![]() (One of which was Ken Kesey’s LSD-soaked Merry Pranksters riding Furthur, of course.) But the way they were all stitched together in no real logical order along with the sheer pointlessness of the spaghetti sequence and other nonsense was pretty largely a product of the druggy milieu that they were embracing at the time.ġ. Even the trippy visuals weren’t totally new, and of course the notion of “let’s get on a bus with a bunch of weirdos and see what happens” stems from two sources in particular. ![]() Oh definitely, they didn’t invent Dada or the Goons or music-hall burlesque or whatever. British Public, most of whom were probably not stoners? Were they too stoned to think that through? Or didn’t they care? Or did they maybe think that their pro-legalization petition of a few months ago would surely be so effective that the whole country would be toking up by Boxing Day? So many additional questions glad I’m not stoned or I’d be Bontee said (Which raises another question: who did they think the audience was going to be? Did they not realize that being televised meant that the programme would be viewed by Mr. But I would assume that they were experienced enough dopers to realize that the goofy stuff only seemed to be meaningful because they were stoned – but that it didn’t matter because much of the audience would be stoned anyways! ![]() And then viewing the filmed results while high and liking what they saw. I really don’t think there was any grand design – the Beatles were pretty much just getting high and throwing stuff at the wall to see what would stick. (I doubt that I’d enjoy the most irritatingly incomprehensible bits any more, however I honestly find that spaghetti scene pretty near unwatchable.) But isn’t that really the nature of dope use in general – to make most things more interesting and some things more seemingly profound? I know if I did, the good parts would indeed seem to make a little more “sense”. ![]() Haven’t seen MMT myself while high (yet) I’d be more apt to put on Singin’ In the Rain or the Led Zeppelin DVD or Yellow Submarine (or Let It Be …some day) if I want altered-senses audiovisual fun. ![]()
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