I missed this post earlier and was really happy to see mention of John Sinclair and the MC5 at the end of it. Taking on the name "Trans-Love Energies Unlimited" may have been an application of the line "Fly Trans Love Airways, get you there on time," from the song "Fat Angel" (1966) by Donovan, also rendered (more?) psychedelically by Jefferson Airplane on the album "Bless its Pointed Little Head" (1969). The link to the airways is apparent in this description of the Trans-Love enterprise as "recorded" by Sinclair in the Sun and sounding a bit like a free-form FM broadcast: https://aadl.org/node/192488 Sinclair's closing poem (after reference to Coltrane's "Welcome") echoes Molly Bloom and, therefore also, the conclusion of side one of How Can You be in Two Places at Once....
I love it. Sinclair was a fascinating guy and it was a great pleasure to get an email from him directly, granting permission to reprint that page of the Ann Arbor Sun in *Firesign*. He died less than a month later, sadly.
Probably the more direct link to the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream is from the acid tests and the Trips Festival in the Bay Area. But in general the question of communication among the various scenes is super interesting. I’d love to see a really serious book on the Indica Gallery and Bookshop for instance
I missed this post earlier and was really happy to see mention of John Sinclair and the MC5 at the end of it. Taking on the name "Trans-Love Energies Unlimited" may have been an application of the line "Fly Trans Love Airways, get you there on time," from the song "Fat Angel" (1966) by Donovan, also rendered (more?) psychedelically by Jefferson Airplane on the album "Bless its Pointed Little Head" (1969). The link to the airways is apparent in this description of the Trans-Love enterprise as "recorded" by Sinclair in the Sun and sounding a bit like a free-form FM broadcast: https://aadl.org/node/192488 Sinclair's closing poem (after reference to Coltrane's "Welcome") echoes Molly Bloom and, therefore also, the conclusion of side one of How Can You be in Two Places at Once....
I love it. Sinclair was a fascinating guy and it was a great pleasure to get an email from him directly, granting permission to reprint that page of the Ann Arbor Sun in *Firesign*. He died less than a month later, sadly.
I'd be interested to know how much events like this influenced those in London like the '14 Hour Technicolor Dream'
Probably the more direct link to the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream is from the acid tests and the Trips Festival in the Bay Area. But in general the question of communication among the various scenes is super interesting. I’d love to see a really serious book on the Indica Gallery and Bookshop for instance
Yes, that would be really interesting
In 1968 I was in the 8th grade and the perfect age to allow Electrician to permanently warp my worldview. Good timing!
Perfect timing !