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Song and stills from the original film

posted 12 years ago by n-p-hunt
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Kenneth Anger's 1967 radio interview with Susan Sontag includes performance of a song intended for the original film. On the broadcast the song is performed by a woman named Joy (no title given), from the lyrics it could maybe be called "Gypsy of Love". It is an acoustic folk type song, does anyone know who wrote it?

Bobby Beausoleil's 1967 music for the film (with The Magic Powerhouse of OZ) appears as an alternative soundtrack on the dvd of "Invocation of My Demon Brother."

Gavin Baddeley's book about devil worship and rock includes a still from the original film, featuring Anton LaVey and Bobby Beausoleil. I wonder if any other stills from the film exist?

[–] princeps-suspiriorum 10 years ago

As I understood it Anger used footage from the original attempt at Lucifer Rising in Invocation of My Demon Brother, but he also claimed a lot of the original footage was stolen by Beausoleil. I wouldn't be surprised if there were bits and pieces of it floating around out there, though LaVey and Beausoliel are both featured heavily in Invocation... so it's possible it's just a still from that known to have been intended for Lucifer Rising?

As for the music I don't know? I had understood that Beausoleil was contracted to do the music for Lucifer Rising even in 1967, but given Anger's history of announcing things that never appeared, re-editing and changing things it's entirely possible he had originally intended to use someone else.