He used to walk down the street with that jaguar or panther on a leash.
Garcia's house was in Haight Ashbury. Rented. LeVay's was his parents' house he inherited. I think it was in the Richmond District. Not the same area.
Garcia's house was near Kenneth Anger's. Kenneth anger is the real deal. Satanic scum. LeVay was more like a party attraction.
Wavy Gravy. I live here. I have met all these people. Bob Weir still plays here.
Yeah, that would be him. But, after he got done with Orange Sunshine and Woodstock he became a pretty nice guy.
The bad guys are guys like Kenneth Anger. David Smith. Direct connections to Manson.
Well, that is not good. Because that is when the Hell's Angels came along. But, maybe that was why Wavy got out of the scene? I do not know. I am surrounded by these people. Garcia died right near my house.
It is amazing. You see people that look totally suburban. But, they turn out to be psychics, witches, warlocks, you name it. And yeah, there is a definite runaway underage counterculture thing that still goes on. It is sad.
I was just never deeply involved in it. I was more reserved. I have been to all the concerts with all the big names, but all I ever wanted to do was take pictures of them. I never liked the culture.
I did not like LSD. I still know some people who were dead heads. Followed them around. And there was a lot of opportunistic sex. Those girls used to twirl naked all the time around here. We even had a famous bar in this town where they all hung out.
It is a coffee house now.
And the whole town has been overrun with tourists.
I never had any bad vibes from Wavy. He was the one I knew best. He actually seemed like a true believer in the original movement. He just got a little disillusioned with the bad people that came along. That was my impression, anyway.