You Can Be Anyone This Time Around
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You Can Be Anyone This Time Around is an album of Timothy Leary from the year 1970 . The record was intended to support his candidacy for election as governor of California in the fall of 1969 . Attached to the plate was a campaign poster designed by artist Joe Roberts, Jr.
prehistory
In May 1969, Timothy Leary was named in the landmark decision of Leary v. United States acquitted by the US Supreme Court . Under the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, he had previously been sentenced to 33 years in prison for tax evasion and illegally importing three grams of marijuana . After the acquittal, Leary went on the offensive and announced that he wanted to run for governor of California. He wanted to prevent the re-election of Governor Ronald Reagan for his second term (1970–1973). Leary announced the following core program to journalists: “The state of California should be run like a prosperous business. Instead of paying taxes on residents, a well-functioning state should make a profit. ”So, according to Leary's idea, everyone in California should receive a dividend from their state.
In order to mobilize sponsors for his campaign, he secured the support of the Los Angeles Free Press , the San Francisco Oracle and Rolling Stone . He received further commitments from John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix .
The slogan of his election campaign was: “Come together, join the party!”, Which in German can mean “Come together and celebrate a party!”, But also: “Come together and join the party!” The first part of the slogan was picked up by John Lennon in the song Come Together and released by the Beatles on the album Abbey Road .
Background of individual titles
Live and Let Live
The title is based on a specially arranged jam session in New York between guitarists Jimi Hendrix , Stephen Stills and John Sebastian with drummer Buddy Miles on September 30, 1969. Before the session, Timothy Leary and his then-wife Rosemary met Jimi Hendrix in Greenwich Village invited to dinner. The journalist Jann Wenner from Rolling Stone sat down at the next table to journalistically accompany the campaign.
Live and Let Live begins with the “Supersession” over which the sound of a jet landing is superimposed. This is followed by excerpts from a press conference in which journalists Timothy Leary, among other things, ambiguously asked whether he had a good flight (“Did you have a nice trip?”). Leary answered questions from the journalists present in a humorous and charming manner and at the same time announced his election program: Legalize and tax marijuana and LSD . With this, he already contradicts his statement to replace the taxes with a profit payment to all residents of California.
You Can Be Anyone This Time Around
The title track of the album comes up with an innovation that did not establish itself in hip-hop until years later : sampling . Numerous noises can be heard within the piece, such as the whistling of the wind, Hare Krishna chants and an Indian flute as well as short samples from The Beatles ( The Ballad of John and Yoko ), Allen Ginsberg ( Howl ), Country Joe and the Fish ( Flying High ), Rolling Stones ( Sympathy for the Devil ), Pink Floyd ( Take up thy Stethoscope and Walk ), Jefferson Airplane ( My Best Friend ) and Ravi Shankar . Leary himself described the song as the "elegy of new coinage". Through the use of psychedelics , one can now be anything and anyone: water, wind, fire, thunder, heaven, earth, a sun god, the goddess of love, a Rolling Stone, a Grateful Dead , etc.
title
- Live and Let Live (Jam) - 14:08
- You Can Be Anyone This Time Around - 9:08
- What Do You Turn On When You Turn On? - 6:40
reception
Richie Unterberger gives the record three out of five possible stars on Allmusic . He believes that the statements made by Leary, such as research into consciousness and the praise of drug use, may have frightened parents at the time, but today they sound outdated and silly. The album owes its collector status primarily to the jam session of Live and Let Live , in which an all-star band with Jimi Hendrix (on bass), Stephen Stills, John Sebastian and Buddy Miles played.
CD
The CD also contains the psychedelic poster of the 1969 election campaign as a booklet with the slogan “Come together - join the party!” On the back the following accompanying text was added: “The musical equivalent of a full-blown LSD trip. Speaking over a funkified jam and highly tape-edited psychedelic music beds, Leary recorded the prototypical House / Acid House album back in 1969. This is your brain on Leary: Any questions? "
sample
The English musician and DJ Fatboy Slim used the prelude to What Do You Turn On When You Turn On? as the beginning of his remix of Jean-Jacques Perrey's instrumental piece EVA
literature
- Timothy Leary: Flashbacks. To Autobiography , Los Angeles 1983.
- Timothy Leary: Because they knew what they were doing. A flashback. With an afterword by Gisela Getty, Munich 1997. ISBN 3-453-12582-7
Web links
- You Can Be Anyone This Time Around on Allmusic (accessed March 31, 2016)
- Who Sampled What Do You Turn on When You Turn On
Single receipts
- ↑ a b Timothy Leary: For They Knew What They Do , p. 339.
- ↑ Timothy Leary: For They Knew What They Are Doing , p. 338.
- ↑ Timothy Leary: For They Knew What They Are Doing , pp. 340–341.
- ^ Gary J. Jucha: The ultimate Jimi Hendrix Guide , Hannibal Verlag, Höfen / Tirol 2017, pp. 209f. ISBN 9783854456186
- ↑ Timothy Leary: For They Knew What They Are Doing , pp. 339f.
- ^ AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger .
- ↑ EVA (Fatboy Slim Remix) on WhoSampled.com .