A review by raoulduke613
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream by David McGowan

2.0

While a lot of this stuff is likely true, it comes off as Qanon level garbage. Lots of conjecture and full of coincidences but lacking in compelling proof of anything. At times McGowan makes huge leaps in logic to tie two unrelated facts together and at others will make conclusions out of a single fact where millions of other conclusions are also equally plausible. For example, the fact that Jimi Hendrix was in the 101st Airborne Division doesn't even deserve mentioning and proves nothing but that McGowan doesn't actually know anything about the military. It certainly doesn't prove that Hendrix was a military intelligence asset. Tom O'Neill's Chaos is a far better book on the subject that does more to back up some of the claims in this book than it does itself. Not giving it one star and keeping it off my books-for-idiots shelf but only because of O'Neill's book. Writing like this is dangerous, even if you're right sometimes.