on this day the biggest band of the 1960s met one of the best songwriters Bob Dylan and in this encounter the country singer offered the band marijuana and this made the band have some intresting ideas.

The band "The BYRDS' Recorded the song eight miles high first version

this was when psychedelic music was starting to get noticed more and more and was the genre of the hippie movement that is famous for the peace and the "flower power" and the rise of hallucinogenic drugs like LSD and in some cases Psilocybin mushrooms which caused major halucinations and altered the mind. musicians wanted to replicate the effects of these drugs through their music.

in early 1967 the summer of love started. the psychedelic was rising and more people started to become more into the hippie movement. bands like beatles were releasing songs that were more influenced by the drugs. people were loving it though.

jimi hendrix recorded his first album and it became an instant hit on and is still known as the best psychedelic artist.

this is the well known beatles drug influenced album which was one of the psychedelic rocks main albums. this album even has the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds which has the words L S and D in capitals which has been seen as a refrence to the drug LSD, this song is also the most known song on the album.

this was the teenager who died at the rolling stones concert in almount

jim morrison (the doors), Janis Joplin and the great jimi hendrix died of drug overdose. also the beatles manger died of an overdose which stopped the band doing druch because it scared them.