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- 1965: New York Sunday News does story on Castilia Foundation
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It was to provide the answers implied in the third step that the weekend workshops in consciousness-expansion were instituted by the Castalia Foundation. We noted carefully in our brochure that 'because of the complicated current legal situation in the United States, psychedelic drugs will not be used in these workshops'. This did not prevent many visitors from asking us for drugs but we had to protect ourselves by refusing these paying guests. Several guests, wise to our methods, took LSD before arriving but that was not officially our affair. The vulgarisation of these weekends commenced at an early stage. In an article in the New York Sunday News of August 29, 1965, beneath a banner headline asking ARE THEY OUT OF THEIR MIND ? and suggesting 'You might call these sect members a bunch of weirdos', the article noted:
'On alternative weekends they are joined by ten to fifteen paying guests recruited by direct mail and word of mouth. Most are middle-class professionals—teachers, doctors, psychologists, students. The fee of $75 a person or $125 a couple includes plain home-cooking and a mattress on the floor.... There is no happy hour of cocktail chatter. Instead, each guest is escorted silently to a box-like room in the old servant's wing and left there for an hour to meditate. 'The rooms are decorated with madras hangings, wall-sized paintings of Buddha, a collage of words and images collected from a psychedelic fantasy, or religious posters from India. The only furniture besides the mattress may be a lamp, a bookcase or a writing table.'
Such succinct details suggest the guests were paying for a self-imposed ascetic exercise in hardship, but it was nothing of the kind. The money from the workshops paid for oil-heating bills and food, and helped to secure a self-supporting community for the weekends. The Castalia Foundation, after all, was a non-profit corporation.
(http://www.druglibrary.org/)
- 1969: First day of the 1969 Isle Of Wight Festival
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The 1969 Isle of Wight Festival was held on 29–31 August 1969 at the English town of Wootton, on the Isle of Wight. The festival attracted an audience of approximately 150,000 to see acts including Bob Dylan, The Band, The Who, Free, Joe Cocker, the Bonzo Dog Band and The Moody Blues. It was the second of three music festivals held on the island between 1968 and 1970. Organised by Ronnie and Ray Foulk's Fiery Creations, it became a legendary event, largely owing to the participation of Dylan, who had spent the previous three years in semi-retirement. The event was well managed, in comparison to the recent Woodstock Festival, and trouble-free.
The 1969 festival was considerably larger and more popular than the previous year's. Dylan had been little heard of since his allegedly near-fatal motorcycle accident in July 1966. Shunning the Woodstock Festival, held near his home in upstate New York, Dylan was initially reluctant to perform his comeback show on the little-known Isle of Wight. After weeks of negotiations, the Foulk brothers showed him a short film of the island's cultural and literary heritage; this appealed to Dylan's artistic sensibilities, as he was enthusiastic about combining a family holiday with a live performance in Tennyson country. Before the festival, Dylan and his fellow Woodstock residents The Band rehearsed at Forelands Farm in Bembridge, and were joined there by George Harrison, the only "outsider" to have visited him in his enclave in the Catskill Mountains. On Saturday, 30 August, the day before Dylan was to take the stage, Harrison's fellow Beatles John Lennon and Ringo Starr arrived on the island, along with Keith Richards and Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones, and Eric Clapton. Also seated in the sealed-off VIP area in front of the stage would be Beatle wives Pattie Harrison, Yoko Ono and Maureen Starkey, together with celebrities such as Liz Taylor, Richard Burton, Jane Fonda, Françoise Hardy, Roger Vadim, Syd Barrett, Donald Cammell, Elton John and others.
Line-up
The Band Blodwyn Pig Blonde On Blonde Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Edgar Broughton Band Joe Cocker Aynsley Dunbar Bob Dylan Eclection Fat Mattress Family Gary Farr Julie Felix Free Gypsy Richie Havens Heaven Marsha Hunt & White Trash Indo Jazz Fusions King Crimson (billed, but did not appear) The Liverpool Scene Mighty Baby The Moody Blues The Nice Tom Paxton Pentangle The Pretty Things Third Ear Band The Who
(https://en.wikipedia.org)
- 1970: Headlining bands play at the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival
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The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival was held between 26th and 31st August 1970 at Afton Down, an area on the western side of the Isle of Wight. It was the last of three consecutive music festivals to take place on the island between 1968 and 1970 and widely acknowledged as the largest musical event of its time, greater than the attendance of Woodstock. Although estimates vary, the Guinness Book of Records estimated that over 500,000 people attended.
The preceding Isle of Wight Festivals had already attracted a reputation in 1968 and 1969 by attracting acts such as Jefferson Airplane, T. Rex, The Move, Pretty Things, Joe Cocker and Bob Dylan in his first performance since his 1966 motorcycle accident and The Who.
The 1970 version, following Woodstock in the previous year, set out to move one step forward and enlisted Jimi Hendrix. With Jimi confirmed, artists such as Chicago, The Doors, The Who, Joan Baez, and Free willingly took up the chance to play there. The event had a magnificent but impractical site, since the prevailing wind blew the sound sideways across the venue, and the sound system had to be augmented by Pink Floyd's PA, and a strong but inconsistent line up and the logistical nightmare of transporting 600,000 onto an island with a population of less than 100,000.
Political and logistical difficulties resulted in the organisers eventually realising that the festival would not make a profit, and declaring it to be "a free festival" although the majority of the audience had paid for tickets in advance, and the event was filmed contemporaneously. However, at the time, the commercial failings of the festival ensured it would be the last event of its kind on the Isle of Wight for thirty-two years.
Saturday 29th
* John Sebastian: The showstopper of the Festival performed an 80-minute set, during which Zal Yanovsky, former Lovin' Spoonful guitarist, made a surprise guest appearance. * Shawn Phillips: American folk musician performed an impromptu solo set following John Sebastian. * Lighthouse (second set) * Joni Mitchell: Played a controversial set; Following her rendition of "Woodstock", a hippie named Yogi Joe interrupted her set to make a speech about Desolation Row. When Joe was hauled off by Joni's manager, the audience began to boo until Mitchell made an emotional appeal to them for some respect for the performers. Contrary to popular belief, Joe was not the man who was ranting about a "psychedelic concentration camp". That was another incident that took place the previous day. After the crowd quieted down, Mitchell closed her set with "Big Yellow Taxi" * Tiny Tim: His rendition of "There'll Always Be an England" can be seen in the film Message to Love. * Miles Davis: A DVD of his complete set was released in 2004. * Ten Years After: British blues rockers performing what was basically a reproduction of their famous Woodstock set. Highlights included "I'm Going Home" and "I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes," which was featured in Message to Love. * Emerson, Lake & Palmer: This was their second gig. Pictures at an Exhibition, which featured the Moog synthesizer was the centerpiece of their historic set. Commercially released as Emerson, Lake and Palmer Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 in 1997. * The Doors: Their set was shrouded in darkness due to Jim Morrison's unwillingness to have movie spotlights on the band. Their performances of "The End" and "When the Music's Over" are featured in Message to Love. * The Who: Their entire set, including the rock opera Tommy, was released in 1996 on CD (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970). Three years later their set appeared on DVD with significant cuts from Tommy and a few other songs (such as "Naked Eye") missing. In addition, the DVD song set order was radically altered to present Tommy as if having been performed at the second-half of the concert (with "See Me, Feel Me"/"Listening to You" as the conclusion), when, in fact, Tommy was performed in the middle of their lengthy set, and the closing title was "Magic Bus", which concluded some Who concerts at that time. A 2006-reissued DVD of the concert retains the altered order, despite having been personally "supervised" by Who guitarist and songwriter Peter Townshend. * Sly & the Family Stone: The showstoppers of Woodstock performed to a tired audience on the early morning of Sunday. However, the audience woke up for spirited renditions of "I Want to Take You Higher", "Dance to the Music" and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)", which featured Sly on guitar. Prior to their encore, another political militant decided it was time to make a speech, and the booing audience started to throw beer cans onto the stage. Freddie Stone was hit by a flying can and an angry Sly decided to skip the encore. He did promise a second appearance, but this never occurred. * Melanie: This Woodstock veteran played a well-received set as the sun rose. Prior to her set, Keith Moon of The Who offered her some moral support and encouragement. Not until afterwards did Melanie realize who he was. Her performance of her own song, 'What Have They Done to my Song Ma' was included in a 2010 French documentary, spanning the 1970 and 2010 I.O.W. festivals, called 'From Wight to Wight' and first shown on TV station ARTE, on 30/07/2010.
(https://en.wikipedia.org)
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An American twin-engine plane, carrying $670,000 worth of smuggled hashish, was seized on this Greek island yesterday [August 29, 1970] after being chased across the Mediterranean by Lebanese and Greek jet fighters. Police said five Americans aboard the Corvair 240 were arrested. The plane and its cargo of 1,467 pounds of hashish were seized. Before the jets forced them to land at Iraklion airport, the men had swapped cigarettes for hashish at a secret Lebanese landing strip and made off through a hail of police gunfire, officials in Beirut reported. The official Lebanese statement also said two British planes were among the air armada that chased the aircraft from the Middle East. But the Royal Air Force in London denied it. John M. Cusack, chief of European operations for the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs – the BNDD – said in Paris that police forces and air traffic controllers throughout the eastern Mediterranean helped track the plane. With warplanes from various bases standing ready to intercept it, Cusack said, the plane flew erratically for a time and then was tracked over Cyprus and Rhodes. Running low on fuel and needing minor repairs, the aircraft finally landed at Iraklion where authorities had been forewarned that a suspicious plane was heading in their direction from the Middle East. A search disclosed the 13 bags of processed hashish, and police arrested all of the men on board. They were identified by Cusack in Paris as John Robert Moore, 41, Las Vegas, Nevada, the pilot; copilot Philip Irwin Amos, 30, and Kenneth Connell, 28, both of California; David Mantell, 30 of Ohio; and Robert Black, 29, of Illinois. Their home towns were not available. Greek police quoted Moore as saying he was paid $5,000 to fly the plane to Lebanon where the Lebanese Directorate of Security said the aircraft landed at a clandestine strip in the fertile Bekaa Valley. A tractor-trailer rig, believed to have been loaded with the hashish, was waiting for it there, Lebanese security said, and the plane immediately began unloading boxes of smuggled cigarettes. The truck then drove toward the plane and its cargo was lifted aboard, with the entire operation lasting only a few minutes, authorities said. The Bureau of Customs in Washington and Interpol acted on a lead from the California State Narcotics Bureau and said the suspect plane had been flown to Europe from the United States and had been under surveillance since before it left the states. Simultaneously the Customs Bureau disclosed a second international team had broken up another alleged ring and captured a second plane loaded with what was suspected to be hashish in France. Two Miami, Fla., men were arrested there. “The two cases illustrate the effectiveness of the increasing international cooperation against narcotics smuggling,” Attorney General John N. Mitchell and Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy said in a joint statement issued in Washington. The customs Bureau said the California State Narcotics Bureau supplied the tip in July. The plane was placed under surveillance and followed to Pennsylvania where extra fuel tanks were installed, the spokesman said. It then was tracked to Bangor, Maine, and through Gander, Newfoundland; Narsarssuak, Greenland; Keflavik, Iceland; Amsterdam, Holland; Luxembourg; and Rome to Naples and Nicosia, Cyprus. In the second smuggling case, the Customs Bureau said French police seized two Miami men after they landed a twin engine Beechcraft with $225,000 worth of hashish aboard at Nice, France, yesterday afternoon. The two were identified as August Miles, 24, and Al Clemmons, 30. The plane which left Bangor, Main, on August 6, was impounded.
(The San Bernardino County Sun, Sunday August 30, 1970)
- 1979: Tim Scully transferred from McNeil Island to half-way house in San Francisco.
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8/29/79 Tim Scully transferred from McNeil Island to half-way house in San Francisco.
(as told to me by Tim Scully)
- 1979: Timothy Leary is arrested for possession of ketamine
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Leary Has Explanation for All Those Moans and Groans
BY TIM WATERS Times Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES — Timothy Leary had nothing but kind words Thursday for the Beverly Hills police officers who arrested him and his wife on drug charges. But, said Leary, the police simply were mistaken about the drugs he and his wife were accused of keeping and about the moans neighbors thought they heard coming from the Learys' apartment. "My wife and I were making loud love," Leary explained in a telephone interview. "There were a lot of moans and groans and ohhh and ahhhs and oh my gods. We regularly take extremely strong aphrodisiacs." The Learys were arrested early Wednesday morning [August 29, 1979]after police officers, responding to a neighbor's telephone call about a woman screaming, found a "white substance resembling cocaine" in the couple's apartment. Both were booked on suspicion of possession of cocaine and later released after posting bail. They are scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 21 in Beverly Hills Municipal Court. Mrs. Leary, however, was not as kind as her husband towards the police. "What they found was a tiny little bottle with residue in it which they thought was cocaine," she said. "So they dragged us off for possession. Which is kind of ridiculous because you would think any policeman in Beverly Hills would know cocaine if he saw it. "The drug we took was given to me by a friend," Mrs. Leary said. "It was called ketamine. It is not on any dangerous drug list or any penal code list. I had been wanting to take it for a long time but it was a drug that had to be injected and I wouldn't do it. Someone had it crystallized into a powder that you could sniff so they gave it to me and I asked Timothy to take it with me." Ketamine is an anesthetic that can cause a rapid loss of consciousness. Drug experts say it induces a cataleptic state in which the user appears to be awake but is unconscious and does not respond to pain. The couple said they took the drug around 11 p.m. Police arrived at 11:30 p.m., and soon afterwards Mrs. Leary started to vomit, Paramedics were called and she was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
( The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California), 31 Aug 1979, Fri, Other Editions, Page 32)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
#13118834 - 08/29/10 12:44 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
#14995065 - 08/29/11 05:49 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
#16754181 - 08/29/12 01:06 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
#18771917 - 08/29/13 05:48 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Here's audio of the full Doors set.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#20491940 - 08/29/14 05:50 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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45th anniversary of Tim Scully going to the halfway house, which basically means he was getting out of prison.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
#22160674 - 08/29/15 01:01 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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45th anniversary of the headlining band performances at Isle Of Wight 1970.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
#25421006 - 08/29/18 09:21 AM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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wife would murder puppies for that belt in solid silver.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
#26158501 - 08/29/19 06:38 AM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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50th anniversary of the first day of 1969 Isle of Wight Festival today. Also, 40th anniversary of Tim Scully being released to a halfway house after being released from prison.
Also, it's the 40th anniversary of Timothy Leary's little known 1979 ketamine arrest. This is my favorite one. He and his wife Barbara were having loud sex and the neighbors called the police because they thought a woman was being beaten or murdered. The cops come in to check it out and found the Learys acting weird. It's no wonder, because Tim and Barbara were in a k-hole, while talking to police. As the pigs were investigating, they found a white powdery substance and arrested the Learys for cocaine possession. Leary knew it was ketamine, which was legal at the time, so he wasn't concerned. About a month later, the charges were dropped. The substance came back as ketamine.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
#26905514 - 08/29/20 06:40 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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50th anniversary of the headlining bands playing the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival today.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/29) [Re: Learyfan]
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Annual bump.
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