary
Neighborhood
Michael Walker
In Laurel Canyon, Michael Walker - writer and Laurel Canyon resident
since 1991 - documents this Los Angeles neighborhood during the ‘60s
and ‘70s when it was a nexus for talented musicians who affected the
culture, similar to the artists of ‘20s Paris, the Beat writers of
late ‘50s San Francisco, and the musicians of late ‘80s/early ‘90s
Seattle. In those days, Walker writes, Laurel Canyon became populated
by “young, footloose, self-styled bohemians attracted by cheap rents
and the down-market esprit of living among similarly broke brethren.”
Rock producer Kim Fowley cuts through the poetry to provide his
assessment of the area’s appeal: “you could smoke dope and get laid
and be an asshole with your Porsche convertible out of the prying eyes
of the Man.”
The book begins in 1964 with Chris Hillman moving in. He was a member
of The Byrds, a band credited with bridging the gap between the folk
of Dylan and the rock and roll of The Beatles. Their success in ’65
signaled a change in the music business on many levels. Songs were
pushing past the boundaries of the three-minute single and altering
what was played on the radio. New record industry executives and
businessmen, like David Geffen, were the same age, so they understood
the music and the musicians, and lived the lifestyle. The game was
changing and with no experience, Elliot Roberts and Ron Stone created
Lookout Management, an agency whose “roster almost single-handedly
created the folk-rock-country-whatever L.A. sound essayed by [Neil]
Young, CS&N, Jackson Browne, America, J.D. Souther and the future
Eagles Glenn Frey and Don Henley.”
The musicians interacted and flourished together. Cass Elliot brought
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash together at her home.
Nash shared a cottage with Joni Mitchell, which inspired “Our House.”
Zappa helped new acts like the GTOs and Alice Cooper. Among the albums
that have their roots in Laurel Canyon are the debuts by Jackson
Browne, CSN, CSNY, The Eagles, The Mamas & The Papas, and The Mothers
of Invention, the first two albums by The Byrds and Alice Cooper, The
Doors’ Waiting for the Sun, Carole King’s Tapestry, and Joni
Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon.
Laurel Canyon attracted many who enjoyed the lifestyle and wanted
follow in the footsteps of their idols or at least just be near them,
and Walker adds their voice to the mosaic. Henry Diltz, whose Modern
Folk Quartet never took off, succeeded as a photographer. Crystal
Beresford moved out from Vermont following her musician boyfriend,
Waddy Wachtel. She raised two children after their mother committed
suicide and went on to briefly marry Warren Zevon. Marlowe West was a
roadie for a Long Island band called Rich Kids during the summer of
1968. He returned home, but two weeks before the semester for college
was starting he returned to L.A. with a friend and became part of the
Zappa’s extended family.
But so much success led to excess, and things inevitably came crashing
down. The carefree spirit of the ‘60s ended with the Manson family
murders in nearby Benedict Canyon and The Rolling Stones' Altamont
concert where some of the residents played. Cocaine bypassed pot and
LSD as the drug of choice in the canyon. Users saw the latter as tool
of enlightenment while the former “magnified and amplified the worst
qualities of nearly everyone.” Drug abuse damaged many people who
thought they were invincible, like Stills who passed out and turned
blue from a mucous mass he developed from coke abuse lodging in his
windpipe. Musicians moved out of the canyon and drug dealers moved in.
The book closes out with the Wonderland murders of ’81 where four
people were brutally murdered in a plot involving porn star John
Holmes and businessman/drug dealer Eddie Nash, a story recreated in
the film Wonderland.
Walker provides an in-depth look at the scene through research and
interviews of many of the former residents and guests, including new
interviews with Graham Nash, Chris Hillman, Gail Zappa, the Turtles’
Marl Volman, legendary groupie Pamela Des Barres, and others. Laurel
Canyon is a great read for fans of the music and times, providing a
cautionary tale without feeling preachy.
This writer is a member of The Masked Movie Snobs, a collective that
fights a never-ending battle against bad entertainment.
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| Re: Book Review: Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker [message #283488 ] |
Di, 20 Juni 2006 16:03 |
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Updated 6-2006.
The Hoodoo [at] spamcop.net and Shrike (caltrops [at] newsguy.com) Troll is a
composite troll. An emotionally disturbed individual named William
Bill Cmelak who lives in a mobile home in rural Wisconsin owns the
account. However, much of what is written is actually written by an
old woman named Karen Anderson who lives in Washington State. This
pair have stalked several people over the last several years, usually
online but in some selected cases Anderson has been known to real world
stalk. Why they stalk certain individuals is often unknown even to
their victims, although failed relationships, imagined or otherwise,
motorcyclists (Cmelak was once a motorcyclist and now feels inferior
because of his financial and physical handicaps that prevent him from
riding), motorhome enthusiasts (Anderson once owned a travel trailer
and is frustrated because she cannot travel), and people whose politics
they disagree with are common denominators.
This Cmelak asshole is:
William Cmelak
N9340 Pickerel Creek Rd
Pearson, WI 54462-8140
More info on the 450 lb., bisexual, genuinely insane Cmelak Troll can
be found at:
http://www.buccaneerpublishing.com/Cmelak.htm
Cmelak had a dialup account with Frontiernet. However, thanks to good
people like yourself, Frontiernet cancelled his account. At the moment
he is keeping his current dialup account hidden so that doesn't get
cancelled. His newsgroup provider, Newsguy, would like to hear your
complaints. Email them at Abuse [at] newsguy.com
Cmelak lives a fantasy life. He used to brag that he was retired and
living on proceeds from gambling in Las Vegas until that was exposed as
being a fiction. He used to brag about being a wealthy property owner
in Florida until a check of property records revealed that his
"estate" was actually a =BC interest in an undeveloped mobile home
lot that he had inherited, and his share was worth about $2,500.
Currently he claims to own property in Wisconsin although there is no
record that he actually lives at the address that he gives out; much
more likely that he has his mobile home parked on a relative's
property since his brother and other family members still live in the
area. Basically, Cmelak is a liar who has trouble telling reality from
fiction.
Cmelak is a huge fan of satellite television, as would befit a loner
with no social skills.
Here's a photo that another one of Cmelak's "fans" posted in the Zappa
newsgroup, saying that this was Fat Billy Cmelak, a/k/a the Hoodoo
troll. Charming, isn't he?
http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/handsomebeasts.jpg
Described by his neighbors as looking like Haystacks Calhoun with bad
teeth, and smelling like the north end of a southbound yak, Bill Cmelak
lives a lonely existence in the woods inside a 20-year-old mobile home.
Except for the part-time minimum wage job cleaning floors that he is
too embarrassed to admit that he holds down Cmelak's only contact with
the outside world is through newsgroups and email. Cmelak drives a
20-year-old Ford pickup and has several other junk autos around his
hovel in Wisconsin. He has been known to brag about his financial
resources but the reality is that his so-called estate in Southern
Florida turned out to be an inherited mobile home lot valued at
$10,000, of which he only has a 25% interest. Basically, Cmelak owes
everyone in the little hick county that he lives in money and doesn't
have any friends. Consequently, he doesn't get out much.
Cmelak barely got out of high school and flunked out of his local
community college, so consider the intelligence level of this idiot
when you read his nonsense. To this day his high school classmates
still joke about him.
Cmelak was married at one time but his wife left him. Following his
divorce in the late 1990's he incurred large debts, which were
suddenly settled, presumably through a bankruptcy filing. Since then
his life has been on a downward spiral.
>From the Psychology of the Stalker:
" Stalkers tend to be unemployed or underemployed ... they often have
a history of failed intimate
relationships. They tend to devalue their victims and to sexualize
them. They also idealize certain people, minimize what they are doing
to resist, project onto people motives and actions that have no basis
in truth, and rationalize that the target person deserves to be
harassed and violated. "
Cmelak is one sick fuck, which is precisely the description given to
him by a detective that investigated him when he threatened to run over
and sexually assault motorcyclists at Daytona Bike Week in 2005. His
neighbors and anyone that associates with Cmelak needs to be warned
about him.
~~~
Details on Karen Anderson, who writes much of the garbage that the
Hoodoo Troll posts:
Karen Anderson
3590 Narrows View Lane NE #102
Bremerton, WA 98310
As posted by one of her victims:
I and several other guys over the last decade have been stalked by a
woman named Karen Anderson. She claims a residence in Bremerton,
Washington (and, indeed, the Bremerton police found her there last
year) as well as connections to Wisconsin. I HAVE NEVER MET THIS WOMAN.
She stalks and trolls online and I lost count after discovering over
100 identities that she uses, along with tales of dozens of her
victims.
In my case Anderson developed a crush on me after telling me that she
had cancer and was depressed and suicidal. After two years of
correspondence during which she would repeatedly confess that she was
in love with me, and I would repeatedly tell her that I was NOT
interested in her in that capacity but was concerned for her mental
health, she insisted on meeting me when she claimed to be visiting
Florida to see other folks. One thing lead to another, I REFUSED to see
her, and she subsequently followed me and my new girlfriend around for
several days, taking clandestine photos.
In approximately May of 2004 I received a package in the mail with
Anderson's return address containing the clandestine photos of my
office, my house, and my girlfriend, and about 40 pornographic photos
of Anderson and her vibrator. You also have to understand that I have a
long history of doing charitable works. I have been an active Red Cross
Disaster Volunteer, have been actively involved in a local breast
cancer charity for several years, and it is not out of character for me
to try to encourage someone who tells me that they are depressed and
potentially suicidal.
Following the receipt of the package of photos I received several
online death threats from a clown in Wisconsin who was hiding his
identity but who checked out as a character named William Cmelak. His
newsgroup provider verified that the threats were coming from the
Antigo, Wisconsin area.
Cmelak went on to post in public newsgroups how he had a desire to
sexually assault men during Bike Week. Really strange, psycho stuff.
The police in three states investigated and interviewed Anderson and
tried to interview Cmelak, who vanished for several weeks, but were not
able to make a case. Yet.
Since then I have discovered that Anderson stalked a handicapped
gentleman who lives in New Orleans. Her methods were very similar in
that case. He has MS, is confined to a wheelchair, and was another
sympathetic correspondent to Ms. Anderson, who at the time claimed to
have MS. According to this gentlemen she showed up completely
unannounced one day after driving from Washington to Louisiana. This
gentlemen went on to say that Anderson seemed to be talking to herself
and answering herself, and scared him so badly that he excused himself
from his own house, left her behind, and was afraid to return until
sometime the next morning when he was sure that she had left.
I have also since heard that Anderson was a mental patient and
hospitalized for about 2 years in the general Pearson, Wisconsin area.
There have been a string of other guys that have been haunted by this
crazy woman. In fact, there are a couple of newsgroups where, for a
while, the chief form of entertainment was to tell their horror tales
about Karen Anderson. But I think that the reader gets the picture.
This woman is simply not 'normal' by any stretch of the imagination.
Considering the rambling writings and murky logic of both Cmelak and
Anderson, one has to wonder if they aren't both escaped mental
patients, which was the rumor in the case of Anderson a few years ago.
Shrike wrote:
> REVIEW
>
> Book Review: Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker
>
> June 20, 2006
> El Bicho
> http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/20/044624.php
>
> Laurel Canyon : The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary
> Neighborhood
>
> Michael Walker
>
> In Laurel Canyon, Michael Walker - writer and Laurel Canyon resident
> since 1991 - documents this Los Angeles neighborhood during the '60s
> and '70s when it was a nexus for talented musicians who affected the
> culture, similar to the artists of '20s Paris, the Beat writers of
> late '50s San Francisco, and the musicians of late '80s/early '90s
> Seattle. In those days, Walker writes, Laurel Canyon became populated
> by "young, footloose, self-styled bohemians attracted by cheap rents
> and the down-market esprit of living among similarly broke brethren."
> Rock producer Kim Fowley cuts through the poetry to provide his
> assessment of the area's appeal: "you could smoke dope and get laid
> and be an asshole with your Porsche convertible out of the prying eyes
> of the Man."
>
> The book begins in 1964 with Chris Hillman moving in. He was a member
> of The Byrds, a band credited with bridging the gap between the folk
> of Dylan and the rock and roll of The Beatles. Their success in '65
> signaled a change in the music business on many levels. Songs were
> pushing past the boundaries of the three-minute single and altering
> what was played on the radio. New record industry executives and
> businessmen, like David Geffen, were the same age, so they understood
> the music and the musicians, and lived the lifestyle. The game was
> changing and with no experience, Elliot Roberts and Ron Stone created
> Lookout Management, an agency whose "roster almost single-handedly
> created the folk-rock-country-whatever L.A. sound essayed by [Neil]
> Young, CS&N, Jackson Browne, America, J.D. Souther and the future
> Eagles Glenn Frey and Don Henley."
>
> The musicians interacted and flourished together. Cass Elliot brought
> David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash together at her home.
> Nash shared a cottage with Joni Mitchell, which inspired "Our House."
> Zappa helped new acts like the GTOs and Alice Cooper. Among the albums
> that have their roots in Laurel Canyon are the debuts by Jackson
> Browne, CSN, CSNY, The Eagles, The Mamas & The Papas, and The Mothers
> of Invention, the first two albums by The Byrds and Alice Cooper, The
> Doors' Waiting for the Sun, Carole King's Tapestry, and Joni
> Mitchell's Ladies of the Canyon.
>
> Laurel Canyon attracted many who enjoyed the lifestyle and wanted
> follow in the footsteps of their idols or at least just be near them,
> and Walker adds their voice to the mosaic. Henry Diltz, whose Modern
> Folk Quartet never took off, succeeded as a photographer. Crystal
> Beresford moved out from Vermont following her musician boyfriend,
> Waddy Wachtel. She raised two children after their mother committed
> suicide and went on to briefly marry Warren Zevon. Marlowe West was a
> roadie for a Long Island band called Rich Kids during the summer of
> 1968. He returned home, but two weeks before the semester for college
> was starting he returned to L.A. with a friend and became part of the
> Zappa's extended family.
>
> But so much success led to excess, and things inevitably came crashing
> down. The carefree spirit of the '60s ended with the Manson family
> murders in nearby Benedict Canyon and The Rolling Stones' Altamont
> concert where some of the residents played. Cocaine bypassed pot and
> LSD as the drug of choice in the canyon. Users saw the latter as tool
> of enlightenment while the former "magnified and amplified the worst
> qualities of nearly everyone." Drug abuse damaged many people who
> thought they were invincible, like Stills who passed out and turned
> blue from a mucous mass he developed from coke abuse lodging in his
> windpipe. Musicians moved out of the canyon and drug dealers moved in.
> The book closes out with the Wonderland murders of '81 where four
> people were brutally murdered in a plot involving porn star John
> Holmes and businessman/drug dealer Eddie Nash, a story recreated in
> the film Wonderland.
>
> Walker provides an in-depth look at the scene through research and
> interviews of many of the former residents and guests, including new
> interviews with Graham Nash, Chris Hillman, Gail Zappa, the Turtles'
> Marl Volman, legendary groupie Pamela Des Barres, and others. Laurel
> Canyon is a great read for fans of the music and times, providing a
> cautionary tale without feeling preachy.
>
>
> This writer is a member of The Masked Movie Snobs, a collective that
> fights a never-ending battle against bad entertainment.
>=20
> --=20
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