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		<title>The Psychedelic Sight philosophy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When asked what his favorite music was, Duke Ellington said: &#8220;There are only two kinds of music. The good and the bad. I like the good.&#8221; That pretty much covers it. So when I started up a pair of online radio stations for psychedelic music, I included the Duke&#8217;s &#8220;Caravan.&#8221; Huh? Yeah, and I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://psychedelicsight.com/wp-content/uploads/duke_ellington_sepia-150x150.jpg" alt="duke_ellington_sepia-150x150" title="duke_ellington_sepia-150x150" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-35" />When asked what his favorite music was, Duke Ellington said: &#8220;There are only two kinds of music. The good and the bad. I like the good.&#8221; That pretty much covers it. So when I started up a pair of online radio stations for psychedelic music, I included the Duke&#8217;s &#8220;Caravan.&#8221; Huh? </p>
<p>Yeah, and I didn&#8217;t include the so-called psychedelic classic &#8220;My Green Tambourine.&#8221; Or &#8220;If You&#8217;re Going to San Francisco.&#8221; Or any other of the nehru-jacket songs that cashed in on the hippie-music craze. Sun Ra sits next to Pink Floyd on this magic bus. </p>
<p>To me, psychedelic music at its best transports listeners to another place, another state of mind. Alternate states, via sounds. &#8220;Discorporate and come with me,&#8221; Frank Zappa invited us in a song. (&#8220;Discorporate means to leave your body.&#8221;) Zappa wasn&#8217;t a drug guy, but he made his share of psychedelic music.</p>
<p>Psychedelic Sight revolves around two works in progress: A list of the 50 greatest psychedelic albums, and one of the top 100 psychedelic songs.</p>
<p>Of course, &#8220;best psychedelic albums&#8221; would seem to be working a limited field, since psychedelic rock as a genre lasted for so short a time, basically 1967-1970. But using the criteria for this project, psychedelic music actually stretches backward and forwards for decades. Today, a new generation of artists are adopting the label &#8212; we&#8217;ll see how they do.</p>
<p>If the music blows your mind and fries the circuits of commercial radio, the door is open.</p>
<p>While the album list will cast a wide net, the top songs category will focus more on psychedelic nuggets from the hippie era.</p>
<p>This site has nothing to do with drugs, outside of the mind-altering stuff&#8217;s influence on much of the music. And dashes of that good dope humor that&#8217;s almost mainstream these days.</p>
<p>Psychedelic Sight&#8217;s writers have long graduated from dope and booze, preferring to get high on acid rock, not acid. &#8220;Music is your only friend &#8230; until the end,&#8221; as the man sang.</p>
<p>The home page&#8217;s right-side &#8220;Sixties Sights and Sounds&#8221; presents primo vintage videos. The front section tab &#8220;The Happening&#8221; is the place to read news from the ever-evolving world of psychedelia.</p>
<p>In addition to music and concert reviews, the site also covers movies from the psychedelic era, hippie art, books &#8212; all the alternative-media paraphernalia that fits. The concerts section will keep up with bands of interest that still hit the road.</p>
<p>This is very much a work in progress, with work beginning on the site in August 2008 under the name of Porpoise Mouth.</p>
<p>Ideas, freakouts and memories always are welcome on this site. If the demand&#8217;s there (I have no idea), a forum could evolve.</p>
<p>This site also can be reached by calling up <a href="http://psychedelicsight.com/">Psychedelic Site</a>, a nod to the old ying and yang &#8212; and the fact that people will get it confused anyway.</p>
<p>I had something else to say, it seems, but it&#8217;s clearly time to discorporate.</p>
<div align="right">  <strong> &#8212; Glenn Abel</strong></div>
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