I was impressed with this sentence, not only for its subtle beauty, but for its statement about universality. However, it also led me to think about who psychedelic music was meant for: the audience, the band, or the population at large. Considering that psychedelic musicians would often separate from their group in order to play whatever they (or the LSD made them) feel like playing, my best guess is that in most cases the music was intended for the artist. Their presence on the stage gave them a position of leadership in the drug-addled "dance of the cosmos," and the listeners followed along both collectively and individually.
I agree that a large part of both the LSD experience and the music that arose from it was intended for the artist. However, it seems the artist's goal was usually to unify the audience and enlighten them of the "reality" only LSD users knew and understood. Lesh ends the article saying "we had become shamans helping to channel the transcendent into our mundane lives and those of our listeners. We felt...privileged to be at the arrow's point of human evolution." (76) With this mindset, psychedelic artists were on a power trip when onstage, feeling that they are in some way "saving" their audience.
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