[FairfieldLife] RE: Merry Crimble from the Beatles, 1963

[s3raphita]

Back in the sixties Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner did a road show in which 
they included readings from their "Psychedelic Experience" (a dubious co-opt of 
the Tibetan Book of the Dead). The event was filmed but only the soundtrack is 
now available (an amusing period piece). 
 I'd love to see the movie but LSD was made illegal just a month after the film 
was finished and so the distributors lost their nerve and it was never released 
to the public. 
 I met Ralph Metzner on a recent visit to London and asked him if the film 
footage had been destroyed. He said it's still around but isn't worth releasing 
now as a full feature but he added that there are plans to release a 
documentary about the tour which would include footage from that original 
movie. Could be a gas!