Hello Vancouver

Straight up, there's my prediction.

With bands like Blood on the Wall and Pink
Mountaintops getting rave reviews in the
underground, it's only a matter of time before
this floats to the top of the music industry cesspool.





You can't have a psychadelic subculture without
the appropriate mind-altering substances, and it's
a matter of record that these sorts of things are
not tolerated in the United States. Being the
world's leading cultural exporter, this should be a
matter of some importance. Since the backlash
against the 60s and 70s psych culture, LSD has
been scheduled as one of the world's most
dangerous drugs in the US legal system, despite
the reality of the contrary. Manufacturing said
substance will land you a sentence of life without
parole in a federal prison.


This has everything to do with music, because
if a scene is squashed by the government, it loses
all legitimacy in the mainstream as it will be
neutered for safety purposes. A musical scene
without legitimacy cannot last. You only
need to look at government intervention in the
rave scene to see how this can progress.


So despite all this I still think the psychadelic
music scene (primarily folk and rock) will
continue to push into the mainstream. Mostly
because the popularity of this scene is pushing
the music forward despite the fact that laws
prohibiting psychadelia cannot possibly become
any more draconian. And in fact because of this,
there can be little more done to destroy the psych
scene, and all measures have apparently failed.