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Foreword by Nick Bryant
Preface
1 Village of the Damned By Way of an Introduction
2 Power to the People Call this a Counterculture?
3 Dig! The Laurel Canyon Death List
4 Related Lives and Relative Deaths
5 Desirable People The Canyon’s Peculiar Past
6 Vito and his Freakers The Sinister Roots of Hippie Culture
7 The Death of Godo Paulekas Anger’s Infant Lucifer
8 All the Young Turks Hollywood Tripping
9 Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon
10 Helter Skelter in a Summer Swelter Return of the Death List
11 Detours Rustic Canyon & Greystone Park
12 Riders on the Storm The Doors
13 Eight Miles High and Falling Fast The Byrds
14 The Great Serendipity Buffalo Springfield
15 Beyond Buffalo Springfield and the Monkees, too
16 Altamont Pie Gram Parsons
17 The Lost Expedition of Gene Clark
18 The Wolf King of LA “Papa” John Phillips
19 Hungry Freaks, Daddy Frank Zappa