San Francisco Sound Engineer Accidentally Dosed With LSD While Cleaning 1960s Radio Equipment

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https://allthatsinteresting.com/engineer-accidentally-takes-lsd

The synthesizer Eliot Curtis was cleaning was quite popular in the 1960s when LSD-friendly musicians were looking for new sounds. Unbeknownst to him, they left a few remnants behind.

When the great wave of 1960s optimism finally broke and hippiedom gave way to Vietnam and Richard Nixon, the end of an era had never been clearer. Nonetheless, counterculture remnants are still alive and well as a radio operator found out after accidentally getting dosed with 50-year-old LSD.

According to Daily Mail, KPIX Channel 5 Broadcast Operations Manager Eliot Curtis was merely trying to fix an old synthesizer he found in a cold dark closet in San Francisco Cal State University East Bay when he started feeling…different.

[MENTION=162]Ford[/MENTION]

 

[J842P]

Amazing, actually, that the LSD survived in sufficient concentration to actually produce a psychoactive response.

It was probably bomb acid. It's harder to find good acid these days, especially since a lot of the better chemists were busted in the 90's 2000's. It still exists I'm sure, there's a lot of chemists producing in small quantities no doubt, but it is not as widely available, and there is a lot of analogues being sold as acid.

Personally, this is one of the reasons I've stuck to mostly psilocybin mushrooms. I mean, I've dabbled in just about everything, but nowadays if I want to trip it's quite easy to find really good mushrooms (especially in the San Francisco Bay Area) without having to know some chemist. There's also a lot of people producing DMT extracts, but DMT is not something I take on lightly like LSD or psilocybin.

 

[Ford]

Wait...drugs? In the 60s? In San Francisco? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Good thing drugs weren't part of the radio/recording business when I got involved in the 80s. Nope. Never was exposed to any drugs whatsoever. Much in the same way I never went to strip clubs on the record company's dime. And certainly not the club across the street from the station I worked at in the 90s. And I never dated any strippers. Certainly not two at the same time. Yep. Family business all the way.

 

[J842P]

Wait...drugs? In the 60s? In San Francisco? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Good thing drugs weren't part of the radio/recording business when I got involved in the 80s. Nope. Never was exposed to any drugs whatsoever. Much in the same way I never went to strip clubs on the record company's dime. And certainly not the club across the street from the station I worked at in the 90s. And I never dated any strippers. Certainly not two at the same time. Yep. Family business all the way.

From now on, I'm imagining you as an 80's version of Vic from F is For Family.

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