Dr. Timothy Leary Turn On Tune In Drop Out 1967 White-Label Promo Original 21131

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Dr. Timothy Leary
Turn On Tune In Drop Out
1967 Original White-Label Promo pressing.
Mercury Records - MG 21131
Vinyl is EX++
Vinyl looks EX++ : light, faint marks.
Vinyl plays EX++ to Mint- : light, faint background-crackle low in some quiet passages.
Matrix lead-out : M1/M1
Labels are EX++ to Mint-
Cover is EX- to EX : 3" seam-tear on bottom; various imperfections.
The original inner-sleeve has a 4" edge-tear.
Includes a HQ inner-sleeve (pictured) which the vinyl is stored in after being thoroughly machine-cleaned and professionally graded.
Out of print original White-Label Promo ~

In the 1960s and '70s, Dr. Timothy Leary managed to offend people on both the left and right. President Richard Nixon called him "the most dangerous man in America," and many liberals and progressives felt that Leary's blatant promotion of LSD hurt their causes. Regardless, Leary was an icon of the psychedelic '60s counterculture, and some of his psychedelic theories and ideas can be heard on Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out. David Hancock, a busy classical recording engineer in the '60s, recorded this spoken word album in Leary's Hudson Valley, NY estate in 1967. Turning these recordings into an actual album required a lot of work on Hancock's part; when Leary spoke to Hancock, there were long pauses between each phrase -- and Hancock needed to edit out those pauses in order to make Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out sound like a legitimate spoken-word album. On this disc, one hears Leary expressing his belief that most of society's problems are caused by people over 40 (although Leary himself was about 46 or 47 at the time) and complaining that the American school system breeds mindless conformity, but mostly, he talks about drugs -- especially LSD, which Leary believed could dramatically change society for the better. But one doesn't have to agree with Leary's theories to realize that Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out has historic value. This recording is very much a product of its time, and it is an intriguing listen despite -- or perhaps because of -- Leary's eccentricities and excesses.

"Whilst not reaching the frenetic and frantic heights of psychedelic paranoia of German band Brainticket's masterpiece 'Cottonwoodhill', this album provides a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the true modern-era pioneers of human behaviourism. The images created and the accompanying sounds of an entity's journey through a human bloodstream would be ripe fodder for an experimentalist DJ to create amazing soundscapes against the background of (say) Pink Floyd's 'Echoes' or Tangerine Dream's 'Ricochet'. Indeed, it was against such an amazing aural backdrop courtesy of Australia's pioneer youth rock station 2JJ in the mid-70's that your reviewer encountered selected tracks of Timothy Leary's 'Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out'. It's experimental broadcast potential aside, this album is worth a listen for it's unabashed bias and platform for the good doctor's philosophy."

.-allmusic

Note : there is some possible camera-glare on the cover and other surfaces.

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