Weird Musical History #12 I loved this Leeds comedy cabaret band as a kid, so when I heard they’d recorded a ‘psychedelic’ album in the early 1970s I had to track it down. And it’s really rather good. If you’re of a certain vintage, you’ll most likely remember the Grumbleweeds from their TV appearances andContinue reading “The Grumbleweeds Take A Trip”
Category Archives: Psychedelia
It was 80 years ago today… Cycling Scientists on Acid
Weird Musical History 10 – Bike Psych On the 19 April 1943 chemist Albert Hofmann became the first person in history to give themselves a dose of a newly synthesised mind-altering drug. When things got too weird in his laboratory, he went on a psychedelic bicycle ride home through the mother of all bad trips.Continue reading “It was 80 years ago today… Cycling Scientists on Acid”
Theologians on Mind-Expanding Drugs ~ The Good Friday Experiment
On Good Friday 1962 a saucer-eyed theology student burst out of Marsh Chapel on Boston University campus and ran down the street proclaiming that he had been chosen to tell the world of the coming messiah. He was being chased by some desperate scientists armed with a syringe full of Thorazine – a powerful antipsychotic.Continue reading “Theologians on Mind-Expanding Drugs ~ The Good Friday Experiment”
Paul Weatherhead 