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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 27/02/2013 : 03:36:34
Rare footage of 1950s housewife in LSD experiment
Far out...."I am one"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=iGf2loLAwVE&feature=endscreen
The artwork below is actually rather close visually (but nowhere near...if you know what I mean) to a TRIP. Fill your screen with it and stare into the center....
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on.
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| rocker |
Posted - 04/03/2013 : 15:19:53
I believe he's coming along now, right? Have to hand it to him and to keef. These guys know how to hang around. They're an example of not being on that so=called 'Mediterranean diet' and still living!... |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 03/03/2013 : 21:41:04
Neil was in a lot of pain much of his life due to childhood polio and anxiety partly due to epilepsy (also diagnosed as a child). Young was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a child. Poor kid. Neil had a tough go of it for awhile.
Neil Young was diagnosed with epilepsy in his childhood. Young didn't like taking his medication and chose an alternative to treating his condition after making a lifestyle change after the end of the group "Buffalo Springsteen."
[Epilepsy: Canadian singer-songwriter, formerly of bands Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Disliked the effects of his medication; seeking personal stability as an alternative means of control.]
Young says he used to be very anxious. In his early 20s, he would go into a store to buy some food and "couldn't even handle the detail in the hallways, in the aisle ways — all the packages and everything used to just freak me out," he says. Eventually, about halfway through the shopping trip, he would drop everything and need to leave the store.
So the drugs came long after the health issues.
BURNED...about an episode onstage...the band had to carry him off stage.
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| rocker |
Posted - 03/03/2013 : 20:55:45
I'm glad Neil saw the light. And you know I'm wondering if any of his physical troubles was due to you know what. Perhaps it could have been exacerbated. Sure drugs can open you up to all sorts of nirvanas and enunciated Oms but it can f*** w you too...I know some (like us here) who have gone the latter route. |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 02/03/2013 : 18:28:52
Right. Many a stoned trip caused the tripper to believe that he was a genius and soooo original in his creations, while stoned.
But it takes a true talent first and formost...forget the weed.
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| captain america and billy |
Posted - 02/03/2013 : 17:19:07
While it is true that LSD has provided creative impetus for several legitimate great works,it does NOT derive true primal creative inspiration.As well as Lennon,McCartney etc.,Neil Young posssessed significant natural artistic inclinations.Chemicals merely changed point of view.Perfect exapmle:"I Want To Hold Your Hand" in my mind is just as great as say "Lucy In The Sky" but of course the two exist on incongruous plains of persepective. |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 02/03/2013 : 15:39:48
NEIL Young wrote that he was truly afraid that his creative
muse would disappear when he gave up weed (and alcohol) in 2010.
He had never written or performed without a hit he contends.
His doc said quit. He did.
He laid out his plans & set up his equipment at Broken Arrow
Ranch; brought in Crazy Horse to live there for a while, and
crossed his fingers that his muse was NOT dependent on
weed & alcohol.
Neil really was in great doubt...
Then, Neil came up with his longest album to date
(and one of my favorites & that is saying A LOT!)-
-"Psychedelic Pill".
Love the album art & the mirror image treatment for "PILL".
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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 02/03/2013 : 15:33:25
BEATLES-Peppers? Mystery Tour? It's been said that cannabis was a large factor in the creative process.
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| rocker |
Posted - 02/03/2013 : 00:08:01
You know I'd just be curious where those who have succeeded in the music biz put the use of drugs (if they did use them) to their success. |
| captain america and billy |
Posted - 01/03/2013 : 19:28:29
Even someone with as solid as John Lennon underwent seriously drastic and irrevocable changes in ego STRUCTURE.Compare photos of the "Ed Sullivan" Lennon with those of "Hippie Revolutionary" John.And,of course,the music became much more...intriguing... |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 01/03/2013 : 16:56:11
LSD is by nature, uncontrollable.
We need only look at such rock icons that had bad trips and were forever changed. True the mental instability was already there, but the acid took them over the edge. You need a solid trip partner to bring you back from the edge if needed.
e.g. All described as sweet personalities- Skip Spence (Moby Grape), Syd Barrett, Shelagh McDonald...LSD was the trigger that took their lives on a bad trip.
I'm sure there are many more examples. I think only we as individuals can make the judgement--to drop or not to drop. But then if your innate judgement is already impaired...
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| rocker |
Posted - 01/03/2013 : 16:12:52
I still hold firm to the theory held by many that the psycho-tropic substance may be condusive to certain primal psychiatric treatments if administered professionally in proper institutional environments.
That's an interesting point and if I'm not mistaken I don't think those substances have been used to any great effect in the treatment of mental illness. I'm not a chemist but I can only think LSD is not the kind of drug that can be administered as effective treatment for mental pathology. It's "action" if you will mitigates against control. From the looks of it, drugs like that can't act in the way psychiatry wants it to . |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 28/02/2013 : 16:57:00
quote:
Originally posted by captain america and billy
The "Blue Boy" Dragnet was blatant farce.Of course,the entire series was designed to reflect only the values and often intrinsically benign perspectives of the established orders of the time.It was accurate only in illustrating the highly sketchy knowledge of the drug the American society maintained at the time.In other words,it was all just one side of the story.
Dragnet was fun to watch even then. It was a true illustration of one side of the coin from 1968 (not a farce, but rather a somewhat paranoid view of hippies that really did exist then)--and we freaks had fun watching it all, until it all got scary with Nam and the protests and finally Altimont. The Dragnet series showed the straights (short hair & suits)/"Nixon-era" side that saw things through a crooked lens.
We just smiled and took a little trip.
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on.
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| captain america and billy |
Posted - 28/02/2013 : 16:35:19
The "Blue Boy" Dragnet was blatant farce.Of course,the entire series was designed to reflect only the values and often intrinsically benign perspectives of the established orders of the time.It was accurate only in illustrating the highly sketchy knowledge of the drug the American society maintained at the time.In other words,it was all just one side of the story. |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 28/02/2013 : 16:27:24
It is interesting that her description is so right-on to our own experiences...which shows that a TRIP can bridge all generation gaps.
And watching her describe the visuals she experiences--just so true--she sounds just like a hippie ten years on. Impossible to fake and she had no template to imitate; like seeing a kid on a trip in a movie from 1967, or on Dragnet (Blue Boy 1968!) -
-hippie: a creature that wouldn't even exist for another 10 years.
Pretty amazing.
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on.
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| captain america and billy |
Posted - 28/02/2013 : 16:24:03
I still hold firm to the theory held by many that the psycho-tropic substance may be condusive to certain primal psychiatric treatments if administered professionally in proper institutional environments. |
