[tcb] Re: Busman's Holiday
- From: Ken <kenlinoski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 22:41:45 -0500
Sammie, simple questions can be answered by simple sources ie googles maps or
wiki whatever. Real, insightful answers are provided by bus nuts and their
sources. Or not.
Sent by pure magic
On May 27, 2013, at 10:30 PM, sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sheesh! A simple question and I get a music history lesson. I had never
> even heard of Joshua Tree CA until a couple of years ago when I met Joe
> Ingram, a real bus guru, who teaches school in Joshua Tree.
>
> --- On Mon, 5/27/13, Ken Linoski <kenlinoski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Ken Linoski <kenlinoski@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Busman's Holiday
> To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, May 27, 2013, 10:26 PM
>
> Gram Parsons, formerly with the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and
> the Flying Burrito Brothers, allegedly overdosed on a speedball at the Joshua
> Tree Inn on September 19, 1973. Just two months before his death, Parson’s
> Topanga Canyon home had burnt to the ground. After his death, his body was
> stolen from LAX by the Burrito’s road manager, Phil Kaufman, and then taken
> back out to Joshua Tree and ritually burned on the autumnal equinox (Kaufman
> had been a prison buddy of Charlie Manson’s at Terminal Island; when Phil was
> released from Terminal Island in March of 1968, he quickly reunited with his
> old pal, who had been released a year earlier.) By the time of Gram’s death,
> his family had already experienced its share of questionable deaths. Just
> before Christmas, 1958, Parson’s father had sent Gram, along with his mother
> and sister, off to stay with family in Florida. The next day, just after the
> winter solstice, “Coon Dog” caught a bullet to the head. His death was
> recorded as a suicide and it was claimed that he had sent his family away to
> spare them as much pain as possible. It seems just as likely, however, that
> “Coon Dog” knew his days were numbered and wanted to get his family out of
> the line of fire. The next year, 1959, Gram’s mother married again, to Robert
> Ellis Parsons, who adopted Gram and his sister Avis. Six years later, in June
> of 1965, Gram’s mother died the day after a sudden illness landed her in the
> hospital. According to witnesses, she died “almost immediately” after a visit
> from her husband, Robert Parsons. Many of those close to the situation
> believed that Parsons had a hand in her death (very shortly thereafter,
> Robert Parsons married his stepdaughter’s teenage babysitter). Following his
> mother’s death, Parsons briefly attended Harvard University, and then
> launched his music career with the formation of the International Submarine
> Band, which quickly found its way to – where else? – Laurel Canyon. Gram’s
> death in 1973 at the age of 26 left his younger sister Avis as the sole
> surviving member of the family. She was killed in 1993, reportedly in a
> boating accident, at the age of 43.
>
> this info and much more on the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 60/70s can be
> found here
>
> http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/
>
> Enjoy!!!
>
>
> From: Denis <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 8:16 PM
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Busman's Holiday
>
> Yep. I spent a few weekends getting lost there in the late 60s. There is a
> legendary tale about the death of Graham Parsons, member of the Byrds and the
> Flying Burrito Brothers, as well as albums with a young Emmy Lou Harris.
> Parsons went to Joshua Tree a lot and told many people that he wanted his
> ashes spread there. He died at the Joshua Tree Inn in Joshua Tree California.
> While his step father arranged for the body to be flow to Louisiana for
> burial a group of friends (rumor has it one was David Crosby) stole his body
> from LA International Airport and, with a borrowed hearse took the body to
> the Park and filled the coffin with 5 gallons of gasoline and threw a match
> on it. The police were attracted by the huge fireball, but everyone escaped.
> Two men were later arrested, but only fined $750 for stealing the coffin. The
> 35 lbs. left of Parsons was buried in Metarie, LA.
>
> I just love that story.
>
>
>
> From: sammie smith
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 7:46 PM
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Busman's Holiday
>
> I've got a bus buddy that lives in Joshua Tree CA. Is that the same place
> Denis?
>
> --- On Mon, 5/27/13, Denis <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Denis <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Busman's Holiday
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, May 27, 2013, 8:47 AM
>
> Joshua Tree National Park
>
> From: Ronnie Hughes
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 5:54 AM
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tcb] Busman's Holiday
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IpRh5bChBSM#!
>
>
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