OK sixtieschick, I'm not here to challenge you or your credentials, OK? Please don't misunderstand MY intentions!

If you are writing a memoir about your coming of age in the 60s San Francisco music scene, I think that's very cool. It was a great time to grow up for you, obviously, and a time that perhaps had a lot to do with the shaping of your views on life.

But I really have to disagree with statements like this one of yours being presented as "fact":

"But we can't rewrite history and say that there weren't musicians who were attempting to trip their way towards God, and that they weren't influential in that regard."

I have no idea if there were musicians taking LSD to "trip their way towards God". If you have interviews with specific musicians that said that to you (although it is hard to verify anything unless you have taped interviews), then I guess you do have that as a "fact" to support your opinion, which is how I read your statement I quote above.

Also, it seems silly to me to claim that even if there were musicians who were "tripping their way towards God" and using drugs in hopes of having a religious/spiritual experience, I don't know that they influenced others to do the same. Virtually everyone I knew in the 60s who was doing drugs, which was virtually everyone I knew, was doing drugs to be part of the "in crowd" (to cop a few more 60s cliches), and to party. I knew no one who claimed to be doing drugs in hopes of have a religious/spiritual experience, or to become spiritually enlightened. Not a soul.

So I guess I'm trying to get my head around who exactly it is you are claiming (ie which musicians) had this "spiritual" influence on the masses through LSD trance music they composed? I mean sure, the Grateful Dead and the Airplane did a lot of drugs, and wrote a lot of songs while under the influence of drugs. But to drag spirituality into it seems rather bizarre to me, unless you are claiming a new age sort of influence, which you seem rather reticent to discuss or get into here.