From: ant.mcwatt@ntlworld.com
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 19:10:38 BST
> From: "Chuck Roghair" <ctr@pacificpartssales.com>
> Date: 2004/09/28 Tue PM 07:34:47 GMT
> Ant McWatt comments:
>
> Bill Hicks (a prodigious mushroom person - at least, for a time) said his
> best trips were always in the countryside...
>
> For something to play on the tape recorder... that psychedelic album (SMiLE)
> by the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson is finally released in the States today.
>
>
> Could make for an interesting mix...
>
> Chuck replies:
>
> I had already planned to purchase SMiLE after work this afternoon. I
> understand it rivals PET SOUNDS. Hard to believe.
It definitely would have been if released in 1967 (as originally planned) because there was a certain DQ to the Beach Boys harmony vocals. The 2004 version (released in the UK just yesterday) with the Wondermints (and friends) backing Wilson is still pretty hot though.
> I actually planned to save my thoughts and music on the tape recorder
> throughout the potential trip,
Still a great idea.
> There's a
> beautifull park in Chico, CA where I attended undergraduate university.
> It's called Bidwell and it boasts open fields, green rolling hills and a
> river runs through it.
Sounds perfect. Bill Hicks would approve.
>It's about an eight hour drive from here.
>
> I've got this orange '78 VW Transporter; I think she can still make it.
Chuck, I'd be very surprized if she couldn't even if you've not been maintaining it as well as the narrator did with his Honda in ZMM. BTW, you might be interested in checking out the 10,000 things website which has pages on Pirsig as well as VW camper vans at:
http://www.willnewman-littlesister.co.uk/VW_camper.htm
>
> I've still got some friends meandering around the north end of the
> Sacramento Valley and now I'm getting sort of excited...
>
> Nervous too, which I don't understand, I've done this a few times before,
> though it's been some years. I feel as if I'm on the cusp of something,
> skirting the perimeter of something and this trip might be the boost I need
> to peek over the edge, but I don't want to get stuck there.
Sounds intriguing.
>
> I want to be able to go home again.
You're well prepared with good friends etc so you'd be unlucky to have any real problems. Don't forget to let us know how you get on - especially if anything interesting gets recorded!
Surfs Up!
Anthony.
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