Watch Out For The Brown Acid, Man
By DJ M on July 14th, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys
TIMES ONLINE UK “For this reason, almost always, it’s the drug du jour that has opened up creative avenues. Samuel Taylor Coleridge would not have written Kubla Khan without the opium he obtained from his Highgate chemist; Van Gogh’s absinthe made everything a little swirly. For the beat writers, then Brian Wilson, Syd Barrett and the Beatles, it was acid. Wilson wanted to encapsulate the story of America, something he pretty much did with Smile.”