Public Nuisance (band) though ABC/Dunhill. At the end of 1968 and the beginning of 1969, they commuted back and forth to-and-from Los Angeles where they recorded an album's worth of songs, but like their previous outings none of the recordings saw release—in this case because producer Terry Melcher, who had sub-letted houses to director Roman Polanski and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, became emotionally distraught after Polanski's wife Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson, and wished to cease recording commitments he had made with Wilson for Equinox (Wilson had previously socialized with the Manson family), so Melcher closed down the label.
Live at San Quentin (Charles Manson album) the Allmusic website commented "the authenticity of Charles Manson "Live at San Quentin" places it with other historic prison recordings, even as it occupies a micro-genre all its own". Stephen Kaplan, distributor of "" in the 1980s, wrote "Kids buy it thinking they are going to get devil-worship music. But when they get home and find they have an album of mediocre folk songs, a lot of them are disappointed". Live at San Quentin (Charles Manson album) Live at San Quentin is a bootleg album by American folk musician and convicted murder-conspirator Charles Manson, and was released on Grey Matter