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I can draw. And I think of also like people like Salvador Dali, Heironymous Bosch or Giorgio de Chirico or Max Ernst or Rene Magritte. A lot of the people that the psychedelic folk latched on to, I did as a very young man. But I don’t know if any of those guys actually took any drugs. I feel like that’s there in your subconscious if you know how to access it. And just, 60s was a period of accessing it and it became important, you know, same as Jung had been around. So the unconscious–the subconscious was identified and ripe for investigating. And Huxley was a very erudite dude and a great novelist and, above all, a fantastic, real thinker. And he latched onto mescaline. So you had to take that stuff. Bayard Catron (2001). "Pre-Soft-Boys Bands". glasshotel.net. Archived from the original on 19 July 2013 . Retrieved 18 August 2012. Terry Edwards Presents... Queer Street: No Fish Is Too Weird for Her Aquarium Vol. III (Sartorial Records, February 2004) – "Are 'Friends' Electric?"

Luminous Groove (2008) – Boxed set of reissued albums, with many previously unreleased live performances, outtakes and rarities I’ve tried, but in fact, the more I’ve tried to write short stories, the more I know that that’s not for me. I can make things work for like… That’s why I’m a songwriter or a poet. I’m great for four or five verses, but over any length of time, what I do is maybe too saturated, too kind of dense to make sense as a story. Or maybe I can’t create characters that the reader can empathize with or whatever. My dad was, he was basically an ideas man who had put a lot of ideas there’s a whole trunk full of unpublished manuscripts. He may have had, like, six or seven books published in his lifetime, and there’s probably ten times that lying around moldering. They probably will be thrown away or burned when my sisters and I pass on. He wrote three novels about Stonehenge, I think, and none of them came to anything. He wrote quite a few about William Rufus, the son of William the Conqueror. He had certain fixations in time. I call it the wire-between-the-ears sound. It’s like you hit a couple of notes, a couple of E notes and a couple of strings, and they just kind of jangle. They just go between your ears like a wire. LeValley: Okay. There we are. I can’t see. So it’s all perfect. Good. Did I send you a copy of the record or did somebody so you heard it? Jason LeValley of Psychedelic Scene: A Middle-Class Hero (2000) – Italian-English authorised interview book written by Luca Ferrari with CD-EP of outtakes included

a b c d e f Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music (Firsted.). Guinness Publishing. p.137. ISBN 0-85112-579-4. Julia Darling (1956–2005)". Literary Winchester. 2011. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 . Retrieved 10 January 2015.

The only thing I did get from taking LSD was playing electric guitar. One evening I borrowed someone’s electric guitar and I realized that you could get that what I call the wire-between-the-ears sound, which you hear in things like “Interstellar Overdrive” by Pink Floyd and “Eight Miles High”, the McGuinn twelve-string sound and a little bit in things like when The Beatles are being Byrds-y, things like “She Said She Said”. LeValley: Very much by proxy. Another author that I was influenced by was Aldous Huxley, who, as you know, wrote The Doors of Perception, which I totally absorbed when I was about 14,15. And that whole thing of kind of seeing heaven in your trousers and all the rest of it. jJst that was a very key way of thinking. So the people I listened to, in a way, took all the drugs for me. I mean, particularly, well, all the greats, really: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart. Lou Reed took different drugs, maybe, but pretty much all of them. Nobody I listened to had not got very high on a whole variety of drugs and most of them had quite a comedown afterwards. So to me, drugs, like alcohol, are really… you’re mortgaging tomorrow by having it today. So, my God, this is fantastic! And then you may go into a deep depression afterwards. Some people are more buoyant and they can survive repeated doses and repeated trips, and other people can’t. I was very cagey about taking LSD, so I didn’t even take it until 1971. I was an old man of 18, and I maybe took it six or seven times over the course of the 70s, not regularly at all. All Ready for the 25th? (Sartorial Records, 2012) – "There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage" Okay. Because, I mean, I don’t know if you’re in peyote country, but there’s all those things like Ayahuasca and peyote, right? Yeah. LeValley:It’s usually advisable to ride along with this great British (albeit Nashville-dwelling) eccentric’s flights of surrealism, as they often poignantly clarify more about reality than the most furrow-browed musings of others…From heavy skiffle to serpent gods to ponderings on Pacino, noir and mortality, this charms and challenges.” – RECORD COLLECTOR (****)

The Man Downstairs: Demos & Rarities (2020) – Outtakes and demos recorded in 2013 for the Man Upstairs sessions [24] [25] Well, my literary influences are kind of chronologically, I suppose. J. G. Ballard and H. G. Wells, who are both kind of classified as science fiction, but were something else, really. They were imaginative short stories that came from a knowledge of what science.. where human knowledge and technical knowhow and thinking was going. But they, I don’t know. It’s a bit like comedy, you know. Was Monty Python comedy? Was Louis Carroll a children’s author? And, you know, did J. G. Ballard write science fiction? But Ballard and H.G. Wells… H.G. Wells wrote the Time Machine, most famously. I don’t know. Have you read H.G. Wells stuff?

Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (ANTI-Records, February 2013) – "Sam's Gone Away" That wasn’t planned. So there was Gillian and David and then Brendan Benson, who got in touch with me before I even thought of moving out there. Emma had friends in Nashville. Grant Lee Phillips, do you know of him? Grant Lee moved over there about the same time we did. And Sean Nelson has moved there now. Yeah. Just enough people that were in my orbit to make sense for me to be there. And then I met some really terrific players. They were on my 2017 record and whatever else it was called– the most recent one– Shuffleman. LeValley: