The Manson Family Blog: MansonBlog Tour 2020

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

MansonBlog Tour 2020

The 2020 Tour dates will be from April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles.

If anyone is interested in attending please email me. There's no charge, but you need to make your own travel, lodging and other arrangements.

The exact itinerary is never announced before the Tour but the links below will give you an idea of what it's like.

29 comments:

Dan SFebruary 4, 2020 at 10:22 PM
May 5 I'll be playing the Rainbow bar and grill with Hell on Wheels
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DougFebruary 5, 2020 at 3:44 AM
May 2nd is my birthday...could be verrry interesting!
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orwhutFebruary 6, 2020 at 12:34 AM
We Tauri are sensible level headed people who seldom believe in that zodiac gibberish.
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PeterFebruary 6, 2020 at 6:44 PM
"The Shorty Shea Experience" package. Matt hits you in the back of the head with a wrench when you're not looking and then the group steals all your stuff and buries you in a shallow grave.
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MattFebruary 7, 2020 at 1:15 PM
Peter said...
"The Shorty Shea Experience" package. Matt hits you in the back of the head with a wrench when you're not looking and then the group steals all your stuff and buries you in a shallow grave.

We dis that one already. It was meh...

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Matthew February 8, 2020 at 10:38 AM
A little off topic but when I was looking at the tours of the Spahn ranch, I was wondering if any of the family or hangers-on were still living there when the ranch burned down. I was also trying to figure out the time line between the burning of the ranch and the Hendrickson documentary. The ranch burned in September of 1970 and the Hendrickson documentary was released in 73. In the documentary there is a lot of footage of family at the ranch, so that footage would had to have been filmed prior to Sept 1970. Just made me curious of who if anyone was still at the ranch when it burned and if not, when and why did they leave?
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grimtravellerFebruary 8, 2020 at 6:47 PM
Doug said...

May 2nd is my birthday

The 2nd of May is a great album, the second and final one, by May Blitz.
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grimtravellerFebruary 8, 2020 at 7:22 PM
Matthew said...

I was wondering if any of the family or hangers-on were still living there when the ranch burned down. I was also trying to figure out the time line between the burning of the ranch and the Hendrickson documentary. The ranch burned in September of 1970 and the Hendrickson documentary was released in 73. In the documentary there is a lot of footage of family at the ranch, so that footage would had to have been filmed prior to Sept 1970. Just made me curious of who if anyone was still at the ranch when it burned and if not, when and why did they leave?

Taken from Robert Hendrickson's "Death to pigs" pg 177 {Oct 28 '70}:

After having some very productive studio sessions, we all decided to re-visit the Spahn movie ranch. Unfortunately, the ranch had recently burned to the ground in a fire....When the fire started about 10 miles away, Gypsy told me that they were already packing and preparing to leave. I thought "Oh, here's more of that end of the world stuff coming from Ms Armageddon herself." After all, this was just another Santa Anna wild fire, famous for occurring every summer, but the Spahn Ranch had never been affected before. Later, the Family explained that when the fire reached Spahn, the firemen actually stood by and watched as the Devil's playground vanished from God's earth. Apparently the "Establishment was beginning to erase the 1960s from American history.

Kinda interesting that Hendrickson's first thought as Gypsy spoke was a disdainful one about their apocalyptic stance. It kind of ties in with what is reported in "Helter Skelter" about the Family females all dancing around as Spahn burned singing "Helter Skelter is coming down....."
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grimtravellerFebruary 8, 2020 at 9:10 PM
He was a much travelled musician and I always thought, a rather underrated drummer. There again, May Blitz were underrated. Having said that, I can see why they never really made it. Some bands need time and 5 albums and others will knock out only two and die and then years later, one sees just how fantastic they were.
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orwhutFebruary 9, 2020 at 1:09 AM
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orwhutFebruary 9, 2020 at 1:36 AM
Grim,
Good answer to Matthew's question. I'd forgotten about Death to Pigs and wasn't up to listening to Inside the Manson Gang to try and answer his question.
I can't wait for Col. Scott's treatment of Robert Hendrickson. Maybe he'll address the possibility of someone getting Mrs. Hendrickson some money from the rights to her husband's publications. I understand she's in a bad way and don't know if they had children.
The asking prices on some things Manson are through the roof on ebay lately. Recently, someone wanted $150.00 for Little Paul's book and someone else asked $350.00. I didn't even see a copy of Manson (1973) on there. Now seems like the time to sell.
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GorodishFebruary 9, 2020 at 8:48 PM
Doug typed:

Hopefully there was access to the ENDORSED WAIVERS completed by the MF members captured on film...possibly giving an identity to the "mysterious" Kevin!

Kevin seems to be doing just fine for himself as a building contractor for big bucks high-end homes in the Monterey/Carmel area.
Here's his website.
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grimtravellerFebruary 10, 2020 at 6:32 PM
Matthew said...

if Gypsy was there so was Lynette, Sandy, Cappy, Brenda and maybe Bruce and Clem. So, effectively, the fire is what scattered the family and effectively ended the family

Bobby Beausoleil said something kind of prophetic at the start of 1970 when he said "the whole thing balances on whether the Family stays together in their heads and doesn't break up and start testifying against itself." Well, that process was already under way by the time he said that {indeed, he was to take part in it during his own 2nd trial !}. The Family was actually rarely stable and it's sometimes fluid nature was always going to reach that point where it was going to fizzle out. If ever a group self destructed, it was them. The Spahn fire was merely one small part of the picture. Murder is what really did for them.
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ColScottFebruary 10, 2020 at 8:32 PM
orwhut- the Hendrickson piece is more a cautionary tale about being SO OBSESSED WITH YOUR IP in life but leaving literally NO INSTRUCTIONS as to what should happen upon your death. Robert was odd but he was lovely, he was charming and smart. He does have children although I would not suggest they have his interests at heart, I have not been able to get Tobyann on the phone for a year. Really tragic tale
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GorodishFebruary 11, 2020 at 2:52 PM
Panamint Patty typed:

You sure it's him?

99.9% sure. He's right there on the famous "Earl Deemer List". Found him there a couple of years ago. Same name, same DOB.
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orwhutFebruary 11, 2020 at 5:17 PM
Col. Scott
Thank you for the reply. I believe it was you who mentioned that Mrs. Hendrickson suffered from dementia. If it affects her the way it did my mother she's in no condition to answer the phone and wishing she had an off switch. I wish Mrs. Hendrickson the best and appreciate you going to her house and letting us know what had happened to Robert.
Whut
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starviegoFebruary 11, 2020 at 10:53 PM
Gorodish said...
"He's right there on the famous "Earl Deemer List". Found him there a couple of years ago. Same name, same DOB."

Who are you talking about?
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GorodishFebruary 12, 2020 at 3:10 AM
starviego typed:

Who are you talking about?

Kevin from the Hendrickson movie. Read my above post responding to Doug.
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starviegoFebruary 12, 2020 at 10:07 AM
I mean do you have a full name?
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orwhutFebruary 12, 2020 at 6:11 PM
The 6th paragraph at the link below tells a little about Kevin.
https://www.mansonblog.com/search?q=Kevin
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GorodishFebruary 14, 2020 at 3:58 AM
starviego typed:

I mean do you have a full name?

Kevin Schooler Raph
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