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Learyfan
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Today in psychedelic history (08/08) 1
#13025457 - 08/09/10 07:54 AM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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- 1967: George Harrison visits Haight-Ashbury
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During the summer of 1966 the Beatles played their last live concert at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. After a short break, they spent the next six months in the recording studio working on “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” their eighth studio album. After the record's release on June 1, 1967 they took another short break during the so-called “Summer of Love.” George and his wife Patti came back to San Francisco on Aug. 8, 1967, and visited the Haight. They had traveled from England to Los Angeles the week before, renting a house on Blue Jay Way, which gave Harrison an idea for the tune of the same name. George traveled north to San Francisco, telling reporters that he was simply curious about the hippie phenomenon. George, Patti, and Beatles press agent, Derek Taylor, drove into the area in the early evening and strolled, unnoticed, along Haight Street. They reached the sector of Golden Gate Park, then known as "Hippie Hill", where they found a young man performing before a gathering of about 20 long-haired youths. After a few minutes, Harrison asked to borrow the musician's guitar, and proceeded to play. After a few moments he was recognized and a sizable crowd formed. He stopped in a park to play a few bars of "Baby, You're a Rich Man" for the hippies. After a few minutes Harrison shouted “Let's go for a walk.” As he walked and strummed the guitar the hippies followed along. As the crowd left the park and moved down Haight, it grew. When asked how he liked the Haight, he answered “Wow, if it's all like this, it's too much.”
(http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/)
As shy and reclusive as he was said to be, he stood out again when he came back to San Francisco on Aug. 8, 1967, and visited the Haight. He and his wife,
Patti Boyd, had traveled from England to Los Angeles the week before, renting a house on Blue Jay Way, which gave Harrison an idea for the tune of the same name. He'd helped promote, and attended, a concert by Ravi Shankar, the Indian composer and sitar player, in Hollywood.
LEADING A CROWD IN THE HAIGHT
Now, in San Francisco, he told reporters that he was simply curious about the hippie phenomenon. George, then 24, Patti, and Beatles press agent Derek Taylor drove into the area in the early evening and strolled, unnoticed, along Haight Street. They reached the sector of Golden Gate Park then known as "Hippie Hill," where they found a young man performing before a gathering of about 20 longhaired youths. After a few minutes, Harrison asked to borrow the musician's guitar, and proceeded to play. A few more minutes later, one young woman finally recognized him.
"Hey," she shouted. "That's George Harrison. That's George Harrison!"
David Swanston, a Chronicle reporter on the scene, noted what happened next:
"As the cry echoed through the park, hippies clambered down hills, dropped from trees and sprang from behind bushes. A sizable crowd formed.
"Harrison played for about 10 more minutes and then shouted, 'Let's go for a walk.'
" 'Yeah,' shouted the hippies, 'let's go.'
"And off they went. Harrison strumming the guitar, the hippies following along. As the crowd left the park and moved down Haight, it grew. And grew.
"As Harrison strolled and strummed, hippies bubbled up beside him and posed questions:
" 'How does it feel to have the family all together?' one asked.
" 'It's gettin' better all the time,' Harrison responded.
" 'What do ya think of the Haight-Ashbury?' another queried.
" 'Wow, if it's all like this, it's too much,' Harrison answered."
'HIDEOUS, SPOTTY' TEENS
But that's not what he told others. In "Dark Horse," a Harrison biography, author Geoffrey Giuliano quotes him saying that he'd thought the Haight "would be something like King's Road (in London), only more. Somehow I expected them to all own their own little shops. I expected them all to be nice and clean and friendly and happy."
Instead, he said, he found the hippies "hideous, spotty little teenagers." (Giuliano also described Harrison as being too stoned to play, offending the crowd by returning the guitar without singing, and being chased back to his limo by a "wild band of jeering hippies.")
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- 1997: The Shroomery goes online
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As told to me by Ythan!
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Edited by Learyfan (08/07/21 07:00 AM)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: Learyfan]
#14888801 - 08/08/11 05:21 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy 14th birthday to The Shroomery!

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: Learyfan] 2
#14889280 - 08/08/11 08:58 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHROOMERY!!! Thanks for all the work you've done perpetuating this informative and beautiful science, you are truly one of a kind.
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: Altered States]
#16664649 - 08/08/12 05:40 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy 15th Birthday to The Shroomery!

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Edited by Learyfan (08/08/20 09:13 AM)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#16664667 - 08/08/12 05:45 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Learyfan said:
- 1997: The Shroomery goes online
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As told to me by Ythan!
WOW, super cool, Happy birthday Shroomery!

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: dwpineal] 1
#16665326 - 08/08/12 10:02 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! for a present to us you should make a signature, framed, shroomery blotter
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: prettyMushy] 1
#16665725 - 08/08/12 11:52 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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prettyMushy said: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! for a present to us you should make a signature, framed, shroomery blotter
Made this for another thread, but here you go 
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: dwpineal] 1
#16665940 - 08/08/12 01:48 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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dwpineal said:
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prettyMushy said: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! for a present to us you should make a signature, framed, shroomery blotter
Made this for another thread, but here you go 

lol what would be a good way to print it, honestly i just wanna mak eit look real and put it in a frame
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: dwpineal]
#16667219 - 08/08/12 06:04 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Haha, awesome!

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#16667231 - 08/08/12 06:06 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hahahaha NICE!
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: dwpineal] 1
#16667248 - 08/08/12 06:09 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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dwpineal said:
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prettyMushy said: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! for a present to us you should make a signature, framed, shroomery blotter
Made this for another thread, but here you go 

I wanna make this a blotter with white fluff on it!! Anyone that puts RC or weak ass blotters must be banned from this site forever.
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: FakePlasticSky]
#16667280 - 08/08/12 06:15 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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BTW, not to downplay the momentous 15th anniversary of The Shroomery, but I have to play a clip about George Harrison's visit to Haight Ashbury, since this is the 45th anniversary of that event. It's very interesting that this moment is when George (for the most part?) (completely?) stopped taking LSD.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#16667404 - 08/08/12 06:35 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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George Harrison stopping drugs "like a boss"!
Hey good for him when he decided he didn't want to do drugs any longer. If you're done, then all the power to you!
But I know the music he produced when fucked up on LSD and Heroin was what changed music forever!
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: FakePlasticSky]
#16667467 - 08/08/12 06:48 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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He actually didn't stop doing drugs at this time. He may have stopped doing LSD at this time and then went through a long period where he was mostly sober and just meditated all the time. But I learned from the George Harrison documentary called Living In The Material World that he started doing hard drugs in the mid-late 70's. Which is something that I had always suspected for some reason, but never knew for sure. However, I think it was mostly coke and alcohol? Not sure if he ever did heroin or not. He definitely wasn't on it during his time in The Beatles.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#16667622 - 08/08/12 07:18 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Learyfan said: He actually didn't stop doing drugs at this time. He may have stopped doing LSD at this time and then went through a long period where he was mostly sober and just meditated all the time. But I learned from the George Harrison documentary called Living In The Material World that he started doing hard drugs in the mid-late 70's. Which is something that I had always suspected for some reason, but never knew for sure. However, I think it was mostly coke and alcohol? Not sure if he ever did heroin or not. He definitely wasn't on it during his time in The Beatles.

Interesting.... Well I remembered watching a documentary on Lennon. There was the moment when he was trying to kick heroin. It was said that the whole group was doing it, but lennon was the one most addicted.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: FakePlasticSky]
#18676628 - 08/08/13 05:57 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy 16th Birthday Shroomery! You're old enough to drive a car now. 
Click here to read a thread I made last year, asking Ythan to recollect the beginning of The Shroomery.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: Learyfan] 2
#18677637 - 08/08/13 11:54 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Learyfan said: Happy 15th Birthday to The Shroomery!

Happy Birthday, indeed! I didn't stumble upon this community until ten years later, 2007, but...better late than NEVER!
Thanks Learyfan for all you contributions. I always check your posts!
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: Nature Boy]
#18677942 - 08/08/13 12:45 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm glad you like 'em. I do it for you! But yeah, today is the 16th now. We can drive now. 
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#20390682 - 08/08/14 05:38 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy 17th Birthday Shroomery!

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/08) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#20391412 - 08/08/14 11:07 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy Birthday indeed!!!....Thanks Shroomery and Thanks to you Learyfan!
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