Phil Pearlman

Philip Gadahn, born Philip Pearlman, is an American musician [ [http://lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/?id=1212&IssueNum=66 Los Angeles CityBeat - PEACE, LOVE, DEATH METAL ] ] from Western Riverside County, California. He is best known as the artist behind several psych-folk "happenings" in the 1960s and 70s. He has attracted more mainstream attention in recent years because of his son, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a convert to radical Islam and an al Qaeda operative.

Pearlman attended the University of California at Irvine. The son of a Jewish father and Protestant mother, Pearlman was raised agnostic. He accepted Christianity in the early 1970s, just prior to recording to the underground classic "Relatively Clean Rivers". After conversion he changed his last name to "Gadahn" as a tribute to the Bible's "Gideon".

Music

*Phil & The Flakes - "Chrome Reversed Rails" (1964)
*Beat of the Earth - "Beat of the Earth" (1967)
*The Electronic Hole - "The Electronic Hole" (1970)
*Relatively Clean Rivers - "Relatively Clean Rivers" (1975)
*Beat of the Earth - "Our Standard Three Minute Tune" (1994)

External links

* [http://members.tripod.com/lysergia_2/LamaWorkshop/Bote/lamaBeatOfTheEarth.htm Interview with Karen Darby,] Beat of the Earth collaborator
* [http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews5/becomingmuslim.htm "Becoming Muslim"] - article by Pearlman's son, Adam Gadahn, that provides some brief details on his father.

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