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Timothy Leary & Ash Ra Tempel
12+ albums
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On the night of September 12th 1970, Dr Timothy Leary escaped from jail. He climbed a tree in the exercise yard, jumped onto the roof of the cellblock, and shimmied along a telephone wire until he was over the fence. Half way along the wire his glasses fell off, and a patrol car drove underneath him, yet somehow his escape went undetected. Within days he would be flying to Algeria, with a fake passport in the name of McNellis and a bald head as his disguise. The California Men's Colony-West at San Luis Obispo was a minimum security prison, but it was still a brave and daring escape, especially for an ex-Harvard Professor of Psychology just a few weeks shy of his 50th birthday. The authorities were shocked to find him missing; he was in the minimum security prison because his psychological profile showed a docile man who was not an escape risk. But Leary had found it easy to trick the psychological tests, as he had written them himself many years before. He was embarking on a fugitive life that would be full of glamour, excitement and danger. And, although he could never have guessed it at the time, he was going to record one of the era's strangest and most ambitious albums: Seven-Up, with Ash Ra Tempel. Ash Ra Tempel were formed in Berlin in 1970, thanks in part to the impressive size of Pink Floyd's old speakers. Schoolfriends Manuel Göttsching (guitar) and Hartmut Enke (bass) had been playing together since they were 14. They called themselves the Steeplechase Blues Band,
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58Space (Downtown, Power Drive, Right Hand Lover, Velvet Genes)
49Seven Up
310Space "including: Dowtown, Power Drive, Right Hand Lover, Velvet Genes"
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