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Shpongle! It's the latest dance sensation drivin' teens wild across the nation! How to do? Why, it's simplicity itself! Simply drop this psybient-type disc on the spindle and a bunch of drugs, and lie down!
Nigel Tufnell and Baba Ram Dass invented Shpongle back in 1932 [Eh? - Ed.] and have released a new long-playing record every year. Their It's A Shponglin' Yule album made the Billboard Top Ten in December, 1951. "Shpongle is so much more than a teen dance fad," averred Tufnell yestiddy from his flat above London's busy Neasden High St. "Yup," concurred Mr. Dass, his voice crackling from the Pifco etheric orgone stimulator.
Since the Shpongle is here to stay, youse bums should have at least one album stacked on th' Dansette o' Delerium that is your brain. This one, Tales Of The Inexpressible, is as good as most and better than some.
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Richard Alpert. His Be Here Now was something of a standard text back when cosmic enlightenment was more of a Thing than kale.
ReplyDeleteHere we all are, with tales of the inexpressible......
ReplyDeleteis your "other" name Shaun Costello then?
Deleteis this why we can't have nice things anymore? Asking for a friend...
ReplyDeleteYou can't have nice things anymore because you've had them all.
DeleteWhen you can't figure out what your real name is...
ReplyDeletehow much enlightenment could you really have for others?
Kwai Chang<------------------------------->Donald Chinn
For many years I thought it was Alan Ginsberg that became Ram Dass!
Wow! How refreshing to have real TimE comments!
DeleteSHHHHH! Don't tell!
Deletetoo late!
DeleteGinzy wasnt ram dass but he did enjoy such!
Delete[rammed ass]
to quote him,
'fast pass
up the ass
down i go
cometh woe'
Just me, then, with a beat-up copy of Be Here Now stuffed into the backpack?
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I didn't own Be Here Now was because of my own confusion about Ram Dass' identity. I always thought Ginsberg resembled a bug. But, I bought a bunch of Leary's books...Politics Of Ecstasy, Neuropolitics, Exopsychology AND The Psychedelic Experience(looking for lyrics to Tomorrow Never Knows). I never read any of them either. Lennon had already ruined it all in the paperback Lennon Remembers(Rolling Stone interviews). "Nobody can tell anybody ANYTHING"!!!
DeleteSo, that's why I never relied on idol worship after that! I'm not anti-anyone...I'm more inclined to rely on my own logic. However, I did like On The Road...but, never considered hitch hiking anywhere!
My beat-up copy of Be Here Now is on the shelf, with the other "ten thousand things" that I cling to (the Tao Te Ching is actually sitting on the counter under the bills having recently pulled it off the shelf). Anyway, maybe adding this Sphongle album will help free me from the need to keep possessing?!? Pretty please?!?
DeleteYou got it, Mr Dave! As soon as I pull this string through my nasal cavities.
DeleteNope, not just you Farq. During the early seventies I was packing one too and it accompanied me on the extended road trip that was my life back then, all over this great land of ours (Canada).
ReplyDeleteIt was one of three for me - along with Norman O. Brown's Love's Body (I still have that copy, much underlined) and The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, a bush which needs a lot of pruning before you can reach the fruit. More recently, my Year Without Keys Or A Phone was accompanied by The Buddha Pocket Reader, the very best digest of his words available, and referred to constantly. Do The Young People have books like this?
DeleteI used to own a book of Lao Tzu proverbs.
DeleteI never knew Buddha wrote books!
Thank you, Farq!
Buddha didn't write books because there were no agents back then. Also, not having a written language didn't help. That's why the Pali scriptures (written a long time after his death) are so repetitive - he spoke to hundreds of monks at a time, repeating stuff over and over, and having them repeat it oer and over, everybody listening to make sure they got it right. So the scriptures are almost unreadable, except to scholars. The oral tradition continues - I can hear the monks at the temple doing their reps.
DeleteI'm with Kwai Chang. I prefer to make my own observations and conclusions. That's not because I consider myself to be smarter than other people but because those who set themselves up (or are set up by others) as sources of guidance seem to be inherently untrustworthy.
ReplyDeleteI find it deeply disturbing that some (many) people are so hungry for received wisdom that they'll believe ANYTHING. This is a major source of human misery.
My strong suspicion is that humans are insufficiently evolved to have useful answers to the questions involved.
How can anyone's truths be MY truths?
ReplyDeleteAnd versa vice!
I tell everyone that I don't need psychedelic drugs to get to the psychedelic level anymore! Once you have been there, do you really need to save the map?
But, nobody believes it. And, so...that's when I realized Lennon was right about the wisdom of the Maharishi! Too much 'Mia'! (I mean 'prudence')
if we are all the Walrus there is only one truth, yes?
DeleteVagabonding In America by Ed Buryn
ReplyDeletewas my inspiration / handbook.
"If hitchhiking, make a readable sign"
is a great tip.
Mine said Harmless / Tennessee
Here's 200% of yez daily recommended intake of aural nutrients, pals!
ReplyDelete(Note: two copies of the same file in loaddown - keep one, give other to your swain, as a token of your troth!)
What an excellent album. Thank you! I've always loved Trance music from the 90s. So relaxing. I do like bands, such as London Elektricity as well. I used to go, regularly to see most of the 60s bands that came to Worthing. Neer did get to see the Stones though. The nearest I got was when they came to Brighton on their first British Tour. I couldn't drum up 8/6d for the ticket as I only received two bob pocket money. Always regretted that, along with the loss of Brian Jones. Who knows what he could have achieved if put in the right company.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. There are many Shpongle albums, but by their nature they can be difficult to judge relatively. This is my "go to" Shpongle.
DeleteWrite us a piece about the Worthing Scene!