While I was growing up pot didn't hold too much cachet with me. After all My Mom smoked pot. How cool could it possibly be? So when I was first passed a joint (Aerosmith show in 8th grade), I laughed and passed it on. I continued passing on pot all through my college years, but that didn't mean I said no to drugs. I skipped the gateway drugs and proceeded directly to hallucinogens. From abou...
Mac Rebbenack was an expatriate from New Orleans living in L.A. when he 'borrowed' some studio time from Sonny and Cher to record his debut LP with other Crescent City folk. The result was a murky funky fusion mix of chant and voodoo ritual set to a polyrhythmic stew that Atlantic Records head Ahmet Ertegun called "Boogaloo Crap". Thankfully he relented and allowed this now almost forgotten ge...
