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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: A Brief History of Alt Psychedelic Rock
Description: Here’s one of the most misunderstood and misused words in the English language: “psychedelic” …The word first came into use in 1956 when a psychiatrist named Humphrey Osmond was studying a new class of pharmaceuticals that had potential when it came to treating certain mental disorders…A chemical known as lysergic acid diethylamide—LSD, for short—had been extracted by a Swiss scientist named Albert Hoffman from a fungus called “ergot”…from 1943 on, medical professionals tried to figure out what it could be used for…it was even marketed commercially for a while under the brand name “delysid”…<...