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"[Mr. Rogers' guest Haack composed] several more, all them weirder and more wonderful than maybe anything you’ve ever heard. (Don’t believe me? Take a listen to
by mturmon 11y ago
"[Mr. Rogers' guest Haack composed] several more, all them weirder and more wonderful than maybe anything you’ve ever heard. (Don’t believe me? Take a listen to “Soul Transportation,” “EIO (New MacDonald),” or the absolutely enchanting “Saint Basil,” with its Doors-y organ outro.) A psychedelic genius, Haack also made grown-up acid rock in the form of 1970’s The Electric Lucifer, which is a bit like if Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice had written Jesus Christ Superstar on heavy doses of LSD and banks of analog synthesizers."
Another piece of 1960s kiddie psychedelia was H.R. Pufnstuf. The "straight guy" (Marty) of the two Krofft brothers always said that there was no LSD involved, but others there at the time disagree.
- diggum 11y agoSo "Syd" Krofft could have been a nickname for "acid"?
- mturmon 11y agoHeh. Neat idea, but I don't think so. I just think it was a thing creative people did back then. I sold my old Klipsch speakers to Sid and visited him a couple of times at his very funky Mulholland Dr. house. There was a stool there, made of chunky wood, that he said, with a boyish smile, he had carved out "in the shape of Marilyn Monroe's rear." It was not a good fit for my own posterior.