Tag Archives: psychedelic
Adrian Pride: Psychedeverly
Last night we lost Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers, ending one of rock music’s greatest duos forever. It’s always a big blow when a band loses a member, but when you’re talking about two brothers who sang together all of their lives, it’s a regretful coup de grace. Phil’s death is a sad occasion, [...]
Troggs on Film
My old pal J.P. Lilliston and I have played music together for years, and his guitar can be heard all over Blue Turns Black. I’ve been threatening to put out a Lilliston-produced record for some time and I hope that now that he’s moved back to Nashville from Chicago we’ll complete the project in no [...]
Brother Seekers: Terence and Dennis McKenna
I haven’t read this new book yet, but after hearing this Coast-to-Coast interview with Dennis McKenna, I can’t wait to read The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss – Dennis’s new memoir about his psychedelic adventures with his brother Terence. Is there a more eloquent spokesperson for the psychedelic experience than Terence McKenna? For me, McKenna [...]
Satty's Bohemian Palace
Readers who are familiar with the artist Satty may have discovered his work the way I did – leafing through the pages of Terence McKenna’s The Archaic Revival, delighting in the mystery and psychedelic weirdness of Satty’s collages which illustrate that volume. A talented and troubled artist who became a fixture in the underground poster [...]
The Devil and Ken Russell
A flamboyant director whose early career as a pioneering creator of television programming foreshadowed a controversial foray into feature films, Ken Russell died last November at the age of 84. Russell had a penchant for taking sexual and religious themes head-on and he courted controversy with every film. His over-the-top production style was declared pretentious [...]