Has anybody here read this book? It is absolutely wild.
The main thesis and premise is essentially:
>Everybody knows everybody.
>Literally every single band and musical artist that came out of 60s LA was a psyop and a manufactured band
>Every single musical artist from this time period, virtually without exception, came from a family background of military or intelligence
Some of the greatest hits:
>David Crosby was actually a member of the Van Cortlandt family, Dutch old money that goes back to the 1600s
>Gram Parsons was a multimillionaire heir to a Florida orange grove fortune and was basically larping as a down home country boy
>Jack Nicholson has almost the EXACT same upbringing and psychological profile as Ted Bundy
>Mama Cass and Keith Moon died in the same flat in London, in the SAME FUCKING ROOM
>Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart were essentially cult leaders, and they gave their bandmates weird wacky names like Drumbo and Zoot Horn Rollo in order to psychologically break them down and make them detached from their old self (i.e. you belong to us now, you are no longer "you"). Really fucked up.
>The ENTIRETY of music that came out of punk, post-punk, and new wave between 1975-1985 was essentially pushed and promoted by the Copeland family (one of whom became a drummer in a fairly popular band).
If all of this book is truly true, then it's a shame. I've always known that a lot of this music was manufactured stuff that is left-wing propaganda, but it never really stopped me from enjoying the jams and grooves. But I think this book just sucked all the fun out of all music that is even remotely mainstream.
