Post by the Scribe on Apr 8, 2020 11:55:39 GMT
Funny how the entire Hippie, Peace, Love movement died when Linda's very own next door neighbor was killed by the Manson Family. There are so many unusual Ronstadt-Everything connections. She seemed to be right in the middle of everything as you will find if you cruise through this site.
For better or for worse Manson marked or caused the "end" of the Hippie movement and the 1960's culture. Things were never the same after Manson. The whole culture changed. Good luck trying to start a fan club after that for your favorite star. Hollywood retreated into itself and artists into their homes or they just moved away to safer locations. Safer in their own minds at least.
Oddly, a woman by the name of "Good" .... Sandra Good was part of the Manson Family interviewed here. She states " a man is no better than his word. Sticking together, word being good...loyalty, honor and brotherhood. It's like a soldier, reality. In other words if these people in Hollywood have to go so be it. In war sometimes killing is needed." Her words sound terribly familiar in todays discourse where we have similar comments coming from a large group motivated by its hatred for Hollywood, actors, singers (all labeled as Liberals) and those they feel are a threat. Only today this is on a national scale, even international and promoted by their own media outlets. This is a far cry to what the Hippies were about....peace, love and joy or as the unenlightened might say, sex-drugs-rock and roll..
In the early days or at least the days after this terrible event Linda seemed very reticent about contact with fans. Her management was very clear that Linda's responsibilities were to be strictly to her music and anything more than that was to be handled by her management. I don't recall her saying this was the cause but it had to weigh heavily on her mind.
This hatred for all things Hollywood seemed to have come out of this one tragic incident and has been exploited unfairly. A cultural divide had begun. And that single minded resentment is very strong today and pushed as a scapegoat for all that is wrong with America.
The seven grisly murders carried out by Charles Manson's disciples during the summer of 1969 did more than turn the hippie cult leader into the leering face of evil on front pages across America. To many, the bloodbath exposed the scary underside of the counterculture movement and seemed to mark the end of the peace-and-love era that burst upon the country just two years earlier during San Francisco's Summer of Love. "The 'Summer of Love' was more a media event than anything else," Todd Gitlin, one of the nation's foremost historians of the 1960s, told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday. "But if hippie paradise was a myth, it was a myth that a lot of people believed in. Manson damaged it gravely." On Wednesday, Manson, now a grizzled, shuffling 82-year-old, lay hospitalized with an undisclosed illness after being taken from California's Corcoran State Prison, where he was serving a life sentence, according to news reports that correction officials would not confirm, citing privacy laws. Manson's reappearance in the news conjured a turbulent period in U.S. history when the country seemed to be coming apart at the seams.
For better or for worse Manson marked or caused the "end" of the Hippie movement and the 1960's culture. Things were never the same after Manson. The whole culture changed. Good luck trying to start a fan club after that for your favorite star. Hollywood retreated into itself and artists into their homes or they just moved away to safer locations. Safer in their own minds at least.
Oddly, a woman by the name of "Good" .... Sandra Good was part of the Manson Family interviewed here. She states " a man is no better than his word. Sticking together, word being good...loyalty, honor and brotherhood. It's like a soldier, reality. In other words if these people in Hollywood have to go so be it. In war sometimes killing is needed." Her words sound terribly familiar in todays discourse where we have similar comments coming from a large group motivated by its hatred for Hollywood, actors, singers (all labeled as Liberals) and those they feel are a threat. Only today this is on a national scale, even international and promoted by their own media outlets. This is a far cry to what the Hippies were about....peace, love and joy or as the unenlightened might say, sex-drugs-rock and roll..
In the early days or at least the days after this terrible event Linda seemed very reticent about contact with fans. Her management was very clear that Linda's responsibilities were to be strictly to her music and anything more than that was to be handled by her management. I don't recall her saying this was the cause but it had to weigh heavily on her mind.
This hatred for all things Hollywood seemed to have come out of this one tragic incident and has been exploited unfairly. A cultural divide had begun. And that single minded resentment is very strong today and pushed as a scapegoat for all that is wrong with America.