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Did the CIA’s Experiments With Psychedelic Drugs Unwittingly Create the Grateful Dead?
Did the CIA’s Experiments With Psychedelic Drugs Unwittingly Create the Grateful Dead?
Trying to write a definitive history of the Acid Tests, a series of multimedia happenings in 1965 and 1966, in which everyone in attendance…
Collectors Weekly
Dec 4, 2015
At the First Rock Festival, Pianos Fell From the Sky
At the First Rock Festival, Pianos Fell From the Sky
Now that the orgy of insufferable hipsterism known as Coachella is finally behind us, it’s officially music-festival season, when hundreds…
Collectors Weekly
Oct 9, 2015
Sixties Nostalgia Burnout: I’m So Sick of Talkin’ ‘Bout My G-G-Generation
Sixties Nostalgia Burnout: I’m So Sick of Talkin’ ‘Bout My G-G-Generation
Is it just me, or has the incessant drumbeat of 50th anniversaries for this or that cultural milestone from the 1960s already grown…
Collectors Weekly
Sep 14, 2015
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Could an Old-School Tube Amp Make the Music You Love Sound Better?
Could an Old-School Tube Amp Make the Music You Love Sound Better?
Like a lot of adults who attended too many rock concerts in their reckless youth, my hearing is not what it used to be. On more than one…
Collectors Weekly
Aug 27, 2015
New Evidence of Ancient Child-Trafficking Network Unearthed in Maya Sacrifice Cave
New Evidence of Ancient Child-Trafficking Network Unearthed in Maya Sacrifice Cave
One morning, a Mennonite farmer in the Cayo district of western Belize got up like he always did to feed his chickens and milk his cows…
Collectors Weekly
Jul 13, 2015
Beer Money and Babe Ruth: Why the Yankees Triumphed During Prohibition
Beer Money and Babe Ruth: Why the Yankees Triumphed During Prohibition
Baseball season is upon us, so naturally our thoughts turn to beer. Yes beer, the social lubricant that transforms even the most taciturn…
Collectors Weekly
May 26, 2015
Rockin’ at the Rollarena, Pre-Summer of Love
Rockin’ at the Rollarena, Pre-Summer of Love
If you were in a rock band in late-1960s San Francisco, the world beat a path to your garage door. Record executives walked the length of…
Collectors Weekly
May 11, 2015
The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China’s Working Class
The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China’s Working Class
For 2,000 years, the peach was the iconic fruit of China, an auspicious symbol of good health and a long life. But from August of 1968…
Collectors Weekly
Apr 27, 2015
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