How To Blow Your Mind And Have A Freak

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How crazy did things get in 1967? So wild that a label (Audio Fidelity) not particularly known for its hipness released a record with a card to send away for "psychedelic ornaments" so you too could throw an acid party! And the back cover offered "instructions" referencing everyone from Emmett Grogan of the Diggers to Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD. But perhaps the most astonishing thing about this album is that, despite its almost comical (though well-informed) attempt to cash in on the psychedelic craze, How to Blow Your Mind and Have a Freak-Out Party turned out to be a charming and even enchanting psych-pop gem, although it has its requisite share of Eastern-influenced gibberish.