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impact of LSD on 80's/ 90's rave.

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just out of pure interest, everyone knows MDMA was massive in the 90's rave scene, but I was wondering how widely used LSD was during this period. I know that it became more popular again around the same time Ecstasy took off, but I was interested in the specifics.

did people take it at raves? how popular was it in comparison with ecstasy? did LSD influence any of the culture or music? Also where any other psychedelics, like shrooms, popular during this period? etc.
 
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hey Arnold :)

nice to see you :D

Yeah, acid was easier to find than E at that time, and was more affordable by a long way.

Acid and speed was my rave drug choice before i ever tried an E, was the same for a lot of "ravers", particularly from less affluent cities....
 
In the 80s/90s many people took LSD synthesized from safrole because it gave a more loved up feeling.

This lovey acid has since disappeared. Leaving many ravers upset and confused.
'Why' they say. 'Why has the acid not got any love anymore'?

The answer was in the wise old safrole tree.
Now extinct - the safrole tree doesn't exist.

And acid house is soley to blame.
 
Cornishman said:
In the 80s/90s many people took LSD synthesized from safrole because it gave a more loved up feeling.

This lovey acid has since disappeared. Leaving many ravers upset and confused.
'Why' they say. 'Why has the acid not got any love anymore'?

The answer was in the wise old safrole tree.
Now extinct - the safrole tree doesn't exist.

And acid house is soley to blame.
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I hate hearing about how all the drugs we take now are shit compared to how they used to be = | makes me feel like i've never really done acid or ecstasy, haha.
 
My answers are all mid-90s-onwards-based, and London-centric.

hexagram said:
did people take it at raves?
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Yes, often without E.

hexagram said:
how popular was it in comparison with ecstasy?
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Nowhere near as, but it was very, very common to hear 'whizz, trips, pills, whizz, trips, pills' muttered at you by more than one person a night. The more underground the party the higher the likelihood of obtaining acid but I bought it in big London clubs more than once.

hexagram said:
did LSD influence any of the culture or music?
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Yes, absolutely. I am possibly biased as much of my formative musical tripping was done in a club called Megatripolis, which was very hippyish.

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hexagram said:
Also where any other psychedelics, like shrooms, popular during this period? etc.
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Acid was way more common than any other psych in my circles at this time. I don't recall any of my peer group possessing mushrooms during the mid 90s.
 
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no-ones saying that , yet.

You asked the fucking question anyway, why invite answers you know you're gonna hate?
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sorry, think that came across differently to how I intended it too haha, I wasn't being 'serious' as such, just a lighthearted comment.
 
We used to do both. :)

Then stare at lasers for 6-7 hours.

And imo legal highs fucked up the 'fun' drugs market. :(

Oh well, least I was involved when you could waltz into a pub and buy speckled Love Doves off, well, anyone really.

And the halcyon days of 20 quid actually getting you 3.5g of primo Ganja were also pretty cool..But I did gain in a way, as once the rip off merchants got into gear, I thought fuck it, and grew me sodding own.
 
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Most of my mates were on LSD when we were dancing in the early 90s. Es too but they were quite fucking expensive in comparison and many people preferred acid anyway, including me.
 
Acid and speed was my DOC for clubbing / raving (was the biggest combo) - then along came pills. The 25£ price tag put a lot of people off especially when you could get a decent bag of speed and a few trips for cheaper - for me I found acid was really popular in the early 90's but the newer crowd seemed to steer clear of it and just wanted pills. I know a lot of the new comers were quite surprised at people doing acid at a rave ?
 
I think it's because acid is (wrongly) in most people's minds something you can't do in public and is better suited to lying around on beanbags staring at the walls. I dunno if it's because I was a teenager or wot but the sensations in my limbs were so amazing that I could dance for hours on it. Bags of energy, lots of fun.
 
Speaking as somebody who was a bit too young to witness the scene firsthand, I know that the older kids (and some of my contemporaries who caught the arse-end) almost exclusively took LSD and speed. Acid was £2.50 a tab at the most, and that was on the night. Speed was cheap and plentiful, and sometimes actually did the job.


By the time I was eighteen years old, it was 1998, pills got cheaper and cheaper and LSD more or less vanished from the mainstream overnight. I would never have taken ecstasy otherwise; I thought it might make me want to hug someone, or something equally loathsome and uncool.

Unfortunately, not long after that pips showed up in force. And that's another sorry story entirely.
 
Cornishman said:
In the 80s/90s many people took LSD synthesized from safrole because it gave a more loved up feeling.

This lovey acid has since disappeared. Leaving many ravers upset and confused.
'Why' they say. 'Why has the acid not got any love anymore'?

The answer was in the wise old safrole tree.
Now extinct - the safrole tree doesn't exist.

And acid house is soley to blame.
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This is complete bullshit :)
 
I've just been searching for that famous clip, looks like it was some 88/89 acid house rave & the woman has a balloon tied to her wrist & is going the cardboard box dance with her hands & has eyes that wide it puts Manga films to shame but can't find it.
Think she must have eaten a whole Sandoz lab's worth for the year, wish I could damn find the clip :(

EDIT - Got it :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKcah7GHO4g
 
jancrow said:
I think it's because acid is (wrongly) in most people's minds something you can't do in public and is better suited to lying around on beanbags staring at the walls. I dunno if it's because I was a teenager or wot but the sensations in my limbs were so amazing that I could dance for hours on it. Bags of energy, lots of fun.
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yeah agreed, amazing for dancing and getting inside the beats...

Great with speed for a partyu.
 
Like jancrow says, LSD gave me plenty stimulation on it's own, never needed any speed to dance for hours on end and then hit the afterparty.
 
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