The 60 and 70’s music and film scene looks like a government run operation centered at Lookout Mountain (http://www.whale.to/b/lookout_mountain_laboratory.html) Laboratory, according to Dave McGowan, (http://www.whale.to/b/mcgowan_h.html) see Military connection.

(http://www.whale.to/b/military_p.html)Inside The LC: (http://www.whale.to/b/inside_the_lc.html) The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation