Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What the Dead have managed, however, are those 20 years of playing, with most of the same early-'60s rebels and LSD voyagers who started the group. The original keyboard and harmonica player, Ron McKernan, known as Pig Pen, died of hard living in the early '70s, and the present keyboardist, Brent Mydland, is the only relative newcomer. Otherwise the Dead are still Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman on drums, Phil Lesh on bass, Bobby Weir on rhythm guitar and, first among equals, Jerry Garcia on lead guitar...
...Rings and the Gormenghast books, galvanized the spirit like a Disney Das Kapital. In Dune, rival masters from four planets battled for control of "melange," an addictive spice that conferred powers of prophecy and transcendence. Here was an inter-galactic Colombian drug war, with a stash of celestial LSD waiting to be harnessed by a teen-age messiah-Holden Caulfield maturing into Che Guevara...
...hypermodern, done predominantly in the bright style of the innovative designers known as the Memphis group. The setting, like Lagerfeld's fashion, is both nervy and funny: a silk-cushioned "conversation pit" shaped like a boxing ring, an etagere that looks like a Lego construct built by an LSD casualty. The Paris house is heavily antiqued. "The most perfect moment in France for me was the 18th century," Lagerfeld says. Over in Brittany he has imported fountains, even torn down stands of trees, to restore the house to its original glory. "Anybody who saw him there who didn...
...some, therefore, the ideal is to go there on a visit, a trip. The most widely used drugs, in fact, promise to re-create the experience of a major mental illness. Marijuana lets you circumnavigate the land of schizophrenia; LSD parachutes you in for the day. Quaaludes and downers promise a languid overnight stay in the Lethean land of depression, cocaine in the energized hothouse of mania...
...early '70s Schultes used his experiences to co-author a book on the botany and chemistry of hallucinogens, with Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD...