A quintessential San Francisco story, starring charismatic musician/murderer Bobby BeauSoleil*
*with underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, cult leader Charles Manson, Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, and the Straight Satans motorcycle gang in suppo
Chet Helms and his Avalon Ballroom were the heart and soul of the Summer of Love. Thirty years of stupid business moves later, love is all that's left.
Click on picture for disturbingly large versionIt takes a lot to throw a San Francisco pedestrian for a loop -- our favorite example is how a bearded man wearing a colorful, flowing dress and pushing a conga drum on wheels turned nary a head. Yet the above scene was indeed jarring. At first thought, this looked like a shrine -- a shrine for a pair of men who finish Nos. 1 and 2 in the "People You Don't Want To Find Standing At The Foot Of Your Bed When You Wake Up At 3 a.m." contest. The gent
