It was the gateway to human evolution that we somehow bungled. Between the CIA, the counter-culture, big pharma, law enforcement, and the rest of us, LSD became an illegal recreational drug and/or approved medical treatment for the very few institutionalized patients who qualify. As a result of vested interest and "business as usual" the opportunity was squandered. And the media didn't help. Efforts to understand the drug by those who never took it inevitably focused on addicts leaping off buildings, and the sick threat to the very fabric of society.
Here's a period piece that pretends to offer insight. Likely bought (when bought at all) by The Concerned Parents Of America, who played it once (when played at all) and forgot about it, Capitol's "Audio Documentary" is a sincere attempt, but an attempt to do what? Certainly not to encourage LSD use. The kids, meanwhile, treated this (and other media coverage) with amused contempt, and played Electric Music For The Mind And Body instead.
This download (for which thanks go to jcc) includes a bunch of scans which add to the unreality. The Grateful Dead appear in a glossary of terms as "a West Coast rock n'roll group under the entrepreneural aegis of Owsley Stanley." Entrepreneural? Typo or super-smart pun? You be the judge, subscribers!
Oh - it's in head-widening mono.
To join the youth of today in their quest for kicks n' truth, simply tell the folks out there the last time you ingested a mind-altering substance (coffee counts).
ReplyDeleteMy usual, first thing this morning: A gin enema mixed with bird seed and jock-itch talcum.
DeleteI'm doing it now.
ReplyDeleteDon't answer the door!
DeleteNot to be punctual er anything but...
ReplyDelete...Neural? neuralotic...?
Alternate album subtitle from the "Just Say 'NO!'" label?:
"We Take Drugs??? Seriously!?!"
(I ... Did ... Not ... Inhale)
Neurallly, this calls for an "Sorry. It's An Erection Year" disclaimer...
The word is entrepreneurial. The spelling in the glossary has "neural" - ie pertaining to the nervous system. Clever, or just plain dumb?
DeleteCLEVER!!!
ReplyDeleteIf only they had included Owsley's poem from the back cover of the Blue Cheer album!
We want it pure
and we want it NOW!
Here ya go - don't operate heavy machinery while listening:
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Thanks but no thanks - I'm wary of flashbacks
DeleteYour wariness does you tremendous credit. Even looking at the cover image can induce a hallucinogenic experience.
Deleteheck I'm still pissed about that- where are the freaking flashbacks- you promised freaking flashbacks
DeleteIt’s almost shroomtime on Dartmoor and that makes it a year since last shroomtime on Dartmoor. The Battle For The Mind resumes.
ReplyDeleteThe only two things that kept me from forever falling down the rabbit hole of LSD were 1: you never knew what the chemist were on and 2: even at 68 - 78 prices, i'd eventually have to get a job if i wanted to maintain a constant hallucination, as a friend, or maybe as a pet, you know?
ReplyDeleteLSD [Mono Crapititol LP] ?!?
ReplyDeleteIs this meant as some sorta "hidden message" for ol' one ear, BriWi of the Beachie Boyz...?!
We (cheepskate freeloaders) demand the STEREO!!!
(I know, I know, it'll cost us... like $5.98 instead of what yours was, $3.98 at a rundown Woolworth's in 1972...)
According to Discogs "Some of the music for this album was provided by the Neal Cassidy & the Warlocks who later became the Grateful Dead. Multiple use of parts of "Speed Limit" which is found on Warlocks / Prankster tapes from 1965. The musicians were uncredited on the album" AND "Featuring [Comments By] – Allen Ginsberg, Dr. Timothy Leary, Mrs. Aldous Huxley, Sidney Cohen, M.D."
ReplyDeleteIs that a bit like "According to Wiki"?
Now, I've just gotta have it (flashbacks or not)
Mrs. Huxley, what they done in your head?
DeleteMrs. Huxley, did you trip with the Dead?
It's a wonder tall trees ain't fallin' down
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