He and His girlfriend Pam Courson moved into a place next door to where My wife and I lived in Laurel Canyon. I remember one evening we spent together, smoking a load of hash and listening to a vinyl import of Sgt Pepper. That was a great night. One night, Pam came over late, claiming Jim had tried to kill Her. She said He had pushed Her into the closet and set it on fire when He found out She had been sleeping with this phony prince who had supplied Her with heroin. Jim hated heroin so was mayb

One of our songs, *Colors* came about because we met Pam Courson at The Whisky. She came back stage and I just figured she was a groupie wanting a piece of the band. She said her name was Valerie Sunshine (this may not have been unusual for Pam in an article about her boutique, Themis, Pam used the pseudonym Pamela Roselilly). She told us she wasn’t interested in sex but she had some LSD she wanted to share and go down to Santa Monica beach. Mike Lane and I said, *What the hell! Why not!* We wer