Our station does a segment every weekday at Noon called "Trinity of Women" (brought to you by Trinity Health). We play 3 female artist and stretch a bit out of our format to salute the great women in music history.
Anyway, the great session bassist Carol Kaye is about to turn 90 on 3/24 - so I took a shot and emailed her and asked her about songs we could play in her honor for her birthday. She emailed me back - right away! How cool is that? She's got a long long list of credits too. Hard to narrow it down to 3.
She said in the email she pivoted away from rock music because of the Manson murders. Carol had played on Beach Boys records, knew Dennis Wilson. Manson and his followers lived in Wilson's house for a time. Charlie wrote some songs, the Beach Boys covered one of them. He had a demo that Wilson took to producer Terry Melcher, who thought the songs were okay, even though Manson was not a good singer. Melcher set up a meeting at his house, -- on Cielo Drive. While Melcher thought Manson could have been a decent songwriter, after meeting him, he was skeptical and then while visiting Manson at Spahn Ranch he saw Manson (and followers) beat the snot out of a drunk stuntman and Melcher was out on Manson, which pissed him off. Manson was unaware that Melcher (and Candice Bergen) had sold that house to Roman Polanski. The victims were not the targets that night.
I can understand why Carol said "that's enough for me, see you later".