Bob has referenced and critiqued David McGowan’s writing on the rock musicians in Laurel Canyon in the 1960’s.
In 2009, McGowan posted the series Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation on the web. The first chapter begins with Jim Morrison & Frank Zappa.
David McGowan died aged 55, on the 52nd anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 6 months after being diagnosed with an unusually aggressive form of lung cancer.