The Manson murders were to appear to be "copycat" so that their friend Bobby would be released as a suspect in the murder of Gary Hinman. The Tate house was mistakenly believed to still belong to Terry Melcher after he passed on Manson's music, and those were the main motivations. Wallets and ID from the victims were left in ghetto bathrooms to lead police to black suspects and conspiracy theory of racial civil war.
Helter Skelter and Blackbird as themes for a revolution were minor incidental ideas (a/k/a idle chit chat) with no real validity and no reference in first-hand account books by Watson, Fromme and Atkins.
Dennis Wilson, like most hippie type musicians was probably just hanging out with whoever had weed.
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: I felt an affinity with Dennis as I had with
: several other friends who were not famous
: but tragic nonetheless.
: It may have been undiagnosed bipolarity.
: One minute they are a genius and the next as
: crazy as crazy gets. You get pulled into
: their world and find there are no governs,
: just wild abandon. You want to help but you
: can't really, and then you find a way into
: their psyche through the higher levels of
: creativity. But, this requires a total
: submission. Not only that, it could and
: would bring out the best and worst in you.
: Still, you keep at it until you reach that
: place in the all encompassing universe, that
: zen, that nirvana...some ethereal place that
: is your's and your cohort's.
: It is then that you realize that you are the
: bystander. Even the enabler. Possibly you
: are the muse. Used and abused. It all must
: come to an early end for these tortured
: souls. It's a wise man who keeps his
: distance. It's a fool who looks the other
: way.
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: In a famous tale among classic rock
: researchers,SAC friend and Beach Boy Dennis
: Wilson most unfortuitously struck up
: relations with Charlie Manson and his so
: called "family" and was
: subsequently bilked out of a gold record and
: monies numbering in the hundreds of
: thousands by the infamous clan of cut
: throats.Sounds to me like every other week
: several of these sociopaths were crawling
: from the shadows in the 60's and early
: seventies claiming to be spurred on by a
: combination of Bible interpretaion and
: lascivious obsession with one of the current
: rock bands.Manson had the Beatles and their
: White Album and I also heard a story in a
: Moody Blues documentary about another
: madman's claim of their affiliation with an
: imminent world apocalypse.SAC or friends
: ever encounter any of these lysergically
: charged self appointed prophets of doom?
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