Revolution 9

When taking LSD there is something extremely important you have to observe: Never, absolutely never, take it when you are feeling bad in some way. Also don't take it if you are afraid of taking it (a mistake Peter Gabriel made when he tried it). In both cases it will inevitably turn into a horror trip. The drug will extremely magnify your feelings, and combined with the hallucinations you will have it will be disastrous. Also make certain you are in positive surroundings when taking it, like being with friends; don't take it in places you don't like. Only ever take LSD when you are feeling perfectly fine and have a positive attitude to and expectancy of it and are in the right place.

I took LSD about a dozen times and always followed these rules. And it was always a very pleasant (albeit strange) experience.

Oh, and don't try to identify any music you hear while being on the trip; even music you have heard a thousand times will become totally unrecognizable.

Didn't another member of the Allman Brothers crash a bike and sustain a broken leg after Berry's death? 

Rather than editing this muddled bunch of errant rambling down to its essence (which could best be exemplified by a turd emoji followed by a series of question marks), I'll just repost this meandering block of senseless mewling for posterity. 

I was not glorifying anything, dolt; as a matter of fact I was demystifying your silly mythologizing of art. Many of the artists you want to canonize were stoned out of their minds in the late 60s -- and Morrison was the bacchanalian exemplar of spouting drug-tinged Huxley while grabbing his crotch.

What you typed does not make sense, is not in context and misses the point altogether.

Hi,

Understood ... and I tried to stay on thread by explaining what I saw in it ... which to me, from a literary, or artistic sense, makes a lot more sense than the majority of rock songs and their inane and pathetic lyrics ... and when someone was intelligent enough to create something that really had more to say ... a TRUE and QUITE ALIVE .... "A Day in Life" ... all of a sudden you  get a bunch of top five'rs complaining about what a bunch of trash it all was. As if Andy Warhol was not making fun of something similar ... a tomato soup can ... give it a break ... it was a time for a reflection of what "art" really meant ... and the BEATLES gave us something that to this day we REFUSE to accept, and instead go around talking about grandiose meanings of the songs (hello Ian, Jon, Gen ... etc!!!) and don't even compare to the REALITY of things right in front of our noses ... and in this particular case a small tape recorder being taken for a pooh ride as if it were a doggie, and walking past a stadium, etc, etc, and stopping at the walk/wait sign at the corner and hearing everyone talking ... and whatever else is heard!

It's so simple, that you can do this yourself ... but we sit here and think that it is trash just because we could do it? Doesn't say much for the ability and creativity of the human spirit ... does it?

moshkito wrote: It's so simple, that you can do this yourself ... but we sit here and think that it is trash just because we could do it?

My view is that maybe everyone can do it - from a purely technical perspective - but someone has to get the idea first. This is really what matters. It also matters how you do it. To make it artistically interesting, you have to have a clear vision about how you use the sounds. If someone else than John Lennon and Yoko Ono made a sound collage of the same tapes that are used in Revolution 9, it would have been a completely different piece.

Hi,

You do not, and never have, needed a "clear vision" about how to use the sounds ... and rock music, just like jazz music (hello Miles) ... has shown that it can be done without an "idea" ... but we have this illusory thought that we have to have meaning in order to do this and that ... and it is just an idea that we have created to make ourselves feel better about ourselves, which in the end is an illusion, if you do enough inner spiritual meditation and study things further than just rhetorical words that have no meaning whatsoever, for the most part.

If you look at the tomato soup can (Warhol) ... it was not about the idea ... but he was clever enough to show ... that your reaction to it ... had nothing to do with anything (even art!) ... and he did this in film too ... how about over 20 or 30 (don't remember how long) of 2 people sleeping in the same bed ... not a single touch or movement ... 

I always call it, the late 60's and early 70's the "deconstruction of meaning" ... and how it can sideline and confuse us ... "ideas" and "meanings" is something that we can discuss over tea ... but considering them "real" and important to life ... is insane ... and I like to joke ... how religious of that person to think so ... they have to have a book tell them how to feel! Instead of finding out for yourself!

Revolution #9, is sadly ... usually disliked by the very folks that love "songs" ... and do not spend their time finding music in your everyday world ... all 24 hours of it ... as I like to say ... where is your art? 

Let me say that it is not an idea ... it is a reality!