COULD LAUREL CANYON HAVE SURVIVED IN CANADA?
MY HOUSE ON CRESCENT ISLAND HAD A NAME WHICH I FOUND OUT JUST NOW " BURRVILLA".
What a cool name Laurel Canyon Canada would have had, had it happened.
This is a picture of the Burr House on Crescent Island before I had it in the mid 1970`s.
When I had it it was still on Crescent Island with a nice 7 acre woodland grown up in front of it.
It was not nearly as nice as Laurel Canyon but the South FRASER RIVER was out front and you could be back in downtown Vancouver in twenty minutes or walk on the dikes and the sandbars all the way to Steveston but on a different tree covered sandbar with an old fish shack road on it.
I WAS THERE A LOT, RECOVERING FROM BEING VIRTUALLY PARALYZED. MUSICIANS WOULD DROP BY. SUNDAYS I WOULD ARRANGE TO HAVE ENOUGH MUSICIANS TO COME OUT WHEN I WAS ABLE TO HOST THE SPACE JAM. MY HOUSE WAS GIVEN TO ANTIQUE DEALER AND FAKER LANG FOR ONE DOLLAR ENDING MYSELF AND ALL OF MY MUSICAL CONNECTIVITY IN LATE 1978.
I moved to Otter Point to the cheapest ten acre lot and house I could find which was not too far from the cities of Victoria and Vancouver and had to finish it myself. I thought I was going to ride my Black Combat Norton Commando with the metal seven gallon tank, a beautiful motorcycle to Vancouver which was a $2 Ferry fare and $4 for me,to continue my Music and Art Connectivity.
Opposition was present here on the ground, the Otter Point Redneck Mafia stole and burnt everything I had: jewelery inventory and factory and 144 Hohner Harmonicas (they wear out fast when played hard) my 1951 Fender Super Amp and my keyboard Amp, my Church Organ, 1949 Kalamazoo Slide Guitar and its Amplifier and the fabulous 1957 Fender Jazzmaster, Green Metal Flake with Abalone Inlay on the Maple on Mahogany neck with a real Tortise Shell pick guard. The end of a plan to head back to Vancouver and start an Original Band.
I was possessionless and homeless with only a fire insurance claim instead of, well, everything.
Married for only 22 months my ex-wife got together with Lawhores and she would get nothing but I would lose everything to legal fees and she and the lawhores of course did not care if we ended up homeless and that was just the beginning of having to be ruled by a Crazy Woman again.
If the house at Otter Point would have been in a culture like that of Laurel Canyon, it is worse in Canada with more up Redneck Artist Haters and the really badly Criminally Insane RCMP.
The local Police here consider music practice to not be work but some deliberate attempt to offend and annoy the neighbors and say 'WE ARE GOING TO PUT AN END TO THE FUN HERE " and we don*t care sbout your music career which means they (POLICE) do care.
Sooke RCMP contacted US Authorities and Criminally Insane hamperer Champagne said " Now he will not be able to perform in the States ( or United States )."
My wife says Hès crazy, he thinks he is going to be a Rock Star. My brother Andrew said who wants their brother prancing around on Stage playing harmonica and Mother said if she ever heard of my even speaking of playing harmonica she would take my Father's money from me.
In the Spirit of Ignorance and Envy my brother Andrew said:
" You have too much Hubris, the Gods will punish you ."
Then he did punish me as if he was a God, the signature act of a person who was demonstrating Hubris is to think that they are Gods.
Mother had already taken all of my own and inherited money three times. All of it. My brother and my sister and my wife and my mother ripped me off and a large part of the motivation was to stop my doing music. They hated it and me.
Police never hesitated to try to jail and fine and dispossess me and so many people took a crack at finally being able to get me for something that I have Shell Shock or Tonic Immobility or Collapse Immobility or Swayback. I feel like I have turned to water and flow right down to the ground and I remain Virtually Paralyzed. View video of Tonic Immobility where two men have to hold the victim up with no clothing on ( clothing can be an irritant?) and the back arched, well, like mine is at its' worst.
THEY DID NOT SUCCED IN GETTING ME AND MY HOUSE BUT THEY SURE AS HELL MADE SURE NO FORM OF LAUREL CANYON WOULD HAPPEN HERE AND THEY ALERTED AND MOTIVATED POLICE SO I COULD NOT GO TO ANY LAUREL CANYON ANYWHERE ELSE.
I had inherited literally Millions which the relatives stole which would have finaced a limited form of Laurel Canyon. It does make me wonder:
Would Laurel Canyon have been able to survive in Canada with our worse than in the USA Police and Family Bigots, Haters, Thieves and Psychotic Sociopaths.
My Website has a few of the many songs I preserved by recording many more on Youtube.
LINDON COLLARD.com. I would like to put more tunes on my website but I have to lay down.
