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#13108942 - 08/27/10 07:53 AM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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- 1943: Michael Randall of The Brotherhood Of Eternal Love is born
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Memories from the Summer of Love: Meet the ’60s Couple Who Helped ‘Turn on the World’ to LSD
By Johnny Dodd•@johnny_dodd Posted on September 4, 2017
Fifty years ago, in a psychedelic haze of tie-dye and patchouli oil, an estimated 100,000 hippies, flower children and countless other free spirits descended upon San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood during the Summer of Love.
And Michael Randall, along with his wife, Carol, was smack dab in the middle of it all, giving away LSD — which had become illegal in the state months earlier — to anyone who wanted it, convinced that the drug would usher in a “spiritual awakening” on the planet.
“I remember this one beautiful, magnificent day,” Michael, 74, tells PEOPLE. “Jefferson Airplane was doing a free concert in Golden Gate Park and we passed out 8,000 doses of Orange Sunshine. We got the whole place loaded. I’ll tell you what, nobody went home that night the same as when they woke up. It was downright revolutionary.”
In the annals of ’60s lore, Michael and Carol, along with a handful of Southern California surfers who called themselves the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, played a starring role.
Dubbed the Hippie Mafia, they distributed and later produced a potent, popular form of LSD known as Orange Sunshine — taken by everyone from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix to Steve Jobs — in an effort to create a “psychedelic revolution.”
The trippy, mind-altering story of the Brotherhood is chronicled in the newly-released documentary Orange Sunshine, directed and produced by filmmaker William Kirkley, now available on iTunes.
“We were just a bunch of young people who found their way to psychedelics and decided to band together,” explains Michael. “We thought the whole world was going to wind up taking acid and this earth-shaking transformational change was upon us, that war would end and people would end up living closer to nature.”
In an effort to turn the world on to LSD, first synthesized by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938, they often gave the drug away for free, paying their bills by the cash earned from smuggling hashish into the country.
“We weren’t gangsters,” says Michael. “We didn’t carry guns, rob banks or hurt people. We were doing this for all the right reasons and we truly didn’t benefit economically. We were living in teepees and driving old pickup trucks.”
One of Orange Sunshine’s fans was Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who described his sojourns with the drug to his biographer Waltar Isaacson as “a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important — creating great things instead of making money.”
Randall reckons the group distributed upwards of 130 million doses of Orange Sunshine before federal drug agents finally busted the Brotherhood in 1972. Many of his cohorts ended up in prison, but Michael, Carol and their kids spent the next 12 years on the run before he was finally arrested in 1984 and sent to prison for five years.
These days, the Randalls get an I-told-you-so chuckle every time they hear about another scientific study involving psychedelics, such as LSD, which is now being researched for its potential to relieve everything from clinical depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder to anxiety in cancer patients and depression in hospice patients.
“The ’60s was a movement of people who saw how things could be done better,” says Carol. “It was a whole movement that changed things and the Brotherhood was a big part of it. We wanted to create a spiritual revolution and nothing less.”
(http://people.com)
5. Randall, Michael Boyd, DOB 8/27/43, fugitive.
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Tim Scully
Aug 27, 1944 -
Summary
Tim Scully is best known in the psychedelic underground for his work in the production of LSD from 1966 to 1969, for which he was indicted in 1973 and convicted in 1974. His best known product, dubbed "Orange Sunshine", was considered the standard for quality LSD in 1969. Scully worked with Owsley Stanley and Nick Sand in the late 1960s. During his LSD manufacturing career, Scully worked in four labs (documented in his 1973 trial):
* With Bear (Owsley) in a Pt. Richmond, CA lab in 1966, as his apprentice * With Bear in a first Denver lab (set up by Scully) in 1967 * On his own in a second Denver lab in 1968 * In a Windsor, CA lab, which he set up in 1969 (where Orange Sunshine was made and where Nick Sand learned the process)
Scully had his work "busted" twice — once in 1969 for the 1968 Denver lab (the search was eventually ruled illegal in 1972) and once in 1973 for the 1969 Windsor lab conspiracy (which resulted in a 20 year sentence). Scully spent his time in prison helping with computers and improving communications for disabled prisoners.
His entire life, Tim Scully has been interested in cutting edge technology and computers. As a teen in 1958, he earned an honorable mention at a San Francisco Bay Area science fair for designing and building a small computer. He later received recognition for building a small linear accelerator pictured in a 1961 edition of the Oakland Tribune. He was trying to make gold atoms from mercury.
Scully has been a pilot much of his adult life and has worked in biofeedback and interface systems for people with disabilities. He has published eight articles on the topic of biofeedback and as many on technical computer topics. He retired from his years of work with Autodesk in 2005 and is currently researching a book on the underground history of LSD.
(http://www.erowid.org/)
Robert "Tim" Scully (born August 27, 1944) is best known in the psychedelic underground for his work in the production of LSD from 1966 to 1969, for which he was indicted in 1973 and convicted in 1974. His best known product, dubbed "Orange Sunshine", was considered the standard for quality LSD in 1969.
Scully grew up in Pleasant Hill, which was across the Bay from San Francisco. In eighth grade he won honorable mention in the 1958 Bay Area Science Fair for designing and building a small computer. During high school he spent summers working at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory on physics problems. In his junior year of high school, Scully completed a small linear accelerator in the school science lab (he was trying to make gold atoms from mercury) which was pictured in a 1961 edition of the Oakland Tribune. Scully skipped his senior year of high school and went directly to U.C. Berkeley majoring in mathematical physics. After two years at Berkeley, Scully took a leave of absence in 1964 because his services as an electronic design consultant were in high demand. Tim Scully first took LSD on April 15, 1965.
Scully knew the government would move quickly to suppress LSD distribution, and he wanted to obtain as much of the main precursor chemical, lysergic acid, as possible. Scully soon learned that Owsley Stanley possessed a large amount (440 grams) of lysergic acid monohydrate. Owsley and Scully finally met a few weeks before the Trips Festival in the fall of 1965. The 30-year-old Owsley took the 21 year old Scully as his apprentice and they pursued their mutual interest in electronics and psychedelic synthesis.
Owsley took Scully to the Watts Acid Test on February 12, 1966, and they built electronic equipment for the Grateful Dead until late spring 1966. In July 1966 Owsley rented a house in Point Richmond, California and Owsley and Melissa Cargill (Owsley's girlfriend who was a skilled chemist) set up a lab in the basement. Tim Scully worked there as Owsley's apprentice. Owsley had developed a method of LSD synthesis which left the LSD 99.9% free of impurities. The Point Richmond lab turned out over 300,000 tablets (270 micrograms each) of LSD they dubbed "White Lightning". LSD became illegal in California on October 6, 1966, and Scully wanted to set up a new lab in Denver, Colorado.
Scully set up the new lab in the basement of a house across the street from the Denver zoo in early 1967. Owsley and Scully made the LSD in the Denver lab. Later Owsley started to tablet the product in Orinda, California but was arrested before he completed that work. Owsley and Scully also produced a new psychedelic in Denver which they called STP. STP was initially distributed at the summer solstice festival in 1967: 5,000 tablets (20 milligrams each) which quickly acquired a bad reputation. Owsley and Scully made trial batches of 10 mg tablets and then STP mixed with LSD in a few hundred yellow tablets but soon ceased production of STP. Owsley and Scully produced about 196 grams of LSD in 1967, but 96 grams of this was confiscated by the authorities; Scully moved the lab to a different house in Denver after Owsley was arrested on Christmas Eve 1967.
Tim Scully first met William "Billy" Mellon Hitchcock, grandson of William Larimer Mellon and great-great-grandson of Thomas Mellon, through Owsley in April 1967. They became friends and Billy loaned Scully $12,000 for the second Denver lab in 1968. The product from the lab was distributed by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love; Scully was connected with the Brotherhood via Billy Hitchcock.
The second Denver lab was discovered by the police while Scully was out of town. His lab assistants were arrested there when they returned a few days later. Scully was not arrested at that time.
In December 1968 Nick Sand (through an intermediary) purchased a farmhouse in Windsor, California where he and Tim Scully set up a large LSD lab. Tim Scully and Nick Sand (another psychedelic chemist) produced over 3.6 million tablets (300 micrograms each) of LSD they dubbed "Orange Sunshine" by the summer of 1969. In May 1969 Tim Scully was arrested in California for the 1968 Denver lab. The search was eventually ruled illegal, but Scully decided to retire from clandestine chemistry and pursue electronic design instead. In 1969 Scully formed his own corporation, Aquarius Electronics, and he was president and sole designer from 1971-1976.
The government had been building a case against Tim Scully's partner in the Windsor lab, Nick Sand, since late 1971. In early 1973 Billy Hitchcock was threatened with 24 years in prison for tax evasion if he didn't help the government convict the prime movers of the LSD cartel. Billy provided evidence and testified against Tim Scully and Nick Sand and they were both indicted in April 1973. Scully's defense was that he was producing ALD-52, which was legal, and not the controlled substance LSD-25. Scully lost the case and was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1974. Scully's appeals ran out in late 1976, so he sold his stock in his company and began serving prison time in early 1977.
Scully spent his time in prison helping design and build biofeedback and interface systems for the non-vocal handicapped. Scully's sentence was reduced to 10 years and he was released on parole from prison in 1980. Since his release from prison Scully (2005 pic) has published eight articles on the topic of biofeedback and as many on technical computer topics. He retired from his years of work with Autodesk in 2005 and is currently researching a book on the underground history of LSD. He has written a chronology of his life.
(https://en.wikipedia.org)
- 1972: The Grateful Dead's "Sunshine Daydream" movie concert takes place
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Sunshine Daydream is a music documentary film starring the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was shot at their August 27, 1972 concert at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon. Unreleased for many years, the movie was sometimes shown at small film festivals, and bootleg recordings of it circulated on VHS and DVD, and as digital downloads. A digitally remastered and reedited official version of the film was released on August 1, 2013, showing only one time in selected theaters. It was screened with Grateful Days, a new documentary short that includes interviews with some of the concert attendees. Sunshine Daydream will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 17, 2013.
Sunshine Daydream is also a live album containing the complete August 27, 1972 Grateful Dead concert. Produced as a 3–disc CD and as a 4-disc LP, it will be released by Rhino Records on September 17, 2013.
The name Sunshine Daydream is taken from the coda section of the Dead song "Sugar Magnolia".
Concert
The lineup of the Grateful Dead for this concert — and for all their concerts from July 1972 to October 1974 — was Jerry Garcia on guitar and vocals, Bob Weir on guitar and vocals, Phil Lesh on bass and vocals, Keith Godchaux on keyboards, Donna Jean Godchaux on vocals, and Bill Kreutzmann on drums.
The show was a benefit for the Springfield Creamery in nearby Springfield, Oregon. Merry Pranksters Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs emceed the concert. The Dead played all afternoon and into the dark after an opening set by the New Riders of the Purple Sage. In 2004, the New Riders' performance was released as an album called Veneta, Oregon, 8/27/72.
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Production
The concert was filmed using four 16 mm cameras, in the woods of the Oregon Coast Range foothills, on the grounds of the Oregon Country Fair. Originally even more cameras had been planned, under an ambitious scheme: "The plot was to develop a signature visual style of representing the band: a camera for each of the 16 channels (at least!) emphasizing the visual kinetics of the music making itself as well as the enormous open communication within the band."
Songs in the film
"Playing in the Band" "Promised Land" "China Cat Sunflower" "I Know You Rider" "Jack Straw" "Bird Song" "Dark Star" "El Paso" "Sing Me Back Home" "Greatest Story Ever Told"
Album
Sunshine Daydream is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on August 27, 1972 at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon. Produced as a 3–disc CD and as a 4-disc LP, it will be released by Rhino Records on September 17, 2013.
Track listing
Disc 1
First set:
"Introduction" – 4:01 "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 3:24 "Sugaree" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 7:30 "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:16 "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:55 "Black-Throated Wind" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 7:01 "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:58 "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:03 "Mexicali Blues" (Weir, Barlow) – 3:49 "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:59
Disc 2
Second set:
"Playing in the Band" (Mickey Hart, Weir, Hunter) – 19:57 "He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:32 "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 5:06 "Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:17 "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Weir, Hunter) – 5:36
Disc 3
Third set:
"Dark Star" (Garcia, Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 31:28 "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 5:04 "Sing Me Back Home" (Merle Haggard) – 10:51 "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 8:45 "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:25 "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 5:03
Personnel
Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals Keith Godchaux – keyboards Bill Kreutzmann – drums Phil Lesh – bass, vocals Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
Production
Mixing, mastering: Jeffrey Norman Recording: Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor-Jackson Illustration: Steve Vance Tie-dye art: Courtenay Pollock
(https://en.wikipedia.org)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan]
#13110565 - 08/27/10 03:25 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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Here's the unreleased "Sunshine Daydream" movie. It's so good. It would have been amazing to have been there. Even Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs emceed the show. How perfect is that. It's like an old school Acid Test.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#13111590 - 08/27/10 08:28 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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Very good as always
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Country1]
#13111616 - 08/27/10 08:34 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy Birthday Tim Scully! Thank you so much for your work.

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Country1]
#14984661 - 08/26/11 10:59 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy 67th Birthday Tim!

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan] 2
#14985119 - 08/27/11 12:52 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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I basically look forward to reading these posts everyday so that at least something of value occurs within my day. Thank you much, sir!
-------------------- And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem. ~Jerry Garcia I am a catepillar surfing on smoke through Shpongleland...
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: 420Experience]
#14986126 - 08/27/11 10:51 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wow, what a nice compliment. Thanks to you too, 420.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: 420Experience]
#16741557 - 08/27/12 04:46 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy Birthday Tim! 
Also, 40th anniversary of the Sunshine Daydream show.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#16742163 - 08/27/12 09:20 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wish orange sunshine was still around! Thanks for the update!
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: FakePlasticSky] 1
#18762625 - 08/27/13 05:45 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well orange sunshine isn't around, but in exactly three weeks, they're finally releasing the DVD of Sunshine Daydream. That should be pretty interesting. The quality looks great. Check out the promo video.....
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan]
#20482841 - 08/27/14 05:40 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy 70th Birthday Tim Scully!

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan]
#22149991 - 08/27/15 06:20 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan]
#23582909 - 08/27/16 09:48 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan]
#24583019 - 08/27/17 10:35 AM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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45th anniversary of the Sunshine Dream concert today.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan]
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan]
#26154748 - 08/27/19 05:47 AM (4 years, 4 months ago) |
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Happy 75th Birthday to Tim Scully!

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan]
#26901592 - 08/27/20 04:12 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#26902639 - 08/27/20 04:09 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sunshine Daydream movie is hard to find. Even pure audio is in short supply. How come in the Internet age with streaming everything, lawyers and contracts, keep the libraries small and restricted
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: InfiniteDreams]
#27444644 - 08/27/21 04:58 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dude, you can find that show all over the internet. You're not looking hard enough.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (08/27) [Re: Learyfan]
#27920809 - 08/27/22 07:56 AM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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50th anniversary of the Sunshine Daydream concert today! Shroomery member Farm3r posted a YouTube link to a really good Grateful Dead podcast about the event. It's very entertaining, comprehensive and thorough! Check it out.....
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