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Kind of funny my last thoughts when leaving the article was I wonder if he also took magic mushrooms and if that influenced his music at all?
by 14 5y ago
Kind of funny my last thoughts when leaving the article was I wonder if he also took magic mushrooms and if that influenced his music at all?
- heavyset_go 5y agoTo my knowledge, magic mushrooms weren't really known to Westerners until this article[1] was published in Life in 1957. And it wasn't until the 1960's that Timothy Leary and others helped make them a part of popular culture. If he did consume them, then the music he composed before those dates probably wasn't influenced by them. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeking_the_magic_mushroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeking_the_magic_mushroom
- dr_dshiv 5y agoIt is kind of crazy, but magic mushrooms were completely unknown to westerners before that 1957 article, despite the fact that magic mushrooms grow natively all over Europe. All we need is ONE person to have described taking them before 1957 to show otherwise — but there is no evidence of it.