Thursday, October 11, 2007
Electric Kool-Aid & Tests of Acid
I ended up picking the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test quite by accident from a Barnes & Noble "Buy 2, Get 1 FREEEEEEEEE!" table when Christa found two books she wanted and talked me into saying yes by getting me to look. By far, the strangest thing is how much one guy with an interest in the fringe influenced American culture so throughly. The whole psychedelic movement influenced everything it touched in very strange ways. A line could be drawn from the Grateful Dead right down to modern dance music especially with their mixing and jamming...archive.org has an extensive collection of live Dead recordings. They have some great early recordings, which really contextualize the book. Odd how 40-year old music can sound so modern now.
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