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Post by B on Feb 22, 2011 18:58:33 GMT -5
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Post by B on Feb 23, 2011 9:26:03 GMT -5
No takers? ;D I don't have a clue what Miles is getting at here. Whitley Strawber? Straber RISE ? reverse Rebwarts Hogwarts!  |
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Post by mysteryhair on Dec 11, 2011 13:21:08 GMT -5
From <a href="http://www.jpgr.co.uk/col_k79202.html">jpgr.co.uk</a>
Yoko Ono's single "Walking on thin ice"
The run-out groove on both sides contain the etching "STRAWBERRY".
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Post by B on Dec 11, 2011 16:54:35 GMT -5
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Post by seasaltcaramel on Dec 11, 2011 21:22:36 GMT -5
i just got jerry garcia's first solo album. Every song is about dealing drugs. One song has this line:
"if i had a gun for every ace i've drawn
i could arm a town the size of babylon."
it struck me for two reasons. The first, i've been reading a lot about the people that were manufacturing acid in the late 60s-early 70s. There were a bunch of communes, one of the most famous was the brotherhood of divine love. They were originally based in laguna beach.
They were bikers, and one night they heard these socialites were partying. These socialites were getting high with lsd, which was something new at that time. Being bad ass bikers the "brothers" broke into the house and stole all the acid. The guests freaked until they realized they werent going to die, the bikers wanted the acid.
So they bad ass bikers drive out into the desert, as they do, and stop eventually and take the stuff. At one point the guy in charge takes his gun and throws it into a bush, declaring "this is it! Im finished with violence", etc.
They decide to spread acid evangelically. Bear had taken time off from manufacturing his increasingly infamous acid to "soul search" back in kentucky. His apprentice, tim scully, set up a lab in denver during this time. This spot was raided, eventually, because the grass in the front yard began dying and a tub of some toxic chemical spilled and smelled god awful.
With acid there was always this two step process of distribution. There was the money guys and the chemists. The money guys put up the money, obviously, and the chemist cooked the stuff. It was the money guys that started the connection between the hell's angels and the chemists. The brotherhood played their part as well. The brotherhood were money men. And they made lots of money.
They sent out a group to search for hash and settled in afghanistan, which leads me to suspect that this is why tim leary turned up there after escaping from prison. Anyway, there was another group that was famous at the time, not for producing, but "evangelicising". You have the rainbow family.
Now, there is the MMT rainbow and the lucifer rising rainbow, right? This family lived at the hog farm, and were the ones running the bad trip tents at woodstock. So they had experience, at least you would hope. But one thing about the family was they would refer to the "straight" world as babylon. So in this song you have a veiled reference to the family. Not so far out, just a lot of back story.
By the early 70s most of the original evangelists were off in europe in hiding or had gone off like jerry rubin to destroy babylon from within. But there is the another song on the album, sugaree, that has an interesting lyric relating to this.
"Shake it sugaree
i'll meet you at the jubilee
and if that jubilee dont come
maybe i'll meet you on the run"
there is a real outlaw thing going on with the dead. It shouldnt be overlooked either, especially considering how widespread the influence became with the beatles being bombed on owsley acid for the "bus tour".
As for other relationships between the beatles and the dead there was one interesting story jerry talked about. He was at a party when an incredibly drunk john lennon appear and began chastising jerry, mocking him really, calling him jesus christ and so on. This really hurt jerry because here was the main beatle giving him shit (even though at their peak people that paul was the "head" of the group).
You have the zippie/yippie connection but its very likely forcade was a rat. The first time a lot of people heard about him was at the democratic convention of 68 when he was dealing out of a tree in his priest outfit.
The reason im giving all this information is because i watched an innterview today. Its from that documentary the hippie temptation and its an interview with the grateful dead. At one point the interviewer asks about drugs and they say they take them. Phil - the blond guy - smiles and shakes his head "no, were not pushing drugs..." in the sense of promoting them, but hes got that shit eating grin. About 6 months earlier when they were living in l.a. Bear, their patron, had a lab in the attic and the powder drifted through the whole house. They lived with the guy that was producing the gold standard acid.
The second interesting thing was something bob weir - the spaced out one - says that the "freak community" doesnt have wars and hatred like the "straight" community. To think, in two years that idea would be blown out of the water at altamont and with charles manson. Did i mention before that the dead mentioned - i forget who specifically mentioned this - that the stones' road manager was a "mansonite" during the altamont period. Not only that but jagger did his "i dont look good in the sunlight" routine twice, both times he caused riots. You get into muckraking territory here so im not going to develop that any furthur, with a you.
The idea is simple. There was an underground that couldnt be talked about because it was highly illegal, but which was mentioned cryptically in a lot of songs by the san francisco bands. The aspect of secrecy is important, because by the early 70s the dead entered their "gnostic" period, and this evagelical trip and the secrecy was considered by many to be a very specific "imitation" of masonry and rosicrucianism.
And for the conspiracy theorists out there, bob weir is a member of the bohemian club. Im pretty sure hes the antichrist, as well...
This is just interesting: apparently the acid was completely perfect until 1977. Meaning scully and bear were at it until pretty damn late in the game. That really opened up a lot of strange connections when i first read that. As for the dead being involved in intelligence agencies... Consider for a moment some of the more prominent dead heads.
For the record, they were dead to me after the haitus. By the time touch of grey came out they were old and in the way. Heroin destroyed that band, and a lot of great bands. By the early nineties they were just going through the motions, greasing the machine "they" had contrived.
There is an interviewwith owsley at kesey's farm in oregon. The interviewer is a brain dead young man. Im getting insight into the college fraternity consciousness. "dead head" frats, trust fund babies etc. Its appalling when they used to describe what they had as "misfit power", and to see the party consciousness envelope everything else.
Cocaine and fast women, oh my.
Hope you get one golden nugget from all of this. Im on the verge of a breakthough with this little mystery. Im starting to simulate now that i have the key variables. Its about revolution, but a failed revolution. The acid tests werent mkultra scenarios. If you believe that you are on the wrong path but i've given you some important facts. Enough for you do go deeper into any number of topics.
Like i said before, there is a stream. The beatles were caught in it too. You have to cover all the bases.
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Post by seasaltcaramel on Dec 11, 2011 21:28:58 GMT -5
the acid Wasnt perfected until 1977: cue the punks.
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Post by iameye on Dec 11, 2011 22:22:11 GMT -5
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Post by iameye on Dec 12, 2011 9:10:00 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)The English term Jubilee derives from the Hebrew term yobel (via Latin Jubilaeus), which in turn derives from yobhel, meaning ram;[1] the Jubilee year was announced by a blast on an instrument ;)made from a ram's horn called a shofar, during that year's Yom Kippur.[2] J.P.Mallory and D.Q. Adams proposed an alternative etymology of the Latin jubilo (meaning shout, as well as Middle Irish ilach victory cry, ;DNew English yowl, Greek iuzo shout), being derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *yu- shout for joy,[3] effectively making the Hebrew term a mere borrowing from neighboring Indo-European languages.the fireman likes yu tube lol ;D Shake it, Sugaree
i'll meet you at the jubileewww.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sugaree ;D
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