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Learyfan
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Today in psychedelic history (03/21) 2
#14158406 - 03/21/11 09:08 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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- 1967: John Lennon and Paul McCartney take LSD together for the first time
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Recording, mixing, editing: Getting Better, Lovely Rita – John Lennon accidentally takes LSD in the studio
Tuesday 21 March 1967
This session saw work continue on two Sgt Pepper songs: ‘Getting Better’ and ‘Lovely Rita’. It was perhaps more notable for being the one time when John Lennon took LSD in the recording studio.
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Lennon carried with him a small silver art nouveau pill box which he had bought from Liberty of London. He kept a range of stimulants inside the box, and was in the habit of taking it out and selecting different drugs to take.
We were overdubbing voices on one of the Pepper tracks, and John, down in the studio, was obviously feeling unwell. I called over the intercom, ‘What’s the matter, John? Aren’t you feeling very well?’
‘No,’ said John.
I went down and looked at him, and he said, ‘I don’t know. I’m feeling very strange.’
He certainly looked very ill, so I told him, ‘You need some fresh air. Let’s leave the others working, and I’ll take you outside.’
The problem was where to go; there were the usual five hundred or so kids waiting for us at the front, keeping vigil like guard-dogs, and if we had dared to appear at the entrance there would have been uproar and they would probably have broken the gates down. So I took him up to the roof, above Number Two studio. I remember it was a lovely night, with very bright stars. Then I suddenly realised that the only protection around the edge of the roof was a parapet about six inches high, with a sheer drop of some ninety feet to the ground below, and I had to tell him, ‘Don’t go too near the edge, there’s no rail there, John.’ We walked around the roof for a while. Then he agreed to come back downstairs, and we packed up for the night.
It wasn’t until much later that I learned what had happened. John was in the habit of taking pills, ‘uppers’, to give him the energy to get through the night. That evening, he had taken the wrong pill by mistake – a very large dose of LSD. But Paul knew, and went home with him and turned on as well, to keep him company. It seems they had a real trip. I knew they smoked pot, and I knew they took pills, but in my innocence I had no idea they were also into LSD.
George Martin All You Need Is Ears
---------------------------------------------------------- Although they occasionally smoked cannabis during recording sessions, The Beatles never intentionally took acid while working.
I never took it in the studio. Once I did accidentally. I thought I was taking some uppers, and I was not in a state of handling it. I can’t remember what album it was but I took it and then [whispers] I just noticed all of a sudden I got so scared on the mike. I said, ‘What was it?’ I thought I felt ill. I thought I was going cracked. Then I said, ‘I must get some air.’ They all took me upstairs on the roof, and George Martin was looking at me funny. And then it dawned on me, I must have taken acid. And I said, ‘Well, I can’t go on, I have to go.’ So I just said, ‘You’ll have to do it and I’ll just stay and watch.’ I just [became] very nervous and just watching all of a sudden. ‘Is it alright?’ And they were saying, ‘Yeah.’ They were all being very kind. They said, ‘Yes, it’s alright.’ And I said, ‘Are you sure it’s alright?’ They carried on making the record.
John Lennon Lennon Remembers, Jann S Wenner
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As it became clear that Lennon would be unable to continue working, McCartney and Mal Evans drove him to 7 Cavendish Avenue, McCartney’s home, which was a short distance from EMI Studios.
Upon their arrival McCartney decided to keep his bandmate company by also taking acid. It was McCartney’s second trip, and his first with Lennon.
I thought, Maybe this is the moment where I should take a trip with him. It’s been coming for a long time. It’s often the best way, without thinking about it too much, just slip into it. John’s on it already, so I’ll sort of catch up. It was my first trip with John, or with any of the guys. We stayed up all night, sat around and hallucinated a lot.
Me and John, we’d known each other for a long time. Along with George and Ringo, we were best mates. And we looked into each other’s eyes, the eye contact thing we used to do, which is fairly mind-boggling. You dissolve into each other. But that’s what we did, round about that time, that’s what we did a lot. And it was amazing. You’re looking into each other’s eyes and you would want to look away, but you wouldn’t, and you could see yourself in the other person. It was a very freaky experience and I was totally blown away.
There’s something disturbing about it. You ask yourself, ‘How do you come back from it? How do you then lead a normal life after that?’ And the answer is, you don’t. After that you’ve got to get trepanned or you’ve got to meditate for the rest of your life. You’ve got to make a decision which way you’re going to go
I would walk out into the garden – ‘Oh no, I’ve got to go back in.’ It was very tiring, walking made me very tired, wasted me, always wasted me. But ‘I’ve got to do it, for my well-being.’ In the meantime John had been sitting around very enigmatically and I had a big vision of him as a king, the absolute Emperor of Eternity. It was a good trip. It was great but I wanted to go to bed after a while.
I’d just had enough after about four or five hours. John was quite amazed that it had struck me in that way. John said, ‘Go to bed? You won’t sleep!’ ‘I know that, I’ve still got to go to bed.’ I thought, now that’s enough fun and partying, now … It’s like with drink. That’s enough. That was a lot of fun, now I gotta go and sleep this off. But of course you don’t just sleep off an acid trip so I went to bed and hallucinated a lot in bed. I remember Mal coming up and checking that I was all right. ‘Yeah, I think so.’ I mean, I could feel every inch of the house, and John seemed like some sort of emperor in control of it all. It was quite strange. Of course he was just sitting there, very inscrutably.
Paul McCartney Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
(https://www.beatlesbible.com)
Edited by Learyfan (03/20/21 03:01 PM)
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Valafar
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#14158744 - 03/21/11 10:54 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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-------------------- "Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale And for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing"
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Valafar] 1
#14158835 - 03/21/11 11:23 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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And so even more amazing music was born. Thanks for psych rock, guys!
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Tips for a good trip
drink me
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: mundane] 2
#14160106 - 03/21/11 04:13 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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This page below is some anti-drug material from a 1988 paper on today's date. Reminds me of something you might see in DARE class maybe. It says mescaline can be smoked but I'm not so sure anyone has actually found that to be particularly effective.
The page concentrates on psychedelics and PCP.
March 21, 1988 - Finger Lake Times (Geneva, NY)
Edited by Best (03/21/11 04:16 PM)
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Best]
#14160132 - 03/21/11 04:18 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Awesome bra. 
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Best]
#15975117 - 03/21/12 05:38 AM (11 years, 10 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Best]
#17988163 - 03/21/13 05:43 AM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Learyfan] 2
#17988774 - 03/21/13 10:09 AM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
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Learyfan said:

I love that oldschool picture of the two I could only imagine standing there, pondering the idea of buying an island for myself and band memebers..... While on LSD to top it off
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: danlennon3] 1
#19726979 - 03/21/14 04:00 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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I know, right? Trippers have pondered buying a private island far away from the hands of the law from the start, but The Beatles actually had the money to make it happen if they wanted to.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#19727001 - 03/21/14 04:22 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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wow what are the chances of that, I don't do acid much but im currently coming down off an amazing experience, guess I picked the perfect day.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: danlennon3] 1
#19727971 - 03/21/14 11:56 AM (9 years, 10 months ago) |
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This reminds me of the one golden memory I have of driving a half-million dollar 12 cylinder Bentley on acid. Long story, but I remember thinking at the time (and to this day) "I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who's ever done this, except maybe Kesha..."
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Learyfan
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Learyfan]
#21441879 - 03/22/15 03:33 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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McCartney LSD Interview -- June 19, 1967
-------------------- The Day of the Lord has come like a thief in the night. -- It is there but no one knows it.
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: endogenous]
#23028870 - 03/21/16 05:40 AM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Edited by Learyfan (03/20/21 03:09 PM)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#23028873 - 03/21/16 05:42 AM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Something i never knew. WOWOW.
I remember when i was really little kid, in elementary school one of my teachers loved both these artists. Always talked about it, now i suspect my old teacher is into psychs.
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: LSDollar]
#24179516 - 03/21/17 05:40 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well you don't need to be into psychedelics to love The Beatles. It's just a pleasant little bonus. But anyway, today is the 50th anniversary of John and Paul tripping together for the first time.

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Learyfan]
#24180500 - 03/21/17 01:53 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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A Big 60th Anniversary BUMP
-------------------- "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country - K. Vonnegut “The real truth, that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control. Absolutely no one.” ― Terence McKenna "LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have never taken it." - Timothy Leary
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Learyfan]
#25079562 - 03/21/18 08:57 AM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Learyfan]
#25887245 - 03/21/19 05:42 AM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (03/21) [Re: Learyfan]
#26548489 - 03/21/20 09:37 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Edited by Learyfan (03/20/21 03:08 PM)
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