Friday, June 19, 2020

Psychedelia For Kids! Dept.

Looking Through Super Plastic Elastic Goggles At Color aired on NBC's Children's Theatre in 1971. Producer Michael Banasiak says "The whole hippie thing had pretty much died out by then, and a new generation of kids was out there, pre-teens, who wanted to know about the psychedelic experience, what drugs their moms and dads were doing, so we pitched this show to NBC, we had the music and the image and the group, very talented guys, the whole package, but they were concerned at advocating drug use to minors, so they said we'll go with this if you change the word Psychedelics to Color. It was an easy change, and the kids out there knew what we were really talking about - you only have to read the song titles - Colors Of The Mind, We All Live On A Rainbow - the whole band was on acid when they recorded the soundtrack album!"


Use this album to introduce your grandkids to psychedelics - why not spike their milk and have a freak out party?

Of The Goggles band, Jessica Harper went on to star in Phantom Of The Paradise and Suspiria, David Spinozza became an in-demand session guitarist, and the other two cut the soles off their shoes, sat in a tree and learned to play the flute.

15 comments:

  1. "and the other two cut the soles off their shoes, sat in a tree and learned to play the flute" and one then went on to become the heir to a pop rivet dynasty.

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  2. ... any of you "young at heart" types want to get a contact high from this musical blotter?

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    1. Yes please! The laughter frees me. My aesthetic responses are greatly heightened, colors seem more intense, textures richer,contours sharpened, music more emotionally profound, the spatial arrangements ofobjects more meaningful.

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    2. This is your personal, exclusive link, Rick. Anyone who is NOT Rick clicking the link will download a computer virus that makes their keyboard produce only the letter "x", no matter what key is pressed.

      *gets popcorn*




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    3. What possible virus could do that? I mean c'mon xxx xxxx xxxxx xxx xxxxxxxx xxx xxxxxx xxxx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xx x xxx xxxx x xxx

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  3. And within a year Spinozza played on RAM!?!
    Thank God the Goggles had no Google!

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  4. I'm not really into directions, but I did type "x" a lot, and this STILL
    doesn't sound all that much like Goblin to me.


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  5. At the request of Withered Hope:

    https://workupload.com/file/mb2EMsnqexN

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    1. Thank you. I really like Jessica Harper's voice. "Shock Treatment" is as good a movie, if not better, than "Rocky Horror".

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    2. You're very welcome. Anything else you want from the crawlspace, ask!

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