The Luv’d Ones
were an all-female American garage rock band in the 1960s. Led by singer/guitarist Charlotte ‘Char’ Vinnedge, the group released singles on the Chicago-based Dunwich Records. Vinnedge sang lead vocals and played lead guitar and the rest of the band was filled out by her sister Chris on bass, Mary Gallagher on rhythm guitar and Faith Orem on drumset. The band was mostly Vinnedge’s project: she wrote all of their songs, designed their artwork, fixed their equipment and even drove their van on tours.

Though they were never commercially successful and recorded only a handful of songs, The Luv’d Ones have developed a cult following in the decades following their disbandment; they are often praised for being ahead of their time, and cited as being both proto-punk and proto-feminist. Their sound is characterized by fuzzed-out guitars, strong rhythm section and Vinnedge’s icy vocals. The lyrics are decidedly dark and bitter; many of the songs deal with jealousy.

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… want het hing natuurlijk al gewoon in de lucht. Op de laatste track van het Beatlesalbum Revolver uit 1966 Tomorrow Never Knows horen we al duidelijk dat er iets gaande is. Something’s happening. Turn on, tune in and drop out.

Tomorrow Never Knows
John Lennon wrote the song in January 1966, closely adapted from the book The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner, which they based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead with the understanding that the “Ego Death” experienced under the influence of LSD and other psychedelic drugs is essentially similar to the dying process and requires similar guidance. At the time of the song’s release, it was reputed to have been written to facilitate the “letting go” process of psychedelic voyagers. The book The Love You Make, written by Beatles insider Peter Brown, claims that Lennon’s only source of inspiration for the song came from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which it says he read while tripping on LSD.
 
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Tomorrow Never Knows (1966)

Turn off your mind, relax
and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying
 
Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining
 
That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being
 
That love is all
And love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing
 
That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing
 
But listen to the
color of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living
 

 
Or play the game
existence to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning

De San Francisco Chronicle publiceerde afgelopen maand een serie van vier delen:
The Summer of Love, 40 Years Later