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Voyage 34 (Phase I) Lyrics
This remarkable, sometimes incoherent transcript illustrates a phantasmagoria of fear, terror, grief, exaltation and finally breakdown.
Its' highlights have been compressed on this recording to make their own disquieting points.
The time is 9:30 pm, 1 hour after the participants have eaten sugar cubes saturated with LSD. We hear brian and his fellow travelers observing their gradual transformation.
Brian's been amusing his friends by chewing on some plastic flashbulbs.
Brians' mood is gradually changing, he orders all of his friends into another room, closes the door, he sits alone on a wooden floor, visible only by the dim light shining from the bathroom. He talks to himself.
The time is now 1 am, Brian is unable to snap his fingers and terminate the trip, which continues.
He sobs, as his joy turns to fear.
Brians' rocky journey ended 12 hours after it had so innocently begun, he was shattered by it.
This young man never had a bummer in some 33 LSD trips. Every one of them was a delight, everything under control. He needed only to snap his fingers and down he came, anytime. But on voyage 34 he finally met himself coming down an up-staircase, and the encounter was crushing.
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jenovia21 On Oct 15, 2008
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Most of the spoken word featured on this album is captured from 60's LSD propaganda (both for and against the drug) tapes.
Where did you hear this? And what propaganda specifically? I'd like to know more about it.
Where did you hear this? And what propaganda specifically? I'd like to know more about it.
I adore this. Period.
There are fewer spoken word recordings I love more than I do this.
Amazing track, not typically PT, yet very reconiseble as such.
Contains an ambient break from 'A plague of the lighthouse keepers' by Van Der Graaff generator
Thanx jenovia21, I always wondered where it was taken from.
Not directly reconisable as PT, yet a nice experimental piece in wich the main person, this Brian, dies because he couldn't terminate the trip.
he doesn't die, he just has a bad trip
he doesn't die, he just has a bad trip
It goes beyond having a bad trip. I can see that you don't truely understand this so I shall tell you. His trip goes bad because he comes down from the trip on the UP STAIRCASE where he meets himself. That completely razzels his brain and leaves him a gibbering reck.
It goes beyond having a bad trip. I can see that you don't truely understand this so I shall tell you. His trip goes bad because he comes down from the trip on the UP STAIRCASE where he meets himself. That completely razzels his brain and leaves him a gibbering reck.
Of course he doesn't actually meet himself on the wrong staircase. That is just the metaphor for the LSD fucking him up
Of course he doesn't actually meet himself on the wrong staircase. That is just the metaphor for the LSD fucking him up
If you listen closely, some of the chords are lifted from Another brick in the wall by pink floyd. Very groovy.
the snapping of the fingers part kinda freaks me out. Ive only tripped twice on LSD (will NEVER do it again) but both times I remember snapping my fingers and thinking Ive just solved the mystery to the "meaning of life". Everything made sense after that. Freeekeeeyyy
the initail chords are from the "whole lotta of love" from led zeppline
the initail chords are from the "whole lotta of love" from led zeppline
I felt EXACTLY like you, thinking that understand the meaning of life... Funny...
I felt EXACTLY like you, thinking that understand the meaning of life... Funny...