Drugs

ACID TEST on Sound City Productions with Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters along with members of the Grateful Dead and others. Ultra rare original copy of drugged out noise experimental psych weirdness housed in paste-on cover with blank back.

From the Acid Archives: “Legendary documentation of the 1965-66 Bay Area Acid Test scene “from 14 hours of the actual trip” (recorded in a studio). Shows the other side of acid culture which is fun, unpredictable and avant garde as opposed to the Leary camp’s solemn religious/ psychological approach. Lots of amazing mind games and word play with Kesey and Ken Babbs in good form, ad libbed poetry, fractured harmonica solos, tape loops and the Grateful Dead lurking in the background. Released in March 1966, just as the Pranksters were splitting for Mexico.”

“Turn On!!”  “Music for the Hip at Heart”  A Xian teen trip.

What a stellar line-up of talent Mike Curb and MGM Records was able to pull together for this early “just say no” type PSA record. Both Arte Johnson and Alan Sues! (Those guys were always wasted!)

LSD on Pixie Records. (1966) Written and narrated by Dr. Timothy Leary, PhD., former Harvard psychologist and Messiah of the LSD cult…” “…in Mexico in 1960, I ate seven of the sacred mushrooms of Mexico and within a half hour was spun into a psychological laboratory two billion years old which laughed at my pretentions at predicted knowledge…”

Teen Challenge “Addicts Choir”  Word Records.

Sharon Tate in “Valley of the Dolls” Scepter Records 45 from Italy.

Word Records presents “The Addicts Sing” (Nine former addicts)

David Peel and the Lower East Side “Have a Marijuana” Recrorded Live on the Streets of New York. 1968.  This is the debut record by New York street musician and John Lennon protege David Peel.  Peel plays guitar and sings (mainly about marijuana), it’s all live.  Fugs parallels are hard to avoid and there is the same type of parody here - “I Like Marijuana” actually got kind of popular - it’s a parody of “I Like Peanut Butter”  “Show Me the Way to Get Stoned” is a killer, nothing bad on here at all, a great piece of underground wildness caught on tape. (Review by Carl Slim)

“…Actual recordings of people under the influence of psychedelic drugs… Psychedelic music…the sounds of the “Acid Test”…LSD users and pushers and the amazing story of LSD in action…Comments by such LSD authorities as Sidney Cohen, M.D., the controversial Dr. Timothy Leary, Mrs. Aldous Huxley and Allen Ginsberg.”

More from the liner notes: At Capitol Records we live in a world of the young - a world of rock n’ roll music, amid the need for a constant awareness of teenage interests of all kinds. We are, therefore, perhaps more aware of, and more sensitive to, the widespread use of LSD among the school age population…”

“Jack Tells It Like It Is About Drugs” (Somehow I don’t think he’s reading Hunter S. Thompson here.  And the guys in the background aren’t having a prayer meeting.)

One of the rarest drug-related records I’ve ever found. “Tripping Out” “Designed to acquaint you with the drug experience without exposing you to it’s dangers” This is from 1970. Each track is a virtual, simulated high of one kind or another. From acid to goofballs to smack and pot. This is a drug education record that tells it like it is man! Straight talk about flipping out. Check out the graphics, illustrations and typography.

Look who’s trippin’!  Mrs. Miller “Does Her Thing.”  Check out the song titles.

Holy shit! “LSD Battle for the Mind”

“Instant Insanity Drugs” Key Records put out many “how to”, “sales’ and “educational” records as well as “warning” records about things like communism and here illigal narcotics. Check out the liner notes before your next trip.

Jimmy “The Funky Tramp” Lynch — “He Do’s It Again”  “Everything he do’s is funky.  Everything he says is funky.  He is just plain funky!”  Check out the jugs of “Black Lightening” and “Liquid Marijuana”!!

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out with Dr. Timothy Leary, the LSD-inspired Harvard professor turned shaman to a generation. This is a Mercury records soundtrack release to an exploitation flick about Leary. One of four or five albums featuring Leary that came out in the sixties.

Disco party freaks chose Bambu. Here’s a great collection of “smokin joints” on the Paul Winley Records label. I have a George Benson record called “Cheeba Cheeba” on Winley. I see a connection.