I suggest that one of the tents is renamed in honor Albert Hoffman. Thanks to his "medicine of the soul" a whole counter culture arose and gave us some fine music.

Not sure that I would credit Hoffman's discovery with the rise of 60's counterculture but I will agree it was, and is,a fuel for "unusual" thinking. Reckon naming a tent in his honour is a good idea if only to give them uniformed folks somewhere to excercise their dogs. Any suggestions for music policy?

aye, despite the wonderous things that have sprung from it, hoffman himself was rather upset by its popular counterculture usage, so i'm not sure he'd be that chuffed to have a tent named after him...

if there is one, it should be full of bicycles - i remember reading that story in the late great Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger, and nearly p*ssed myself... and was happy to hear a recording of Hoffman telling that story on radio 4 the other day...

funnily enough, the migraine tablets i get are pretty much the same compound of ergotamine, and developed from the same work... but then they're not really recreational, and i rarely write music while i have a migraine :)

At the thick of the early/mid 60's counter-culture was Ken Kesey and his merry pranksters. By the time of the acid tests, people such as Alan Ginsberg, Tim Leary, Tom Wolfe and the Grateful Dead were involved. At the centre of all this was Hoffman's soul medicine.

This all happened in the San Francisco bay area, but it's influence, especially in creative terms, was international. The Beatles, as early as 1966, released a psychedelic classic in Tomorrow Never Knows. I don't imagine you all need a lesson in the history and influence of psychedelic music, but i find it difficult to accept that Albert's discovery wasn't the catalyst for it all.

For all the wonders of Albert Hoffman's discovery, it's greatest lesson is that the best things in life are often discovered by accident.