{"539091":{"#nid":"539091","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Had LSD Never Been Discovered Over 75 Years Ago, Music History Would Be Entirely Different","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen\u0026nbsp;we think of psychedelics and music, visions of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=grQ8f5oOcY4\u0022\u003EGrateful Dead\u003C\/a\u003E, Jefferson Airplane\u0027s tie-dyed \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OzHBr0ndKus\u0022\u003EVolunteers\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022 and the\u0026nbsp;13th Floor Elevators\u0027\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QEQBfJwYlLY\u0022\u003Emind-bending beats\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;dance in our heads. These bands lived and died by their trips, however, none of these bands truly consecrated the long and fruitful relationship between hallucinogens and music, which has utterly transformed the art form as we know it. Acid absolutely has, but it wouldn\u0027t have done so if it hadn\u0027t been for two bands few think of as explicitly psychedelic projects: The Beatles and the Beach Boys, whose inaugural psychedelic masterpiece\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/143464\/50-years-ago-the-beach-boys-released-pet-sounds-and-redefined-what-a-pop-epic-could-be\u0022\u003EPet Sounds\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;turned 50 on Monday.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe thing about psychedelic rock is you don\u0027t necessarily associate the Beach Boys with it,\u0022 Philip Auslander, a professor in the school of literature, media and communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said in a phone conversation in early April. \u0022A group like the Beach Boys \u2014 such a popular group, so successful \u2014 to start experimenting and moving in odd directions and doing things that sounded very different, I think those were what put it all on the map. I think basically that sort of opened the door \u2014 not for groups to be formed or to start to make music, but certainly to become as visible as say Jefferson Airplane or somebody like that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead more of what Auslander had to say in full article:\u0026nbsp;https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/143256\/had-lsd-never-been-discovered-over-75-years-ago-music-history-would-be-entirely-different#.ucutGwDR9\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2016-05-23 14:08:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:10","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"pregnant women","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/143256\/had-lsd-never-been-discovered-over-75-years-ago-music-history-would-be-entirely-different#.ucutGwDR9","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"221451":{"id":"221451","type":"image","title":"Phil Auslander","body":null,"created":"1449243516","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:38:36","changed":"1475894891","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:11","alt":"Phil Auslander","file":{"fid":"197273","name":"philipauslanderweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/philipauslanderweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/philipauslanderweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":39716,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/philipauslanderweb.jpg?itok=wApRTOpV"}}},"media_ids":["221451"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"169166","name":"LSD"},{"id":"11274","name":"Philip Auslander"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}