Mushrooms

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Same here mate.

I had two bad ones on mushies and that was it for me.

The first one was the worst and stupidly took a load more the second time, just to see if the first time was a one off ( if that makes sense )

I knew a couple of really bright lads, who completely fried their brains from excessive use of acid, speed and dope.

Oh aye, I know a few too. Looking back I suspect they'd probably have got there anyway eventually, be it by slowly going mad or the ale. Just reckon the lack of sleep and effects of the drugs accelerated it all.

One kid I knew still roams around honking back weed to this day. He's under strict instructions not to from his psychiatrist and is on strong medications. Last time I bumped into him he was delighted to have a free travel pass so he literally just rode buses to hitherto never visited places getting high and being weird at unsuspecting locals. Before the inevitable arrest and sectioning.

I'm kind of envious. I've got a mortgage and a semi responsible job, he gets to bark at villagers. Ffs. Should took more shrooms back in the day.

 

[LostLegend]

I've posted about this elsewhere on the forum.
It's been a while since I indulged, but good times were had lol

Was in Amsterdam about 8 years ago. Me and my mate devoured a mushroom the size of a bonzai tree that we bought from some ropey, niche drug paraphernalia outlet.

After spending 3 hours being chased around the streets by Japanese tourists taking pictures of us (no idea if they actually existed tbh) we ended up in one of those fancy schmancy wine bars furnished with all high tables and tall bar stools.
The thing about most psychadelics is that they severely impair your sense of depth and distance.

So here I was sat a mere 2 ft off the ground on this bar stool, which to me looked/felt like a 50ft drop beneath my feet. I sat there for about 3 hours desperately clinging to the nearby table for dear life, fearing I may plummet 2 ft to my death if I let go.

My mate meanwhile, had locked himself in a toilet cubicle after wandering mistakenly into the women's room, fearing he'd be arrested as a wrong'un.

Happy days

There was also this time my mate (the same one) was house-sitting his parents enormous house +10 cats in Ellsemere Port whilst they were on holiday and I came over for a few beers when he produced a bag of these foul tasting mushrooms. They were wretched tasting, so we cooked them with a jar Lloyd Grossmans Cheese Sauce we found in the cupboard and poured the mixture over a large garlic bread we'd got from the local pizza place before devouring it.

I spent the night staring at the woodgrains in their massive oak dining table, convinced they were pulsating like arteries whilst he stood outside laughing hysterically at passing traffic...

I get drug tested for work a lot so partake no more.

Psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound in mushrooms is usually out of your system within 24 hours and I don't think regular drug test kits detect it anyway (you need a specialised one I believe)
LSD is a different matter, I think some tests can detect it, but like psylocybin, it's out of your system within a couple of days anyway I believe.

 

[longers]

we probably met. i used to play at some.

Dalston squat, Komik@Joiners Arms, Restless Natives, FuQ, jumpers for goalposts.

The sound systems I remember were

Illuminati - Jungle/DNB
Crossbones - Gabba
Headfuk - DNB
Sonic Systems - Acid Techno

Did a set for Illuminati on New Years Even 1999 at the famous hexagon building next to Waterloo (since been demolished I think ?), It was the single craziest rave I've ever been to. Id guess there must have been about 20,000 + people there that night spread out across the building. Also remember a boss one at an old cinema in Elephant and Castle which had a DJ booth setup infront of the big screen with mad visuals being beamed onto it all night.

Lots of good memories from that period of time, lots of terrible ones though, saw numerous OD's, a stabbing and a few parties that had yardies walking around with shotguns... they could be pretty sketchy places to say the least.

 

[Alan Whittle]

Never try to talk to parents on them.

Or drink absinthe with them.

Other than that, all good.

Is this how you got that red car? Ooh it’s all becoming clearer now!

 

[Alan Whittle]

Everything would go purple and green and I'd feel really decrepit, like Mr Burns or something.

 

[Yarrgh]

LSD is a different matter, I think some tests can detect it, but like psylocybin, it's out of your system within a couple of days anyway I believe.

If my posts start making less sense...

... or more sense.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I've posted about this elsewhere on the forum.
It's been a while since I indulged, but good times were had lol



There was also this time my mate (the same one) was house-sitting his parents enormous house +10 cats in Ellsemere Port whilst they were on holiday and I came over for a few beers when he produced a bag of these foul tasting mushrooms. They were wretched tasting, so we cooked them with a jar Lloyd Grossmans Cheese Sauce we found in the cupboard and poured the mixture over a large garlic bread we'd got from the local pizza place before devouring it.

I spent the night staring at the woodgrains in their massive oak dining table, convinced they were pulsating like arteries whilst he stood outside laughing hysterically at passing traffic...



Psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound in mushrooms is usually out of your system within 24 hours and I don't think regular drug test kits detect it anyway (you need a specialised one I believe)
LSD is a different matter, I think some tests can detect it, but like psylocybin, it's out of your system within a couple of days anyway I believe.

Oh that Amsterdam experience sounds almighty familiar. 7 of us on a stag trip. Couldn't escape the midget 'niche interest' Street in the Red Light District. Musta been walking in circles, kept finding ourselves staring at a lascivious dwarf flashing her wares.

 

[Blue 1]

The sound systems I remember were

Illuminati - Jungle/DNB
Crossbones - Gabba
Headfuk - DNB
Sonic Systems - Acid Techno

Did a set for Illuminati on New Years Even 1999 at the famous hexagon building next to Waterloo (since been demolished I think ?), It was the single craziest rave I've ever been to. Id guess there must have been about 20,000 + people there that night spread out across the building. Also remember a boss one at an old cinema in Elephant and Castle which had a DJ booth setup infront of the big screen with mad visuals being beamed onto it all night.

Lots of good memories from that period of time, lots of terrible ones though, saw numerous OD's, a stabbing and a few parties that had yardies walking around with shotguns... they could be pretty sketchy places to say the least.

Immersion, Headfuk, Crossbones, Tribe of Munt... Later on E1S... Tribe of [Poor language removed] were my crew, a traveller crew, Northants based. All got a bit gnarly around the turn of the millennium, too many people getting into nasty drugs and ketamine [Poor language removed] everything up. Saw some grim, seriously dark things happen at squat/free parties.

 

[dholliday]

The sound systems I remember were

Illuminati - Jungle/DNB
Crossbones - Gabba
Headfuk - DNB
Sonic Systems - Acid Techno

aah we were techno & psy, Sonic Systems doesn't ring a bell. went on a Gabba night once....was fun as hell! not really my kind of musik, tho'.

Did a set for Illuminati on New Years Even 1999 at the famous hexagon building next to Waterloo (since been demolished I think ?), It was the single craziest rave I've ever been to. Id guess there must have been about 20,000 + people there that night spread out across the building. Also remember a boss one at an old cinema in Elephant and Castle which had a DJ booth setup infront of the big screen with mad visuals being beamed onto it all night.

Lots of good memories from that period of time

holy crap, you played to thousands? wow. must've been a buzz and a half.

i played some epic live-techno gigs, tho' never more than a few hundred heads, but getting people to dance is an amazing feeling. One was in a church with borrowed incredible-sounding high-end PA-system from some monied types (we were very budget ourselves), it was packed and i had them all rocking! even had a guest singer doing indian-style chanty vocals over my percussive techno. a real one-off. palpable energy in the air.

But being honest i played more lacklustre gigs than great ones...due to lack of practice, not-great sound, and only having a half-empty-room full of knackered regulars in some dusty old warehouse.

lots of terrible ones though, saw numerous OD's, a stabbing and a few parties that had yardies walking around with shotguns... they could be pretty sketchy places to say the least.

All got a bit gnarly around the turn of the millennium, too many people getting into nasty drugs and ketamine [Poor language removed] everything up. Saw some grim, seriously dark things happen at squat/free parties.

yeah...the drugs stopped working. E & LSD was out, K speedy & crack was in. Changed the whole vibe. Turning point from my perspective was when Fridge Club (Brixton) underwent a series of busts at Samsara/Pendragon events, good lads with bags of happy pills ending up with years-long prison time. This was around 2001. It was like the magic was gone after that. We still did squat parties for a bit but they just felt a bit darker: more aggro, less love-in.

Around 2002-ish a party we did in Hackney was invaded by machete-wielding nutters who had a feud with some locals. Me & my crew got out sharpish...to this day don't know what happened next.

 

[verreauxi]

Did them in high school (usually at highly overrated Grateful Dead concerts) and occasionally in college. But I stopped doing mushrooms when I was 22 and was in Denali National Park Alaska (1992). The sun never sets during the summer and me and my best friend were out camping in the warm weather; they have these things called "kettle ponds" which are shallow round pounds about 2 feet deep and 100ft in diameter. Along with the rest of our supplies, we lugged about 40 beers out into the middle of nowhere and camped. Took shrooms and ended up in the middle of the kettle pond in our skivvies facing each other at a sunny 2am. He was wearing a large black furry Russian hat, I was wearing these fake very-thick coke-bottle glasses that made my eyes look huge (we brought "props" knowing that we were gonna do shrooms). We did "spit-takes" where I would pretend to tell a joke while he was in the middle of sipping his beer. My "joke" would prompt him to spit his beer all over me in fake laughter. We then reversed roles. We spit beer on each other, via spit-takes, in the wilderness of Alaska for about 2 hours in the middle of a kettle pond wearing only our boxers.

Upon reflecting on our actions some days later, we both echoed Roberto Duran, who famously said "No mas." And once we started taking ecstasy some years later there was never any need to mess with those awful hallucinogenics again.

 

[Blue 1]

aah we were techno & psy, Sonic Systems doesn't ring a bell. went on a Gabba night once....was fun as hell! not really my kind of musik, tho'.



holy crap, you played to thousands? wow. must've been a buzz and a half.

i played some epic live-techno gigs, tho' never more than a few hundred heads, but getting people to dance is an amazing feeling. One was in a church with borrowed incredible-sounding high-end PA-system from some monied types (we were very budget ourselves), it was packed and i had them all rocking! even had a guest singer doing indian-style chanty vocals over my percussive techno. a real one-off. palpable energy in the air.

But being honest i played more lacklustre gigs than great ones...due to lack of practice, not-great sound, and only having a half-empty-room full of knackered regulars in some dusty old warehouse.




yeah...the drugs stopped working. E & LSD was out, K speedy & crack was in. Changed the whole vibe. Turning point from my perspective was when Fridge Club (Brixton) underwent a series of busts at Samsara/Pendragon events, good lads with bags of happy pills ending up with years-long prison time. This was around 2001. It was like the magic was gone after that. We still did squat parties for a bit but they just felt a bit darker: more aggro, less love-in.

Around 2002-ish a party we did in Hackney was invaded by machete-wielding nutters who had a feud with some locals. Me & my crew got out sharpish...to this day don't know what happened next.

Yep that's pretty much how I remember it, time-wise. Squat parties got a bit stabby, people I knew started getting into smack and crack, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have the odd dabble myself, the whole vibe changed. The ketamine kids were even worse than the smackheads for robbing and [Poor language removed] people over. Had a couple of friends get busted for e's and do various amounts of time inside. Lost more friends than is reasonable to OD's. A bloke my age really oughtn't have been to as many funerals as I have. I stopped going to raves very often about 2001-2002 and started spending my money on travelling instead.

 

[dholliday]

Yep that's pretty much how I remember it, time-wise. Squat parties got a bit stabby, people I knew started getting into smack and crack, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have the odd dabble myself, the whole vibe changed. The ketamine kids were even worse than the smackheads for robbing and [Poor language removed] people over. Had a couple of friends get busted for e's and do various amounts of time inside. Lost more friends than is reasonable to OD's. A bloke my age really oughtn't have been to as many funerals as I have. I stopped going to raves very often about 2001-2002 and started spending my money on travelling instead.

it's really sad...for we had something truly beautiful. you deffo did the right thing.

Some drugs are actual evil. Not useful when the mainstream bung them all together. Acid & E are the good guys...or at least not knowingly destructive.

makes ya think in what way the switch from non-addictive psychedelics to the addictive destructive stuff was deliberate...and if so how something like that could be coordinated. Or was it really just an organic development?
The late-60's/early-70's happy drugs ravers may also wonder what happened to their scene.


regarding K: bit guilty here. We took part in an E4-documentary about the London drugs scene. Snorted a big line in front of the cameras. Show was repeated on Channel 4, apparently got a few million viewers. We obviously came across as proper [Poor language removed], but that never stopped the K boom.

K was fun at first, in little penny-bump size. things felt rubbery and cartoony. But tolerance was built-up quickly. Got dark when i was using it at home to buzz on. No creative spark arose from it, just a weird lifeless conviction to take it. Other mates were in far deeper, cooking it at industrial levels, and darker...they were big users and looked so haggard. i still managed a dayjob, at least.

When i realised the destructive nature of it i sacked it off for good....and thankfully never went near crack or smack.

 

[dholliday]

Mushrooms, tho'...one batch gave me the ability to look behind me without actually turning around. i'd then physically turn around to check the vision was accurate (and it was).

that was more surprising than the acid-created floating clown head that tried to eat my face at an Astral Phoenix Goa night. even more than seeing reptilian features on human faces at a triptastic Brixton Academy party.


i've got a theory about the latter...it's explained in the classic sci-fi film Altered States. We basically have genetic memory of all our past ancestors, even as far back as the animal ones. psychedelics can temporarily recall such memories in a visual way so our brains can interpret and transmit this info.

 

[coollino]

it's really sad...for we had something truly beautiful. you deffo did the right thing.

Some drugs are actual evil. Not useful when the mainstream bung them all together. Acid & E are the good guys...or at least not knowingly destructive.

makes ya think in what way the switch from non-addictive psychedelics to the addictive destructive stuff was deliberate...and if so how something like that could be coordinated. Or was it really just an organic development?
The late-60's/early-70's happy drugs ravers may also wonder what happened to their scene.


regarding K: bit guilty here. We took part in an E4-documentary about the London drugs scene. Snorted a big line in front of the cameras. Show was repeated on Channel 4, apparently got a few million viewers. We obviously came across as proper [Poor language removed], but that never stopped the K boom.

K was fun at first, in little penny-bump size. things felt rubbery and cartoony. But tolerance was built-up quickly. Got dark when i was using it at home to buzz on. No creative spark arose from it, just a weird lifeless conviction to take it. Other mates were in far deeper, cooking it at industrial levels, and darker...they were big users and looked so haggard. i still managed a dayjob, at least.

When i realised the destructive nature of it i sacked it off for good....and thankfully never went near crack or smack.

This pretty much happen to me with k. Ended up taking it daily for nearly a year at uni, it was everywhere in Oxford in the mid 00. We were buying the liquid and cooking it

Got through the uni year etc fine, but then a mate got killed whilst driving after a day on it so we all just stopped

 

[dholliday]

This pretty much happen to me with k. Ended up taking it daily for nearly a year at uni, it was everywhere in Oxford in the mid 00. We were buying the liquid and cooking it

Got through the uni year etc fine, but then a mate got killed whilst driving after a day on it so we all just stopped

so sad that. RIP.