The 1960s and 1970s: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll! . . . True Chronicles of Life and Living during the Historic Cultural Revolution that Altered Society Forever! Setting history straight for those interested parties of any near or far distant future curious of life in that mystical land of the '60s and '70s.. . . Magick was afoot! . . . Let’s Go Trippin’! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “The Psychedelic Shack is where’s it’s at; it’s always day and night, It’s a portal to other dimensions – it’s outtasight. Here you’ll experience other states of consciousness, and tons of fun, Just remember once your consciousness is raised, it can never be undone.” . . . . . . . . . . . . “00INDIVIDUAL’S PSYCHEDELIC SHACK” copyright 2016 00individual TLL
ELLIS – EL DOOMO– 1972 from the album “Riding on the Crest of a Slump”
Finding this hauntingly cool track on this obscure album by an obscure band (in the U.S.) was a rare, fortuitous and rewarding experience.
What was of interest was the personnel; “Ellis” was vocalist Steve Ellis, Andy Gee former Peter Bardens guitarist, Jim Leverton ex-Fat Mattress bassist, Dave Lutton former Eire Apparent drummer and Zoot Money keyboardist (Peter Green – End of the Game, and an uncredited Peter Green.)
On the track El Doomo Andy Gee’s supernatural guitar and Steve Ellis’ Daltry-esque voice are a sublime duo – and the spare insightful lyrics make for an eargasmic sound experience.
A Soulful Psychedelic Experience: This song triggers feelings that are very reminiscent of the deep planes of an acid trip. There comes a time after all the cosmic fireworks, the extra sensory perception, and the hallucinogenic phenomenon fun when everything turns inward and one finds themselves asking, “is this really me?” and stating, “.. this is really me!
For a tab of good acid (or mind-altering psychedelic of choice) one could gain more insight and understanding about themselves, life, and the universe, than years of therapy could even touch on. Mind-altering drugs are just that, and while tripping life can be viewed through a “macro- microscope of truth” to bring into focus totally heavy realizations which are inescapable – since the acid has stripped the mind’s self-protecting armor of the Illusion of Normality. Songs like El Doomo musically and lyrically resonate with those moments of clarity when one breaks through “normality” to new levels of thought. Levels that were mysterious and unthinkable become common-sense, levels where one sees everyone for who they are, and everything for what it is, levels where one can knowingly question, “This time round is it really me?” And answer, yes, honestly and with conviction, good or bad.
As Terrence McKenna said, “Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”
Fun Note: 00 had, still does have, ahis Teac 2340 4-channel reel to reel tape deck, (rumored to be used by the Beatles for Sgt. Peppers studio recordings, possibly the 10′ reel 3340 model, anyway 00 recorded El Doomo on one track, then a second or so later on the second track, then again a second or so after that on a third track and lastly a second or so later on the fourth track – when played back tEl Doomo, already echoey, swirled around the room and engulfed 00 and audiophile friends into a marvelous continuous sublime echo of eargasmic rock! 00 also did this with other choice songs – fun and cosmically entertaining!
00individual purchased his Teac through Crane’s Records in Inglewood and made a commercial using the deck for a radio spot that played on one of the FM stations.
Check out this gem! it’s the Year Of The Strat! Fender celebrates the 70 year anniversary of The Stratocaster with three solid minutes of visually-sonic entertainment: amazing editing, sound, and performances -nice location too! Enjoy.
Oh, and go full screen and crank it up! It will enhance the “Experience”. you’ll be glad you did. You can thank 00 later,
NO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (A.I.) – ONLY (HUMAN INTELLIGENCE) H.I.) not even spellcheck
A Clockwork Orange is a February 2, 1972 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess‘s 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange with the film soundtrack by Walter/Wendy Carlos.
A Clockwork Orange employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economical subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.
Over five decades later, ACO has arrived on the streets of Britain and in cities all over the world – only without the cool music, directorial creativity, eyelash-pleasing cinematography, and codpieces. Unfortunately, the current insane violence and mayhem of real-life present day is far more sinister and insidious.
Anthony Burgess’ book and Stanley Kubrick’s film are eerily prescient today. Let’s sample a few quotes that derived from the trials and tribulations of the little anti-hero Alex (performed to perfection by the legendary Malcolm McDowell) and his Droogs as they go out for a night about town after a taste of synthemesc for a little bit of the old ultra-violence and in out:
“An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust.”
“When we’re healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea.
“Let us have evil prancing on the page and, up to the very last line, sneering in the face of all the inherited beliefs, Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Holy Roller, about people being able to make themselves better. Such a book would be sensational, and so it is. But I do not think it is a fair picture of human life.
“My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and would do all the veshches I had done, yes perhaps even killing some poor starry forella surrounded with mewing kots and koshkas, and I would not be able to really stop him. And nor would he be able to stop his own son, brothers. And so it would itty on to like the end of the world…
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
“Unfortunately there is so much original sin in us all that we find evil rather attractive. To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.“
“Each man kills the thing he loves“
“But when the social entity grows large, becomes a megalopolis, a state, a federation, then the governing machine grows remote, impersonal, even inhuman. It takes money from us for purposes we do not seem to sanction; it treats us as abstract statistics; it controls an army; it supports a police force whose function does not always appear to be protective.”
“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”
“There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.”
“Well, everything’s a lesson, isn’t it? Learning all the time, as you could say.”
Wendy Carlos With 1968’s groundbreaking and genre creating album, “Switched On Bach”, Walter Carlos was the leader in synthesizer and Moog classical electronica.
Composed by Wendy Carlos (then Walter Carlos) the soundtrack was a huge hit with the Counter-Culture, as was the movie, and the music not only based the film in a alternate reality with the “new” synthesizer sound, but was a thematic extension of Alex’s (and the viewer’s) psychological conditioning.
During the height of Drug experimentation of the early-to-mid-’70s Heads, Rockers, Creatives, Film Nuts, Classical Music Fiends, and the Avant Garde were prime for anything, the weirder, the better. Synthesizers were beginning to become very popular and with the Electronic Wizardry of Wendy Carlos, Isao Tomita, Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, and Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream the beginning of a new era in music began in earnest.
Wendy Carlos
A Clockwork Orange Side One: 1. “Title Music from A Clockwork Orange” (From Henry Purcell’s Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary) Carlos, Rachel Elkind Wendy Carlos[1] 2:21 2. “The Thieving Magpie (Abridged)” Gioachino Rossini A Deutsche Grammophon Recording 5:57 3. “Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)” Carlos, Elkind Wendy Carlos 1:44 4. “Ninth Symphony, Second Movement (Abridged)” Ludwig van Beethoven A Deutsche Grammophon Recording conducted by Ferenc Fricsay 3:48 5. “March from A Clockwork Orange (Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement, Abridged)” Beethoven, arr. Carlos Friedrich Schiller (lyric) Wendy Carlos (Articulations: Rachel Elkind) 7:00 6. “William Tell Overture (Abridged)” Rossini Wendy Carlos 1:17 Side Two: 7. “Pomp and Circumstance March No. I” Edward Elgar (not credited) 4:28 8. “Pomp and Circumstance March No. IV (Abridged)” Edward Elgar (not credited) 1:33 9. “Timesteps (Excerpt)” Carlos Wendy Carlos 4:13 10. “Overture to the Sun” (rerecorded instrumental from Sound of Sunforest, 1969) Tucker Terry Tucker 1:40 11. “I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper” (rerecorded song from Sound of Sunforest, 1969; film version differs from soundtrack version) Eigen Erika Eigen 1:00 12. “William Tell Overture (Abridged)” Rossini A Deutsche Grammophon Recording 2:58 13. “Suicide Scherzo (Ninth Symphony, Second Movement, Abridged)” Beethoven, arr. Carlos Wendy Carlos 3:07 14. “Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement (Abridged)” Ludwig van Beethoven A Deutsche Grammophon Recording (Karajan, 1963, uncredited) 1:34 15. “Singin’ in the Rain” lyrics by Arthur Freed, music by Nacio Herb Brown Gene Kelly 2:36
A Clockwork Orange and Ziggy Stardust The music and film had a cultural impact to the point that David Bowie adopted the film’s aura with lyrics on his “Alladin Sane” album’s Sufferagette City track with, “Hey Droogie don’t crash here, . . .” and used the Pomp and Circumstance from the soundtrack to open his 1975 Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Farewell Tour Concert. 00individual speaks Tribal Truth, he was there: DAVID BOWIE ZIGGY STARDUST and the Spiders from Mars (Farewell Tour – Aladdin Sane Tour) Hollywood Palladium 3-12-73
Stanley Kubrick A Rock Star in his field, Stanley Kubrick filmed ACO with equal bravado and operatic depiction of violence as Sam Peckinpah did when he made history with the 1969 classic “The Wild Bunch”; ACO was the perfect ambient portrayal of Drug-fueled Degeneracy in a sardonic near-future music-filled horrorshow environment.
Kubrick knew how to create worlds filled with awe and mystery, sex and violence, beauty and beasts – one of the top historic auteurs of the film industry. Kubrick was a God.
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Alex picking up two Devotchkas in a record store.
Stanley Kubrick vs Pink Floyd Stanley Kubrick asked Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters if he could use elements of the Atom Heart Mother suite in ACO. Waters refused when he found that Kubrick wanted the freedom to cut up the piece to fit the film. Sometime later, Waters asked Kubrick if he could use sounds from 2001: A Space Odyssey; Kubrick duly refused.
Alex picking up two Devotchkas in a record store.
The “Atom Heart Mother” album can be seen during the scene in the record store on the top shelf in the back to the right. The soundtrack to “2001: A Space Odyssey” is in the front of the plexi-bin bottom center.
Bottom Line:. “Yes, sir! That’s exactly who I am and what I am, sir. A victim, sir!”
00 was up on Melrose in the world famous Golden Apple Comic book/collectible store, and while browsing, the record Screamadelica was playing. He asked who the band was, and was so enraptured with the music of the band, Primal Scream, that he then went straight out across the street to an independent record store and bought the CD. The impact on 00 was immediate and he was not alone – see Legacy, below.
This 1991 album release was drenched in the ’60’s and ’70’s groove and had an exceptional druggy vibe with a tantalizing step forward through the ’80s and into the ’90’s with a dedicated underlying “hippie” mood.
“Higher than the Sun (A Dub Symphony in Two Parts)”
Andrew WeatherallHugo Nicolson
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“Shine Like Stars”
Andrew WeatherallHugo Nicolson
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Screamadelica’s Legacy It was Melody Maker‘s album of the year in 1991.[It was also Select‘s album of the year in 1991, while NME placed it at no. 3 in its “Best Albums of 1991” list. The album won the first Mercury Music Prize in 1992. In 1996, Select named it as the number 1 album of the 1990s. In 2000, Q placed the album at number 18 on their list of the “100 Greatest British Albums.” In 2001, Q placed it at number 81 on a list of the “Top 100 Albums of All Time.” The album ranked number 2 in Q’s “Best 50 Albums of Q’s Lifetime” list. In 2003, NME placed it at no. 23 in its “100 Best Albums Ever” list. In 2003, Pitchfork placed it at number 77 in a list of the “Top 100 Albums of the ’90s. Also in 2003, the album topped The Scotsman‘s list of 100 Best Scottish Albums. In 2006, the magazine also placed it at no. 15 in its “Greatest British Albums Ever” list. It appeared in Channel 4’s list of the “100 Greatest Albums of All Time.” In a 2009 review, the BBC hailed the album as “a solid gold classic.”NME also named it the “Druggiest Album Ever” in 2011. It was ranked number 437 in the 2020 revised edition of Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and No. 1 on BrooklynVegan‘s ” Creation Records’ 21 Best Records”
Fender 30th Anniversary Screamadelica Stratocaster Solid Body Electric Guitar.
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WARNING! The following is Primal Sream’s visceral sonic equivalent of the 1971 existential movie “Vanishing Point”
KOWALSKI Radio DJ: Super Soul – Cleavon “Blazing Saddles” Little
CRANK IT UP TO 11! Especially on earphones! Zowie! You will be glad you did – you can thank 00 later.
Among the many benefits 00individual experienced during the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s and beyond was to grow up with Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and Snoopy, and all of the Peanuts Gang of endearing characters created by Charles M. Schulz’ in his globally-loved phenomenally-successful “Peanuts” comic strip.
At the height of Peanuts’ popularity in the ’60s, as a then aspiring artist / cartoonist, 00individual’s appreciation of the strip transcended from the public’s universal appreciation of Snoopy’s adventures and the spirit that he represented, Charlie Brown’s attempts at fighting the good fight only to see that “no good deed goes unpunished”, Linus’ introspection of the world and life, and Lucy’s independent fussbudget personality. 00individual’s transcendent appreciation took on an almost reverence toward the Peanuts Gang. He saw that while speaking about the times Schulz never was political or outspoken, however, he got many a point across through the simplest words and images that rang true to the hearts and minds of millions. These simple words and images are actually at the Jackson Pollack level in that every ink line and word is purposeful, in Schulz’ case, it was the exquisite art of economy.
Take a look at Linus in the first quarter panel below – he is perfect, every casual inked line is perfect, he is effortlessly walking, his exaggerated proportions are of a child, but an aware child, a child beyond his years. In the fourth quarter panel his head tilts down just enough to indicate thought of what was said.
Even though the Peanuts Gang are perpetually in Elementary School, their thoughts and ideas and adventures evoke the wisdom of the ages portrayed in the magical world of childhood.
“That Point When One Has Had Enough Of The Lies”
00individal collected all of the ’50’s and ’60’s paperback books of collected strips as they were released and read them over and over, and there was one six panel series that always stuck with him. It depicts the breaking point when the lies are just too much too ignore – lies that eventually make one sick – lies that eventually reveal the truth.
That breaking point was so clever and humorous in the way that it revealed and showed the propaganda used by so many people, groups, beliefs, parties, institutions, and governments that one deals with throughout one’s life that 00individual felt compelled to share this timely, and timeless, wit, wisdom, and talent of Charles M. Schulz.
It shouldn’t take long to connect the dots – unfortunately there are so many dots to connect that it can become overwhelming. So before letting the insanity get to you remember that good ol’ saying:
“Life is a Comedy to those who Think, a Tragedy to those who Feel.”
. . . and an entertaining intelligent emotional Trip to those who do both.
WRITTEN BY 00 NO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (A.I.) not even spellcheck ONLY (HUMAN INTELLIGENCE) H.I.)
Back in the ’60s and the ’70s, the attitude of the free minds of the counter-culture toward drugs was of experimentation and then understanding.
The everyday mind-set was one of adventure, knowing that the slightest happening would be something much more after a morning bowl.
The dangers of drugs, while true to a certain extent, have been reported ad nauseum, so 00 will instead examine the other side of the coin, the side that can only be related by a ’60’s and ’70s ranking member of REPHR.
The Tribe, those individuals who gladly embraced the historic and extremely rare powerful vibe of the ’60s and the ’70s, is thinning out, and as humans, will eventually transcend.
So, time is of the essence as there are many special subjects to relate for whatever future that lies ahead, many historical subjects have been explored right here on 00’s site, but for now let’s not dwell on the negative side of the drug coin: Tails, no, this is from the positive side of the drug coin: Heads – how convenient, and appropriate.
Heads that survived the many-faceted drug experience knew that the establishment’s hype of the dangers of drugs were not so, when after an indulgence of any psychedelic or mind-altering drug was experienced everything seemed clearer, lies were easy to spot, and new concepts were welcomed into the mind that had no place to go before the “Doors of Perception” were opened.
When the anti-drug so-called experts, who had not experienced the effects of drugs became the “experts”, was when the Counter-Culture and other free-thinkers realized that they themselves had more expert information and data and personal experience and therefore they were the experts, the pundits became a joke.
So, the Counter-Culture had the personal and cultural knowledge that the etablishment had yet to get a clue – “You can tell if Marijuana is in use because it smells like burning rope.” That right there is why for a few years, Heads, smart ones, were way ahead of the Law in knowledge and awareness.
It’s fascinating now when 00 looks back, that a unique bond, near telepathic, between members of the Tribe existed for real. For Heads there was an understanding and social link on a level that could only be achieved at a time when many like minds were attuned.
And to quote Hunter S. Thompson: “There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.… And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.… So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
So now, here are THE TOP CLASSIC FUN DRUGS OF THE ’70s!
“00 smoking O – ’70s”
OPIUM Opium was a rarity among all dealers as most Opium was processed into the much less bulky and more potent and profitable Heroin and thus a more valuable commodity. So, Opium, at least in 00individual’s Tribal gatherings was rare, and in most cases reserved for special occasions.
Here’s what 00individual remembers from smoking Opium: A typical hit can be as lung-expanding as high-grade Hashish, so he took long controlled inhalations that matched the bubbling Tar Opium in the bowl of a long-stemmed pipe. He then held his hit as long as possible to allow its essence to seep into his brain. As he slowly exhaled the bluish-tinged billowed wisps of smoke he simultaneously French-inhaled to retain the dank, rich taste of the dense, ancient, knowing. At his point he felt that his brain could taste the Opium. Then a radiating sensation throughout his body soothed his soul and a dreamy sense of peace and love emanated from him into the surrounding environment.
And people wonder why people use drugs.
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“Rendition of 1970s Thai Stick with three strains rolled in hash oil tied with hemp.”
Coming off the after-effects of the first night’s powerful hit of either White Lightning or Windowpane acid – it only took a few hits of dank Thai Stick to act as a catalyst to re-engage any psychedelic residue and transform it into high-intensity cannabis motivation. 00individual was psyched for another night of the Best Rock Ever: Pink Floyd. Historic! 00individual has been very fortunate throughout his life to have been provided with the ability to actually become heavilymotivated from the assist of cannabis. Right On!
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ANGEL DUST / PCP This was a big hit for most of 1970. In fact, for 00 and his friends ’70 was the Summer of PCP. This was not your superhuman maniac PCP that was seen and publicised later, no, this was the original “good stuff” utterly peaceful – the “Rocket Fuel” strain came later and that was it for 00. But the early original strain was great fun; goofy, spacey, tactile-intensive, sensory-distorting, time-warping, laughter-causing, life in a cartoon world mind-bender.
Here’s a true life 00 experience – told in first person: It all started in the late spring of 1970 when I received a phone call from a fellow dope fiend. He said I needed to come over to Doctor Dean’s pad as he had some Pretty Cool Pot. Being that this was during the ever-evolving very fun period of drug experimentation, he needed say no more, I was there!
Once I arrived I went to the back room where I came upon a half dozen known fiends and was immediately offered a toke of a joint that was being passed around. I took a long slow drag of the strangely-tasting herb and inhaled deeply and before I finished passing the joint I was beginning to feel its effects. I was slowly melding with the piano bench I was sitting on as it began to move up the side of the room’s wall. By the time the joint came back around to me I was half way up the side of the wall! This was too cool! I took another hit and a peaceful feeling of pure ambivalence overtook me, someone could have come over to me and asked for my wallet and I would have happily obliged, but I was in full control – other than being part of a wooden bench that was attached halfway up the side of the wall. After some mutual giggling with the other fiends I somehow detached myself, then Doctor Dean told me he was going to Hawaii in a few days and wanted to know if I wanted to purchase some of his PCP stash, I said yes and thus began the beginning of a very memorable psychedelic spring and summer. If interested the story contines in: EXPERIENCE TRUE PSYCHEDELIC TRIPS! MIND-BLOWER #1 – SUMMER 1970 PRETTY COOL POT
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HASHISH / HASH OIL Always welcomed! Although a bit pricey for the average Hippie, these potent varieties of Hashish became available; Red or Blonde Lebanese, Afghani, Nepalese, and the smuggled-in from Hawaii righteous Primo Abdhouli #1.
Here’s a true life 00 experience: . . . then for a few nights straight at the Topside Room (00’s above garages pad), Krik, King of the Turn Ons and always generous with his stash, kept a small circle of friends pretty hallucinogenic. 00individual remembers vividly on one night when everyone was sitting on the floor and after several rounds of tokes it felt and looked like the whole room moved and slanted to the point that everyone would slide out through the doorway – and into The Void! The floor leveled out and everyone were saved from slipping into another dimension.
After a couple nights of ritualistic smoking of this mind-bending Hashish 00individual became a somewhat out-of-body numbed artist at work. One day in the middle of the ongoing while-at-work cosmic hashish high hangover, 00individual got up from his drawing table to go use the darkroom and unknowingly jammed a #11 x-acto blade – that was situated at the edge of the table – right through his jeans and into his leg. It was only when the handle hit the doorway as 00individual walked through did he utter, OW! There stuck in his front mid-thigh was the blade handle surrounded by blood-soaked jean.
In some weird altered state 00individual attributed this incident to Abdhouli and thought that maybe he should stop the Hashish consumption and he did, for one night. And this abstinence made him realize something else – what was he thinking? This was Primo Abdouli #1 Hash! He hasn’t had any since! He was an unenlightened dope to skip a night. This temporary lapse of reason never happened again, 00individual’s new motto was: “Take an x-acto blade, but don’t take away a High.”
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MARIJUANA / CANNABIS One of the main accusations against Marijuana use was that it was a “gateway drug”. That’s the first offense, Marijuana is not a drug, it is a plant that grows unattended in nature. The Second offense is that they say that it is a gateway drug – like it’s a bad thing. Marijuana is not like it is now, back then it was a mysterious element that was forbidden, taboo, something that very few had experienced. And those who did, were privilaged to know things that the rest of society did not.
Sure, Marijuana was great fun, silly sometimes even, but there was the cerebral aspect, a since of knowing, a sense of an awareness that was not there before. Marijuana broke down the ego, and revealed truths about oneself, as well as the real world.
Some of the high grade strains were: Maui Wowie, Acapulco Gold, Colombian Gold, Panama Red, Afghani, and the ever popular Mexican Dirt Weed – seeds, stems and all.
KIF The trichome of Marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry Marijuana, is high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds. Purchased in small vials, Kif was a treat and rarely available. Smoked straight like hashish or sprinkled on a bowl or dusted within a rolled joint, Kif was a tasty immediate high.
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THC Unlike Reds of various types (Lily F40s!) and Speed (Bennies!) which were always available, THC: TetraHydroCannabinol, the active ingredient in Cannabis and one of the oldest hallucinogenic drugs known, was fairly hard to come by and was in the form of a decent-sized brown barrel-shaped tablet. Rare, but really good stuff!
ANIMAL TRANQUILIZERS / ELEPHANT TRANQUILIZERS These were very similar in shape, size, and color as THC barrels and therefore were sometimes passed off as THC. The distinction was that with THC there is the hallucinogenic factor, with Elephant Tranqs it’s mostly physical – here’s a true life 00 experience: A dealer 00 knew was working a coping saw on what looked like a huge cheese wheel, but it was a nice rich deep tan color, the same color as the hash he was smoking with another friend. This wheel was at least three inches thick in height and about six inches in diameter. As the thin blade was cutting through the hash, fine crumbles gathered at the base and Mike got up and scooped them into the bowl so we could fire up some more After another hit Mike gave me a short tubular brown “barrel” pill that was supposed to be THC. A few minutes later 00 attempted to get up off the couch when it felt like there were lead weights in his arms, butt, and legs – he couldn’t get up – he literally could not move his muscles. Mike just laughed as he realized that it wasn’t a barrel of THC that he had given him but an elephant tranquilizer! He wasn’t falsely dosin’ – he had some of both and they looked similar. So 00 just sat back, as he had no other choice, and let the psychedelic wave of righteous hash swirl around the room in an out of body experience with the sounds of cool jazz absorbing and passing through his tranquil body and mind as he explored the heavens. He enjoyed this altered-state until a while later when he was able to become ambulatory. Groovy!
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MESCALINE Mescaline was a nice alternative to a full-blown LSD trip. Some may disagree, but because of the inherent spiritual vibe, Mescaline seemed to be a kinder, gentler psychedelic trip. But know this, Mescaline is a world-class hallucinogen and time-distorter – trippy events seem to occur on psychedelics – like attracts like – just ask Alice and Dorothy.
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PSILOCYBIN A little less common than Mescaline to come by, this naturally occurring psychedelic is produced by more than 200 species of mushrooms. Human usage of psilocybin mushrooms predates recorded history. Back in the ’70s Psilocybin was commonly taken in tabs or capped gels/pills. Among 00’s fellow psychedelic adventurers Psilocybin was known as the Psychic Energizer, here’s why; 00 and three psychonauts entered Big Basin Redwood State Park and continued their “Hobo Hotel” accommodations with some more friends they knew in the town of Ben Lomond. After fun greets of shared music and fine weed, their Brothers suggested they go hiking up a secret deep-forest ravine where they could find old relics like hand-made nails from an old logging mill area and if they ventured further up the ravine they could enter a fantastic “Hobbitland” with massive overgrown vegetation and trees – they would know it once they reached the “hole in the ceiling”.
As they got higher up the ravine – they got higher. Even though they had energy to spare, they would take “psychic breaks” and enjoy another small dose of the Psychic Energizer.
At some point on the trip, even though 00individual knew the whole environment around him was alive, he soon became aware of its intelligence and it was as if he was surrounded by a sentient web of vegetation and felt not as the alien but as a symbiotic member of their world. He felt accepted. Was this due to a hyper-sensitivity in the plant world to recognize the “mushroom” in his system?
Was he registering enough symbiotic plant life to receive the “love” of the entire plant world that surrounded him?
The further they went up the ravine the more lush and seemingly larger the vegetation became – until they could sit on the huge moss-covered tree trunk roots as if they were big velvet sofas, wait, they were big velvet sofas! Then as 00 looked around, everything became vibrant, detailed and the greens of the forest were so green they were almost blue and it was like they were in a cathedral with the towering trees supporting a forest ceiling. And then they realized that the trees had given way to a huge semi-circular stone mountain cave opening and just then they all saw it, the “hole in the ceiling” – they had arrived at the entrance to Hobbitland!
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PEYOTE / MAGIC MUSHROOMS Another somewhat rare psychedelic, these were not readily available and therefore like Thai Sticks, Peyote buttons and mushrooms were considered for special times like concerts, forest explorations, or really anytime, as the organic high could become a trip unto itself. Wildly hallucinogenic and fun but came with the more than likely not so pleasant side efffect of the urge to vomit.
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LSD By the early ’70s the Tribe had survived and enjoyed all of the rides at Drug World they experienced the ups and downs of Pharmaceutical Land, happily smoked Marijuana, Hashish, PCP and Opium on the Stoned Mountain Islands, ventured into the colorful forests and jungles of Entheogenic Land while tripping on Mescaline, Peyote and Psilocybin and then explored the empowering and stimulating thrills of Cocaine and the warm embryonic hip coolness of Heroin in Extreme Land – but it was LSD Land that had the scariest and most fun rides in the Park!
Here’s a quote about LSD from Albert Hofmann, the Father of LSD, from his speech on his100th birthday: “It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation. […] I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.”
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COCAINE Cocaine was Drug World’s “King of the ’70’s”. It was the first drug besides Marijuana to be embraced beyond the counter-culture. It’s popularity was insane, everyone did Coke – it became a staple across the board. While not cheap, cocaine really took off and the hedonistic Disco scene contributed greatly to its popularity and proliference across society to the point of Coke being trivialized as nothing more than “nose candy”. Cocaine gave one a very uplifting sense of super exhilerating well-being – very addicting tho’.
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HEROIN If LSD was the scariest and most fun rides in the Park, and Cocaine was Drug World’s “King of the ’70’s”, then Heroin was the icing on the Drug Cake.
Coming off the early-to-mid ’70s Cocaine Fun, 00’s Tribe had been doing Heroin for the past couple years, but they were responsible low-level non-shooting fully-functioning Psychonauts and just dug the whole inner warm and outer cool vibe. Heroin proved to be the last entree on the Drug World Menu and contributed to the fact they had pretty much gone through everything on the Menu – many times. And rode all the rides at Drug World.
Regrettably, the thrill was gone for 00individual and Tribes across the Nations, not because of drugs, they were just the joyous vehicles they rode to get to this point, it was the daily disappearance of their world, a magickal place they loved to live in, a place where extraordinary events were experienced on a daily basis, a place that no matter where they were, it was home.
00individual turned on the car radio the other day and heard the end of Grand Funk Railroad’s I’m Your Captain (Closer To Home) with the chorus, “I’m getting closer to my home.” And suddenly the whole feeling of the Vibe was right there in those words. That’s what the ‘60s and the ‘70s felt like, everyday felt like getting closer to home – it was a good feeling – still is.
Well, that about does it for the Fun Drugs of the ’70s.
Historically, by the ’70s end, many of these fun drugs just disappeared from the drug marketplace. It was due to a gradual societal shift away from cultural experimentation, and mainly because of economics; drugs that produced a much higher profit dominated; Meth, Cocaine, and Heroin proved that there was no room for efforts in ancillary productions such as PCP, Thai Sticks, Kif, Hashish (Hash and Oil available now at dispensaries), THC, and Opium. Psychedelics took a hit, but are still available, but never again to reach the epic historical heights of the ’70s.
Those who lived the drug culture, to any degree, had their mind and soul altered to revelations that contributed truly greatly to society’s benefit and their own
As Terrence McKenna said, “Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.” This is so true, for once one experiences the psychedelic world, even through Marijuana, the ego is let go.
“Once your consciousness is raised, it can never be lowered.” – Cereal Boxtop
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00individual sends y’all a rainbow volley of Psychedelic Spirituality.
00 outside the courthouse of the double murder Trial of the Century
It was 1994, the double murder Trial of the Century was going on in Downtown L.A.. No matter your personal thoughts, O.J. Simpson and Bart Simpson were characters of interest. Never to let an opportunity slip by, 00 sculpted, molded, cast, and painted built-up mash-ups of “The Simpson” figures for sale – and eventually sold one to Matt Groening.
Mixed in with the “gauntlet” of cameras and reporters from TV shows like Inside Edition and A Current Affair, and all of the alphabet channels waiting to get shots of the main players, 00 set up shop. Sold about two a day at $65- each, and was quickly video interviewed by a couple local channels on their downtime for filler. Never got rousted like everyone else selling merch up on the street.
If you really want to know why O.J. Is Guilty But Not of Murder – read William C. Dear’s book. While the LAPD, lazily thought they had their killer, they were dead wrong, William Dear, one of the top five investigators in the world and noted as the Sherlock Holmes of the U.S., did the real work; the work the LAPD should have done. 00 told a staunch “O.J. did it” friend to read the book and after he did he said, “I didn’t know” – and unless you were there when it happened then you cannot know either – unless of course, you were an eyewitness and as such, an accessory to the murders.
Important Note: Written with H.I. (Human Intelligence) No A.I. (Artificial IIntelligence) used. Not even spell check.
1970’s PROGRESSIVE ROCK BANDS – BY YEAR – 1970-1979!
The Usual Suspects: King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Neu, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Gentle Giant, Can, Gong, Hawkwind, Popol Vuh, Curved Air, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Electric Light Orchestra, Brian Eno, The Nice, The Moody Blues, Amon Duul II, Utopia, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Nektar, Tangerine Dream, Eloy, Vangelis, Ash Ra Tempel, Khan, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Michael Oldfield, Cosmic Couriers, Kraftwerk, Camel, Bo Hanson, Aphrodite’s Child, Sensations Fix, – and even Jethro Tull are all considered Progressive Rock.
Adaptations of Classical pieces first appeared prominently in Broadway shows, movies, Pop songs and then finally in the Rock World serving as a musical genre-defining category; Progressive. Where some bands literally adapted or interpreted Rock versions of classical themes, passages or entire pieces; others used the classical structure and orchestral techniques to create a progressive way of approaching Rock.
Progressive Rock soon evolved and eclipsed the Classical base and transcended to an open genre that included bands whose music couldn’t fall into any other categories but exhibited the flair for intricately-arranged compositions, vocal styles and musicianship, and thus became Progressive.
Prog Rock musician requirements were self-evident – creative and accomplished musicians need only apply. And to showcase complex compositions and intricate musicianship, many songs were lengthy, therefore it was not uncommon that the result was a whole side, or even both sides of an album devoted to one track, or concept.
While 00individual is very familiar with many on this list, especially from the first half of the decade, there are also many he has never heard of, but more than likely because they were regional-only releases that never made it to the U.S. on radio, vinyl or otherwise. If it wasn’t for Tower Records on the Sunset Strip, Moby Disc out in the Valley, and a few other independents . . . well, let’s perish the thought . . . as most record stores didn’t carry imports.
A cursory run through the years shows the absolute dominance of England and the U.K. as the main source of Progressive Rock. Italy, France, Germany and other Euro nation artists were also great creative contributors, and it seems proper that it is so; the Old World feel of Classical Music as a spiritual guide for modern day descendants gave a righteous authenticity to the whole genre.
It was a great era for music exploration and Progressive Rock was one of the best examples. So, here is a fairly concise, but condensed, 1970’s year-by-year decade’s worth of releases by Progressive Rock Bands – and who better than to start off the 1970’s decade than with the band whose name is Progressive; The Mothers of Invention!
1970 9 Feb 1970 The Mothers of Invention Burnt Weeny Sandwich US 1970 Feb Van der Graaf Generator The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other UK 13 March 1970 Egg Egg United Kingdom 15 May 1970 King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon United Kingdom 6 June 1970 Soft Machine Third United Kingdom 1970 June The Nice Five Bridges England 1970 Jund Yes Time and a Word United Kingdom 10 Aug 1970 Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh US 4 September 1970 Caravan If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You UK 10 October 1970 Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother United Kingdom 23 October 1970 Genesis Trespass United Kingdom 23 October 1970 Frank Zappa Chunga’s Revenge US 1970 Nov Curved Air Air-conditioning United Kingdom 20 Nov 1970 Emerson, Lake & Palmer EL&P England 27 November 1970 Gentle Giant Gentle Giant United Kingdom 1970 Dec Van der Graaf Generator H to He, Who Am the Only 1 UK 11 December 1970 King Crimson Lizard United Kingdom 1970 Amon Düül II Yeti Germany 1970 Bo Hansson Sagan Om Ringen (LOTR) Sweden 1970 Beggars Opera Act One United Kingdom 1970 Focus Focus Plays Focus (In and Out of Focus) Netherlands 1970 Magma Magma France 1970 Rare Bird As Your Mind Flies By United Kingdom
1971 19 February 1971 Yes The Yes Album England 1971 Feb Soft Machine Fourth England 1971 March Amon Düül II Tanz der Lemminge Germany 8 April 1971 Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink England 2 August 1971 The Mothers Fillmore East – June 1971 US 14 June 1971 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tarkus England 16 July 1971 Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste England 4 October 1971 Frank Zappa 200 Motels US 8 October 1971 Hawkwind In Search of Space England 30 October 1971 Pink Floyd Meddle England 1971 Oct Focus Focus II (aka Moving Waves) Netherlands 1971 Oct Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts England October 1971 Gong Camembert Electrique England/France 12 November 1971 Genesis Nursery Cryme England 26 November 1971 Yes Fragile England 1971 Dec Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orch UK 1971 Dec King Crimson Islands England 1971 Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel Germany 1971 Beggars Opera Waters of Change England 1971 Can Tago Mago Germany 1971 Egg The Polite Force United Kingdom 1971 Faust Faust Germany 1971 Mort Garson Black Mass/Lucifer Canada 1971 Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come Galactic Zoo Dossier Eng 1971 McDonald and Giles McDonald and Giles England
1972 1972 Jan Premiata Forneria Marconi Storia di un minuto Italy 1972 Feb Strawbs Grave New World England 18 Feb 1972 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band MMEB UK 10 March 1972 Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick England 14 April 1972 Gentle Giant Three Friends England 19 May 1972 Caravan Waterloo Lily England 3 June 1972 Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds England 23 June 1972 Jethro Tull Living in the Past England 5 July 1972 Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka US 6 July 1972 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Trilogy England 13 September 1972 Yes Close to the Edge England 1972 Sep Bo Hansson Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings US 6 October 1972 Genesis Foxtrot England 1972 August Tangerine Dream Zeit Germany 29 Sept 1972 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Glorified Magnified UK 1972 Nov Emerson, Lake & Palmer Pictures at an Exhibition Eng 1972 Nov Hawkwind Doremi Fasol Latido England 1972 Nov Premiata Forneria Marconi Per un amico Italy 1 December 1972 Gentle Giant Octopus England 1972 Dec Electric Light Orchestra No Answer US 1972 Dec The Mothers The Grand Wazoo US 1972 Ash Ra Tempel Schwingungen Germany 1972 Beggars Opera Pathfinder England 1972 Ash Ra Tempel 7 Up Germany 1972 Brainbox Parts Netherlands 1972 Can Ege Bamyasi Germany1972 Focus Focus 3 Netherlands 1972 Khan Space Shanty England 1972 Pekka Pohjola Pihkasilmä Kaarnakorva Finland 1972 Renaissance Prologue England
1973 1 January 1973 Rick Wakeman The Six Wives of Henry VIII Eng 1973 Feb Camel Camel England 1973 Feb Electric Light Orchestra ELO 2 (UK)/ELO II (US) 10 March 1973 Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon England 23 March 1973 King Crimson Larks’ Tongues in Aspic England 11 May 1973 Hawkwind Space Ritual England 18 May 1973 Yes Yessongs England 25 May 1973 Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells England 6 July 1973 Jethro Tull A Passion Play England 27 July 1973 Genesis Genesis Live England 1973 Aug Henry Cow The Henry Cow Legend England 7 Sept 1973 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Over-Nite Sensation US 1973 Sep Gentle Giant In a Glass House England 10 October 1973 Renaissance Ashes Are Burning England 12 October 1973 Genesis Selling England by the Pound England 1973 Oct Prematia Forneria Marconi Photos of Ghosts Italy 1973 Oct Caravan For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night Eng 1973 Nov Brian Eno & Robert Fripp No Pussyfooting England 1973 Nov Brian Eno Here Come The Warm Jets England 1973 Nov Electric Light Orchestra On The Third Day England 19 Nov 1973 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Brain Salad Surgery Eng 30 Nov 1973 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Solar Fire UK 1973 Nov Nektar Remember the Future England 14 December 1973 Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans England 1973 Beggars Opera Get Your Dog Off Me! England 1973 Eloy Inside Germany 1973 Embryo Steig Aus Germany 1973 Flash Out of our Hands England 1973 Gong Angel’s Egg Various 1973 Greenslade Greenslade England 1973 Magma Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh France 1973 Ravi Shankar Transmigration Macabre UK 1973 Cyrille Verdeaux Clearlight Symphony France
1974 20 February 1974 Tangerine Dream Phaedra Germany 1974 Feb Hatfield & the North Hatfield & the North England 1 March 1974 Camel Mirage England 8 March 1974 Queen Queen II England 1974 Mar Kansas Kansas US 1974 Mar Refugee Refugee England 29 March 1974 King Crimson Starless and Bible Black England 1974 Mar Rush Rush Canada 19 April 1974 Caravan Caravan and the New Symphonia England 22 April 1974 Frank Zappa Apostrophe (‘) US 1974 Apr Focus Hamburger Concerto Netherlands 1974 May Henry Cow Unrest England 1974 May Rick Wakeman Journey to the Center of the Earth Eng 26 July 1974 Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom England 28 August 1974 Mike Oldfield Hergest Ridge England 10 Sept 1974 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Roxy & Elsewhere US 20 Sept 1974 Gentle Giant The Power and the Glory England 1974 Sep Electric Light Orchestra Eldorado (A Symphony) Eng 1974 Sep Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain Grill England 1974 Sep Supertramp Crime of the Century England 1974 Sep Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Utopia US 11 October 1974 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Good Earth UK 14 October 1974 Jethro Tull Warchild England 1974 Oct Fred Frith Guitar Solos England 8 Nov 1974 Queen Sheer Heart Attack England 18 Nov 1974 Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Eng 1974 Nov King Crimson Red England Nov 1974 Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy Eng 1974 Nov Kraftwerk Autobahn Germany 13 December 1974 Yes Relayer England 1974 Acqua Fragile Mass Media Stars Italy 1974 Alusa Fallax Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione Italy 1974 Ange Au-delà du délire France 1974 Area Caution Radiation Area Italy 1974 Arti + Mestieri Tilt Italy 1974 Badger White Lady England 1974 Beggars Opera Sagitarry England 1974 Biglietto per l’Inferno Biglietto per l’Inferno Italy 1974 Cluster Zuckerzeit Germany 1974 The Cosmic Jokers Galactic Supermarket Germany 1974 DAG Sećanja Yugoslavia 1974 Dah Veliki cirkus Yugoslavia 1974 Delirium III Italy 1974 Edgar Allan Poe Generazioni – Una storia di sempre Italy 1974 Gong You Various 1974 Gryphon Red Queen to Gryphon Three England 1974 Kayak Kayak II Netherlands 1974 Magma Kohntarkosz France 1974 Korni Grupa Not an Ordinary Life Yugoslavia 1974 Le Orme Contrappunti Italy 1974 Los Canarios Ciclos Spain 1974 Los Jaivas/Manduka Los Sueños De América Chile 1974 Metamorfosi Inferno Italy 1974 Pekka Pohjola Harakka Bialoipokku (B The Magpie) Finland 1974 Porodična Manufaktura Crnog Hleba Stvaranaje Yugoslavia 1974 Premiata Forneria Marconi L’isola di niente Italy 1974 Renaissance Turn of the Cards England 1974 Saint Just La casa del lago Italy 1974 Samla Mammas Manna Klossa Knapitatet Sweden 1974 Strawbs Hero and Heroine England 1974 Triumvirat Illusions on a Double Dimple Germany 1974 Wigwam Being Finland 1974 YU Grupa Kako to da svaki dan? Yugoslavia
1975 15 February 1975 Rush Fly by Night Canada 1975 Feb Kansas Song for America US 21 March 1975 Tangerine Dream Rubycon Germany 22 March 1975 Soft Machine Bundles England 1975 Mar Hatfield and the North The Rotter’s Club England 1975 Apr Camel The Snow Goose England 1975 May Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time England 1975 May Henry Cow In Praise of Learning England 1975 May Rick Wakeman Myths & Legends: King Arthur/the Knights of the Round Table England 25 June 1975 Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention 1 Size Fits All US 22 August 1975 Gentle Giant Free Hand England 22 Aug 1975 M. Mann’s Earth Band Nightingales & Bombers UK 5 September 1975 Jethro Tull Minstrel in the Gallery England 12 September 1975 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here England 12 September 1975 Rush Caress of Steel Canada 1975 Sep Electric Light Orchestra Face The Music England 1975 Sep Kansas Masque US 2 Oct 1975 F. Zappa & Mothers w/Capt Beefheart Bongo Fury US 21 October 1975 Mike Oldfield Ommadawn England 1975 Oct Barclay James Harvest Time Honoured Ghosts England 1975 Oct Steve Hackett Voyage of the Acolyte England 1975 Oct Van der Graaf Generator Godbluff England 7 November 1975 Chris Squire Fish Out of Water England 21 November 1975 Queen A Night at the Opera England 1975 Nov Supertramp Crisis? What Crisis? England 1975 Ambrosia Ambrosia US 1975 Ange Émile Jacotey France 1975 Apoteosi Apoteosi Italy 1975 Area Crac! Italy 1975 Beggars Opera Beggars Can’t Be Choosers England 1975 Caravan Cunning Stunts England 1975 Carpe Diem En Regardant Passer Le Temps France 1975 Clearlight Forever Blowing Bubbles France 1975 Druid Toward the Sun England 1975 Brian Eno Another Green World England 1975 Brian Eno Discreet Music England 1975 Brian Eno & Robert Fripp Evening Star England 1975 Fusioon Minorisa Spain 1975 Harmonium Si on avait besoin d’une cinquième saison Canada 1975 Steve Hillage Fish Rising England 1975 Kayak Royal Bed Bouncer Netherlands 1975 Land Cool Breeze Belgium 1975 Magma Live/Hhaï France 1975 Maxophone Maxophone Italy 1975 Modrý Efekt Modrý Efekt & Radim Hladik Czechoslovakia 1975 The Muffins Secret Signals II US 1975 Opus Opus 1 Yugoslavia 1975 Le Orme Smogmagica Italy 1975 Los Jaivas El Indio Chile 1975 Phoenix Cantafabule Romania 1975 Pop Mašina Na izvoru svetlosti Yugoslavia 1975 Premiata Forneria Marconi Chocolate Kings Italy 1975 Quiet Sun Mainstream England 1975 Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories England 1975 SBB Nowy Horyzont Poland 1975 O Terço Criaturas da Noite Brazil 1975 Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes Libertes France 1975 Triana El Patio Spain 1975 Triumvirat Spartacus Germany 1975 Wigwam Nuclear Nightclub Finland 1975 YU Grupa YU Grupa Yugoslavia
1976 20 February 1976 Genesis A Trick of the Tail England 1976 Mar Camel Moonmadness England 1 April 1976 Rush 2112 Canada 16 April 1976 Klaus Schulze Moondawn Germany 23 April 1976 Gentle Giant Interview England 23 Apr 1976 Jethro Tull Too Old/Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die! Eng 1976 Apr Van der Graaf Generator Still Life England 1976 May Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mystery & Imagination Eng 18 June 1976 Brand X Unorthodox Behaviour England 1976 Jun Soft Machine Softs England 24 July 1976 Jon Anderson Olias of Sunhillow England 27 Aug 1976 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band The Roaring Silence UK 11 Sept 1976 Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record England 1976 Sep Pulsar The Strands of the Future France 20 October 1976 Frank Zappa Zoot Allures US 1976 Oct Kansas Leftoverture US 31 October 1976 Steve Howe Beginnings England 10 December 1976 Queen A Day at the Races England 27 December 1976 Genesis Wind and Wuthering England 1976 Ambrosia Somewhere I’ve Never Travelled US 1976 Ange Par les fils de Mandrin France 1976 Art Zoyd Symph Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cités France 1976 Banco del Mutuo Soccorso Come in un’ultima cena Italy 1976 Banco del Mutuo Soccorso Garofano rosso Italy 1976 Barclay James Harvest Octoberon England 1976 Caravan Blind Dog at St. Dunstans England 1976 Celeste Celeste (also known as Principe di un giorno) Italy 1976 Cos Viva Boma Belgium 1976 Henry Cow Concerts England 1976 Crucis Crucis Argentina 1976 Dah Povratak Yugoslavia 1976 Druid Fluid Druid England 1976 Ethos Ardour US 1976 Far East Family Band Parallel World Japan 1976 Gualberto Vericuetos Spain 1976 Kaipa Inget Nytt Under Solen Sweden 1976 Kayak The Last Encore Netherlands 1976 Le Orme Verità nascoste Italy 1976 Mythos Superkraut: Live at Stagge’s Hotel 1976 Germany 1976 Novalis Sommerabend Germany 1976 Picchio dal Pozzo Picchio dal Pozzo Italy 1976 Pollen Pollen Canada 1976 Pop Mašina Put ka Suncu Yugoslavia 1976 Popol Vuh Letzte Tage – Letzte Nächte Germany 1976 Schicke Führs & Fröhling Symphonic Pictures Germany 1976 Starcastle Starcastle US
1977 23 January 1977 Pink Floyd Animals England 11 February 1977 Jethro Tull Songs from the Wood England 17 March 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Works Volume 1 England 1977 Mar John Greaves & Peter Blegvad Kew. Rhone. England 1977 Mar Anthony Phillips The Geese and the Ghost England 1977 Apr Brand X Moroccan Roll England 1977 Apr Supertramp Even in the Quietest Moments… England 1977 Jun The Alan Parsons Project I, Robot England 1977 Jun Hawkwind Quark, Strangeness and Charm England 22 July 1977 Yes Going for the One England 26 July 1977 Caravan Better by Far England 1977 Aug Bill Bruford Feels Good to Me England 2 Sept 1977 Van der Graaf The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome Eng 7 September 1977 Rush A Farewell to Kings Canada 1977 Sep Camel Rain Dances England 1977 Sep Gentle Giant The Missing Piece England 11 October 1977 Kansas Point of Know Return US 21 October 1977 Genesis Seconds Out (Live) England 28 October 1977 Queen News of the World England 1977 Oct Barclay James Harvest Gone to Earth England 1977 Oct Electric Light Orchestra Out Of The Blue England 1977 Oct National Health National Health England 10 November 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Works Volume 2 Eng 1977 Ange Tome VI : Live 1977 France 1977 Ange En concert : Live 1970-1971 France 1977 Aksak Maboul Onze Danses Pour Combattre la Migraine Belgium 1977 Mike Batt Schizophonia England 1977 Eric Burdon Survivor England 1977 Circus Movin’ On Switzerland 1977 Eloy Ocean Germany 1977 England Garden Shed England 1977 Brian Eno Before and After Science England 1977 Godley and Creme Consequences England 1977 Gong Gazeuse! (also known as Expresso) Various 1977 Grobschnitt Rockpommel’s Land Germany 1977 Gryphon Treason England 1977 Happy the Man Happy the Man US 1977 Heldon Interface France 1977 Island Pictures Switzerland 1977 Kaamos Deeds and Talks Finland 1977 Kayak Starlight Dancer Netherlands 1977 Locanda delle Fate Forse le lucciole non si amano piu Italy 1977 Los Jaivas Canción del Sur Chile 1977 Maneige Ni Vent… Ni Nouvelle Canada 1977 Modrý Efekt Svitanie Czechoslovakia 1977 Mona Lisa Le Petit Violon de Mr. Gregoire France 1977 Pentwater Pentwater US 1977 Pierrot Lunaire Gudrun Italy 1977 Premiata Forneria Marconi Jet Lag Italy 1977 Pulsar Halloween France 1977 Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes Le Temps De L’Autre France 1977 Triana Hijos del Agobio Spain 1977 Univers Zero Univers Zero (also known as 1313) Belgium 1977 YU Grupa Među zvezdama Yugoslavia
1978 24 Feb 1978 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Watch United Kingdom 3 March 1978 Frank Zappa Zappa in New York US 1978 Mar Dixie Dregs What If US 1978 Mar Pierre Moerlen’s Gong Expresso II Various 1978 Mar U.K. U.K. England 7 April 1978 Genesis …And Then There Were Three… England 10 April 1978 Jethro Tull Heavy Horses England April 1978 After the Fire Signs of Change England 25 May 1978 David Gilmour David Gilmour England 1978 May Art Bears Hopes and Fears England 1978 May Steve Hackett Please Don’t Touch England 3 June 1978 Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel II England 6 Sept 1978 Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version – War of the Worlds US 15 September 1978 Rick Wright Wet Dream England 15 September 1978 Frank Zappa Studio Tan US 20 September 1978 Yes Tormato England 22 September 1978 Camel Breathless England 22 September 1978 Jethro Tull Bursting Out England 29 September 1978 Gentle Giant Giant for a Day England 29 October 1978 Rush Hemispheres Canada 18 November 1978 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Love Beach England 24 November 1978 Mike Oldfield Incantations England 1978 Nov Queen Jazz England 1978 Ange Guet-apens France 1978 Atila Reviure Spain 1978 Banco del Mutuo Soccorso …di terra Italy 1978 Barclay James Harvest XII England 1978 Bubu Anabelas Argentina 1978 Cathedral Stained Glass Stories US 1978 José Cid 10,000 Anos Depois Entre Venus E Marte Portugal 1978 Crack Si Todo Hiciera Crack Spain 1978 Elonkorjuu Flying High, Running Fast Finland 1978 Fermata Huascarán Czechoslovakia 1978 Flame Dream Calatea Switzerland 1978 FM Black Noise Canada 1978 Godley and Creme L England 1978 Gordi Čovek Yugoslavia 1978 Grobschnitt Solar Music Live Germany 1978 Happy the Man Crafty Hands US 1978 Heldon Stand By France 1978 Henry Cow Western Culture England 1978 Steve Hillage Green England 1978 Iman Califato Independiente Spain 1978 Kayak Phantom of the Night Netherlands 1978 MIA Cornonstipicum Argentina 1978 Modrý Efekt Svĕt Hledaců Czechoslovakia 1978 The Muffins Manna / Mirage US 1978 National Health Of Queues and Cures England 1978 Pentwater Out of the Abyss US 1978 Popol Vuh Nosferatu Germany 1978 Shylock Ile De Fievre France 1978 Tako Tako Yugoslavia 1978 Terpandre Terpandre France
1979 19 January 1979 Frank Zappa Sleep Dirt US 3 March 1979 Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti US 9 March 1979 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Angel Station UK 1979 Mar U.K. Danger Money England 4 May 1979 Frank Zappa Orchestral Favorites US 1979 May Steve Hackett Spectral Mornings England 1979 May Kansas Monolith 1979 May/June Electric Light Orchestra Discovery England 1979 Jun Robert Fripp Exposure England 17 July 1979 Mike Oldfield Exposed England 14 September 1979 Jethro Tull Stormwatch England 17 September 1979 Frank Zappa Joe’s Garage (Act I) US 1979 Oct Tony Banks A Curious Feeling England 1979 Oct Camel I Can See Your House From Here England 19 November 1979 Frank Zappa Joe’s Garage (Act II & III) US 23 November 1979 Mike Oldfield Platinum UK 30 November 1979 Pink Floyd The Wall England 1979 Aerodrom Kad misli mi vrludaju Yugoslavia 1979 Aksak Maboul Un Peu de l’Âme des Bandits Belgium 1979 Arachnoid Arachnoid France 1979 Art Bears Winter Songs England 1979 Art Zoyd Musique Pour l’Odyssee France 1979 Atlas Blå Vardag Sweden 1979 Barclay James Harvest Eyes of the Universe England 1979 Mike Batt Tarot Suite England 1979 Bill Bruford One of a Kind England 1979 Eloy Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes Germany 1979 Eskaton Four Visions France 1979 Flame Dream Elements Switzerland 1979 FM Surveillance Canada 1979 Grace Grace England 1979 Steve Howe The Steve Howe Album England
YOWZA!
Thanks to Vinyl Connection for the Bo Hansson Lord of the Rings 1970 Sweden release correction – two years prior to the US release. Both entries are included.
00individual was gifted to have this video become known to him. Who are they? – what’s their band mame? (3 People? or 3 Kings?) – whatever their name this power trio are CAPTIVATING! this scarily precise and wholly entertaining “cover” of Deep Purple’s classic, “Highway Star” is why Rock is so invigorating, involving, and major FUN! After his first viewing, 00 watched it again, and then again. The guitarist is not as young as his bassist and drummer, so his youthful stamina and Rock Star appearance and attitude really sold the band.
If you know the lyrics, it’s easy to translate in your head along with the singer. – Deep Purple fans will have no problem translating.
Like other commenters to this video, 00 would like more please!
Anyone with further knowledge of, and/or info about this band please leave that info in the comments – thank you in advance.
PAUL REVERE & the RAIDERS – Greatest Hits – Columbia KCS 9462 – May 1967
Important Note: Written with H.I. (Human Intelligence) No A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) used. Not even spell check.
1965 and 1966 – back when music was fun. Sigh.
Here’s a band that were destined to represent the best of PopRock when innocence was ripening. Paul Revere and the Raiders were a highly entertaining energetic and solid rockin’ band with members Paul Revere (real name) – keyboards, Mark Lindsey – vocals, Phil “Fang” Volk – bass, Mike “Smitty” Smith – drums, Drake “Kid” Levin – guitar, and Jim “Harpo” Valley – guitar (replacing Levin while in the Nat’l. Guard); that delivered a steady punch of U.S./Brit Pop Punk Rock.
Like their time-stamp ’66 hit Kicks that warned of drug abuse, the following year 1967 would begin an exciting but sobering clarity of childhood’s end, not just for 00individual but for society, and eventually civilization. With the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Francis Kennedy, everyone grew up to face the realizations around them – it was LSD for the masses.
But for a very special time, from ’62 and ’63 with the Surf ‘n’ Car Culture; ’64, ’65 and ’66 with the British Invasion; then up through the beginnings of Psychedelic Rock in ’67 music was FUN, that’s right, with a capital F-U-N!
Columbia Record’s producer Terry Melcher, the son of iconic singer/actress Doris Day (Que Sera, Sera), produced many top bands like The Byrds and The Mamas and the Papas with highly successful results, especially with The Raiders during their peak.
Stream of Consciousness Trip #1: Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys, a friend of Melcher, met and was impressed with Charles Manson’s music through two female Manson Family members he picked up hitch-hiking. Wilson introduced Manson to Melcher, and The Beach Boys recorded a couple Manson songs produced by Melcher. On the verge of signing Manson and filming a documentary about the Family, both Wilson and Melcher came to their senses after witnessing an intense encounter Manson had with another on the Ranch. Melcher and Wilson immediately distanced themselves from Manson. Melcher declined to sign him – Manson got angry.
Melcher and his girlfriend, the epitome of the hot ’60s/’70’s girl-next-door actress Candice Bergen (Murphy Brown), and Raider vocalist Mark Lindsey had just moved out of the 10050 Cielo Drive Beverly Hills house that they shared and where all of the Raiders would often gather to discuss new songs with Melcher. Roman Polanski moved in, and some surmised that Manson did not know this and that Sharon Tate and the rest were murdered for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This theory has later been disputed, but not disproved – as anyone who has even casually investigated this case will know that there were machinations going on far beyond what the media even knew, let alone the public. In any case, it’s safe to say that Melcher, Bergen, Lindsey, as well as possibly the other members of the band lived to tell the tale by a karmic throw of the dice.
Stream of Consciousness Trip #2: While co-managing the DisConnection (Grammy and Granny’s) Record Store in Westwood Village in the mid ’70s, and after negotiating a box of trade-in LPs, 00individual pulled out the ultimate vinyl bootleg entitled “LIE” (spoof cover of LIFE magazine) – it was an album of songs by Charles Manson – a couple thousand were pressed and distributed on the West Coast by Trademark of Quality. He listened to it once, wasn’t impressed by the Folksy blandness, and put it on display in the collectors rack behind the counter – and sold it almost immediately for $50.00! That was an outrageous price for any album back then and was priced as more of a novelty never thinking anyone would actually buy it!
Stream of Consciousness Trip #3:The Rolling Stones OPENED for them back in the early -to-mid ’60s.
Steppin’ Outwas 00individual’s first introduction to Paul Revere and the Raiders – he really liked that song and it stuck with him throughout his life as an iconic cocky rocker with Lindsey’s snarling laughs and a proto-punk attitude – and with a Hell of a lot of Fun – these guys were great! Check theSteppin’ Outvideo for rockin’ infectious innocent ’66 fun.
Paul Revere and the Raiders Rock History Landmarks: The Raiders’ first major national hit, “Just Like Me” was one of the first rock records to feature a distinctive, double-tracked guitar solo, performed by guitarist Drake Levin. They were reported to be the first major band in history to tour with all members amplified, including sidemen. They appeared regularly in the U.S. on national television on Dick Clark’s Where the Action Is; a trippy after-school show filmed live and usually on location in various Southern California locations with major groups performing/lip-syncing their hits. Revere and Lindsay co-hosted later incarnations of Action with Happening ’68, and It’s Happening. In mid-1967, with three gold albums to their credit, the Raiders were Columbia’s top-selling rock group; their Greatest Hits was one of two releases selected by President of Columbia Records Clive Davis to test a higher list price for albums expected to be particularly popular (along with Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits).
And while the Raiders are seen lip-syncing many of their live performances, it was the preferred “standard operating procedure” for filming convenience of bands and singers for TV shows. In reality the Raiders were one of the hardest-working bands of talented musicians that rocked live with the best! See them perform live over a decade later: Paul Revere and the Raiders – Dick Clark Reunion 1979 – Medley of Hits!
00individual really dug PR and the Raiders – the songs in bold were 45 RPM singles he purchased separately before the release of their greatest hits album.
PAUL REVERE & the RAIDERS Greatest Hits 1. Louie, Louie – Richard Berry – 2:47 2. Louie, Go Home – 3:00 Mark Lindsay / Paul Revere & the Raiders – 2:39 3. Steppin’ Out – Mark Lindsay / Paul Revere & the Raiders – 2:12 Jan. 3, 1966 4.Just Like Me– Rick Dey / Roger Hart – 2:23 Jan.3, 1966 (Billboard Pop Chart No. 11, 1965) 5 . Melody for an Unknown Girl – Mark Lindsay / Paul Revere & the Raiders – 2:04 6.Kicks– Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil – 2:26 May 6, 1966 (Billboard Pop Chart No. 4) 7. Hungry – Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil – 2:57 November 28, 1966 (Billboard Pop Chart No. 6) 8. Great Airplane Strike – Mark Lindsay / Terry Melcher / Paul Revere & the Raiders – 2:53 9. Good Thing– Mark Lindsay / Terry Melcher Paul Revere & the Raiders 3:01 November 28, 1966 (Billboard Pop Chart No. 4) 10. Ups and Downs– Mark Lindsay / Terry Melcher Paul Revere & the Raiders 2:51 (Fun video from the Smothers Brothers Show) 11. Legend of Paul Revere – Mark Lindsay / Terry Melcher Paul Revere & the Raiders 3:06
While the American Revolutionary uniform theme, name and costumes worked very well for them, serious socially-conscious rock bands were replacing the fun gimmick bands like Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs in turbans; Gary Puckett and the Union Gap in Union Army uniforms of the American Civil War, and even The Association pulled off a coup with a name that played on the synonymous term for Organized Crime, Mafioso, and other ‘Businessmen” by just wearing suits, which in the Counter-Culture’s eye was a uniform.
Valley, Volk, and Smith left the band at the height of the Raiders’ popularity and formed what they considered a more relevant rock band, Brotherhood.
Paul Revere and the Raiders accumulated 24 hit singles, and over 750 television performances within the decade of the 1960’s.
Unlike the forced clowning around of The Monkees and The Beatles, The Raiders were clever improvisers inspired by their own sense of humor – and it was contagious – and it connected with the fans. Example: Core Raider Phil “Fang” Volk had a quirky concept of flashing the back of his his trademark electric-tape(d) “FANG” bass guitar while performing live. He had so much fun doing it that it became a “looked-forward-to” moment by fans as a nonsensical exhibition of free speech and self-promotion – that worked.
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