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    #13694392 - 12/28/10 01:59 AM (13 years, 1 month ago)

  • 1947:  Andy Munro is born




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The chemist was Andy Munro, the graduate chemist used by Solomon and Thomas in their attempts to synthesize cocaine. Munro knew both Todd and Kemp from his days at Cambridge. He had pestered Kemp for details of his system, but Kemp was too canny to give away his 'wrinkles' for making LSD. What about finding Todd, asked Munro. In the event, Todd found him first and recruited him.
    Under the cover of twenty-one aliases, Todd bought and stockpiled 15 kilos of ergotamine, together with the necessary equipment. Like Kemp, Todd and Cuthbertson experimented initially with mobile laboratories, but soon decided that they needed a permanent site. It was Number 23 Seymour Road, Hampton Wick, a quiet London suburb edging into commuter country. As Mr J. J. Ross, in July 1975 Todd paid £33,000 for a large detached house. To the neighbours, the new people seemed to be nice young men who never caused any trouble. Sometimes at night a passerby might catch snatches of Chopin as Cuthbertson relaxed at the piano.
    Cuthbertson's tableting site was on the first floor. Above, on the top floor, Munro's laboratory spread through two rooms. Not the best of chemists—trained in the theoretical side of chemistry rather than the practical—Munro could not hope to reach Kemp's level of yield or purity; his carelessness ate into Todd's ergotamine stock. From Munro the finished product went down one flight of stairs to Cuthbertson. Part of the run went into microdots, but another portion was converted into 'domes' or 'pyramids'—tiny dots, raised slightly towards the middle. The difference gave variety to the consumer and made tracing the source more difficult; the microdots were largely for home consumption and the domes for export.
    Just as Cambridge had been a focal point for the original team round Solomon and Kemp, so Reading served the same function in the distribution chain. Cuthbertson drew on friends from university days and the town's drug trade to build up links, orchestrating markets carefully. The domestic chain went out from London through Reading to Wales and the West Country, and then doubled back on itself towards London. Anyone trying to trace it would have started in Wales. The man at the top of the chain received the microdots at £163 per thousand, the next man at £170, and so on—until it reached the street at £1 a dot.
    The export trade was equally brisk. LSD from Seymour Road was sold in Switzerland and France and, further afield, in India and Australia. Todd and Cuthbertson maintained their own direct supply-route to West Germany through an antiques shop in Berlin.
    By the spring of 1977, the 15 kilos of ergotamine were exhausted. How much LSD was made is not clear. Todd later claimed that 2 kilos were wasted through spillage, accidents and deterioration. A middle-ranking dealer claims that he handled three million doses in two years, while a foreign distributor got through 1,600,000 in a similar period. Working at a scale of 10,000 microdots per gram and 200 grams of LSD per kilo of ergotamine, Todd, Cuthbertson and Munro could have made up to thirty million.


(http://www.druglibrary.net)


FILE 9 Andrew Munro

Born: 28 December 1947, London


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  • 1965:  Elvis Presley takes LSD




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Although he'd been fascinated by the appearance of the new, then-legal drug LSD, and had already used the Memphis Mafia as guinea pigs in a controlled "trip" that summer, it wasn't until December 28, 1965 that Elvis decided to take the plunge, along with Priscilla. Since the King was averse to most illegal drugs and not much of a drinker, the possibilities appealed to him... especially since he was on a spiritual journey at the time, the kind of thing that acid was supposed to aid.


(http://oldies.about.com/od/elvispresleyhistory)




"Elvis and I took half a tab. At first, nothing happened. Then we started staring at each other and laughing --our faces were becoming distorted. I became engrossed in Elvis's multicolored shirt. It started to grow, getting larger and larger until I though he was going to burst. It was captivating, but I did not like the feeling. I thought, this isn't real, be careful, you're losing it. I tried to hang on to sanity. We all gathered around the large aquarium outside the master bedroom, fascinated by the tropical fish. Funny--there were only two or three, but suddenly I saw an ocean of brightly colored fish. I strolled off and found myself in Elvis's huge walk-in closet, purring like a kitten. It was early morning when Elvis and I went downstairs and walked outside. Dew came down, creating rainbows in the mist, glistening on the trees and the lawn. We studied the leaves, trying to count each dewdrop. The veins in the grass became visible, breathing slowly, rhythmically. We went from tree to tree, observing nature in detail. It was an extraordinary experience. However, realizing it was too dangerous a drug to fool around with, we never tried LSD again."

- Priscilla Presley


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  • 1969:  The Temptations release the single for "Psychedelic Shack"




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"Psychedelic Shack" is a 1969 single for the Motown label performed by The Temptations and produced by Norman Whitfield. It became a hit single in 1970.

This single features the Temptations and Whitfield's continuing their submergence into psychedelia, with multilead vocals, hard rock guitars, synthesizer sound effects, multitracked drums, and stereo-shifting vocals giving the record a distinct sound. The song is a dedication of sorts to psychedelic shacks, describing the activities and atmosphere within.

"Psychedelic Shack's" LP mix begins with the sounds of a person entering a psychedelic shack and dropping the needle on a record, which is, interestingly enough, the Temptations single which immediately preceded this one, "I Can't Get Next to You". The use of the re-recording of "I Can't Get Next to You" from its 45 RPM single makes "Psychedelic Shack" one of the first songs to use sampling, a technique that would become a stable of hip hop music in the coming decade.

The song ends, after its fourth verse, with the Funk Brothers backing band going into a jam session as the song fades out. Keyboardist Earl Van Dyke remembers "Psychedelic Shack" as one of his favorite recording sessions.  The full extended version of the song, with the complete jam session, went unreleased until a new six-minute mix of the record was done in 2003 for the Psychedelic Soul compilation set.

"Psychedelic Shack" was the title track from the Psychedelic Shack album, released in March 1970. The song reached #7 on the US pop charts and #2 on the US R&B charts.

Lyrics

Psychedelic shack, that's where it's at
Psychedelic shack, that's where it's at
Psychedelic shack, that's where it's at
Psychedelic shack, that's where it's at

People let me tell you about a place I know
To get in it don't take much dough
Where you can really do your thing, oh yeah
It's got a neon sign outside that says
Come in and take a look at your mind
You'd be surprised what you might find, yeah
Strobe lights flashin' FROM SUN UP TO SUN DOWN
People gather there from all parts of town

Oh yeah, RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER
You know it's just across the track
People I'm talking about the psychedelic shack


Psychedelic shack, that's where it's at
Psychedelic shack, that's where it's at, oh yeah

You can have your fortune told
You can learn the meaning of soul
There ain't no such thing as time
Incense in the air
PEACE signs painted everywhere
I guarantee you this place will blow your mind, THEY GOT
Music so high, you can't get over it
So low you can't get under it

Right around the corner just across the track
People I'm talking about the psychedelic shack


Psychedelic shack, that's where it's at
Psychedelic shack, that's where it's at

Millionaires, kings and queens go there to do their things
You might see anybody there, yeah
Bear skin rugs, tails and MINKS
Don't really matter what you wear
You can take off your shoes, sit on the floor
Join in and be what you wanna be

Don't you know that it's right
Around the corner just across the track
People I'm talking about the psychedelic shack, GET DOWN

Psychedelic shack, that's where it's at
Psychedelic shack, that's where it's at

They got a cat there shouting the blues
Talking about payin some dues
People walking around reciting poetry
Screamin guitars and a thousand colored lights
People I'm telling you this place is really out of sight
You can have your fortune told
You can learn the meaning of soul
I guarantee this place will blow your mind

Don't you know it's right around the corner
Just across the track
People I'm talking about the psychedelic shack

Personnel

    * Lead and Background Vocals by Dennis Edwards, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Otis Williams
    * Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers


B-side "That's the Way Love Is"
Released December 28, 1969
Format 7" single
Recorded Hitsville USA (Studio A); November 21 & December 2, 1969
Genre Psychedelic soul
Length 3:56
Label Gordy
G 7096
Writer(s) Norman Whitfield
Barrett Strong
Producer Norman Whitfield


(https://en.wikipedia.org)









  • 1988:  William Leonard Pickard is arrested for LSD manufacturing for the first time




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It is not known where Pickard produced LSD for the very first time. His first arrest for manufacturing LSD came on December 28, 1988 in Mountain View, California. The laboratory was contained inside a trailer that had been moved into a warehouse. It contained state-of-the-art equipment, including a roto-evaporator, heating mantles and a pill press. He was producing kilogram quantities of LSD and putting them onto windowpane, microdot, and blotter forms. He spent time in prison for this and became a Buddhist while inside.


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #13695087 - 12/28/10 08:44 AM (13 years, 1 month ago)

I very much admire Pickard.Making lsd for the greater good and advancement of the human race. Glad we had a good run with him though.... Hopefully some divine miracle will happen and he will be let out of prison. :grin:


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/28) [Re: Ego]
    #13696739 - 12/28/10 04:03 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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I very much admire Pickard.Making lsd for the greater good and advancement of the human race. Glad we had a good run with him though.... Hopefully some divine miracle will happen and he will be let out of prison. :grin:




I sure hope so.  Maybe some day.  :heart: 
















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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan]
    #15581690 - 12/28/11 05:41 AM (12 years, 1 month ago)

Here's a funny story that relates to Andy Munro.  It talks about how clumsy he was as an acid chemist, which is pretty understandable, considering you're trying to pull off a complicated chemistry procedure while tripping very hard. 



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After the split with Richard Kemp, Henry Todd set up his own operation. After experimenting with mobile labs and a lab in Chesterfield, in July 1975 Todd bought 23 Seymour Road, Hampton Wick – in a pleasant London suburb – for £33,000.

The Acid Lab itself was  operated by  Andy Munro, the chemist drafted in in place of Richard Kemp, and was on the top floor. This confounded the police in their investigation as they had strong advice that acid labs were located in basements (and indeed Richard Kemp’s lab in Wales was located in a basement). Tableting was carried out on the middle floor, and was handled by Brian Cuthbertson. Andy Munro is the legendary clumsy chemist described in Leaf Fielding’s ‘Tripping Policemen’ monologue on youtube, who literally dropped acid and impregnated the carpet, leading to a trio of tripping policemen when the carpet was removed. On another occasion, Munro spilled a flask of nearly a quarter of a kilo of near final LSD in a wash basin.  In mitigation of Munro’s clumsiness, it’s difficult to make LSD without the chemist involved tripping,  and even Richard Kemp – the master LSD chemist – had an accident in his lab in the early days and ingested a huge amount of LSD.

The acid production here was highly successful and was exported across Europe, and to Australia and the United States.It’s thought the lab got through 15 kilos of ergotamine tartrate – up to 30,000,000 tabs of acid. For some reason they produced two types of tablets: the microdot for domestic use, and the ‘dome’ (a raised tablet) for the export market. It’s not clear why – possibly to try to disguise  that exports came from the same lab.

It was here on 25 March 1977 that Todd, Cuthbertson and Munro were busted – with police streaming in through smashing the french windows on the ground floor at the back of the house.

The ‘tripping policemen’ incident happened during the clean up operation on 3 April 1977. Three officers had worked alongside scientists to document evidence.  By 3 April they had stripped the top front bedroom – the laboratory – except for the carpet which Munro had told them was heavily impregnated. On that day, they carefully rolled back the carpet and sealed it in a large polythene bag.

After this, DS Wally Dodge felt light-headed and decide he needed a bath. As he was running the water he could hear the other two officers laughing hysterically. In the bath he had the sensation that the pores of his skin were opining to embrace the warmth of the water and heard drops of water falling from his hair back in the bath. On rejoining the other officers, they decided to set off to the Angler’s Pub at Teddington Lock. By this time, they realised they were tripping. The walk along Broom Road has some pleasant sights which must have added to their enhanced  enjoyment:

At the Anglers, Dodgle looked round and thought he could see into the personalities and characters of the other customers. They could hear a thundering and deafening noise as the pub door opened and closed. Their glasses of beer appeared to be weightless.

When they left the pub to walk back to the house, the pavements felt soft and exquisitely carpeted. They felt full of boundless energy as if they could walk forever. Flowers and trees appeared to come to life and they saw lights cascading out of daffodils. They could hear water thundering through the drains in the street below them. Sadly this pleasant experience ended when they felt compelled to report developments, and were admitted to Kingston Hospital for observation.








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    #17459611 - 12/28/12 05:44 AM (11 years, 1 month ago)

Happy 65th Birthday Andy Munro.  Here's "Psychedelic Shack" for Andy.



















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    #19336416 - 12/28/13 10:35 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

25th anniversary of Pickard's Mountain View bust today.  Here's some more info about it.






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Then, in 1988, reports came into
the Bureau of strong chemical smells emanating from a ware- house in the
city of Mountain View, California, about forty-five mites south of San
Francisco. On December 28th, as the narcs arrived to execute a search
warrant, a tall, pleasant man of forty strolled out of the warehouse,
carrying multiple pieces of identification bearing a number of different
names. His real name was William Leonard Pickard.

Nobody is exactly sure when, or if, Pickard actually set up the LSD lab
in Mountain View, but by 1988 it was operational. The lab was contained
inside a trailer - of the type you might see at a construction site -
that had been dragged into a warehouse in an industrial section of the
city. It contained state-of-the-art lab equipment, including a
roto-evaporator, heating mantles and a pill press, an item that DEA
restrictions make almost impossible to obtain. On the floor were stacked
boxes of blotter paper in a raft of colorful, eye-catching designs:
Escher heads, album covers, samurai shields and black-and-white tropical
scenes.
After Pickard had been at the spot for some time, apparently cooking
acid by the kilo, neighboring businessmen reported smelling chemical
odors. Agents of the BNE moved in. "It was a huge lab," says Ron Brooks,
special agent in charge of the BNE'S San Jose office, who was on the
scene that day in Mountain View. "He was making windowpane, microdot and
blotter.'' And it was a diversified operation. Pickard was making not
only LSD but a synthetic mescaline, which is very difficult to
synthesize, and a bunch of other stuff. He was an excellent chemist.
Excellent and prolific, on par almost with Owsley himself in terms of
output. Bear, as he was known, claimed to have turned out a total of
three or four kilos during his storied career. Agents found a beguiling
note tucked inside a brown vial in the Mountain View trailer, which
seemed to be addressed to one of the chemists distributors and to
describe the scale of his operation. As I prepare my third kilogram of
LSD, it said, I think with amusement of our last conversation three
weeks ago, when you called me a liar, and I had to walk you down the
hall to get you the very first gram that was supposed to be offered to
you preferentially. Since July of 1984, our friend has taken thirty
grams in that year, thirty grams in the second year and seventy-five
grams in the last six to eight weeks. The recent change indicates that
someone close to you has accessed an existing system as well as its
potential problems. I hope you can monitor these proceedings in some
way, since you come from the finest psychedelic heritage, prior to being
seduced by some sleezy cocaine and qualude {sic}nightmare. Whether
Pickard wrote this note, and who the intended recipient was, have never
been made clear.
A kilo of drugs might not sound like much if youre talking about pot or
coke or heroin, but a kilo of pure LSD is enough, DEA estimates, for 10
million trips. One of the criminalists who donned protective gear to
process the trailer crime scene, Lisa Brewer, counted 89,802 tabs of
acid and 123,278 acid pills, a form of acid rarely seen in 1988. Only
Pickard knew how much product had been already mailed to middlemen. This
was not the big one, Brewer says of Pickards laboratory. Nobody sees
these.
Later, when Ron Brooks consulted Darryl Inaba, a leading drug expert at
the Haight-Ashbusy Free Clinic, he mentioned the fact that hed collared
a guy making synthetic mescaline. No fucking way, Inaba replied. Thats
just too hard to make. There are only a few people in the whole world
that might have the capability.
It was a beautiful, pure white, needlelike crystal, recalls Brooks.
Aparently, it was only synthesized several times, ever, and Pickard was
a guy who knew how to do it. That was the only time we ever saw it. Guys
like him do that just as a challenge, just to prove they can do it. I
dont think theres a market for it. It probably cost him way more to make
than he could ever sell it for.
Not surprisingly, a BNE search for Pickard accomplices proved fruitless.
We followed up leads in Daly City and in San Francisco, says Brooks,
also out in the southern East Bay, but never had anything solid. He was
very good about covering his tracks, and he and his circle of friends
were all the masters of using multiple identities and blind mail drops
and phones forwarded to other phones. I recall Mr. Pickard back in the
interview room, says BNE agent Tresmontan. He played a lot of things
close to the vest. I remember him sitting there with his legs crossed,
very calm, very friendly, somewhat guarded. My thought was, Heres a very
intelligent individual, maybe slightly eccentris.
When agents first encountered Pickard in the warehouse, he warned them
not to dismantle the lab. This is all bad stuff, Pickard advised. If I
were you, Id burn this place to the ground. I wouldnt process this
scene. Somebodyll get hurt.
Pickard proved to be right. One BNE agent on the scene, Max Houser,
somehow got dosed upon entering the lab, even though he wore a full-body
protective suit and a respirator. Whitin an hour or two, Houser went
into convulsions. An article about the case in a California forensics
journal describes what happened next: The agent was taken to the
hospital, where they administered Valium by IV to calm the anxiety. A
few hours later, he was discharged and went home. He was in the shower
when the Valium began to wear off and he began convulsing again. This
time he was taken to the Haight-Ashbury clinic and treated.
During his time in the emergency room, the article continues, he
reported a loud, buzzing and distressing sound that totally drowned out
all the other sound. The hospital people were talking to him, and he
could see people were talking to him, and he could see their lips move
but could onlu hear the loud noise. He was finally able to determine the
noise was coming from the automatic door that leads to the emergency
room.
The agent is starting to feel better but still has bouts of depression
and anxiety. These bouts continued for months.
Pickard expressed only limited sympathy for Housers plight. I regret his
difficult moments, he told me, although I suffered he same effects
without the benefit of protective suits a statement in which Pickard
seems to admit, for the first time pulicily, that he was indeed an acid
cooker, or at least spent time around LSD labs. Anxiety can spin out of
control when taken to the ER with a mind-set expecting psychosis and
surrounded by people who are inexperienced. Ideally, a talk-down should
suffice. A meadow and friends would be a completely different experience
than guns, radio, and fear, I am told. Even now, its almost impossible
to study overdose phenomena like these. Sustained exposure to unkown but
massive dosages of LSD, Pickard pointed out, as experienced by the few
unkown individuals worldwide who are responsible for its distribution,
has no parallel in clinical settings. I understand various psychiatrisrs
and pharmacologists would like to interview them, but they are,
necessarily, unavailable.
In 1988, Pickard was sentenced to eight years in Californias Terminal
Island Prison. Released early, in 1992


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan]
    #21035685 - 12/28/14 02:20 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

45th anniversary of "Psychedelic Shack" today.  Here's The Temptations performing the song on Ed Sullivan.



















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50th anniversary of Elvis Presley's LSD trip today. 







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Presley's journey also included reading Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, a 1954 book chronicling the British intellectual’s experiment with mescaline, an organic psychedelic. Schilling said Huxley’s sublime experience—“Everything shone with the Inner Light, and was infinite in its significance,” he wrote—appealed to Presley.

Hoping to discover this “Inner Light,” Presley enlisted Schilling, the entertainer's girlfriend (and later wife) Priscilla Beaulieu, and hairdresser Larry Geller to join him on an LSD “trip.” Schilling remembers the surrealism of the night. “Elvis and I started having an entire conversation just by laughing,” he said. “I stared at Elvis, and he seemed to morph into a child. He was this plump little boy, at times insecure. The more I stared, the more he changed. Eventually, I saw him as a baby smiling back at me, contented as could be.”

In 1960, LSD received Good Housekeeping’s seal of approval as a useful psychiatric drug, and by the time that Presley used it in 1965, it was still legal. But even so, Presley had no intentions of disclosing to the public his one-time usage of the psychedelic. Schilling says that unlike the Beatles, Presley never aimed to make his private experiences a part of his entertainment. Presley felt that with his fame came a certain responsibility to impressionable fans. That position increasingly made him the odd man out during the Vietnam era when artists and other celebrities sought to enhance their authenticity by wearing their establishment-challenging beliefs on their sleeves.

By 1967, Elvis Presley and the Beatles were a study in contrasts. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles’ celebration of their own spiritual and psychedelic explorations, won the Album of the Year Grammy. But Presley’s private search led him to a different musical expression. He took home his own statuette at that year's Grammy ceremony for the album How Great Thou Art. The category was Best Sacred Music.


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    A few days after Christmas, Elvis, Priscilla, Larry Geller, and I split up some tabs of acid upstairs at Graceland (Larry had managed to procure the LSD). Sonny West was with us, too, to serve as a non-indulging assistant and security detail if any of us needed help along the way.
    We took the tabs, then sat for a while. At some point, it seemed that no matter what anybody said, everybody else started laughing. I looked around at the people with me, and felt like I was not just seeing them, but seeing into them–really knowing them for the first time. I figured maybe they were looking at me the same way, and I started to feel vulnerable, a little too exposed. And that’s when the visuals started to kick in. I stared at Elvis sitting in his chair, and right before my eyes he seemed to morph into a child–a plump, happy little boy. And the more I stared, the more he shape-shifted–until I was seeing him as a great big, chubby baby smiling back at me, contented as could be. I started laughing, and Elvis started laughing, and I realized we were in for quite an adventure.
    As the feelings and visions continued to get stronger and stronger, I became a little frightened. I started to wonder if the visions would ever stop, if I’d ever get back to “normal” again. I wanted to be in a safe, enclosed place, to try to get a hold on my reeling mind’s eye. The spot that seemed safest to me was the walk-in closet in Elvis’ bedroom, where I sat under the clothes hanging there. Once I felt properly protected, I began laughing again, and I heard Elvis laugh in response to my laugh. He was still down the hall in the conference room, but we began communicating by laughing back and forth–a call and response of rippling roars and gut-busting horselaughs. The laughter didn’t feel forced or silly–it felt like a real conversation.
    When the laughter finally subsided, I peeked out from under the hanging clothes around me and saw an attractive creature, half-cat and half-woman, sort of rubbing and clawing its way along the bedroom wall, and then stopping before a mirror: Priscilla, looking striking and beautiful and lost in a world of her own.
    After a while, Elvis, Priscilla, Larry and I regrouped on the huge bed in Elvis’ room. Elvis flicked on the TV that was mounted from the ceiling above the bed. We looked up and were immediately sucked into “The Time Machine,” the somewhat disturbing George Pal adaptation of the H. G. Wells story, starring Rod Taylor and a cat of future-world mutants. It was a film we’d enjoyed before at Memphian screenings, but something felt a little off to me this time. The plot of the film somehow expanded around Rod and the mutants to include all of us on the bed. I felt like we were all in the movie–and that everything Rod and the other characters said applied to us.
    At some point, it occurred to the group that nobody had eaten for ten or twelve hours. Pizza sounded like a good idea, and Sonny made the call to have some delivered. When they finally arrived, they smelled great, but I noticed something unusual–from the bottom of the crust to the topping, the pies looked to me to be about three feet thick. I had no idea how I was going to get my mouth around something like that. From the looks on my partners’ faces as they tried to handle a slice, I could tell I wasn’t the only one overwhelmed by the idea of wrestling our way through the mozzarella and pepperoni in front of us. Sonny had no problem knocking off a couple of slices, but the rest of us realized that food and LSD were not a great mix.

Jerry Schilling, “Me and a Guy Named Elvis”


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Happy 70th Birthday Andrew Munro! 

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Len Pickard and Andy Munro may have been arrested for creating real life psychedelic shacks, but today The Temptations' hit by the same name is 50 years old! 










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I have no idea if he's still alive, but if he is, today is Andy Munro's 75th birthday.

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35th anniversary of William Pickard's Mountain View LSD bust today.








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So funny to hear about Teddington Lock in that story,.i was there a few months ago, beautiful down by the river in the summer.

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