Jerry Interview - LSD
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Never read this before or could be I just don't remember. Either way fun interview
Did taking LSD change your feelings on death?
Sure. I’m not nearly so afraid of death anymore. I don’t think I was terribly afraid of it before, it never was one of my hang-ups, but I think it really erased anything about fearing it. Psychedelics at their most powerful are scarier than death.
Let’s talk about music for a moment. Do you feel some songs are much more psychedelic than others?
No, I don’t. The audience does. There are schools of thought about this, but for me all music is psychedelic. Country and western music is psychedelic. The blues is psychedelic. Everything is psychedelic. All music.
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Nice. I agree that music is
Nice. I agree that music is fundamentally PSYCHADELIC.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Painted Mandolin
I can get behind Garcia
I can get behind Garcia getting behind the notion that all music is psychedelic because he put that spin on whatever music he played.
But to me there is a shit ton of music that has zero psychedelic aspect, influence or flavor.
Most classical, symphonic, operatic, old and new school country, Texano, Polka, big band jazz and many other forms of "straight," music to my ears carry very little in the way of trippiness..... unless you be trippin' while listening to it.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Jay
I think, for me, the ideas of
I think, for me, the ideas of harmonics, tension and release are psychedelic. I dunno, it just fascinates me.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Painted Mandolin
You can go at this as if it
You can go at this as if it were fractal in nature - the deeper you look the trippier it seems - but when I hear Bach, or Bill Monroe or Barbara Streisand - none of that shit speaks to me as being lysergic....
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I actually consider the
I actually consider the majority of JS Bach's best work extremely trippy. Barbara Streisand, Barry Manilow and similar mainstream pop, not at all.
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I can concur re Bach -
I can concur re Bach - especially because of all the inversions and symetrical melodies and the 6 voice counterpoint.
Dude was a certified once-in-a-lifetime musical genius....
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Whatever musics give one a
Whatever musics give one a sense of transcendence is psychedelic.
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Music naturally stimulates
Music naturally stimulates the psyche.
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>>Everything is psychedelic.
>>Everything is psychedelic.
duh
caves are psychedelic as fuck
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I met Jerry @ the
I met Jerry @ the Psychedelicatessen in my dream
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He ordered Yoo-Hoo.
He ordered Yoo-Hoo.
There was a suitcase in his hand;-)
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Was he banging your wife?
Was he banging your wife?
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Deadly
She has better taste in
She has better taste in humanity.
We remain together 21 years happily wed.
As much love as Jerry gave (and continues to give) to us through the music,
sadly he was unable to maintain the long term relationships many seek.
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Dogfood, he was a friend of
Dogfood, he was a friend of mine
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Going 'round and 'round
Going 'round and 'round