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    #13836118 - 01/23/11 10:16 AM (13 years, 7 days ago)

  • 1944:  Brotherhood Of Eternal Love member Bob Ackerly is born




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  • 1966:  Third day of The Trips Festival takes place




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Trips Festival

  On many levels, the psychedelic sixties truly began at the Trips Festival held at Longshoremen's Hall at 400 North Point Street in San Francisco on the weekend of January 21, 22, and 23, 1966. Stewart Brand, who would go on to create the Whole Earth Catalog, came up with the original concept along with a musician and visual artist named Ramon Sender. With Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as the featured attraction, by far the wildest of the three events took place on Saturday night.
  Kesey, who had just been given a six-month sentence on a work farm as well as six months of probation for his marijuana bust at La Honda, had made front-page news in San Francisco just two days earlier by getting arrested yet again along with his companion Carolyn Adams, aka Mountain Girl, for smoking a joint on the roof of Brand's apartment in North Beach. No doubt in part to show their continuing support for Kesey, somewhere between three thousand and five thousand revelers who were stoned out of their heads on LSD that Owsley had provided jammed a hall that was only supposed to hold seventeen hundred people. In the words of Grateful Dead biographer Dennis McNally, "There were simply more people tripping in a single room ... than anyone had ever seen before."
  As Jerry Garcia would later say, "It was total insanity. I mean total, wall-to-wall, gonzo lunacy.... Everybody was just partying furiously. There were people jumping off balconies onto blankets and then bouncing up and down. I mean, there was incredible shit going on. Plus, it was like old home week. I met and saw everybody I had ever known. Every beatnik, every hippie, every coffeehouse hangout person from all over the state was there, all freshly psychedelicizcd."
  What with Hells Angels punching out members of other motorcycle clubs in the hallways as one of the Pranksters tried to force Big Brother and the Holding Company off the stage after they had per-formed just one song, the scene was so crazy that no one could control it. Which did not stop Bill Graham, who had only just begun putting on shows at the Fillmore Auditorium and had been brought in to help run the event, from doing all he could to stop the Pranksters from letting people in for free.
  After running all over the hall with a clipboard in his hand in search of Kesey, Graham finally found him standing at the back door letting in a constant stream of bikers. To keep the law from knowing he was there, Kesey was attending the event in a silver space suit with a helmet. After trying in vain to get Kesey's attention, Graham finally lost control and began screaming at him. With-out saying a word, Kesey simply flipped the visor of his helmet down and went right on doing as he pleased.
  As Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead would later say of Bill Graham that night, "We were with the Pranksters and the buzz was, `Who's that asshole with the clipboard?'" Aside from Jerry Garcia, with whom Graham would forge a lifelong bond on Sunday night by trying to put Garcia's shattered guitar back together so the Dead could play (which they never did), the only other person at the Trips Festival who understood what Bill Graham was all about was Owsley.
  "It was completely out of control and he was trying to control it, and of course he couldn't, because the harder you tried to grab it, the more slippery it became. I was real stoned when I came into contact with Bill, and I could see right through all the bullshit, and I realized he was half-terrified by what it was and was doing every-thing he could to control it and to suppress the realization that there was something special going on there besides something that was obviously making money."
  Owsley brought Tim Scully with him to the Trips Festival. Then twenty-six years old, Scully had skipped his senior year in high school to begin attending the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in mathematical physics. Having already built a small computer in middle school and a liner accelerator in high school, Scully had left the university in 1964 to work as an electronic design consultant.
  A few hours after having mailed in his tax return on April 15, 1965, Scully had taken LSD for the first time. Possessed by the notion that acid was a better solution to society's problems than technology, Scully then spent months tracking "down the source of his dose," who was of course Owsley. After spending weeks carefully checking Scully out, Owsley brought him to the Trips Festival to see how he would react, and the two then began working together on assembling state-of-the-art sound equipment for the Dead as well as the wholesale manufacture of high-quality LSD.
  One week after the Trips Festival, on January 29, 1966, Owsley joined the Grateful Dead at the Sound City Acid Test. During the event, held in a radio station in San Francisco, the band tried to record what they had been doing live to accompany the swirling madness created by the Pranksters. During the evening, Bob Weir "first sort of logged into Owsley. He was dressed in medieval garb, had a pageboy haircut, and was wearing a ruffled shirt, and he was a dandy. Of course I was loaded on LSD, so all that had its own little resonance with me.
  "I was on Owsley acid when I met Owsley, and he seemed like one of us. I was eighteen years old and he was as old as Kesey, at least thirty, but they were both more like kids than most kids you were going to see. We connected right away because he was a very, very interesting guy and seemed to know something about every-thing, and that appealed to me.
  "If you got involved in a discussion with Owsley even back then, you kind of had to pack a lunch. I think Phil was his closest contact in the band. They had already bonded because they both had really high IQ, and real good retention of information and they were both really curious. Together, they added up to different kaleidoscopes, if you will."
  Then twenty-five years old, Phil Lesh had attended Berkeley High School and the College of San Mateo before transferring to the University of California in Berkeley, where he dropped out after a single semester. Originally a violin player, he had also studied the trumpet and was an avid devotee of avant-garde classical music and free jazz. While working as an unpaid recording engineer at KPFA, Lesh had met Jerry Garcia, who talked him into becoming the bass player for the band that was then still known as the Warlocks. Unlike Garcia, Lesh had been formally trained and so could read music as well as write charts.
  Lesh and Owsley had first connected with each other at the Fill-more Acid Test on January 8, 1966. Having last seen a completely freaked-out Owsley dragging a chair across the floor in Muir Beach, Lesh thought Owsley now looked "like a conquering hero or some Robin Hood figure out of swashbuckling antiquity." Wearing "an Aussie digger hat and a leather caper Owsley seemed to Us "every inch the figure of the psychedelic warrior ... a man who knows he's on to something cosmic and eternal."
  Walking up to Owsley, Lesh extended his hand and said, "So, you're Owsley. I feel as if I've known you through many lifetimes." Immediately taking the conversation to another level, Owsley replied, "You have, and you will through many more to come." Lesh then felt as though he were living in Owsley's head, which may have been "the result of all the trips I'd taken using his product."
  Never one to pass on an opportunity, Owsley then asked what he could do for the band. "Phil said they did not have a manager. Having no interest in that role at all, I declined the offer. He then said they had no sound man, and I figured I could be good at that since I had audio experience in radio and TV. By the time of the Trips Festival, I was their sound man."


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  • 1970:  The Jefferson Airplane album Crown Of Creation goes gold




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Crown of Creation was released in 1968 and is the fourth album by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane, released as RCA Victor LSP-4058 (stereo). A mono version was released only to radio in the US (as LPM-4058), but was released commercially in other countries. This was the last Jefferson Airplane album to be released in mono. In addition, although the cover features the newer "modern" RCA Victor logos, initial stereo pressings and all mono pressings were on the black "Nipper" label (instead of the orange label associated with those logos). The album peaked at number 6 on the album charts and was eventually certified gold. The David Crosby-penned "Triad" is the only track not composed by an Airplane member, except that the lyrics to the title song are based on lines from John Wyndham's novel The Chrysalids) - unattributed, but with his permission. "Triad" was previously rejected for release by Crosby's group The Byrds as being too risqué.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Lather"  Grace Slick 2:57
2. "In Time"  Paul Kantner, Marty Balin 4:14
3. "Triad"  David Crosby 4:55
4. "Star Track"  Jorma Kaukonen 3:11
5. "Share a Little Joke"  Balin 3:09
6. "Chushingura" (instrumental) Spencer Dryden 1:20

Side two

1. "If You Feel"  Balin, Gary Blackman 3:21
2. "Crown of Creation" (Sampled from John Wyndham's "The Chrysalids"[2]) Kantner 2:54
3. "Ice Cream Phoenix"  Kaukonen, Charles Cockey 3:02
4. "Greasy Heart"  Slick 3:26
5. "The House at Pooneil Corners"  Kantner, Balin 5:54



Personnel

    * Marty Balin – vocals, rhythm guitar
    * Grace Slick – vocals, piano, organ
    * Paul Kantner – rhythm guitar, vocals
    * Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar, electric chicken, vocals
    * Spencer Dryden – drums, piano, organ, steel balls, vocals
    * Jack Casady – Yggdrasil bass
    * ∞ – percussion

Additional Personnel

    * Gary Blackman – nose solo
    * Charles Cockey – guitar, vocals
    * David Crosby – guitar
    * Tim Davis – congas[4]
    * Bill Goodwin – talking drums
    * Dan Woody – bongos
    * Gene Twombly – sound effects

Released September 1968
Recorded February 1968 – June 1968 at RCA Studios, Hollywood
Genre Acid rock, psychedelic rock
Length 38:31
Label RCA Victor
Producer Al Schmitt


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  • 1975:  Timothy Leary is ordered to pay $100,000 to the parents of Vernon Cox, who jumped to his death while on LSD in 1966




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LSD Death Costs Leary $100,000

  OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI)--Dr. Timothy Leary, the LSD guru of the 1960s, has been ordered to pay $100,000 to the parents of a youth who jumped to his death under influence of the drug.
  The default judgement was signed yesterday after Leary, serving time in prison for marijuana possession and escape, presented no defense.
  The suit was brought by retired Army Maj. and Mrs. Hollis R. Cox , Choctaw, Okla., parents of Vernon Cox, 20. Cox jumped from a third-story window of a Berkeley apartment in 1966 while under the influence of LSD after attending a lecture at which Leary advocated use of the drug.


(The Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 24 Jan 1975 Fri Main Edition Page 23)




LSD 'Trip' Ends In Fatal Fall For Berkeley Youth

  BERKELEY Calif. AP ) —An LSD "trip" with three friends ended with a fatal three-story fall for a Berkeley youth Sunday [July 31, 1966].
  Friends of Vernon L. Cox, 20, occasional University of California student and son of a retired Air Force officer, told police he jumped from a window some four hours after taking the hallucinatory drug LSD for the first time. 
  Kenneth D. Tavalin, 19, one of the witnesses to Cox's behavior I under the influence of the drug, said, "Vernon was in touch with reality one minute and the next minute he lost control. We re-strained him several times from leaving the apartment."
  Other witnesses were Ronald E. Ryer, 23, and Francis D. Turner, 30. Both lived in the Telegraph Avenue building from which the youth jumped, across the street from the one in which he lived.
  They said Cox repeatedly insisted he was going to take a trip to Europe.
  When they prevented him from leaving the apartment for the last time, they told police. Cox ran into a bedroom and jumped out the window. made.


(Wausau Daily Herald Wausau Wisconsin 01 Aug 1966 Mon Page 17)















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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/23) [Re: Learyfan]
    #15705884 - 01/23/12 05:48 AM (12 years, 8 days ago)

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/23) [Re: Learyfan] * 3
    #15705905 - 01/23/12 06:04 AM (12 years, 8 days ago)

What's up Learyfan? I'm happy to see that you're still around these parts. :smile:


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    #15705920 - 01/23/12 06:21 AM (12 years, 8 days ago)

Dark Star, what's up man?  Long time no see.  I thought about you recently and hoped you were doing well.  Good to see you around.  Cause you're the crown of creation.  :wink:
















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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/23) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #15706282 - 01/23/12 10:03 AM (12 years, 7 days ago)

you saying Animals was released today? that is some psychedelic history


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/23) [Re: clemens]
    #17594998 - 01/23/13 05:09 AM (11 years, 7 days ago)

It sure is.  And I have no idea when Crown Of Creation was released, so I have to settle for the day it went gold.  Here's the title track.
















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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/23) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #19461042 - 01/23/14 05:44 AM (10 years, 7 days ago)

Happy 70th Birthday Bob Ackerley.


















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    #21166093 - 01/23/15 05:34 AM (9 years, 7 days ago)

Today's the 45th anniversary of Crown Of Creation going gold, so here's a live performance of the title track on The Smothers Brothers show.  This performance was controversial because Grace was in black face.  It was almost certainly a gesture of solidarity for black people who were in a similar battle as the hippies, but you can see how easily that could be misunderstood. 

















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    #25762412 - 01/23/19 05:26 AM (5 years, 6 days ago)

Happy 75th Birthday to Bob Ackerly!

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    #27165028 - 01/23/21 08:09 AM (3 years, 5 days ago)

55th anniversary of the third day of The Trips Festival.









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    #27165420 - 01/23/21 12:58 PM (3 years, 4 days ago)

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Lol so goes the "lets just blame all our problems on other people" defense that ignores everything wrong parents ever did.  Oh the late 60s were great for that. 

Learyfan have you ever validated that story?  Sounds more like a scare story with the whole "people leaping from windows or roofs thinking they can fly on LSD" that never actually happened.


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/23) [Re: Typerwritermonky]
    #27629351 - 01/23/22 09:02 AM (2 years, 4 days ago)

Did I validate the story of Vernon Cox jumping from the window because of LSD or Leary being forced to pay because of it? I assume you mean Cox jumping. Well I guess you'd have to ask Kenneth D. Tavalin, Ronald E. Ryer and Francis D. Turner. They were apparently the eye witnesses to the incident.

I definitely think it's a scare story that's based off two or three real incidents. In other words, these incidents actually happened, but in the grand scheme of things, they aren't worthy of being remembered the way they have been. But that's how it went with LSD. Any negative story, true or not, stuck in the public's collective memory. But unlike "kids go blind while staring at the sun", "hippie girl babysitter puts kid in oven", etc., this one's true. UC Berkeley student Susan Abshear was another kid who jumped to her death while on LSD. There may have been more, but those are the two earliest ones that I'm aware of. Here's proof of that story's staying power. It's Bill Hicks' "positive drug story" bit.









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