(iv-inspired) ...more back to the past - riffing on 1970

[Michael Bailey]

more 1970/1971 stuff - can't leave it alone, I guess...Robin stating
that "you had to be there"
may be true, but even if you weren't "there", being "then" also left
some (hell and?) high water marks...


black afghan hash
blonde Lebanese hash
guys talking about hash, I remember this one guy telling a group of us
a story his
    dealer probably told him, about how they pick the hemp, and hang
it up from the rafters
     (the dude is reaching over his head with both hands to
demonstrate) and let all the
    resin flow down, and then first they shake it, and the very finest
pollen drops off (I can't
    really visualize the physics of how that works - wouldn't it be
sticky?) and then they
    make the 2nd best stuff by cutting off the buds...

smoking hash on a car lighter

listening to Carole King's "Tapestry" in a '62 Falcon on an 8-track
after smoking hash
(okay, that was 1971, but, close enough)

playing Foosball after smoking hash

listening to the other 3 tapes we had: Lou Rawls ("You'll never find,
another love like mine")
and Quicksilver Messenger Service ("Listen to my heart go bumpity-bump...Mona!"
and King Crimson "Court of the Crimson King"

acid trips featuring hallucinations of the dude on that album cover

doing reds - Carbatrols, Phenobarbitals, Seconals - and drinking wine

hitchhiking all over the place, these burly workingclass guys would
pick you up and
they would have bumper stickers reading, "Gas, Grass or ass, nobody rides free"
so one would bring gas money or a bag or at least some rolling papers...

reading that Vitamin B-17 (Laetrile) was in apple seeds, so at lunch
would be eating
the seeds from one's apples while puffing on a Kool...