This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. Please check the show notes for more information. Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. I'm The stories about Charles Manson's attempted musical career are insane.

Like, way more insane than people I usually say this about.

In and out of Juvie in jail since childhood, Charles Manson learned guitar

in prison from the last of the Great Depression era gangsters. He made music industry connections in jail

too, the Rolling Stones and Graham Parsons Roadmangler Phil Kaufman among them. Then, during the

summer of love, Charlie bounced from prison and took his act to San

Francisco, formed a drug-soaked sex cult, moved the whole family down to L.A., and before you could say

celebrity orgy, he was hanging with Neil Young, the Mamas and the Pappas, and the Beach Boys.

Charlie Manson was about to be the breakout star of 1969, because Charles Manson made great music,

in his own mind anyway. Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't

great music. That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Swamp Smoocher, MK2.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Hello I Love You by the

doors.

And why would I play you that specific slice of brain scream cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on August 8th, 1968.

And that was the day that Charles Manson sat in a Van Nuys studio and recorded what would become his own album, entitled Lie, The Love and Terror Col.

On this episode, creepy crawling hippies, missing records, misguided rock stars, the crime of the century, and Charles Manson, the Music Man.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland.

Thank you. What do you mean you don't want the record?

Just what I said.

I don't want the record.

I can't sell it.

...