Beach Boy Dennis Wilson explaining in British music newspaper the Record Mirror his relationship with Charles Manson his family of girls, prior to the infamous events of 1969 #history #beachboys #denniswilson #music

Mark Lanegan and Kurt Cobain dressed in their Sunday best

Remembering the time Hunter S Thompson ran for sheriff on a Freak Power slogan and shaved his head clean bald so he could refer to the incumbent Sheriff as a 'longhair'.

The mercurial and unpredictable Tom Forcade was heavily involved in the counter-cultural zeitgeist of the 1960s. From his apartment in NY, using guitar cases to smuggle drugs in and out, he'd acquire the funds to establish the iconic High Times magazine. #hightimes

#nowspinning Acid Mammoth - Supersonic Megafauna Collision. It's not supposed to be out until April, but somehow my pre-order arrived! And it is sounding like the heavy doom record I hoped it would! AM continually knock it out the park. #vinyl #metal @HEAVYPSYCHSOUND

Mick and Keef hanging with reggae legend Peter Tosh backstage at SNL 1978 #snl #70s

#NowSpinning Before the infamous Kim Fowley created The Runaways, he first created short lived power-pop group The Hollywood Stars. Fowley would co-write their song King of the Nighttime World, that would later b covered and popularised by 70s rock giants KISS #KISS #70s #vinyl

After desert legends Kyuss disbanded, Josh Homme formed QOTSA.Their self-titled album would offer a more hooky take on the stoner genre. Frank Kozik would do the OG artwork for the album,that was later changed. Here's Kozik's OG work. Which was again used for the 2022 re-issue

Gut Terk was the definition of cool. A member of the Hells Angels. A prominent psychedelic concert poster artist and album cover artist for the likes of Jefferson Airplane. He was also a Merry Prankster alongside the likes of Ken Kesey, helping paint the bus. #culture #60s

The Cheers' track Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots, released in '55, kickstarted a trend that became known as Teenage Tragedy Songs, or Splatter Platter's -songs typically about teenage death and heartbreak where the protagonist often met an early death #music #history

Sky Saxon of 60s band The Seeds, w/ their pop single 'Can't Seem to Make You Mine', joined the Source Family Commune in 1973. he would be instrumental in releasing the commune's Yo Ha Wha 13's 70s music in the 1990s. #History #music