| Bobby Beausoleil’s Music Career |
Bobby Beausoleil, was born Robert Kenneth
Beausoleil on November 6th,
1947, in Santa Barbara, California. He is most notorious for having
been a member of the Mansion family, where he murdered Gary Hinman.
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| Gary Hinman |
On July 25th, 1969, Beausoleil, Mary Brunner, and Susan Atkins went to Hinman’s house. There have been reports that Beausoleil was sold bad mescaline from Hinman, which he later sold to bikers and the bikers wanted their money back. Another report has stated that Charles Manson believed Hinman owned his house, cars, had money in stocks and bonds, and was to come into an inheritance of 20,000 dollars, the equivalent of 138,000 in 2019. When asked for the money, it turned out that Gary Hinman had no money to give them. Beausoleil called Manson, who told him to keep Hinman captive and try to get the money from Gary. Eventually Manson and another family member, Bruce Davis, came to the house with Beausoleil and the others.
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| Mary Brunner |
Once Manson arrived, he took a sword and
struck Gary Hinman on the head, slicing the left side of his face and
ear. Hinman, a practicing Buddhist, did not believe in violence, and
asked Manson to take the others and leave. Charles left with Bruce
Davis in one of Gary Hinman’s cars, while the others stayed behind.
Mary Brunner and Susan Atkins stitched Hinman’s ear together with
dental floss while he repeatedly asked them to leave.
On July 27th, Beausoleil felt that he had no other choice but to kill Gary Hinman, as he thought that if he let him go, Hinman would tell the cops on Manson and the family. Beausoleil then stabbed Hinman in the chest twice, while Hinman repeated a buddhist chant. While Hinman was dying, Beausoleil, Susan Atkins, and Mary Brunner smothered him with a pillow. Once he died, Beausoleil wrote “Political Piggy” on a wall in Hinman’s blood, then dipping his hand in the blood to print a paw print, in an effort to make it seem like it was all the doing of the Black Panthers (As a part of the plan to initiate Helter Skelter, a race war that Manson and the family believed in).
On July 27th, Beausoleil felt that he had no other choice but to kill Gary Hinman, as he thought that if he let him go, Hinman would tell the cops on Manson and the family. Beausoleil then stabbed Hinman in the chest twice, while Hinman repeated a buddhist chant. While Hinman was dying, Beausoleil, Susan Atkins, and Mary Brunner smothered him with a pillow. Once he died, Beausoleil wrote “Political Piggy” on a wall in Hinman’s blood, then dipping his hand in the blood to print a paw print, in an effort to make it seem like it was all the doing of the Black Panthers (As a part of the plan to initiate Helter Skelter, a race war that Manson and the family believed in).
On April 18th,
1970, Beausoleil was convicted of first degree murder, and sentenced
to death. In 1972, the state of California ruled that the death
penalty was unconstitutional, and thus his sentenced was commuted to
Life.
In the meantime, Beausoleil has created multiple pieces of art, and a musical discography. His albums span from 1981 all the way to 2018, with singles and compilations in between. Allegedly, a majority of his music was created with permission from the prison authorities, when he was transferred to a different prison in Oregon.
Somehow, he has been able to have some
sort of social media presence, whether it’s maintained by him or
people that he knows, I do not know. Interestingly, there is a
tumblr, vimeo, facebook page, bandcamp, twitter, and more for him.
Honestly, it was shocking to know this, considering how so many other
people from the Manson family seem to have no contact with society
otherwise.
His website:
http://bobbybeausoleil.com/index.html
Weird video with even weirder
recommendations: https://youtu.be/d7YPnEgumSU
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| The Mothers of Invention, with sex offender Roy Estrada in the front right. |
What shocked me the most, was that
Beausoleil was a background singer on the album Freak
Out! By
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. I have been a Zappa fan for
over ten years, and had no idea about this. Apparently he is not
credited on the album itself, though you can find him credited on the
Frank Zappa Wiki, Wiki Jawaka. I am not sure which songs he is on in
particular, though I can only guess them potentially being ‘I’m
Not Satisfied’
(though those vocals sound like Frank and Jimmy Carl Black),
‘Motherly Love’
(Where the intro seems to have multiple voices, including ones I
can’t identify), the end of ‘Help
I’m a Rock’
or better known as ‘It
Can’t Happen Here’
on certain rips of the CD, ‘I
Ain’t Got No Heart’,
and/or ‘Go Cry On
Somebody Else’ Shoulder”. It's ironic how he was on this Zappa album, which includes the song 'Trouble Every Day' an anti-racism song, then later tried to frame the Black Panthers after the Hinman murder.
video: https://youtu.be/YNLMY9A07Tc
Post script edit: I would just like to say, that I've been doing a lot of reading about Manson, the family, and those involved. I don't know everything. But I want to clarify that in many sources, Beausoleil has stated that he wasn't ever a member of the family. In some books, they list him as an associate, never really a family member, and other sources I have found online, would say that he was. From now on, I will say that he was associate, unless I come across more information.
video: https://youtu.be/YNLMY9A07Tc
Post script edit: I would just like to say, that I've been doing a lot of reading about Manson, the family, and those involved. I don't know everything. But I want to clarify that in many sources, Beausoleil has stated that he wasn't ever a member of the family. In some books, they list him as an associate, never really a family member, and other sources I have found online, would say that he was. From now on, I will say that he was associate, unless I come across more information.
[SOURCES]
wikipedia
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Bobby_Beausoleil
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