The Acid Trip: A Complete Guide to Psychedelic Music

4to. Illustrated wrappers. Creased to bottom corner of upper wrapper and some very slight shelf wear to edges. Otherwise fine: tight, clean and unmarked. Copiously illustrated throughout in b/w, and with 8 pages of colour illustrations. Introduction printed on orange paper. Thread-sewn binding. *** An encyclopedia of psychedelic music, with biographies, discographies and general analyses. From the blurb: ‘What social and political factors helped create the Hippy culture of the late 60s? How influential was LSD on pychedelic music? (…) Has psychedelia a future in the 80s? Find out in The Acid Trip, which also contains discographies and musical analyses of some 200 bands, and is illustrated throughout with over 250 LP cover reproductions and photographs.’