Manson Family were Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski. Manson was met by Shahrokh Hatami, an Iranian photographer who was Tate's friend. Hatami was there to photograph Tate in advance of her departure for Rome the next day. Having seen Manson through a window as Manson approached the main house, Hatami had gone onto the front porch to ask him what he wanted. When Manson told Hatami he was looking for someone whose name Hatami did not recognize, Hatami informed him the place was the Polanski residence. Hatami advised him to try "the back alley", by which he meant the path to the
Charles Manson discography It was distributed on the West Coast, by the same people who did the first underground album, "Great White Wonder", a collection of pirated Bob Dylan tapes. Over the next couple of months, only about three hundred copies were sold. Having supposedly failed to recover his investment, Kaufman signed an agreement with New-York-based ESP-Disk to distribute the album nationally. In 1970, the Manson family recorded an album, titled "The Family Jams", of songs written by Manson, although he did not appear on the album. In the 1980s, Manson made many recordings via tape recorders in prison. These were given to