In “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, Daniel Levitin cites fourteen as the age of key receptivity to music: ‘part of the reason we remember songs from our teenage years is because those years were times of self-discovery, and as a consequence, they were emotionally charged; in general, we tend to remember things that has an emotional component because our amygdala and neurotransmitters act in concert to “tag” the memories as something important. Part of the reason also has to do with neural maturation and pruning: it is around fourteen that the wiring of our musical brains is approaching adultlike levels of completion’. I turned 14 during the late summer of 1967, and so I’m hard-wired to psychedelia. This section explores that obsession, bearing in mind that psychedelia is an attitude rather than a time-locked musical style.
- Psychedelia 100 (A Mojo Music Guide 1, booklet with Mojo 6, May 1994)
- Alexander “Skip” Spence: Oar (review)
- Captain Beefheart: Grow Fins box set (review)
- Love, Forever Changes (review)
- Hallucinations (review)
- Neil Young, Sugar Mountain (review)
- 13th Floor Elevators, Sign of The Three-Eyed Men ( box set review, Mojo 185 April 2009)
- Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve – sleeve notes