I will try most anything once… Jeff is becoming quite the cook it would seem. Never dropped Acid (except for the kind that comes in batteries and eats up your jeans) as my mind is already on full-tilt crazy and I don’t need anything to artificially enhance those images in my head. I’d hate to think of the crap that would come out then!
Anyway, it seems in 1957, the year I was born, that the Wassons, a husband and wife team, published an article in Life magazine about their being the first westerners to participate in an indigenous mushroom ceremony in Mexico (no wonder they take so many naps down there). And thanks in part to their discovery, and Albert Hofmann, a Swiss doctor who discovered LSD, folks like Timothy Leary got their start in drug culture history.
And right about now, Bud is feeling very “Comfortably Numb”! Who does not know this is from Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” released in 1979? I have to be in the right mood to listen to “The Wall” and it really needs to be listened to in it’s entirety. Certain tracks can be pulled out, like today’s title, but it’s a great album if taken as a whole. Neither Roger Waters or Pink Floyd have done anything to top this album since as well. Ah, those artistic types and their egos…
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Aaahhhh….’special brownies’. I remember MMs also worked in Spaghetti O’s, too!! Lol.
Yeah, the dreaded M&Ms/SpagettiO’s combo is a direct track to a heroine addiction. Those poor unsuspecting kids…
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Hey, man, pass the brownies from the left-hand side. 🙂
LOL! Yep….
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I saw an interview with George Harrison (1971 Dick Cavett show, I think — it’s on YouTube) where he said that he and John Lennon got dosed with LSD by a dentist who put it in their drinks. They didn’t know what it was at the time. Harrison said it changed you — you only needed to do it once. “So you only did it once?” Cavett asked skeptically. “Oh, I did it lots of times — I only *needed* it once,” Harrison replied.
He may have been “the quiet Beatle” but he could be quite funny when he did decide to talk.
George was/is my favorite Beatle. He was the first to come out with a solid solo album (“All Things Must Pass”) and the only Beatle I ever saw in concert… he was actually my very FIRST rock concert and what a great memory it is!
But George had quite the sense of humor too. Everyone knew John had one as he was very outgoing, but George was extremely witty and even backed Monty Python on a film or two. I read one of George’s early books and it was an excellent read.
Thanks for the YouTube hint, I’ll go take a look a little later on!
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So *that’s* what Bob the Angry Flower was doing back in the ’70s!
LOL! I was only vaguely aware of that comic… something else for me to go check out!
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I think Bob would have been a lot less angry with access to the 1977 gang’s stash.
This.
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Don’t feel bad – I wouldn’t have heard of BtAF if I hadn’t decided to marry a nerd 😛
Oh, Magic Mushrooms…. you, me, Chicago in the mid 90’s…. and a hallucination of God over Lake Michigan. Good times!
LOL! I remember it well… wait, or do I? Hmmmmm…
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I think I’m the only person I know that can listen to The Wall no matter what mood I’m in. Must be the sign of a hardcore Pink Floyd fan. LOL. 😉
LSD and ‘Shrooms can do some friggin crazy things to people. I still remember the time we decided to throw a bucket of water on a guy who was just lying tripped out on a bed. He wasn’t even asleep or anything, but he swore to god afterwards that the wall pissed on him. Ah, the hardcore days of my youth have passed, but the memories are always fresh. 🙂
Yeah, one lead guitarist I always hung with would inhale just about anything and one day, while he was driving us to a gig, he “lost” his legs and pushed the accelerator to the floor. After a few major beatings to the head, I got him in the backseat and the car stopped. Needless to say the gig went on without him… as he never “found” his legs that night. Weird stuff…
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HA HA HA! This one is so classic. sometimes simplicity is your friend ;0)
and well as “special” brownies.
Thanks, Dawn! I got my “story” out of me with the Road Trip, and now I’m back to just the basics… sex, drugs & rock and roll! It was the 70s….
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Great episode there Byron.
I thought “Comfortably Numb” was reserved for Heroin use and its effects. Learn summat every day.
My two absolute favourite LSD cartoons were single panels I found in the NME sometime around 1977/78 (ish). To my eternal shame I cannot remember now who drew them. I know it wasn’t Lowry, who did the “Lone Groover” four panel jobs.
To “get” the first one you’d have to know that the iconic RCA logo (“Nipper”) was associated with the brand “His Master’s Voice” or HMV in the UK. They were a prominent record label amongst other things.
It depicted a guy berating Nipper, an antique gramophone in the background so you’d know who the dog was supposed to be. Where the dog’s head should have been was a panel-filling psychedelic swirl of patterns.
The caption was “Who’s been at his master’s bloody stash then?”
The second showed two soldiers looking at a landscape in which the sky was a similar swirl of patterns. The caption was “It’s a shambles out there sir! Someone dropped LSD in the mud!”.
For years I had these on my wall, but I lost them when I came to the States to live.
I have a friend who was a ‘shroom head back in the day. I remember him freaking out over a pencil that was sitting on my mother’s coffee table. He thought it was talking to him. According to him, it even had a wood-shavings afro. Dyn-o-MITE!