bassbeyondreason
Chtonic Fatigue Syndrome
This got unearthed a few years back (right before Patrick Lundborg died), apparently the earliest recording of musicians on LSD:
Ha haThe Beatles’ press officer Derek Taylor wryly noted that, when the band took LSD, “it was a case of four scousers exploring inner space and just finding more and more scouser down there”
theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/26/the-beatles-singles-ranked
are there any books on music/art/culture in the 60s that anyone itt would recommend? not necessarily on psychedelia, just something in between boomer-targeted rock star biographies and smart person academic stuff. like energy flash but about the 60s. been meaning to ask this for a while.
There's famously an LSD reference in Lewis Carrol. I think Deluezes quotation of it is the only reference to psychedelics in his work.
Les Rallizes Denudes
Psychedelic culture is traced from its beginnings with the hallucinogenic celebrations at Eleusis 2,500 years ago, acknowledging in parallel the ancient shamanic plant drug cultures of South America and Mexico. A permanent alternative spiritual culture of the West is outlined as Lundborg follows the impulse from Eleusis through the Neoplatonism and pantheism of the Middle Ages, the rise of hermeticism and esoteric alchemy during the Renaissance, up to the highly visible psychedelic scenes of the modern world.
and this end of things feels twinned to rallizes. and feeds right into the valentines. who are, again, tonally nothing special, standard 'indie canon comfort food' by this point. but the live experience of Pure Volume in its time and place, in both cases, is what stuck with people.cool stuff, made me think about how creation records tried to redo that sound in the 80s with early pastels, biff bang pop, primal scream, the loft, etc.