Two Designers Walk Into a Bar · Evergreen Podcasts

The 1960s and the Era of Peak Psychedelia

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The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Woodstock put psychedelia into mass culture.
The setup opens with mushrooms and a wink.

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Psychedelia is handled as a lively pop-culture history, with enough banter to keep the discussion moving.

Two Designers Walk Into a Bar treats peak psychedelia as a mainstream-culture story, tracing how design and music were reshaped by experimentation and then filtered through Life Magazine, Look Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, the radio, and even living rooms.

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Why you'd press play

You want psychedelia explained without the museum voice.

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