Timothy Leary's Dead (but Buck's not) (was BOC: Got my HF)

[J Strobridge]

reset writes:

> Doug Pearson writes:
> > ... I don't know if this is the correct reference, but Millbrook was the
> > name of the mansion/art colony where Timothy Leary did his east coast
> "acid
> > test" sessions after getting the boot from Harvard.  Eventually, the
> place
> > was busted by future Watergate conspirator and bad actor G. Gordon Liddy.
> >
> > On-topicality ... ? uh ... Leary later recorded an album with Ash Ra
> > Tempel, many of whose recordings (although not that one) were
> > produced/engineered by Conrad Plank, who also recorded Brian Eno's
> 'Before
> > And After Science' album that Paul Rudolph played on.  So There.
> >
> >         -Doug
> >          ceres at sirius.com
>
>
> Nah, there's a much more direct link. Not long after the gig in Switzerland
> with Ash Ra Tempel (producing the 7UP album) Leary got exctradited to the
> US and locked back up (teach em doctors to mind their heads!). On the 1974
> US tour Hawkwind played a "benefit gig" for Leary in exchange for large
> amounts of grass, and managed to hook up with Leary by phone (Leary told
> the warden he was calling his mom), when in fact he called Hawkwind on
> stage and announced on the PA that "Hawkwind are the most evolved band on
> the planet".

apparently someone also dreamed up the wierd suggestion that Hawkwind
should appear over the jail with a helicopter at night with loads
of spotlights, blasting out Space Ritual at full volume over the
speakers, pick up Timothy Leary and fly off with him as if he was being
abducted by a flying saucer.   Nothing came of the idea - for some
strange reason.

jill
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