Psychedelic Music Style Analysis

I do agree with Eric that it is surprising to learn that “psychedelic” music style was based on the premise of trying to re-create an LSD trip through music. I was also amazed to learn that “Paul McCartney indirectly promoted psychedelic music by publicly admitting he had taken LSD” (Michael Hicks 63) even though his fellow band member, George Harrison, disapproved of it. It’s just interesting to learn that an enormously popular band like the Beatles would use drugs to enhance their music-making. A large part of why this information was interesting to learn was because Michael Hicks uses a point by point writing structure in this chapter. He starts off about talking about the origins of LSD, how that transitioned to music, and how musicians