07-11-2016, 01:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-11-2016, 01:28 PM by Eric the Green.)
A little bit of a preview: LSD may not be for everyone (including me), and Ed Sullivan and the Establishment wanted to suppress it. But it was the catalyst for the late sixties music. This song is the fount of it all. But I'm just posting a commentary for now, because we haven't got to 1966 in our review yet!-- although many of the songs released in 1967 were already there underground in 1966 and not yet released, as the counter-culture quickly came out of the college town houses and into the world of all of us, as Kenneth Clark said about the romantic natural men of the Revolution.
https://youtu.be/-vwfGz75vlU?t=6m45s
LSD was supposed to open our creativity and imagination. And so it did for a while in pop music and psychedelic art. Maybe we could have done so much more with it, were it not for all the suppression and denial. And it opened the way to non-chemical means to enlightenment and the flow of creativity too, which we call the new age. Gen Xers, it's still there. Knock it all you want, but our culture was dead until LSD came along.
https://youtu.be/-vwfGz75vlU?t=6m45s
LSD was supposed to open our creativity and imagination. And so it did for a while in pop music and psychedelic art. Maybe we could have done so much more with it, were it not for all the suppression and denial. And it opened the way to non-chemical means to enlightenment and the flow of creativity too, which we call the new age. Gen Xers, it's still there. Knock it all you want, but our culture was dead until LSD came along.