blotter acid

“Sitting around his room, tripping on blotter acid, I picked up the camera and began playing with it.”

In 1971’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the trunk of his Great Red Shark resembled a “mobile police narcotics lab” filled with blotter acid, cocaine and quarts of tequila.

Named in tribute to a particularly fearsome batch of blotter acid, the track opened with the whispered words "You've got to look into the …", before the Brooklyn trio hammered into a needling one-chord, two-note riff punctuated by repeated yells of "Light!"

Some of them were concert performances, shot and edited with perfunctory flash; others were like surrealistic visual riffs on the song, head comics for beginners, production numbers soaked in blotter acid.

Today's rock generation thrives without the need to gather in groups half a million strong and consume blotter acid.