THE WAY OUT RECORD by Bruce Haack

Wikipedia page here.

Thanks to pal Lawrence Person.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 29, 2017 - Comments (0)
Category: Music, Children, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s

LSD for Housewives

Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 01, 2016 - Comments (5)
Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, Government, Science, Experiments, 1950s

Follies of the Madmen #286

Lots of goofy stuff here.

First commercial: who's the publisher for that special Mom propaganda book?

Second and third commercials: love that trippy 2001: A Space Odyssey sequence as we fly thru the aspirin particles.

Fourth commercial: once upon a time, hairy chests were okay.

Fifth commercial: this woman has ingested so much iron that her bare feet are comfortable on metal stirrups.

Sixth and seventh commercials: life in a circus-acrobat household.

Eighth commercial: multivitamins promote blue balls.

Ninth commercial: children are iron-vampires.

Tenth and eleventh commercials: psychedelic scrumpcheroo!

Twelfth commercial: hey, a rerun! Or is this a flashback from dropping too many Chocks?

Thirteenth and fourteenth commercials: Charley Chocks, pusherman.

Fifteenth commercial: Chocks and chopsticks!

Sixteenth commercial: And you thought the Archies were too fake!

Seventeenth commercial: interplanetary Chocks colonialism!

Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 18, 2016 - Comments (2)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Drugs, Psychedelic, Children, Elderly, 1960s, 1970s

Beatnik Fly & Psychedelic Worm

Johnny and the Hurricanes had one shtick: take a public domain tune and give it the yakety-sax treatment. Here are two of the more outlandish instances.

Posted By: Paul - Tue May 03, 2016 - Comments (8)
Category: Music, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Psychedelic, 1950s, 1960s

Swinging Britain

Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 06, 2016 - Comments (13)
Category: Fashion, Avant Garde, Teenagers, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s

Smoking Periwinkle

Every so often the media needs to sound the alarm about a new drug that's corrupting the youth of the nation. In the summer of 1967, that drug was the periwinkle plant. The entire scare was based on one group of teenagers in Florida who experimented with the plant, but still it generated plenty of headlines.

Can smoking periwinkle actually get you high? Probably. Over at erowid.org there are some reports of people experimenting with it. Though despite the scare of 1967, it never caught on as a popular drug.

Dr. George Dame, a health officer in Manatee County, warned that periwinkle could have all kinds of unpleasant side effects (such as "withering of muscle tissue") because periwinkle is the source of some drugs (vinblastine and vincristine) used in chemotherapy. However, an expert on those drugs disagreed with him. From Newsweek (June 26, 1967):

Sydney Morning Herald - Jun 4, 1967

Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 29, 2016 - Comments (9)
Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, Smoking and Tobacco, 1960s

In a Long White Room

How this easy-listening, faux-psychedelic ripoff ever avoided a plagiarism suit with Cream's "White Room" is a mystery for the ages. Maybe lawyers were stunned into inaction by the gonzo brilliance of the lyrics

"We will tuck each other in, and dream about trains/You'll call me 'Beauty' and I'll call you 'Brains.'"

Trippy, man!

Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 03, 2015 - Comments (6)
Category: Music, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Psychedelic, 1960s

Schizophrenic Model Psychosis Induced By LSD 25

Posted By: Paul - Sat May 02, 2015 - Comments (15)
Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, Science, 1950s

Beautiful Chemical Reactions

Beautiful Chemical Reactions from L2 Molecule on Vimeo.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 17, 2015 - Comments (3)
Category: Science, Psychedelic

“The Trip,” Kim Fowley

In tribute to the recent death of this pop maven.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 22, 2015 - Comments (5)
Category: Music, Psychedelic, 1960s