I won't argue that point

[cozmik_cowboy]

"In a sense, there is only one real trip, the first one. After that, you are only confirming what has already been revealed to you.  I've probably taken psychedelic substances of one kind or another more than a thousand times, but my sense of the universe was changed forever the first time I took LSD.  From then on, I was permanently rewired."

From Mother American Night: My Life In Crazy Times, by John Perry Barlow.

Peter (who was shocked & thrilled to find that one in the dining room/"library" at the rehab joint)


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[David Houck]

Care to share a book review?  Are you recommending it?

[peoplechipper]

I don't agree, but I was only 13 on my first trip; I know, pretty damn young, which is why later ones were so much more profound and meaningful...

[cozmik_cowboy]

Care to share a book review?  Are you recommending it?

I'm about half way through (it's only 268 pages) and he just wrote his first lyric ("Mexicali Blues").  It doesn't rise to the level of Phil's or Levon's books - but what does?  I am enjoying it, and am recommending it; the man lived 5 or 6 full lives in his 70 years.

Peter

[David Houck]

Just read the prologue; think I'll get the book.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Just read the prologue; think I'll get the book.

Bill - on the off chance you haven't read this one, said prologue is titled "Not Dead Enough".

For those who don't know know, Bill's current band is Dead Enough.

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

I will add:  This is Barlow's recounting of his life; it is not a book about the Grateful Dead.  They do, of course, appear regularly, but there was a lot more to john Perry than his songwriting.

Peter