I had that same experience that George was describing about having that perfect feeling, but at the time I was on a London tube train with two of my friends and I started dancing up and down the tube train and stupidly I had fun keeping the train doors open. Which attracted a policeman at the next station and we were all arrested and I ended up in a prison cell to be collected by my mother, I was only 16 and will never forget that day. I’am 70 years old now 🎉
Your paramoia got you arrested. If yous had held it together you could have avoided the whole arrest situation. The police rely on you subconsciously giving yourself away.
@@bigbasil1908 Bro really missed the point of the story. Don't care so much about what could've been. Care about the lessons learned and the memories made
Worrying about the police always feels so odd when you’re high. You’re in ecstasy feeling amazing yet the feeling you’re having is illegal. What a crazy world.
I was a teen in the 60's and a huge Beatles fan. I heard they were doing LSD, that was the rage at the time. Their music certainly changed, which was shocking for someone who saw them on Ed Sullivan. They were Rock N Rollers. I thought Revolver was pretty strange. Nevertheless, I liked their psychedelic songs, they were great at that too. But they weren't the clean-cut guys I thought earlier, I thought the crazy stuff belonged to the Rolling Stones, LOL. The psychedelic time was good, many great songs from many groups. I love the Eastern influence, truly beautiful music.
@@TeaParty1776 - **Mrs. PeeTartie,** Ma'am, That's if you're watching your Fankie Avalon and Annette Funicello movies. Dat nifty shit's coming back, jack. You don't watch "*OFFBEAT CINEMA"* on Saturday's at midnight? It's on MyTv. FFS.... I'm always educating the ingrates on this site. RUclips's full of ya's. Mama mia. You da crazy American, yah. Dat one who think you is the queen, when is not true? Mama Mia, you big dumdum.. Imma-gonna-slappa-you-dumdum-wit-the-wet-spaghetti. Mama Mia
He was definitely a more sedate and intellectual type but not particularly shy, he actually jabbered quite a bit. He said John always gets his way because was the loudest.
My dad was Ringo's official chauffeur for the last couple of years before they split, '69/'70. During that time he drove all them at some point & he had plenty of stories to tell. The one thing he really didn't like doing was being sent off to a door somewhere in Petticoat Lane where he would be given a sealed brown envelope to take back for them. Obviously he knew what was inside although what type of drugs were inside he never knew or asked. It was his job, but those runs played heavily on his mind quite a lot at the time. I was only 9/10 at the time so it wasn't until I was much older that he shared some of his experiences with me.
@@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 His job was Ringo's official chauffer so he had to drive or collect items for him. He did what the boss asked him to do. Technically you're right & it played on his mind all his life which was sad really that the Beatles actually made him do it.
@@rsmith7912 Obviously I was joking but sorry if I offended you. I'm sure your father was a good guy as are the Beatles who hired him. The drug laws are draconian and especially back then. If it's not harming others, people should be allowed to do as they like.
@@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 I totally agree with you. People should be allowed to take whatever they want. With alcohol and tobacco being the 2 most addictive drugs going yet they're OK cos the government gets so much tax money from them being legal. My dad was from a different generation though and even the mention of anything drug related, to him it was like the end of mankind. I'm sure the other beatles chauffeurs probably had to do the same thing but I don't know if they did or not. After the beatles split & things all went a bit messy when yoko came on the scene, my dad had had enough of Ringo's shallowness one day and he quit telling Ringo to shove his job where the sun don't shine. I know who was the bigger man. Bless him, he died 3 years ago at the age of 89. Best dad in the world.
@@rsmith7912 I'm sorry to hear that your father considered Ringo shallow. He comes across as a really mellow and agreeable guy in _The Beatles: Get Back_ but maybe he came across differently to subordinates. Some people are like that.
Wow....this was excellent information. Of course, everyone's heard that the Beatles all took LSD, but very little information came out about it. This was, by far, the most detailed information I've ever seen. Very interesting! Thanks for posting!
In Lennon’s book he says he has thousands of doses He would just eat it While I’ll admit hearing that when I was young did not lay the best influences on me you can find lots of incredible psychedlia in some corners you might not have ever expected when it comes to them Much love
@@treasurehunteruk9718- I still smoke it…I used to smoke it, but I still do. I used to do LSD in the 70’s and would have no idea how much I did in all. I don’t do LSD any more…too extreme!
@@Raviolli- John used to keep a mortar and pestle on his mantle and crush up a mixture of drugs…dip his finger in it, and go out and about for the day! Those were the days!
Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes Cellophane flowers of yellow and green Towering over your head Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes And she's gone Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds As much as John may deny it, it sounds exactly like an LSD trip.
If he had admitted the truth, the BBC would have pulled the record from airplay and dealers might have pulled it from distribution and sale. Just a thought.
It sounds exactly like what he says it's about; a picture his niece (or some relative) drew. I can just imagine the picture. That's the sort of shit kids draw. It seems so LSD related because 1) you're looking for it based on how the song sounds 2) the psychedelic, abstract, free-form, Salvadorian style of lyricism had completely permeated John's psyche. Pretty much every song he wrote could be interpreted as a trip around then. Why would he lie about it considering in literally every other situation ever he is completely honest about his LSD use? If the BBC gave a shit, he'd have long since been dropped anyway. Realistically what probably happened: He saw the picture, got inspired to write a song about it, started playing around with some melodies to describe the picture, realised the melody had a very psychedelic feel to it, and then made the lyrics even trippier to suit the song.
For those that have never experienced what LSD did. It simply relegates everything to equal importance. Our brain processes priorities. The angles of a city view are never considered important but on LSD it means as much as anything in the world. That is why its mind blowing. You see the world naked. Im glad i did this when i was 18 and also glad that i stopped after a couple of trips.
Great comment. You don't need more than a couple of trips if you successfully integrate the experience into your sober life. In fact, i would say overdoing it on psychs can end up really counter productive if you're doing it with the intention of "seeking enlightenment" or some kind of positive personal growth
"relegates everything to equal importance" very interesting way of putting it. I would however change the word relegates to elevates. The most minute details will have seemingly the most profound impact. But yes, it lifts the veil of the noise we filter out and gives it meaning.
Perfect explanation, probably the greatest I ever heard someone explaining it. What’s funny to me is weed already does all that for me to a certain extent. It makes me think to my full potential and get work done… only for me to be lazy and not do anything lol but I’m sure acid gets you in that clear state of mind to actually reach your personal peak and stuff
Spectacular. My dad told me about this story when he used to get rolling stone magazine and read about it back in the day. Sooo grateful someone uploaded this.
@@indraclubproductions9051 Ah Thank You! 🙏 Your making some great pieces, keep at it! My pops actually didn’t want me to look it up at first. Because sometimes we remember things better than they were. But this did total justice to my fathers recollection!
In our health education classes in junior high, we were subjected to watching regular in-school educational movies, about the dangers of taking LSD & smoking pot,....this was in 1968 & 1969. The movies were so bad, that they had the opposite effect on me. Imagine how bad they were when they tried to describe a "trip" in film. This wasn't a Hollywood production,....so the images showed blurry visions, undulating smoke, rooms spinning, people wearing weird monster costumes, which they implied was what someone would experience during a hallucination. We used to laugh at those terrible "scare tactic" movies. I couldn't wait for the days, when I would try LSD and smoke pot. The whole Summer of 1969, my friends and I were able to get/buy "weed" from their older siblings,...and by luck, hashish was more available than weed at the time. Every weekend, we'd experiment by smoking hashish. In the beginning I thought there was something wrong with me, since I felt nothing, after smoking way more than would have been necessary. Then about 3 weeks in,....BLAM, it hit me. I got really super stoned on the hash, and I loved every minute of my high. We made it our "every weekend" fun time. The hash was strong and my highs lasted 4 to 6 hours. We mostly giggled, and enjoyed describing our weird visions and thoughts. The hard part was sobering up enough, to not trigger our parents suspicions,....who recognized that our non-stop laughing, seemed peculiar.
Did they show you the one where Billy and his friends skip school, go down an alley to smoke pot and, after smoking, Billy is thirsty, so he smashes a bottle neck against a brick wall to open it and jams the jagged edge into his mouth - blood gushing out? Kids - don't smoke pot or THIS could happen to YOU!! - The false teachings had exactly the same effect on me. One year out of high school I was a burned-out piece of toast. And I JUST saw an old Dragnet episode last week where they're lecturing kids on the dangers and one of the girls says 'yeah, I won't use lsd because of all the birth defects it causes all those babies.'
@@skinovtheperineum1208 Uh, no. I never saw those ones. And I while I began smoking weed back then and never stopped, it didn't ruin my life. I purposely attended a college where weed was easily accessible, and a grad school, too. I never went on to "harder drugs". Though I sampled other ones. Not heroin or meth.
hey man, i know you're just trying to show your experience, and i definitely get your point of view... but please don't try and promote drugs... you're very lucky you weren't seriously injured. you're describing it like its a fun, safe thing to do, when they can actually be very harmful, so i wouldn't recommend promoting it so prominently.
@@strawberryfields253 I hear you, but everything we used to think was true has been reversed by the Medical community. Medical marijuana is being sold and used daily now, and they are now researching "micro-dosing" LSD and magic mushrooms for therapeutic use. I believe my sharing my experiences will have no impact on young or old minds. I wasn't injured because weed, hashish & even LSD, aren't harmful. Unless you do dangerous things while on them. That being said, I have had friends and strangers tell me, they drove, & worked various jobs, while under the influence. I have known many alcoholics, who ran companies, operated heavy machinery, & worked in the building trades. Nobody should be looking at You Tube comments for sage advice, about navigating life...imo.
I just finished reading; Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Goodden (2017). A fascinating read. John and George (especially John) did a metric ton of LSD.
Thank you so much to all responsible for putting this together and presenting it here. To those of us who were there and are still here, this is pure gold.
Used to buy trips from a one armed vet chemist, he was always following the dead, or other jam bands, and sold notebooks of various types, not sheets(100 hits), but notebooks(100 sheets,10,000 hits). I knew right then I was going to turn into a magic wizard to consciousness for others, and learned quickly not to give certain types anything, or certain amounts. I felt very responsible for the stability of others, like I had never realized before. As I spent couple years in this lifestyle I learned so much as I traveled around everywhere, and it was as much beautiful as it was scary to see how others reacted to it. I got out of it unscathed luckily and continued with my music, and it's a cautionary tale because lots of ppl do not make it out with their facilities, or strung out on other drugs cross addicted.
Acid was the thing, back then. It was legal until about 1966. I took some Purple Haze in 69. We took it at lunchtime and went to school. We laughed and tripped, but nothing bad happened. I was in 8th grade.
@@uwsgrrrl9981 You da crazy American, yah. Dat one who think you is the queen, when is not true? Mama Mia, you big dumdum.. Imma-gonna-slappa-you-dumdum-wit-the-wet-spaghetti. Mama Mia
@@uwsgrrrl9981 - You no nothing in Itallian, yah? You a no speak a second language and consider you da judge? American's.....always same shite for centuries, and we laugh at you from afar. You da crazy American, yah. Dat one who think you is the queen, when it is not true. Mama Mia, you big dumdum.. Imma-gonna-slappa-you-dumdum-wit-the-wet-spaghetti. Mama Mia.
tara browne, paul's close friend, was the heir to the guinness company and passed away at the end of '66 in a car accident. the line from a day in the life "he blew his mind out in a car" references this event which john read about in a newspaper and immortalized it.
Yes, Tara ran a red light in his Lotus Elan, likely high on something. And was smashed into. Tara and Paul took a rented moped voyage across the peninsula that's "Over the Mersey" from Liverpool. Paul, enjoying scenery, got so slow he fell over with his moped. Cut his upper lip. To hide the scar, Paul grew a mustache: Started the Sgt. Pepper Beatles' mustache style.
Very well put together, I enjoyed this. I'm kind of like George, I had my fun with psychedelics and let them go. My last trip was DMT and I never had a thought of going back. It was just sort of like, oh that was cool, carry on now! But all of my friends kept taking it and I realized when I went to their houses not being on anything, it just looked like a drug house. It was always dark, full of smoke, and everyone looked so dead and out of their minds. I got what I wanted from those drugs, but my friends didn't, they kept wanting more and more. I don't take anything anymore, not even coffee, and still I feel the effects of those drugs I used to take. I realized that I didn't need drugs anymore, now that my mind has been opened, I could be anything I want. Though George went for Eastern spirituality, I went for Jesus. No religion, Just Jesus. But I feel kind of like George in that sense, I became more interested in God, he was the reason I had all the psychedelic visions I had. So I left the drugs behind and went for that.
great testimony. Kudo to Yeshua Bar Joseph, aka Jesus the Christ, Issa, his journey to Tibet, after he told Mary and Joseph, where'd you think I'd be but in my Father's house, the temple. Wish everyone who "dabbled," experimenting with the forbidden fruits had the good sense, common sense you had. I lived in Sunnyvale, Mt. View, Los Altos, Cupertino, '64 thru "69 Wish our government had been more enlightened and broad minded. Glad we had the Beatles, and thank the heavens for George. Be well. great comments
Would you mind elaborating on the “Jesus but not religion”? Do you simply admire and follow the teachings of jesus as a person? How do you disconnect that from the religion? Sounds super interesting. Thanks for sharing!
@@alohaservant You're mixing Jesus with Hinduism it sounds. George actually accepted Jesus as his Savior when a Christian racing car driver spoke to him just before his death. Timothy Leary was satan's drug pusher.
@@edhollingsworth2335 yes, in fact I believe Issa, Yeshua bar Yoseph, Jesus, after his bar mitzvah in remaining at the temple on his own prerogative, telling his earth parents he was doing His Father's Business, I think he caught a caravan visited the roots of truth thru Persia, India, Nepal, Tibet illustrating love, serving life, as George Harrison did so well. Pure heart, pure soul, blessing us with his Love
There's a part during Get Back where John pulls out a little bagey of something then hurriedly puts it away after remembering the camera's were on, it was so suprising lol.
Dosing somebody is a really, really bad thing to do, its very irresponsible. George and John seemed to handle it pretty well but in those early days when they knew next to nothing about the drug, it could have ended badly. Not knowing that you've taken something so powerful can be dangerous. Yes, taking LSD can provide an exhilarating and enlightening experience but it can also be a reckoning. Set and setting are important elements towards insuring that you'll have a good trip but despite the best preparations, things can take a turn and it can become a struggle. To dose anyone unexpectedly, especially a novice, is not at all cool.
Totally agree it could literally change someones life for the worst, if their prone to mental health problems it could precipitate long term psychosis and ultimately bring on latent schizophrenia for life. They could quite literally, -- in lay terms -- not come back. Only a psychopath would do such a thing
I've been dosed twice--once with DMT, and the second time with acid. I handled the LSD fine, but the DMT was horrible. Luckily I was with someone else who was going through the same thing, and we tried to keep each other in some sort of sane space (not very effectively). For me, DMT was totally bogus--tons of hallucinations, no meaningful content. I never figured out who did the dosing.
Like John, I probably tripped 1000-1500 times during the age of 17-25. I used to hear that stupid myth that, “If you trip more than 7 times you’re legally insane.” The funny thing is I feel like I’m more mentally sound and stable than 99% of people I meet.
You are. As am I. I prolly did about half of what you did from 16-24. Never once had a bad trip, a few scary moments but nothing I would call bad, certainly not in totality. Had a good amount of baby sitting trips helping friends out of/through "bad trips." As for becoming insane....If anything you become much more aware of others feelings and motivations. If that's insane, I'm fucking looney, and happy I am.
over-using psychedelics will rebuild your ego up, meaning the person you are will change to a more laidback and possibly psychotic person. using it once can give you important change in your life. i’d recommend everyone trying psychedelics once or twice in their lives because it steers you a better person for every reason you want and can imagine, but you also need to do the work yourself to maintain the lessons.
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I always found the Beatles to be a real case study on the potentially positive effects psychaedelics on creativity. As awesome as those early pop tracks are in their own way, I have my doubts as to whether their music would have evolved in the interesting ways it did had they not taken LSD. I'm sure they would still be remembered very fondly without the LSD influence, but I don't think they would have been remembered as the multifaceted creative giants that they are widely seen as now. They probably would have kept making great catchy pop tracks with maybe a few ballads until people had had their fill of them, and then there wouldn't have been much else to say about them. Great music writing is often a reflection of mood, and anything that makes a musician feel euphoric is likely to be reflected in the music they make if they have the skill to articulate the feeling through their voices and instruments. And the Beatles most certainly had that.
The most common thing observed about LSD and what people say later. Lennon, Harrison, Hendrix etc. Everyone seemed to have genuine 'spiritual awakenings' and a desire to help to 'change the world' for the better of all. Greater insight. Greater understanding. End war, and love everyone. Has never been the horror story presented to me. One of the most fortunate moments in life came when an older student in high school flew to San Francisco in 1971 and obtained several hundred 'micro-dot' doses of 'Orange Sunshine' and brought them back. The only problem for me with the 'actual lysergic acid diethylamide' was that it made the 'lesser than' street 'acid ' seem useless. In reality this may have been good as it took the desire to use inferior products completely out of consideration. Peace & Lysergic
I'm in my 70s, and have read a lot of books on various rock stars, etc. It's pretty obvious, both from what I've read, and also from people I've known, that LSD rarely causes major problems. The great killer is alcohol. Creative people have always been using pot, acid, speed, and even coffee to help their creative processes. John Lennon was totally abusing acid, but how much of a problem was that? It helped him create wonderful music. Then look at Jack Kerouac, who, despite all the drugs he took, was completely ruined by alcohol. I think most things can be used "responsibly," and by that I mean for creative work. The disasters occur when people take drugs out of depression or desperation. Syd Barrett may have been an acid casualty, but exactly how many others are there? I've known tons of people who have taken acid, and I can only think of one who suffered any real damage from it. I have had a number of cosmic experiences on acid, and know a number of other people who have also experienced such things. In the Sixties, at least where I was, there was a sense that both pot and acid were sacraments. With that attitude much more profound experiences were liable to happen. We were definitely afraid of acid, but that led us take a more serious, thoughtful approach to the experience. A lot of young people take acid in such confusing environments, that they effectively block anything profound from happening.
I remember watching the Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane video on some tv show in early 1967. I was stunned by the music and their appearance. Just a few months earlier they were mop tops on stage in matching suits. Now it was like; What the absolute fuck is this? Something is up with these guys. But I loved it.
I remember one time I took acid, and I attempted to drive home in the night in the wee hours. The whole drive I was fiercely trying to concentrate, I was tripping bad, seeing sounds and hearing sights! I hated it because it took so long for the nervous feeling and all the distortions to wear off. That was in 1975 at the age of 20. But I liked psilocybin mushrooms.
I had a similar experience. I had to get home from a party, and was tripping my brains out. I didn't live that far away but had no map sense whatsoever. I could remember the street names, but they had no relation to each other. I said to myself: "Don't even think about it. Your muscles will know where to go." That worked like a charm. I went on automatic pilot, and got home without a hitch.
Well I do hope it starts to wear off and you eventually find your way home because ,well..... and I don't want to scare you but you're almost 70 years old now and it's the year 2022 ,so it's not 1975 and you're not 20 years old anymore please,please don't be scared it's all right..... you probably even have a wife and kids and maybe some ex-Wives even... I hate to be the one to tell you. I hope everything worked out okay and hey,we've got some really cool drugs out today when you sober up and feel like trying something else new maybe. Too soon? Ha Peace
I dropped 3 hits before science class. Me and my buddy Gene Kelly , were called up to the blackboard to solve equations with multicolored chalk. I drew a psychedelic turtle. Gene had a whole geometric thing going on . We just scribbled right over the equations. Think all we got was a detention .
Great to see Bear " Owsley" in the film. His impact in the Hippie movement was huge. Sound man for the Dead with the Wall of Sound. Oh the White Lightning had a little bit to do with it.
Nothing is ever quite the same after you take it. In my experience by far the best high but can also be by far the worst. Nothing will burn you out like going full throttle on Acid for days on end.
Yes, you can't be sure where you'll come down. You may be euphoric for days or you might unravel a bit of your psyche and feel you've landed on another planet.
@@wangobadankas4038 a Hindu chap one said to me that the meditation state that Acid and similar drugs gives is equivalent to being dropped off on top of mount Everest inside your mind. If you climbed it yours you would have the skills to get back but because the trip put you there you can have serious trouble getting back down.
@@rbharvesters7404 That's a good analogy. I tripped a few dozen times back in the late 70s - early 80s. I never had a bad experience but after a while going to the magic kingdom loses it's novelty. Even now I can remember it vividly. It's like fond memories of past vacations. I do understand what it (and other things) can do to a person and I can emphatically say that it's NOT for everyone.
@@wangobadankas4038i did it many times over the years. First time was one night after school in the 90s and i think the last time i did about 8 drops of liquid Acid in Bristol one night in about 2011. I did it thousands of times in between but yes it does become less exciting as time goes on. Truth be told i decided to go to rehab in 2013, i needed to get of the crack and heroin. I never did Acid again after that and im sure i never will again. I get my kicks in the real world now.
psychedelics are not for everyone-especially those with underlying medical conditions such as Syd. LSD itself is not responsible for mental disorders, but can undoubtedly exaggerate them or even bring them from the background after abuse of the drug
I took it once when I was 22. I didn't hallucinate but experienced bouts of undiluted joy mixed with dread and paranoia. It lasted 24 hours. Time seemed to slow down. It stripped away all the levels of psychosis we use to socially survive from childhood to adulthood and leaves you emotionally naked. The essence of your soul becomes clear. . Imagine experiencing in an instant the effect of years of psychotherapy. You can't socially survive like that so I never took it again.
@@simonsanchezkumrich8489it certainly can and way more if you take a bitchload. But then again, you’d also have serious opened-eye visuals and closed-eye ones too, I predict.
Listening to George recount the story of his first trip made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and my skin tingle... crazy how someone just talking about that drug can elicit a physical response in me 20 years since I last took it! My first trip started about lunch time at school, I dropped a whole blotter of NODDY acid, little single dose pictures of Noddy on one side and one big noddy on the back , covering the sheet of a thousand I think it was. I was 14 and a kid in the year below me, a 13 year old kid, had a whole sheet and was flogging them at lunchtime for dinner money. £3 each. I stayed at school all day, mostly laughing at the crazy shine and rays of light like lasers coming from the reflections from my bald physics teachers head. After that I tripped at school. In lessons at least 50 or 60 times before I finished my GCSEs with reasonably good grades... considering! Got an A☆ in art
at school! holy crap! i should talk- i took a hit of mescaline once, during a lunch break on a "national guard" drill. SO stupid- and embarrassing! when the drug came on, i blasted out some kind of a chemically induced fart that cleared out a whole roomfull of guys. i sat there, laughing- SO red in the face! lol
@@craigrheberling that peyote definitely makes you purge alright. Made me puke outta my nose. Don't think ida get away with tripping on buttons or synthetic in school. Unless i just fkn hide in the toilets til stopped raaaalfing, haha.
@@stuartjonas2737 damn! you had a bad one! my fav "mushroom memory" walking into a theater- "fantasia" was playing- the scene where the brooms are sweeping the water on the stairs. i thought if i don't stop laughing, they're gonna throw me AND my date outa here! (in my 20's, i'm 76 now!)
i had a bald french teacher in high school. one day, we were throwing paper airplanes when he faced the blackboard. (all boy's school!).when he turned around, we would stop throwing, but there would still be planes in the air. one time he got so red in the face and upset, we realized we should stop. BUT, a minute later, one plane, that was caught on an overhead light fixture, came loose and flew right into the bald spot on his head!. as painful as it might have been to him, NOBODY could stop laughing! ahhh, high skool!
The first time I had acid was in the middle of the countryside in Wiltshire with my brother and a mate. The hills were rolling and the trees were shaking around like they never did before and the leaves all looked like eyes...it was pretty cool
Some friends and I took acid and headed north for a 3 hour drive home. About 2 hours in I realized that I was driving the wrong way, just pulled off and redirected and no one said anything about it. We just enjoyed the five hour drive and the music coming from my cars cassette player.
@rabblerousin8981 I was young and stupid at the time. I am older and much wiser now. We all have "skeletons in the closet". I would never do such a thing now, and don't recommend it for anyone else either.
@@threeg6966 apologies for my pious comment. In a headspace of “people should probably take more acid” and your comment puckered me up. Sounds like a great day with great music. Thanks for not being a dick with my lame comment 💎
I’ll never forget listening to Abbey Road on mushrooms….1998 Rutgers U in New Brunswick NJ…..the medley part of that album just crushed me…..the rhythm of Here comes the Sun ❤ the explosion of she came into the bathroom window ! Wow! Such great music ❤❤❤
I was maybe two weeks shy of my tenth birthday when I saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964. They were considered outrageous for that time.
Dang, this confirmed my theory. Frisco and Haight seemed far less glamorous in the early 2000s, when I was there, than it may have been in the 60s. Recent thoughts on the area had me considering that Haight was probably not really that different in the 60s than it is (now) or was (around 2005), with all the heads that were attracted to it. I could never "hang out" in Haight or hippy hill. I had good times playing baseball at Golden Gate Park and looking for CDs at Haight's Rasputin Records (where I discovered Jaco Pastorius). This revelation makes me a little more accepting that I missed the 60s (and 70s), but I think it would have been enjoyable to live in the bay area during that scene, when the population was lower, income and rent was more equitable, to be able to live close enough to catch shows at Cow Palace and the Filmore.
Thank You my ass aches of how much the Beatles doped themselves at my 68 years who gives a damn but my love for psychedelic American-British 1967 never ended I still love that music more than ever!
Yeah, we have our "trip stories". Sometimes there's a Theme that becomes a kind of focus point later. For me, the theme that arrived in my mind upon taking a tab of acid was contained in the words, "So What." Everything i saw happening was a cognizant experience, but i remember being in a supermarket that night, and when the cashier told me how much it was at the checkout, I said, "So What." Luckily my friends helped ease me through the situation that was so amazing. The whole experience was meaningful to me both then, and later, however; even as i refer to now 50 years later.
My first time taking acid I had an epiphany, to “just do it”. Yeah, just like the Nike logo, just do it was the theme of the trip, as well as my epiphany to a live happier life.
Back in the 1970's one of the Grateful Dead coterie set up the Dead's business plan, and presented it to Jerry & the rest of the Band. It was called the "So what ?" papers.
I think their psychedelic songs were more influenced by the spirit of the era and their trip to India than their acid trips. Too many musicians got it wrong and believed that drugs were the secret formula for good songwriting.
If you really listen to it, their songwriting was becoming considerably more progressive before the drugs. Its not like Tomorrow Never Knows immediately follows I Want To Hold Your Hand, but for an acid trip.
Psychedelics inspire artists on extremely profound levels. Tomorrow Never Knows would not exist without acid…it’s literally the most perfect musical encapsulation of LSD ever recorded. LSD doesn’t create art, but it inspires artists to recreate their spiritual experiences.
@@SayItAintTso Yes, I can agree with that. It is a source of inspiration but extremely overrated. Rather, it's about your imagination of what psychedelic music sounds like and your creativity. You don't wake up one day after a trip and suddenly be overwhelmed by genius songs.
@@dennislindqvist8443 Oh, I dont know. If Trump dropped acid, he would certainly be smarter...Of course, given his political history, he may have already done that. Imagine, if you dare, Trump dropping a tab of acid into a beer for North Korea's Kim. A new era in diplomacy...
Good on Paul, George, John & Ringo for telling it straight. None of anyone’s business, but since they asked, let truth shine-on. People criticise what they don’t understand, then, now, always, end of. Personally, I’m so glad they all dropped…
Rapid heartbeat, dilated pupils, auditory and visual hallucinations, dry mouth, delirium, confusion all sound exactly like the onset of a Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 'trip'. We eagerly expected these 'symptoms, while 'tripping' back in the early 1970s. I became disillusioned with the hallucinogens available after around 1975-76. Now realizing that the Orange Sunshine and blotter we got from San Francisco was relatively pure laboratory LSD manufactured by Owsley's cohorts after he fled to Canada. I did Peyote and picked Psilocybin in Tampa for my last two 'trips'. For myself, they were miraculous substances. The health care professionals that recommend hallucinogenic assisted therapy are correct according to all that I have been able to study. The natural substances and LSD we had was with a great deal of experience 'tripping' and knowing what to expect. Not for first time users in my opinion. I would not take the doses we used to take now. There are 45 years since my last 'dose' of LSD. The health care professionals know what they are talking about for the most part. I listen to them now. Peace & Psilocybin
As a "child of the 1970s" we did our fair share of drugs and I found that with the more intense drugs (other than pot), where you took it mattered so much. If you were at someone's house, NOT DRIVING, among people taking the same drug, listening to music, that was the best setting. The worst drugs to me were acid and "T"- THC. T especially just overwhelmed me to the point of being scared. When cocaine came around, that proved to be the most addictive due to it's stimulating effects- it made you feel great. But like all drugs, it wears off and you're left feeling lower than when you started, and you want to get back to that great feeling. Of all the drugs, cocaine turned out to be the worst demon of all.
@@EarthWalkerOne I do remember people saying that "the day after". Since we always heard horror stories about PCP, I would dismiss the 'PCP for THC' stories as overreaction. Looking back, maybe not. It was likely that some of the T was cut with PCP. But I dreaded when my friends would score T back then. The fact that everyone in our group of friends both at home and college took it was the peer pressure aspect of it all. What I really needed were new friends...
ive come to the conclusion, acid is a short lived rage, its amazing and mind opening until its too much and completely takes a toll on your mental. i learned its not bad but its not good, and in that case it taught me about many other things in this world that are the same.
“For most people,” Owsley says, “the proper dose is about 150 to 200 micrograms. When you get to 400, you just totally lose it. I don’t care who you are. Kesey liked 400. He wanted to lose it.” - Rolling Stone Article. titled "Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD" Owsley was serious about this and he did not dose his hits at 270ug.
Satori - A Thousand Micrograms of Love --1967. Garage/psych acid rock out of Houston Texas. I think Albert Hoffman said 105ug -115ug as the optimal psychedelic dose.
@@danneeson7056 Yes, that was Albert's recommended dose. Bear seemed to think that was too weak to get one's desired effect. Albert's keeps the ego intact whereas Bear's is just enough to push you to where to watch your ego die while ensuring YOU don't disappear.
@@SeattleSpursFan1882 My friends and I had quite a summer in 1975 as I was able to procure some of the last product coming out of Rochdale in Toronto, famous as North Americas largest underground "drug" store. I picked up 150 hits of domed yellow sunshine tabs. Extremely clean, everyone had a good time, no bum trips. Lasted late June through early September. Saw Pink Floyd outdoors at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton June 28 1975. Fantastic evening, great summer.
@@danneeson7056 Crazy! I had no idea there was big suppliers in Ontario that early on, and in Rochdale of all places! I also had no idea Floyd played in Hamilton back then. Very cool!
George: "We got to the club and suddenly felt fantastic... " Yeah, you were high, but you were also a Beatle...that's got to feel quite amazing in itself.
Between 79 to 94, I took about 400 trips. I resisted the street drugs, during the 60's @ most of the 70's, because I saw what it had been doing to my celebrities that I was looking up to. Most of the trips were groovy. Were a few bad. Had a few up on the roof of my Hollywood apartment. Seen what i thought was a house on fire. Actually, it was just a bright light. Many more cosmic experiences. Clean now for over 20 years. One is to many. I am convinced that everyone is addicted to something. It might be responsible for my lousy memory now. Or it could be that i got old?
@@LoneLee2022 I saw monsters. Was freezing, when it was actually 108. Thought i was going to have a heart attack and more. For the most part, was a groovy experience. I am not sure if it is what has led to my worsening back. Just what i heard.
"Good Night" off the White album was the traditional song my group of friends would play at the end of every trip we did together. Good times so many years ago! I occasionally wonder if I would still find it so magical. LSD and mushrooms can have a very positive effect in the right setting. It did for me at least.
There are several psychedelic substances. I took a number of them in me younger years I did. LSD is far and away the most direct and intense. Personally, I almost always felt a little anxiety during trips. Sometimes to the point that it was rather unpleasant. But always were insights to realizations beyond normal conscious thoughts. Mescaline was the most interesting. Mushrooms were the most pleasant. That was in the 20th century. Why anyone would want to trip in the 21st century, with its endless access to information is beyond me.
As a kid who's done acid really recently, it's one of those things you have to see to believe if that makes sense. Like reading trip reports is one thing but your own experiences are a whole different can of beans. Each experience is subjective to the individual as no two brains are alike. Plus the craziness of acid is hard to imagine if you haven't done it. So honestly, it's even more relevant to do it. Plus with the amount of shit that we deal with in our day to day lives, sometimes some insight into our subconscious is great. Bad trips aren't bad, they're just challenging trips as one of my friends told me once. You might learn something about yourself even. Trip reports are subjective but True Reports are intro-spective.
@@jtspolitics1069 With LSD, yes and no. Looking at a cement wall and seeing it become beautiful patterns of color is wonderful and inspiring. But perhaps not something to believe in. Or maybe it is for others. At an advancing age, I now see psychedelics in the way that Don Juan introduced them to Carlos Castañeda: merely a pathway to lead outside our assumptions of the banality of life. To show one there are cosmic aspects of every aspect of our existence. As a younger man, I WAS inspired and my eyes were forever opened. But now (IMHO) I feel the responsibility to incorporate what I was shown into my day to day living without ingesting substances. To see as a sentient being. Peace.
I went upstairs and grabbed a smoke and somebody spoke and I went into a dream (flashback) I always preferred a compliment of good hash or weed to go with it
I was always under the impression that the beatles’ recording sessions involved copious amounts of acid, so its very interesting to me that they basiclly never tripping while recording in the studio. Makes since tho, i cant imagine it would be very easy to make songs that sound good when ur in that mindstate. Especially when the shit they were taking was dosed 3x what we are taking nowadays. And purer. And just better overall lmao
The best spark and source of creativity is to thread to the emotions like happiness, sorrows, sadness, anger, excitement, gladness and transform that to varied creativity like abstract to visual arts or music arts etcetera.
LSD doesn't destroy your ego (witness John's enormous ego during this time) but it does destroy your _ego boundaries_. It took me a few years to figure out what had happened to me. To make matters worse, instead of the usual 24 hour high, that stuff kept me altered for a solid year, complete with some MIGHTY flashbacks.
Some brains seem to have a different chemical composition and LSD can affect them more profoundly. I took it about 100 times, got bored with it and stopped but I never had a flashback. Some people had latent schizophrenia which was triggered by acid and they were permanently changed by the drug.
Real Delysid binds the Ca2+ ion preventing the synthesis of serotonin. Same thing happens when We are asleep. In '76 was having trouble grasping the concept of Integration. A friend who followed the Dead, gave me a hit, some 600 mikes and during the trip opened my Calculus text and observed the symbols running all over the pages. Next day after weightlifting and then running 10 miles, got home and jumped up into the air to land in my beanbag. For the milliseconds I was suspended in the air I saw, in bright phosphorescent green light, an image, the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system. The intersection of two equations, X^2=Y and Y^2=X, two parabolic curves whose intersection resembled an American football in 2-D. Observed Dx, highlighted in brighter green light, moving across the intersected eqs. with a changing equation above and to the right of the graphical image. When I landed in the beanbag chair I could Integrate. What could I do, but looked up towards the ceiling and said, "Thank you". Took another 9 semesters of Calculus based Math for my first undergrad, and owe it to the Delysid experience opening my mind.
It reminds me of the film Dewey Cox walk hard where everything he takes a different drug the music changes style I like how honest the Beatles were about drugs
I learned from the best Timothy Leary, Alan Watts and Huxley. He'll take you up, he'll bring you down, He'll plant your feet back firmly on the ground. He flies so high, he swoops so low, He knows exactly which way he's gonna go. Timothy Leary. and the Moody Blues
Back in the late 80s we used to get some really good acid from these hippies in Coconut Grove Miami. Well some of us dropped one afternoon at my girlfriends, it was my day off so I didn't care. Just as I started peaking my boss called and said they were really understaffed and they needed me, it was a restaurant job. I did everything I could to beg off but the manager told me to come in or I would get a write up so I did. That was a real interesting night.
An interesting night. Good gawd that is a very tame way of describing a memory you will never forget. Compose it and see if someone will make a movie. Lots of people would go..
OK, something for people that don't know. One quickly develops a tolerance to acid. If you don't take a break between trips it loses it's punch. 100 trips in a year would be doubtful so I'm skeptical of John's claim of "literally thousands". I believe it was many, just not that many.
You just have to take more to get the same trip. I read somewhere that Lennon had acquired two pints of LSD in 1967. If you have enough LSD you can trip several times a week. You just have to double the amount each time. It probably wasn't thousands, and some were probably less potent trips than others, but he could have taken LSD a thousand times.
Its not really a tolerance, the brain needs to replenish whatever it is that's depleted by acid, it only takes a few days. If you take it two days in a row, it still works, just not as effectively. 100 trips in a year is not unusual.
You can’t take it too regularly. I know people who have done whole bottles of the stuff. Disclaimer: highly not recommended if you don’t want to have conversations with metatron for the rest of your life.
Some people call this point "micro-dosing" because you basically become the LSD equivalent of a functional alcoholic. Insane, but I know people who do it.
9 hits for your first time? If it was actually quality stuff (which I highly doubt) you're lucky that you didn't end up in the hospital. I took one blotter hit of orange sunshine my first time and was on a trip that I still to this day have difficulty describing. Sorry but either your sh*t was really weak or you're full of it.
@@Wtahc Hard to say. There are several factors to take into account. One is that LSD is an extremely fragile molecule. UV light (sunlight), heat, and certain chemicals like chlorine, which is found in tap water will all destroy the LSD molecule. This means that the way it has been stored prior to reaching you will be a factor.
I can relate with george when he says that acid feels like all love and the best feeling. For me though it always seems to devolve into a terrifying decent into losing my mind whereas mushrooms just make me feel incredibly happy.
@@gandalfandferg280 You must need to start with even smaller doses. The set is your mind. The setting is the physical world. If they are both ready for the trip, then the dosage is the only other factor to think about. Other than demonic possession if you're into that.
i have the exact opposite feelings. acid to me is interesting, fun, hilarious and metaphysical. mushrooms are either bland or overpowering and too electric.
I remember reading that after they stopped touring in 1966 it was only a few months later that their appearances(clothes hair etc) changed what for the time was fairly dramatically and the media commented on it, with Lennon's appearance being the most changed.
@@jayweir6375 Do you have any Idea how small a microgram is, and how many 'doses' (250 mics), were therefore contained in one small vial? Obviously not...... (It's A LOT!!)
when i was a teenager i must’ve tripped at least over 200 times. an amazing experience. always listened to the beatles, pink floyd, grateful dead. just hit so much differently. good times.
The LSD experience is one of those things you just can't describe with words. You can do the where and when, but not the what... Then there was the zeitgeist of the time, where so many of us were in that space, with connections coming through in the art, film, and especially music of the time. I don't know why it can't be relived, or rediscovered now, but we just need to accept that that was then, and this is now...
More comments than subscribers? Is that a thing? I was a teen in helLA in the late '60s/early 70s, and actually affiliated with an LSD/hashish distribution/consumption cult -- the Brotherhood of Eternal Love -- as a runaway kid for 3 yrs. I might have tripped a few hundred times over my lifetime. I did have a few "bad trips" where I just waited out any negative effects such as paranoia or anxiety, knowing that within a dzn hrs I'd be over it. Weigh that against the psychic freedom John mentions at the end here... Absolutely no regrets, and fully embrace the positive experiences/influences that tripping in my teens provided me.
some people are just that gifted. Another example being noel fielding. Some things are not simply explainable except in the sense that some people are just simply born with these talents,inherited probably from another family member or just amazing brains. I think lennon was one of those people.Just pure genius.
I had that same experience that George was describing about having that perfect feeling, but at the time I was on a London tube train with two of my friends and I started dancing up and down the tube train and stupidly I had fun keeping the train doors open. Which attracted a policeman at the next station and we were all arrested and I ended up in a prison cell to be collected by my mother, I was only 16 and will never forget that day. I’am 70 years old now 🎉
Your paramoia got you arrested. If yous had held it together you could have avoided the whole arrest situation. The police rely on you subconsciously giving yourself away.
@@bigbasil1908 Bro really missed the point of the story. Don't care so much about what could've been. Care about the lessons learned and the memories made
I bet your mom never forgot it, either!!
Goddamn I love these stories.... got a couple of my own,25-30 yrs on the bus....
Worrying about the police always feels so odd when you’re high. You’re in ecstasy feeling amazing yet the feeling you’re having is illegal. What a crazy world.
The next day, George and John. Woke up with mustaches in their Pepper outfits.
Hahaha good one 👍
The next day they were no longer George and John.
The original Chemical Brothers
They did revolver first
it was a cool gimmick. limited time hang. then they did some country rock again. and then the fell apart.
It's true, you can hear it in the music and they even hid hints in their titles:
L - Shine on
S - You Crazy
D - Diamond
Syd Barrett 😂
Hahaha
L - Bohemian
S - Rhap
D - sody
@@ATexanPickle-bj6olPerfect.
I was a teen in the 60's and a huge Beatles fan. I heard they were doing LSD, that was the rage at the time. Their music certainly changed, which was shocking for someone who saw them on Ed Sullivan. They were Rock N Rollers. I thought Revolver was pretty strange. Nevertheless, I liked their psychedelic songs, they were great at that too. But they weren't the clean-cut guys I thought earlier, I thought the crazy stuff belonged to the Rolling Stones, LOL. The psychedelic time was good, many great songs from many groups. I love the Eastern influence, truly beautiful music.
Groovy.
@@paulnolan4971 And nifty.
@@JamminClemmons Nifty is 50s. Get with the program.
@@TeaParty1776 - **Mrs. PeeTartie,**
Ma'am, That's if you're watching your Fankie Avalon and Annette Funicello movies. Dat nifty shit's coming back, jack. You don't watch "*OFFBEAT CINEMA"* on Saturday's at midnight? It's on MyTv.
FFS.... I'm always educating the ingrates on this site. RUclips's full of ya's. Mama mia.
You da crazy American, yah. Dat one who think you is the queen, when is not true? Mama Mia, you big dumdum..
Imma-gonna-slappa-you-dumdum-wit-the-wet-spaghetti. Mama Mia
@@JamminClemmons If you spit on your mind, it wont work when you need it.
George was always my favorite, to see him talking so much is really wonderful he usually seemed so shy.
George is my favorite Beatle as well. He was a deep thinker and a kind soul.
@@darlenegriffith6186 very spiritual, perhaps enlightened
He took even more cocaine !!!
He was definitely a more sedate and intellectual type but not particularly shy, he actually jabbered quite a bit. He said John always gets his way because was the loudest.
My dad was Ringo's official chauffeur for the last couple of years before they split, '69/'70. During that time he drove all them at some point & he had plenty of stories to tell. The one thing he really didn't like doing was being sent off to a door somewhere in Petticoat Lane where he would be given a sealed brown envelope to take back for them. Obviously he knew what was inside although what type of drugs were inside he never knew or asked. It was his job, but those runs played heavily on his mind quite a lot at the time. I was only 9/10 at the time so it wasn't until I was much older that he shared some of his experiences with me.
So your father was a bloody drug runner then.
🤪
@@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 His job was Ringo's official chauffer so he had to drive or collect items for him. He did what the boss asked him to do. Technically you're right & it played on his mind all his life which was sad really that the Beatles actually made him do it.
@@rsmith7912
Obviously I was joking but sorry if I offended you. I'm sure your father was a good guy as are the Beatles who hired him. The drug laws are draconian and especially back then. If it's not harming others, people should be allowed to do as they like.
@@infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 I totally agree with you. People should be allowed to take whatever they want. With alcohol and tobacco being the 2 most addictive drugs going yet they're OK cos the government gets so much tax money from them being legal. My dad was from a different generation though and even the mention of anything drug related, to him it was like the end of mankind. I'm sure the other beatles chauffeurs probably had to do the same thing but I don't know if they did or not. After the beatles split & things all went a bit messy when yoko came on the scene, my dad had had enough of Ringo's shallowness one day and he quit telling Ringo to shove his job where the sun don't shine. I know who was the bigger man. Bless him, he died 3 years ago at the age of 89. Best dad in the world.
@@rsmith7912
I'm sorry to hear that your father considered Ringo shallow. He comes across as a really mellow and agreeable guy in _The Beatles: Get Back_ but maybe he came across differently to subordinates. Some people are like that.
Wow....this was excellent information. Of course, everyone's heard that the Beatles all took LSD, but very little information came out about it. This was, by far, the most detailed information I've ever seen. Very interesting! Thanks for posting!
In Lennon’s book he says he has thousands of doses
He would just eat it
While I’ll admit hearing that when I was young did not lay the best influences on me you can find lots of incredible psychedlia in some corners you might not have ever expected when it comes to them
Much love
Much less information about the `Beatles antics on tours!!!
@@justinrosenthal4000 Paul favoured cannabis. He never stopped, even when he was with Heather Mills he still smoked it.
@@treasurehunteruk9718- I still smoke it…I used to smoke it, but I still do. I used to do LSD in the 70’s and would have no idea how much I did in all. I don’t do LSD any more…too extreme!
@@Raviolli- John used to keep a mortar and pestle on his mantle and crush up a mixture of drugs…dip his finger in it, and go out and about for the day! Those were the days!
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
As much as John may deny it, it sounds exactly like an LSD trip.
No doubt! Peace & Lysergic
If he had admitted the truth, the BBC would have pulled the record from airplay and dealers might have pulled it from distribution and sale. Just a thought.
The first interview is why he NEVER would admit it. The shit Paul went through.
It's so obviously about acid that it's a complete joke for them to say it wasn't. *L*ucy in the *S*ky with *D*iamonds - LSD
It sounds exactly like what he says it's about; a picture his niece (or some relative) drew. I can just imagine the picture. That's the sort of shit kids draw. It seems so LSD related because 1) you're looking for it based on how the song sounds 2) the psychedelic, abstract, free-form, Salvadorian style of lyricism had completely permeated John's psyche. Pretty much every song he wrote could be interpreted as a trip around then. Why would he lie about it considering in literally every other situation ever he is completely honest about his LSD use? If the BBC gave a shit, he'd have long since been dropped anyway.
Realistically what probably happened: He saw the picture, got inspired to write a song about it, started playing around with some melodies to describe the picture, realised the melody had a very psychedelic feel to it, and then made the lyrics even trippier to suit the song.
For those that have never experienced what LSD did. It simply relegates everything to equal importance. Our brain processes priorities. The angles of a city view are never considered important but on LSD it means as much as anything in the world. That is why its mind blowing. You see the world naked. Im glad i did this when i was 18 and also glad that i stopped after a couple of trips.
Great comment. You don't need more than a couple of trips if you successfully integrate the experience into your sober life. In fact, i would say overdoing it on psychs can end up really counter productive if you're doing it with the intention of "seeking enlightenment" or some kind of positive personal growth
"relegates everything to equal importance" very interesting way of putting it. I would however change the word relegates to elevates. The most minute details will have seemingly the most profound impact. But yes, it lifts the veil of the noise we filter out and gives it meaning.
It was great when it was pure LSD then they started cutting it with crap.
Perfect explanation, probably the greatest I ever heard someone explaining it. What’s funny to me is weed already does all that for me to a certain extent. It makes me think to my full potential and get work done… only for me to be lazy and not do anything lol but I’m sure acid gets you in that clear state of mind to actually reach your personal peak and stuff
Spectacular. My dad told me about this story when he used to get rolling stone magazine and read about it back in the day. Sooo grateful someone uploaded this.
This is so kind thank you!
@@indraclubproductions9051 Ah Thank You! 🙏 Your making some great pieces, keep at it!
My pops actually didn’t want me to look it up at first. Because sometimes we remember things better than they were. But this did total justice to my fathers recollection!
Yes, but did he use Rolling Stone as a cigarette paper?
Fantastically edited documentary. Thank you!
In our health education classes in junior high, we were subjected to watching regular in-school educational movies, about the dangers of taking LSD & smoking pot,....this was in 1968 & 1969. The movies were so bad, that they had the opposite effect on me. Imagine how bad they were when they tried to describe a "trip" in film. This wasn't a Hollywood production,....so the images showed blurry visions, undulating smoke, rooms spinning, people wearing weird monster costumes, which they implied was what someone would experience during a hallucination. We used to laugh at those terrible "scare tactic" movies. I couldn't wait for the days, when I would try LSD and smoke pot. The whole Summer of 1969, my friends and I were able to get/buy "weed" from their older siblings,...and by luck, hashish was more available than weed at the time. Every weekend, we'd experiment by smoking hashish. In the beginning I thought there was something wrong with me, since I felt nothing, after smoking way more than would have been necessary. Then about 3 weeks in,....BLAM, it hit me. I got really super stoned on the hash, and I loved every minute of my high. We made it our "every weekend" fun time. The hash was strong and my highs lasted 4 to 6 hours. We mostly giggled, and enjoyed describing our weird visions and thoughts. The hard part was sobering up enough, to not trigger our parents suspicions,....who recognized that our non-stop laughing, seemed peculiar.
Ahhhh the good days! I don’t regret a single second!
Did they show you the one where Billy and his friends skip school, go down an alley to smoke pot and, after smoking, Billy is thirsty, so he smashes a bottle neck against a brick wall to open it and jams the jagged edge into his mouth - blood gushing out? Kids - don't smoke pot or THIS could happen to YOU!! - The false teachings had exactly the same effect on me. One year out of high school I was a burned-out piece of toast. And I JUST saw an old Dragnet episode last week where they're lecturing kids on the dangers and one of the girls says 'yeah, I won't use lsd because of all the birth defects it causes all those babies.'
@@skinovtheperineum1208 Uh, no. I never saw those ones. And I while I began smoking weed back then and never stopped, it didn't ruin my life. I purposely attended a college where weed was easily accessible, and a grad school, too. I never went on to "harder drugs". Though I sampled other ones. Not heroin or meth.
hey man, i know you're just trying to show your experience, and i definitely get your point of view... but please don't try and promote drugs... you're very lucky you weren't seriously injured. you're describing it like its a fun, safe thing to do, when they can actually be very harmful, so i wouldn't recommend promoting it so prominently.
@@strawberryfields253 I hear you, but everything we used to think was true has been reversed by the Medical community. Medical marijuana is being sold and used daily now, and they are now researching "micro-dosing" LSD and magic mushrooms for therapeutic use. I believe my sharing my experiences will have no impact on young or old minds. I wasn't injured because weed, hashish & even LSD, aren't harmful. Unless you do dangerous things while on them. That being said, I have had friends and strangers tell me, they drove, & worked various jobs, while under the influence. I have known many alcoholics, who ran companies, operated heavy machinery, & worked in the building trades. Nobody should be looking at You Tube comments for sage advice, about navigating life...imo.
I just finished reading; Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Goodden (2017). A fascinating read. John and George (especially John) did a metric ton of LSD.
That is honestly one of the most interesting, insightful, and underrated books on The Beatles.
John "ate LSD like candy," by his own admission.
Just look at the company he began to keep.
Thumbs-up for Kojak, LOL...
@@johnathandavis3693 Who luvs ya baby?
@@JJ-wi2uw Telly was great. He was always playing these over the top, dark characters. He was a good bad guy....
Hearing George describe his trip brings back so many memories of my first trip.
I love the nuance in their experiences and opinions. The quote about hippies and being "hip" is brilliant. That dichotomy is still going on today.
Thank you so much to all responsible for putting this together and presenting it here. To those of us who were there and are still here, this is pure gold.
Very well done and a great selection of different moments of the Beatles, in the days of psychedelia! Peace
Used to buy trips from a one armed vet chemist, he was always following the dead, or other jam bands, and sold notebooks of various types, not sheets(100 hits), but notebooks(100 sheets,10,000 hits). I knew right then I was going to turn into a magic wizard to consciousness for others, and learned quickly not to give certain types anything, or certain amounts. I felt very responsible for the stability of others, like I had never realized before. As I spent couple years in this lifestyle I learned so much as I traveled around everywhere, and it was as much beautiful as it was scary to see how others reacted to it. I got out of it unscathed luckily and continued with my music, and it's a cautionary tale because lots of ppl do not make it out with their facilities, or strung out on other drugs cross addicted.
Thank you for making this. It totally fills in a big blank of their history for me. Having lived through their reign from beginning until the end.
I appreciate the editing and choice of clips, really enjoyed this
yuhhh pleasure to see u here
Really priceless historical eclectic compiliation. Well done, many thanks. Brilliant.
Good job of putting this together , it kept my interest thanks for posting it.
The Beatles have made the psychedelic community a better place ❤
Isn't the place supposed to be the grave?
@@exzardoz3532 you make no sense take your negativity some where else… find some peace and love brother✌🏼☮️
the thing George said about how different night is is so true. I still have vivid dreams of that night and the things I saw lol
Love
@@exzardoz3532 children of the grave yes lmao
Acid was the thing, back then. It was legal until about 1966.
I took some Purple Haze in 69. We took it at lunchtime and went to school.
We laughed and tripped, but nothing bad happened. I was in 8th grade.
crazy.
I, too, went to HS on acid. 😊
@@uwsgrrrl9981 You da crazy American, yah. Dat one who think you is the queen, when is not true? Mama Mia, you big dumdum..
Imma-gonna-slappa-you-dumdum-wit-the-wet-spaghetti. Mama Mia
@@JamminClemmons I suggest you take English writing lessons.
@@uwsgrrrl9981 - You no nothing in Itallian, yah? You a no speak a second language and consider you da judge?
American's.....always same shite for centuries, and we laugh at you from afar. You da crazy American, yah. Dat one who think you is the queen, when it is not true. Mama Mia, you big dumdum..
Imma-gonna-slappa-you-dumdum-wit-the-wet-spaghetti. Mama Mia.
tara browne, paul's close friend, was the heir to the guinness company and passed away at the end of '66 in a car accident. the line from a day in the life "he blew his mind out in a car" references this event which john read about in a newspaper and immortalized it.
Yes, Tara ran a red light in his Lotus Elan, likely high on something. And was smashed into. Tara and Paul took a rented moped voyage across the peninsula that's "Over the Mersey" from Liverpool. Paul, enjoying scenery, got so slow he fell over with his moped. Cut his upper lip. To hide the scar, Paul grew a mustache: Started the Sgt. Pepper Beatles' mustache style.
@@carlcushmanhybels8159 he didn't notice that the light had indeed changed
Nobody was really sure if he was from the house of PAUL
Very well put together, I enjoyed this. I'm kind of like George, I had my fun with psychedelics and let them go. My last trip was DMT and I never had a thought of going back. It was just sort of like, oh that was cool, carry on now! But all of my friends kept taking it and I realized when I went to their houses not being on anything, it just looked like a drug house. It was always dark, full of smoke, and everyone looked so dead and out of their minds. I got what I wanted from those drugs, but my friends didn't, they kept wanting more and more. I don't take anything anymore, not even coffee, and still I feel the effects of those drugs I used to take. I realized that I didn't need drugs anymore, now that my mind has been opened, I could be anything I want. Though George went for Eastern spirituality, I went for Jesus. No religion, Just Jesus. But I feel kind of like George in that sense, I became more interested in God, he was the reason I had all the psychedelic visions I had. So I left the drugs behind and went for that.
great testimony. Kudo to Yeshua Bar Joseph, aka Jesus the Christ, Issa, his journey to Tibet, after he told Mary and Joseph, where'd you think I'd be but in my Father's house, the temple. Wish everyone who "dabbled," experimenting with the forbidden fruits had the good sense, common sense you had. I lived in Sunnyvale, Mt. View, Los Altos, Cupertino, '64 thru "69 Wish our government had been more enlightened and broad minded. Glad we had the Beatles, and thank the heavens for George. Be well. great comments
What you say about your friends I can relate with, just chasing highs without any real spirutal goals I suppose
Would you mind elaborating on the “Jesus but not religion”? Do you simply admire and follow the teachings of jesus as a person? How do you disconnect that from the religion? Sounds super interesting. Thanks for sharing!
@@alohaservant You're mixing Jesus with Hinduism it sounds. George actually accepted Jesus as his Savior when a Christian racing car driver spoke to him just before his death. Timothy Leary was satan's drug pusher.
@@edhollingsworth2335 yes, in fact I believe Issa, Yeshua bar Yoseph, Jesus, after his bar mitzvah in remaining at the temple on his own prerogative, telling his earth parents he was doing His Father's Business, I think he caught a caravan visited the roots of truth thru Persia, India, Nepal, Tibet illustrating love, serving life, as George Harrison did so well. Pure heart, pure soul, blessing us with his Love
There's a part during Get Back where John pulls out a little bagey of something then hurriedly puts it away after remembering the camera's were on, it was so suprising lol.
Are sure it’s get back.?
Dosing somebody is a really, really bad thing to do, its very irresponsible. George and John seemed to handle it pretty well but in those early days when they knew next to nothing about the drug, it could have ended badly. Not knowing that you've taken something so powerful can be dangerous. Yes, taking LSD can provide an exhilarating and enlightening experience but it can also be a reckoning. Set and setting are important elements towards insuring that you'll have a good trip but despite the best preparations, things can take a turn and it can become a struggle. To dose anyone unexpectedly, especially a novice, is not at all cool.
Totally agree it could literally change someones life for the worst, if their prone to mental health problems it could precipitate long term psychosis and ultimately bring on latent schizophrenia for life. They could quite literally, -- in lay terms -- not come back. Only a psychopath would do such a thing
I've been dosed twice--once with DMT, and the second time with acid. I handled the LSD fine, but the DMT was horrible. Luckily I was with someone else who was going through the same thing, and we tried to keep each other in some sort of sane space (not very effectively). For me, DMT was totally bogus--tons of hallucinations, no meaningful content. I never figured out who did the dosing.
@@steveneardley7541 That sucks. When did that happen? As @rainblaze said, "Only a psychopath would do such a thing".
@@geneobrien8907 It happened in the Sixties. Probably not a psychopath, just some YOUNG hippy assholes.
@@geneobrien8907 Probably right, only a psychopath or sadly an idiot might also do such a thing not realising the seriousness of it.
Like John, I probably tripped 1000-1500 times during the age of 17-25. I used to hear that stupid myth that, “If you trip more than 7 times you’re legally insane.” The funny thing is I feel like I’m more mentally sound and stable than 99% of people I meet.
You are. As am I. I prolly did about half of what you did from 16-24. Never once had a bad trip, a few scary moments but nothing I would call bad, certainly not in totality. Had a good amount of baby sitting trips helping friends out of/through "bad trips." As for becoming insane....If anything you become much more aware of others feelings and motivations. If that's insane, I'm fucking looney, and happy I am.
You’re only legal insane if you get caught lol
We used to say…. ‘If you take acid more than 9 time you’re considered legally insane. So you can’t get busted for it then.’ 😂😎👍
You are insane trust me if you tripped that many times you are definitely not playing with a full deck you just don’t realize it
@@Michael.j130 lol
over-using psychedelics will rebuild your ego up, meaning the person you are will change to a more laidback and possibly psychotic person. using it once can give you important change in your life. i’d recommend everyone trying psychedelics once or twice in their lives because it steers you a better person for every reason you want and can imagine, but you also need to do the work yourself to maintain the lessons.
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I agree. I took acid way too many times and it took me awhile to get it together.
I always found the Beatles to be a real case study on the potentially positive effects psychaedelics on creativity. As awesome as those early pop tracks are in their own way, I have my doubts as to whether their music would have evolved in the interesting ways it did had they not taken LSD. I'm sure they would still be remembered very fondly without the LSD influence, but I don't think they would have been remembered as the multifaceted creative giants that they are widely seen as now. They probably would have kept making great catchy pop tracks with maybe a few ballads until people had had their fill of them, and then there wouldn't have been much else to say about them.
Great music writing is often a reflection of mood, and anything that makes a musician feel euphoric is likely to be reflected in the music they make if they have the skill to articulate the feeling through their voices and instruments. And the Beatles most certainly had that.
Actually George and John said it didn't help. They said later they regretted taking it.
100% right, the drug massively impacted who they are as people and what they did
@@TELEVISIONARCHIVESit still helped tons, regardless of how they “feel” about it
17:25 🤯 Wheeeeeewwwwww Lennon you really hit the apex pinnacle on that one. 🤌🏿🤙🏿🫶🏿 LOVE IT 💖
7:49 John Coltrane is ABSOLUTELY psychedelic, underrated tripping music for sure. Glad someone else feels the same way ;)
How do you feel about Ravi Shankar?
Alice Coltrane also
LOVE this video! Plus, the pic of the Byrds at 7:00 is the youngest David Crosby I've ever seen. He was a CHILD, LOL...Thank you for this...
Rip
The most common thing observed about LSD and what people say later. Lennon, Harrison, Hendrix etc. Everyone seemed to have genuine 'spiritual awakenings' and a desire to help to 'change the world' for the better of all. Greater insight. Greater understanding. End war, and love everyone. Has never been the horror story presented to me. One of the most fortunate moments in life came when an older student in high school flew to San Francisco in 1971 and obtained several hundred 'micro-dot' doses of 'Orange Sunshine' and brought them back. The only problem for me with the 'actual lysergic acid diethylamide' was that it made the 'lesser than' street 'acid ' seem useless. In reality this may have been good as it took the desire to use inferior products completely out of consideration. Peace & Lysergic
John was closer to Syd Barrett than anything else. His ego was destroyed.
@@OroborusFMA john’s ego seemed pretty healthy and intact to
me
I'm in my 70s, and have read a lot of books on various rock stars, etc. It's pretty obvious, both from what I've read, and also from people I've known, that LSD rarely causes major problems. The great killer is alcohol. Creative people have always been using pot, acid, speed, and even coffee to help their creative processes. John Lennon was totally abusing acid, but how much of a problem was that? It helped him create wonderful music. Then look at Jack Kerouac, who, despite all the drugs he took, was completely ruined by alcohol. I think most things can be used "responsibly," and by that I mean for creative work. The disasters occur when people take drugs out of depression or desperation. Syd Barrett may have been an acid casualty, but exactly how many others are there? I've known tons of people who have taken acid, and I can only think of one who suffered any real damage from it. I have had a number of cosmic experiences on acid, and know a number of other people who have also experienced such things. In the Sixties, at least where I was, there was a sense that both pot and acid were sacraments. With that attitude much more profound experiences were liable to happen. We were definitely afraid of acid, but that led us take a more serious, thoughtful approach to the experience. A lot of young people take acid in such confusing environments, that they effectively block anything profound from happening.
@@steveneardley7541 what do you reckon is the best environment in which to take it then?
@@mrclean9501 silent darkness at home alone
I remember watching the Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane video on some tv show in early 1967. I was stunned by the music and their appearance. Just a few months earlier they were mop tops on stage in matching suits. Now it was like; What the absolute fuck is this? Something is up with these guys. But I loved it.
I remember that too!
The mop top style is coming back with these kids!
Drug Music.
@@LoneLee2022 But it was so good you didn't need drugs.
@@dirtylemon3379 Need no, wanted, yes.................
I remember one time I took acid, and I attempted to drive home in the night in the wee hours. The whole drive I was fiercely trying to concentrate, I was tripping bad, seeing sounds and hearing sights! I hated it because it took so long for the nervous feeling and all the distortions to wear off. That was in 1975 at the age of 20. But I liked psilocybin mushrooms.
I had a similar experience. I had to get home from a party, and was tripping my brains out. I didn't live that far away but had no map sense whatsoever. I could remember the street names, but they had no relation to each other. I said to myself: "Don't even think about it. Your muscles will know where to go." That worked like a charm. I went on automatic pilot, and got home without a hitch.
Well I do hope it starts to wear off and you eventually find your way home because ,well..... and I don't want to scare you but you're almost 70 years old now and it's the year 2022 ,so it's not 1975 and you're not 20 years old anymore please,please don't be scared it's all right..... you probably even have a wife and kids and maybe some ex-Wives even... I hate to be the one to tell you.
I hope everything worked out okay and hey,we've got some really cool drugs out today when you sober up and feel like trying something else new maybe.
Too soon? Ha
Peace
Mushrooms had the spiritual insight LSD did not .
I dropped 3 hits before science class. Me and my buddy Gene Kelly , were called up to the blackboard to solve equations with multicolored chalk. I drew a psychedelic turtle. Gene had a whole geometric thing going on . We just scribbled right over the equations. Think all we got was a detention .
Enough to take a trip from "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" to "I Am The Walrus"
Goo goo g'joob 😵💫🤣
I wonder what life expectancy was among the lower classes in liverpool at that time! 🙄
Great to see Bear " Owsley" in the film. His impact in the Hippie movement was huge. Sound man for the Dead with the Wall of Sound. Oh the White Lightning had a little bit to do with it.
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They spent time in an octopus's garden in the shade and living in a yellow submarine while being both the egg man and the walrus.🤣
Keep it coming man good work
Nothing is ever quite the same after you take it. In my experience by far the best high but can also be by far the worst. Nothing will burn you out like going full throttle on Acid for days on end.
Yes, you can't be sure where you'll come down. You may be euphoric for days or you might unravel a bit of your psyche and feel you've landed on another planet.
@@wangobadankas4038 a Hindu chap one said to me that the meditation state that Acid and similar drugs gives is equivalent to being dropped off on top of mount Everest inside your mind. If you climbed it yours you would have the skills to get back but because the trip put you there you can have serious trouble getting back down.
@@rbharvesters7404 That's a good analogy. I tripped a few dozen times back in the late 70s - early 80s. I never had a bad experience but after a while going to the magic kingdom loses it's novelty. Even now I can remember it vividly. It's like fond memories of past vacations. I do understand what it (and other things) can do to a person and I can emphatically say that it's NOT for everyone.
@@wangobadankas4038i did it many times over the years. First time was one night after school in the 90s and i think the last time i did about 8 drops of liquid Acid in Bristol one night in about 2011. I did it thousands of times in between but yes it does become less exciting as time goes on. Truth be told i decided to go to rehab in 2013, i needed to get of the crack and heroin. I never did Acid again after that and im sure i never will again. I get my kicks in the real world now.
Just look at what it did to Syd Barrett !
I liked it when John described they all thought a little red light in the elrvator was a huge fire. Lol. The swinging 60s must have been a blast.
You look at Syd Barrett, he’s a prime example of surprise LSD dosing going wrong
psychedelics are not for everyone-especially those with underlying medical conditions such as Syd. LSD itself is not responsible for mental disorders, but can undoubtedly exaggerate them or even bring them from the background after abuse of the drug
Well done sir, this video was made so well!
I took it once when I was 22. I didn't hallucinate but experienced bouts of undiluted joy mixed with dread and paranoia. It lasted 24 hours. Time seemed to slow down. It stripped away all the levels of psychosis we use to socially survive from childhood to adulthood and leaves you emotionally naked. The essence of your soul becomes clear. . Imagine experiencing in an instant the effect of years of psychotherapy. You can't socially survive like that so I never took it again.
That was not lsd, lsd doesnt last 24 hours
@@simonsanchezkumrich8489it certainly can and way more if you take a bitchload. But then again, you’d also have serious opened-eye visuals and closed-eye ones too, I predict.
Listening to George recount the story of his first trip made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and my skin tingle... crazy how someone just talking about that drug can elicit a physical response in me 20 years since I last took it! My first trip started about lunch time at school, I dropped a whole blotter of NODDY acid, little single dose pictures of Noddy on one side and one big noddy on the back , covering the sheet of a thousand I think it was. I was 14 and a kid in the year below me, a 13 year old kid, had a whole sheet and was flogging them at lunchtime for dinner money. £3 each. I stayed at school all day, mostly laughing at the crazy shine and rays of light like lasers coming from the reflections from my bald physics teachers head. After that I tripped at school. In lessons at least 50 or 60 times before I finished my GCSEs with reasonably good grades... considering! Got an A☆ in art
at school! holy crap! i should talk- i took a hit of mescaline once, during a lunch break on a "national guard" drill. SO stupid- and embarrassing! when the drug came on, i blasted out some kind of a chemically induced fart that cleared out a whole roomfull of guys. i sat there, laughing- SO red in the face! lol
A star in art sounds about right ahaha
@@craigrheberling that peyote definitely makes you purge alright. Made me puke outta my nose. Don't think ida get away with tripping on buttons or synthetic in school. Unless i just fkn hide in the toilets til stopped raaaalfing, haha.
@@stuartjonas2737 damn! you had a bad one! my fav "mushroom memory" walking into a theater- "fantasia" was playing- the scene where the brooms are sweeping the water on the stairs. i thought if i don't stop laughing, they're gonna throw me AND my date outa here! (in my 20's, i'm 76 now!)
i had a bald french teacher in high school. one day, we were throwing paper airplanes when he faced the blackboard. (all boy's school!).when he turned around, we would stop throwing, but there would still be planes in the air. one time he got so red in the face and upset, we realized we should stop. BUT, a minute later, one plane, that was caught on an overhead light fixture, came loose and flew right into the bald spot on his head!. as painful as it might have been to him, NOBODY could stop laughing! ahhh, high skool!
The first time I had acid was in the middle of the countryside in Wiltshire with my brother and a mate. The hills were rolling and the trees were shaking around like they never did before and the leaves all looked like eyes...it was pretty cool
Some friends and I took acid and headed north for a 3 hour drive home. About 2 hours in I realized that I was driving the wrong way, just pulled off and redirected and no one said anything about it. We just enjoyed the five hour drive and the music coming from my cars cassette player.
WTH. Acid is a friendly drug but I don’t think any hallucinogens match well with driving ..
@rabblerousin8981 I was young and stupid at the time. I am older and much wiser now. We all have "skeletons in the closet". I would never do such a thing now, and don't recommend it for anyone else either.
@@threeg6966 apologies for my pious comment. In a headspace of “people should probably take more acid” and your comment puckered me up.
Sounds like a great day with great music. Thanks for not being a dick with my lame comment
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@@rabblerousin8981 No problems 😊 👌
The comments under this video are AMAZING!!! Thanks to all who told their stories! GREAT video! Take some time to read these....🕊☮💕🍞🌹🌹
I’ll never forget listening to Abbey Road on mushrooms….1998 Rutgers U in New Brunswick NJ…..the medley part of that album just crushed me…..the rhythm of Here comes the Sun ❤ the explosion of she came into the bathroom window ! Wow! Such great music ❤❤❤
John's "Plastic Ono Band" album is what I appreciated the most
I was maybe two weeks shy of my tenth birthday when I saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964. They were considered outrageous for that time.
I was about that age. My parents wouldn't let me watch it but I went next door and watched them.
Great video, well done, cheers
Dang, this confirmed my theory. Frisco and Haight seemed far less glamorous in the early 2000s, when I was there, than it may have been in the 60s. Recent thoughts on the area had me considering that Haight was probably not really that different in the 60s than it is (now) or was (around 2005), with all the heads that were attracted to it. I could never "hang out" in Haight or hippy hill. I had good times playing baseball at Golden Gate Park and looking for CDs at Haight's Rasputin Records (where I discovered Jaco Pastorius). This revelation makes me a little more accepting that I missed the 60s (and 70s), but I think it would have been enjoyable to live in the bay area during that scene, when the population was lower, income and rent was more equitable, to be able to live close enough to catch shows at Cow Palace and the Filmore.
Thank You my ass aches of how much the Beatles doped themselves at my 68 years who gives a damn but my love for psychedelic American-British 1967 never ended I still love that music more than ever!
Yeah, we have our "trip stories". Sometimes there's a Theme that becomes a kind of focus point later. For me, the theme that arrived in my mind upon taking a tab of acid was contained in the words, "So What." Everything i saw happening was a cognizant experience, but i remember being in a supermarket that night, and when the cashier told me how much it was at the checkout, I said, "So What." Luckily my friends helped ease me through the situation that was so amazing. The whole experience was meaningful to me both then, and later, however; even as i refer to now 50 years later.
I was on acid when a clerk handed my change to me. I stared at it for a few minutes. Thats the closest to being a cat that Ive ever become.
My first time taking acid I had an epiphany, to “just do it”. Yeah, just like the Nike logo, just do it was the theme of the trip, as well as my epiphany to a live happier life.
Back in the 1970's one of the Grateful Dead coterie set up the Dead's business plan, and presented it to Jerry & the rest of the Band.
It was called the "So what ?" papers.
Loved this. Good info.. don't need to wonder anymore.
I think their psychedelic songs were more influenced by the spirit of the era and their trip to India than their acid trips. Too many musicians got it wrong and believed that drugs were the secret formula for good songwriting.
If you really listen to it, their songwriting was becoming considerably more progressive before the drugs. Its not like Tomorrow Never Knows immediately follows I Want To Hold Your Hand, but for an acid trip.
Psychedelics inspire artists on extremely profound levels. Tomorrow Never Knows would not exist without acid…it’s literally the most perfect musical encapsulation of LSD ever recorded. LSD doesn’t create art, but it inspires artists to recreate their spiritual experiences.
@@SayItAintTso Yes, I can agree with that. It is a source of inspiration but extremely overrated. Rather, it's about your imagination of what psychedelic music sounds like and your creativity. You don't wake up one day after a trip and suddenly be overwhelmed by genius songs.
@@dennislindqvist8443 Oh, I dont know. If Trump dropped acid, he would certainly be smarter...Of course, given his political history, he may have already done that. Imagine, if you dare, Trump dropping a tab of acid into a beer for North Korea's Kim. A new era in diplomacy...
@@dennislindqvist8443 have you ever taken it ?
Good on Paul, George, John & Ringo for telling it straight. None of anyone’s business, but since they asked, let truth shine-on. People criticise what they don’t understand, then, now, always, end of. Personally, I’m so glad they all dropped…
Rapid heartbeat, dilated pupils, auditory and visual hallucinations, dry mouth, delirium, confusion all sound exactly like the onset of a Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 'trip'. We eagerly expected these 'symptoms, while 'tripping' back in the early 1970s. I became disillusioned with the hallucinogens available after around 1975-76. Now realizing that the Orange Sunshine and blotter we got from San Francisco was relatively pure laboratory LSD manufactured by Owsley's cohorts after he fled to Canada. I did Peyote and picked Psilocybin in Tampa for my last two 'trips'. For myself, they were miraculous substances. The health care professionals that recommend hallucinogenic assisted therapy are correct according to all that I have been able to study. The natural substances and LSD we had was with a great deal of experience 'tripping' and knowing what to expect. Not for first time users in my opinion. I would not take the doses we used to take now. There are 45 years since my last 'dose' of LSD. The health care professionals know what they are talking about for the most part. I listen to them now. Peace & Psilocybin
You think lsd was an experience. Dmt makes lsd seem like cannabis... I'm talking life changing
Health Care 'Professionals' are generally as intellectual as my garden soil.
@@DimitrisDr3am You obviously never ingested a 400mcg dose. If you had, you would realize how ridiculous this comment is.
As a "child of the 1970s" we did our fair share of drugs and I found that with the more intense drugs (other than pot), where you took it mattered so much. If you were at someone's house, NOT DRIVING, among people taking the same drug, listening to music, that was the best setting.
The worst drugs to me were acid and "T"- THC. T especially just overwhelmed me to the point of being scared.
When cocaine came around, that proved to be the most addictive due to it's stimulating effects- it made you feel great. But like all drugs, it wears off and you're left feeling lower than when you started, and you want to get back to that great feeling. Of all the drugs, cocaine turned out to be the worst demon of all.
The powder sold as THC back then was PCP.
@@EarthWalkerOne I do remember people saying that "the day after". Since we always heard horror stories about PCP, I would dismiss the 'PCP for THC' stories as overreaction. Looking back, maybe not. It was likely that some of the T was cut with PCP. But I dreaded when my friends would score T back then. The fact that everyone in our group of friends both at home and college took it was the peer pressure aspect of it all. What I really needed were new friends...
This reeks of a Joey Diaz "crystal THC" story.
Coke makes people arrogant & self-centred - plus they can rabbit on and on about bollox for hours. No thanks.
ive come to the conclusion, acid is a short lived rage, its amazing and mind opening until its too much and completely takes a toll on your mental. i learned its not bad but its not good, and in that case it taught me about many other things in this world that are the same.
“For most people,” Owsley says, “the proper dose is about 150 to 200 micrograms. When you get to 400, you just totally lose it. I don’t care who you are. Kesey liked 400. He wanted to lose it.” - Rolling Stone Article. titled "Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD"
Owsley was serious about this and he did not dose his hits at 270ug.
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Bear, in person
Satori - A Thousand Micrograms of Love --1967. Garage/psych acid rock out of Houston Texas. I think Albert Hoffman said 105ug -115ug as the optimal psychedelic dose.
@@danneeson7056 Yes, that was Albert's recommended dose. Bear seemed to think that was too weak to get one's desired effect. Albert's keeps the ego intact whereas Bear's is just enough to push you to where to watch your ego die while ensuring YOU don't disappear.
@@SeattleSpursFan1882 My friends and I had quite a summer in 1975 as I was able to procure some of the last product coming out of Rochdale in Toronto, famous as North Americas largest underground "drug" store. I picked up 150 hits of domed yellow sunshine tabs. Extremely clean, everyone had a good time, no bum trips. Lasted late June through early September. Saw Pink Floyd outdoors at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton June 28 1975. Fantastic evening, great summer.
@@danneeson7056 Crazy! I had no idea there was big suppliers in Ontario that early on, and in Rochdale of all places!
I also had no idea Floyd played in Hamilton back then. Very cool!
George: "We got to the club and suddenly felt fantastic... " Yeah, you were high, but you were also a Beatle...that's got to feel quite amazing in itself.
George Harrison is my spirit animal. I'm happy that I got to hear him play "My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Eric Clapton in Los Angeles.
Between 79 to 94, I took about 400 trips. I resisted the street drugs, during the 60's @ most of the 70's, because I saw what it had been doing to my celebrities that I was looking up to. Most of the trips were groovy. Were a few bad. Had a few up on the roof of my Hollywood apartment. Seen what i thought was a house on fire. Actually, it was just a bright light. Many more cosmic experiences. Clean now for over 20 years. One is to many. I am convinced that everyone is addicted to something. It might be responsible for my lousy memory now. Or it could be that i got old?
I never had a bad trip. Sex on LSD is the best.
@@LoneLee2022 I saw monsters. Was freezing, when it was actually 108. Thought i was going to have a heart attack and more. For the most part, was a groovy experience. I am not sure if it is what has led to my worsening back. Just what i heard.
@@RandyR
Could be something in that dude. Doesn’t the LSD accumulate in the spinal cord, or is that just an old wives tale ??
Wow this was amazing!! I wish I could put two thumbs up here. Thanks so much.
Only enough to look out the window but not jump through it
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"Good Night" off the White album was the traditional song my group of friends would play at the end of every trip we did together. Good times so many years ago! I occasionally wonder if I would still find it so magical. LSD and mushrooms can have a very positive effect in the right setting. It did for me at least.
There are several psychedelic substances. I took a number of them in me younger years I did. LSD is far and away the most direct and intense. Personally, I almost always felt a little anxiety during trips. Sometimes to the point that it was rather unpleasant. But always were insights to realizations beyond normal conscious thoughts. Mescaline was the most interesting. Mushrooms were the most pleasant. That was in the 20th century. Why anyone would want to trip in the 21st century, with its endless access to information is beyond me.
maybe to escape from endless acces of information!?
@@oriza2 Maybe, yeah?
As a kid who's done acid really recently, it's one of those things you have to see to believe if that makes sense. Like reading trip reports is one thing but your own experiences are a whole different can of beans. Each experience is subjective to the individual as no two brains are alike. Plus the craziness of acid is hard to imagine if you haven't done it. So honestly, it's even more relevant to do it. Plus with the amount of shit that we deal with in our day to day lives, sometimes some insight into our subconscious is great. Bad trips aren't bad, they're just challenging trips as one of my friends told me once. You might learn something about yourself even. Trip reports are subjective but True Reports are intro-spective.
@@InvalidUser18 seeing, feeling and experiencing is believing
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With LSD, yes and no. Looking at a cement wall and seeing it become beautiful patterns of color is wonderful and inspiring. But perhaps not something to believe in.
Or maybe it is for others.
At an advancing age, I now see psychedelics in the way that Don Juan introduced them to Carlos Castañeda: merely a pathway to lead outside our assumptions of the banality of life. To show one there are cosmic aspects of every aspect of our existence. As a younger man, I WAS inspired and my eyes were forever opened. But now (IMHO) I feel the responsibility to incorporate what I was shown into my day to day living without ingesting substances. To see as a sentient being.
Peace.
Listening to George’s description makes me feel like trying it!
I went upstairs and grabbed a smoke and somebody spoke and I went into a dream (flashback)
I always preferred a compliment of good hash or weed to go with it
Excellent. Is that your covers playing in the background? Fantastic. Bravo.
I was always under the impression that the beatles’ recording sessions involved copious amounts of acid, so its very interesting to me that they basiclly never tripping while recording in the studio. Makes since tho, i cant imagine it would be very easy to make songs that sound good when ur in that mindstate. Especially when the shit they were taking was dosed 3x what we are taking nowadays. And purer. And just better overall lmao
I bet they wrote riffs and lyrics while tripping, and recorded sober except for maybe some weed, haha
writing music on LSD is so fun, and recording when ur high asf is just as great@@CJ_YT.
The best spark and source of creativity is to thread to the emotions like happiness, sorrows, sadness, anger, excitement, gladness and transform that to varied creativity like abstract to visual arts or music arts etcetera.
LSD doesn't destroy your ego (witness John's enormous ego during this time) but it does destroy your _ego boundaries_. It took me a few years to figure out what had happened to me. To make matters worse, instead of the usual 24 hour high, that stuff kept me altered for a solid year, complete with some MIGHTY flashbacks.
Some brains seem to have a different chemical composition and LSD can affect them more profoundly. I took it about 100 times, got bored with it and stopped but I never had a flashback. Some people had latent schizophrenia which was triggered by acid and they were permanently changed by the drug.
13:50 George's description of haight ashury and revelation of what it really was- best part of the video. He quit lsd after that.
Great video 👍 glad you did your research
Their music got a lot better & deeper with more substance After Acid - this is facts! 💯
Real Delysid binds the Ca2+ ion preventing the synthesis of serotonin. Same thing happens when We are asleep. In '76 was having trouble grasping the concept of Integration. A friend who followed the Dead, gave me a hit, some 600 mikes and during the trip opened my Calculus text and observed the symbols running all over the pages. Next day after weightlifting and then running 10 miles, got home and jumped up into the air to land in my beanbag. For the milliseconds I was suspended in the air I saw, in bright phosphorescent green light, an image, the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system. The intersection of two equations, X^2=Y and Y^2=X, two parabolic curves whose intersection resembled an American football in 2-D. Observed Dx, highlighted in brighter green light, moving across the intersected eqs. with a changing equation above and to the right of the graphical image. When I landed in the beanbag chair I could Integrate. What could I do, but looked up towards the ceiling and said, "Thank you". Took another 9 semesters of Calculus based Math for my first undergrad, and owe it to the Delysid experience opening my mind.
Now that's the kind of Trip Report the world needs!
What a great story!
My math professor at the U said "to derivate is a craft, but to integrate is an art".
It reminds me of the film Dewey Cox walk hard where everything he takes a different drug
the music changes style
I like how honest the Beatles were about drugs
"When I took acid for the first time, I saw brilliant lights and heard these strange sounds that sounded like car horns." Mitch Hedberg
reminds me of this song - Jeffrey Lewis - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane
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the lesson here is never trip in a car park kids!
I learned from the best Timothy Leary, Alan Watts and Huxley.
He'll take you up, he'll bring you down,
He'll plant your feet back firmly on the ground.
He flies so high, he swoops so low,
He knows exactly which way he's gonna go.
Timothy Leary. and the Moody Blues
I’m sure, a lot. I know I did. Before Oswley starting making acid, we got it from a Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz.
Back in the late 80s we used to get some really good acid from these hippies in Coconut Grove Miami. Well some of us dropped one afternoon at my girlfriends, it was my day off so I didn't care. Just as I started peaking my boss called and said they were really understaffed and they needed me, it was a restaurant job. I did everything I could to beg off but the manager told me to come in or I would get a write up so I did. That was a real interesting night.
An interesting night. Good gawd that is a very tame way of describing a memory you will never forget. Compose
it and see if someone will make a movie. Lots of people would go..
OK, something for people that don't know. One quickly develops a tolerance to acid. If you don't take a break between trips it loses it's punch. 100 trips in a year would be doubtful so I'm skeptical of John's claim of "literally thousands". I believe it was many, just not that many.
Yeah, that sounds about right. You build up that tolerance quickly.
You just have to take more to get the same trip. I read somewhere that Lennon had acquired two pints of LSD in 1967. If you have enough LSD you can trip several times a week. You just have to double the amount each time. It probably wasn't thousands, and some were probably less potent trips than others, but he could have taken LSD a thousand times.
Its not really a tolerance, the brain needs to replenish whatever it is that's depleted by acid, it only takes a few days. If you take it two days in a row, it still works, just not as effectively. 100 trips in a year is not unusual.
You can’t take it too regularly. I know people who have done whole bottles of the stuff. Disclaimer: highly not recommended if you don’t want to have conversations with metatron for the rest of your life.
Some people call this point "micro-dosing" because you basically become the LSD equivalent of a functional alcoholic. Insane, but I know people who do it.
as someone whos done LSD-25 PLENTY of times its interesting to watch them explain a substance thats so new for the time
I was 16 during my first trip.
9 hits of white blotter acid.
Seemed to take a million years to come down.
how much is that, 900?
You never came down
9 hits for your first time? If it was actually quality stuff (which I highly doubt) you're lucky that you didn't end up in the hospital. I took one blotter hit of orange sunshine my first time and was on a trip that I still to this day have difficulty describing. Sorry but either your sh*t was really weak or you're full of it.
@@joeldavis5815 im newer to acid, about how many ug are these trips?
@@Wtahc Hard to say. There are several factors to take into account. One is that LSD is an extremely fragile molecule. UV light (sunlight), heat, and certain chemicals like chlorine, which is found in tap water will all destroy the LSD molecule. This means that the way it has been stored prior to reaching you will be a factor.
I had a crappy childhood.
Received a hit (blotter) around 1972...
Was afraid of what I would see, tripping alone.
Gave it back.
I can relate with george when he says that acid feels like all love and the best feeling. For me though it always seems to devolve into a terrifying decent into losing my mind whereas mushrooms just make me feel incredibly happy.
You just didn't have the right set and setting
@@jacehendrix3194 interesting you'd assume that. Nah i had a great set and setting at least for my second trip and it was still rather terrifying.
@@gandalfandferg280 You must need to start with even smaller doses. The set is your mind. The setting is the physical world. If they are both ready for the trip, then the dosage is the only other factor to think about. Other than demonic possession if you're into that.
i have the exact opposite feelings. acid to me is interesting, fun, hilarious and metaphysical. mushrooms are either bland or overpowering and too electric.
I've experienced both these things on LSD tbh, the way George described it and the way you have.
I remember reading that after they stopped touring in 1966 it was only a few months later that their appearances(clothes hair etc) changed what for the time was fairly dramatically and the media commented on it, with Lennon's appearance being the most changed.
Collectively, the beatles did about a tenth of the LSD intake that syd barret did.
“I just spoke the truth….and it’s sometimes painful” wow, that hit me
George went to San Francisco during the summer of love and brought camera equipment which he hid a vial of pure Owsley in to smuggle back to England.
just one vial?
@@jayweir6375 Do you have any Idea how small a microgram is, and how many 'doses' (250 mics), were therefore contained in one small vial? Obviously not...... (It's A LOT!!)
when i was a teenager i must’ve tripped at least over 200 times. an amazing experience. always listened to the beatles, pink floyd, grateful dead. just hit so much differently. good times.
The LSD experience is one of those things you just can't describe with words. You can do the where and when, but not the what...
Then there was the zeitgeist of the time, where so many of us were in that space, with connections coming through in the art, film, and especially music of the time. I don't know why it can't be relived, or rediscovered now, but we just need to accept that that was then, and this is now...
It's slowly coming back.
Trust me it is. :)
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I was a teen in helLA in the late '60s/early 70s, and actually affiliated with an LSD/hashish distribution/consumption cult -- the Brotherhood of Eternal Love -- as a runaway kid for 3 yrs.
I might have tripped a few hundred times over my lifetime. I did have a few "bad trips" where I just waited out any negative effects such as paranoia or anxiety, knowing that within a dzn hrs I'd be over it. Weigh that against the psychic freedom John mentions at the end here...
Absolutely no regrets, and fully embrace the positive experiences/influences that tripping in my teens provided me.
after years of analysis i have come to the conclusion those were truly THE GOOD OLD DAYS
some people are just that gifted. Another example being noel fielding. Some things are not simply explainable except in the sense that some people are just simply born with these talents,inherited probably from another family member or just amazing brains. I think lennon was one of those people.Just pure genius.