It is always fun to play songs on the podcast that werent allowed on the radio. Censorship of music that might have held even the slightest reference to drugs was blatant. One pill could not make you larger!
The Beatles A Day in the Life got banned from the BBC. So did Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Today our Old School Subject is the hallucinagenic drug lysergic acid diethlymide. Not songs that were written while tripping on LSD, but songs that were enthusiasticly robust in their search for a key that might unlock the mystery door behind the eyeball that would open Dorothy~like unto OZ. Colors change, breathe, and order breakfast. The smallest thing becomes fascinating before it shouts transparent recipes across the desert honeymoon.
The playlist has LA scene icon Kim Fowley, beat bruiser William Burroughs sitting in with the Doors via telekinesis, Mr. Electrical Banana Donovan himself, sugar cubes, and a very strange Rx from Dr. Timothy Leary.
A normal show like this would take 12 hours to put together, and then we would be hungry as hell. But the world would be different. And we might forget completely a song we just fell in love with.
Welcome to Old School Fifteen. It is BLATANT LSD.
THE TRIP Donovan (1946- )
IS EVERYBODY IN? William Burroughs (1914-1997) and Jim Morrison (1943-1971)
William Burroughs was a rock star of the literary set, one of the original beat generation icons whose greatest hit was a fabulous druggie novel called Naked Lunch. On this cut he reads the poetry of Jim Morrison. This is the trip. The best part of the trip. Whip the horses eyes. Legs furiously pumping. There’s been a slaughter here. True sailing is dead. Lizard King meets the world’s oldest junkie. Is Everybody In?
Lions in the streetLions in the streetAnd roaming dogs in heat, rabid, foamingA beast caged in the heart of a cityIs everybody in?Is everybody in?The ceremony is about to beginThe body of his motherRotting in the summer groundHe fled the townHe went down south and crossed the borderLeft the chaos and disorderBack there over his shoulderIs everybody in?Is everybody in?The ceremony is about to beginOne morning he awoke in a green hotelWith a strange creature groaning beside himSweat oozed from its shiny skinIs everybody in?The ceremony is about to begin
MY FRIEND JACK The Smoke
WHAT YOU TURN ON WHEN YOU TURN ON Dr. Timothy Leary (1920-1996)
APOTHECARY DREAM Sound Sandwich
The Sound Sandwich caused some brief concern and got their record pulled from radio in the late 1960s. According to blogs showing up on the internet, a band member named Les writes:
“Our problem was that it was banned on the radio but the DJs liked what they heard. It was supposed to have been the "rate a record" on American Bandstand but again, it was banned. Kind of funny to think about this very mild song being banned considering what's on the radio today. We were a bunch of young but serious musicians that got close but never quite made it. We did have fun though.”
THE TRIP Kim Fowley (1939-2015)
Legendary LA wild music man Kim Fowley was involved in sooo many projects, including records by B Bumble and The Stingers, the Hollywood Argyles, The Seeds, the Runaways, and his own slap dash solo career. He was always a bit ahead of his time, like here when he recorded what is regarded as the first psychedelic novelty record two years before the summer of love. It came out in Great Britain in 1965 and in the U. S. in 1966, received limited airplay, and survives today as one of the great curiosity’s of LSD.
Kenny Rogers dropped acid and went country.
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