Storytellers - Be Here Now

[FPSHOT]

The song was written in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, a week after Miss O'Dell. George moved from Malibu as it was too far to drive to the studio every day). He was almost falling asleep, had the guitar in bed and the melody came fast.

The lyric was inspired by the unny story called 'The transfomation of Richard Alpert into Baba Ram Das'. Whatever that is.

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George in I Me Mine; 'I met Kissinger and Ford. Ford was very friendly, Kissinger looked like an Arab, talked like a German and was tanned all over, like Clark Gable, he was a bit like Charlie Chaplin, like a Rutle.

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The lyric was inspired by the unny story called 'The transfomation of Richard Alpert into Baba Ram Das'. Whatever that is.

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Ram Dass was born in 1933 as Richard Alpert, son of a wealthy lawyer who was the president of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad and founder of Brandeis University. After studying psychology and earning an M.A. from Weslyan and a Ph.D. from Stanford, he taught and conducted research at the Department of Social Relations and the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University from 1958 to 1963.

While at Harvard, Ram Dass' explorations of human consciousness led him to conduct intensive research with LSD and other psychedelic elements, in collaboration with Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, and others. Because of the controversial nature of this research, Ram Dass and Leary were dismissed from Harvard in 1963.

He continued this research with a private foundation through 1967, when he traveled to India. There he met his spiritual teacher, Neem Karoli Baba. Under his guru's guidance, he studied yoga and meditation and received the name Ram Dass, or "servant of God." Since 1968, he has pursued a variety of spiritual practices, including Hinduism, karma, yoga and Sufism.




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[beatlebangs1964]

Hey, thanks for the interesting information!

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Then we will remember things we said today. Yeah.
-- Beatles, 1964

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