Manson Excerpts from Beach Boy Mike Love's Memoir

Beach Boy Mike Love is releasing his memoir, Good Vibrations, in which he touches on the relationship between Charles Manson and the Beach Boys (in particular, Dennis Wilson). Here are a couple of excerpts from the memoir that appear in this week's People Magazine:

"[Charles] Manson was also in the car one day when Dennis [Wilson] dropped Terry [Melcher] off at his rented home at 10050 Cielo Drive, at the top of a steep hill in the Benedict Canyon area. [When Melcher refused to work with Manson as a record producer], Manson wouldn't stand for it. Consumed by rage and seeking revenge against a corrupt society, he convinced his followers that the apocalypse was coming in a bloody race war, at the end of which he and his disciples would take over."

On Terry's move from the Cielo House in January 1969 (8 months before the Tate/LaBianca murders):

"The move was no accident. Terry, Doris [Day]'s only child, was extremely close to his mom. He had told her about Manson – and about some of his scary antics, his brandishing of knives, his zombie followers – and that Manson had been to the house on Cielo and she insisted he move out. A mother's intuition, perhaps, and it may have saved his life." 

On Mike's then-wife's affair with Dennis Wilson:

"The worst part of Suzanne's affair with Dennis wasn't even the affair. Terry Melcher later told me that after we separated, Suzanne and Dennis would sometimes go out and leave our two young children with a babysitter. One one occasion, the babysitter was Manson disciple Susan Atkins. Atkins testified that she held Sharon Tate – who pleaded with the killers to spare her life and that of her unborn child – while another assailant, Charles 'Tex' Watson, stabbed her to death. In a theatrical flourish, Atkins used Tate's blood to write 'PIG' on the outside of the front door. She was convicted of participating in eight murders and was sentenced to death. And she was our babysitter."