Thank you Sheila & Karen for your observations & opinions.
You have inspired me to visit a web site dedicated to Donovan:
http://www.sabotage.demon.co.uk/donovan/main.htm
EV
who can't seem to get that idyllic love ballad
"wear your love like heaven" out of the ole noggin!
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From: Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
From: Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
I always thought in the case of this song it was less about drug culture
than the Indian mystical craze that people like Donovan, the Beatles (esp
George Harrison), Pete Townshend, and even (very briefly) Mick Jagger were
getting into at the end of the '60s as an alternative to the drug culture.
I take the imagery in Donovan's song, then, to be meditation- rather than
hallucinogenic-drug induced
Sheila Graham observed:
I believe that 'Mellow Yellow' refers to the rumour, prevalent at the time,
that banana skins were hallucinogenic. I think you were supposed to bake
them very gently, for a long time in a low heat, until they crumbled to a
powder and then smoke that.
Can't vouch for its effectiveness; I was one of those sad people who was
there in the sixties and can actually remember, to my undying embarrassment,
most of what I did. The people I knew who said it worked were fairly
strange, but I don't think they limited their hallucinogenic experiments to
banana skins.
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