| | | He was my brother's roommate at Berkeley, and graduated in '67, the Summer of Love. Underground (FM) radio was being born, along with the San Francisco sound. He went to Johns Hopkins for med school, so I lost contact with him until he did his residency at Stanfurd.
I was pretty surprised that he had done acid, but I was like, "Sure", when he asked if I wanted to try it. He already had a pretty good record collection in college, and now it was a lot bigger, and magical. It would sway back and forth on acid.. By then, he had a really hot sound setup, and he had made acid tapes for his reel-to-reel. I think they were 3 hour tapes, and the deck was self-reversing, so you could listen for like 6 hours without having to move. Wonderful tapes filled with 20 and 30 and 60 minute songs; Dead, Airplane, Quicksilver, Janice, . Moodies, Country Joe, Santana, CSNY, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Beatles, some stuff off the Woodstock album, Mayall. I got hooked on the Dead. Saw them for the first time a few months later, at Winterland. |
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