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Garfield - Private Affair

LSD’s most obvious and pervasive influence on culture is to be found in music. That’s surely because music can be enhanced by the drug, prompting synaesthetic responses: seeing sounds as colours, patterns, shapes. What LSD doesn’t do, however, is make it easy to read a book, or concentrate on plot. So it’s only really in music that there’s a true overlap between work made about acid, and work made for enjoying when on acid… And while the sonic experimentation prompted by LSD may have rippled right into mainstream pop music, it’s not like full-on psych has ever really ceased: you can see it noodling away, right up to today’s bands.

Few musicians working today could claim to be unaffected by records such as, say, Revolver. The Beatles’ ‘acid album’ was released in 1966, and was a huge leap forward in sound, featuring tape looping, reversed guitars, vocal effects and altered speeds. The warp and wobble of Tomorrow Never Knows, with lyrics based on Leary’s The Psychedelic Experience Manual, might sound a bit trippy-hippie cliche today, but it was revolutionary at the time.
Source: How LSD influenced Western culture by Holly Williams


Garfield - Private Affair
  • On their second album "Out There Tonight"
  • Composed by Garfield French
  • Release Year 1977

"Frontman Garfield French (lead vocals) and the rest of the sextet (drummer Dennis French, keyboardist Jacques Fillion, guitarists Walter Lawrence and Paul O'Donnell and flutist Chip Yarwood) debuted in 1976 opening for 10cc in Ottawa, Canada."

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