Bobby Beausoleil is an important character in the Charlie Manson saga. Beausoleil was eventually convicted of torturing and murdering Gary Hinman. Beausoleil was a rock guitarist, about twenty years old when he first met Manson. Beausoleil was closely involved in the LA rock music scene in the Sixties, a musical element the FBI was certainly trying to discredit at that time, along with John Lennon and the Beatles. In the mid-Sixties, Beausoleil had played rhythm guitar with Arthur Lee in a rock group that would eventually be named Love. Jim Morrison, of the Doors, cited Love as one of his favorite vocal groups in his official bio for Elektra records. Beausoleils association with Love will be discussed in a later chapter, but for now, it is important to understand that he is a key member of the Manson Family, with respect to the crimes they would later be convicted of committing, and because of Beausoleils association with the burgeoning LA rock band, Love. He composed a soundtrack with his Freedom Orchestra for Kenneth Anger's movie Lucifer Rising, in which he also appears, after Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin who was to originally compose the soundtrack took too much time and was fired. He also appeared in "Invocation of My Demon Brother" and a soft porn film known variously as The Ramrodder in which fellow friend Catherine Share also appears, Share also became a member of the Manson Family. Bobby also was featured in Savage Passion. He later joined a band called The Milky Way.
