I generally had bad trips. I don’t know why but my friends once went to the pub all tripping on California sunshine but I ended up lying under a caravan afraid to move.
Drug induced music is simply that! it would not have taken place without it, you decide what's real and not! For me, unfortunately, many great jazz players, relied on it, Heroin was drug of choice, a lot of the stuff you hear would not exist without it, Coltrane, Parker, Joe Pass ,Mahavishnu, Miles Davis, all drug induced and the list goes on, I'll just shut up now, I've learned that young people have no patience for history, sad thing, because it tells you where everything you have came from
Mind altering drugs (yes alcohol too) contributed early on to the homeless matter. Bums were hobos, transient types who preferred booze. But the 'hard drug' user have become a permanent fixture and most not straying very far from their roots. Many homeless folks admit that abusive use of drugs account for roughly 90% of their population. George here encountering the first wave of drug derelicts many of whom surely got straightened out.
Good for Paul, calling him out. There's nothing cool about being lax and careless with wording, being nonchalant like that....... Th others knew it, why couldn't Lennon?
George saying, "It's an addiction like any other", after only being there a day is the most privileged shit I've heard him say. I love all the beatles but that was a really dumb take on his part. Did he even ask some of the people why they're there? They may not all be homeless bums. I didn't know he stopped taking LSD after that! The 60's sure were weird, perception stronger than reality. That's still the case nowadays but at least we can recognize it. Just something about that anecdote he gave was really poor, I did not resonate with him calling all those people "bums". If he wasn't a Beatle he would be the same people they are. Kind of a stuck-up "well, they don't do it like I like to, so they must not be doing spirituality correctly".
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.
In some alternate universe they never touched drugs and stayed the 4 mop tops singing she loves you. I wonder what songs they’d make! Really makes you wonder
Whatever happened to LSD? Can you still get it? No, I ain't shopping around, just curious. All you hear about now is Meth and Fentanyl. Are they better?
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…
IKR will never believe John’s revisionist explanation for Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. If any song was about an LSD experience, it was this song. Who knows what kept him from simply admitting it?
Rumour control, here are the facts, not mere factoids: Paul M. took 5 grams of L, John L. took 5 grams of S, George H. took 5 grams of D and Ringo St. took 0 grams of LSD.
Thanks! I was wondering the same and didn't have time to research. Apparently, it's been talked about a lot since the release of Get Back (along with the dubious claim that he yelled at Sean so loud he got hearing loss.) Just like he said he didn't do heroin for too long, there's also some (sometimes malicious) sources saying that he was a junkie until he died and Yoko is still -injecting- herself. I'll trust your research for the time being hahaha Some feedback: Please, have the text displayed in a larger font in the middle-right or left of the screen. It's hard to read, impossible with automatic captions.
I hate to be the elephant in the room, but why does nobody ever mention John getting hooked on heroine? John basically left his first wife to marry his heroine dealer.
"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.
I took it once and when I was trying to go to sleep I saw fractures in my room in the walls. Before that it was a wonderful time and I was able to express myself without anxiety. It was so freeing. But those fracturing images made it the first and last time.
I really like the choice of Beatles songs that go along with this video but it's a pity it's not actually the Beatles performing them; I also really like LSD but it's such a shame I can't get my hands on some anymore. I also really wish John and George were still here. ...but then again, I don't think they would've liked Society today. 😔💜🌞
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.
