Just before separating from the USMC at Camp Pendleton in 1970 I went to a reliable seller in Laguna Beach who I had bought acid from before. Told him I wanted 200 hits of Orange Sunshine. He freaked at first wondering if it was a setup but he finally went to get it. Came back with only 140 hits as the bigger guy was out. So he brought the difference in Chocolate Mescaline. Got home a week later to discover Jimi Hendrix was playing in Albuquerque 10 days later. But buddies knew I was coming home and bought me a ticket.
Off we go to ABQ in a cool 1968 SS396 with a grocery sack (literally ) of high grade Mexican bud, half the LSD and half the mescaline. Got there way too early so we cruised down Route 66 through ABQ and stopped in front of the UNM campus there on central. A bunch of hippies were playing frisbee and humming "Ommmmmm". The guy driving the car was an Army reservist and I had just left the Marines so no hair at all for us two. The other 2 guys were just guys, you know?
Called this hippy over to the car and handed him a few mescaline caps and about 10 little Sunshine tabs (they made them by dropping acid onto orange mini-barrels of vitamin B-12, hence the name) and told them to split them up. Off to Hendrix and then back to UNM afterward to check results.
Hendrix was fucking awesome. He had Felix Pappallardi playing bass and I was heartbroken Noel Redding was no longer with him - until they started playing. Noel Redding was good but Felix was GREAT!!!!!!!!! Jimi played almost 1:20 then took a break, changed clothes and came back for another hour. No way to describe it.
But those freaks at UNM? They recognized the bright orange SS and tried chasing us down Central to get more. We were out by then having handed what we took out at the concert. So we gave them a lunch sack of Mexican and cruised ABQ a while before crashing at a friends and heading home the next day.
Boring but it's the best I can remember right now.
