David McGowan

Returning to the countercultural films of the 1960s, the most critically acclaimed of the lot, and the one with the deepest roots in Laurel Canyon, was Easy Rider.

Angels from Hell, Hells Angels on Wheels (with Jack Nicholson), and Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger’s occult-tinged homage to gay biker culture

Wohlstetter epitomized what became known as the ‘RAND approach

Paul Young, writing in LA Exposed

Mick Jagger was involved in two occult-drenched, Crowley-influenced film projects, Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising and Donald Cammell’s Performance.

Anger had shot of Beausoleil, meanwhile, ended up in a different film, the aforementioned Invocation of My Demon Brother. Costarring in Lucifer Rising, as Osiris, was Performance writer and co-director Donald Seaton Cammell, who happened to be a good friend of Roman Polanski

friend Frank Zappa at the PMRC hearings

testified alongside our old friend Frank Zappa at the PMRC hearings

Phil Hartman, the Saturday Night Live alumnus who was murdered in his Encino home on May 28, 199

the distinctive CSN logo for Crosby, Stills & Nash.