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Seven Spotted Lady Bird Beetle by Robert N. Taylor

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The following is an excerpt from Robert N. Taylor’s upcoming book Psychonautica, as mentioned in the interview with him published at Counter-Currents last week.

“DOM appeared on the streets in the 1960s under the name of STP and it proved to be for quite a while my hair shirt or, as Albert Hofmann would say later about his discovery, LSD, my problem child.” — Alexander Shulgin, Pihkal, a Chemical Love Story (more…)

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Robert N. Taylor was born in 1945 and grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As a member of both the psychedelic underground as well as the anti-Communist paramilitary organization The Minutemen, Taylor participated directly in the violent social upheavals of the 1960s. In 1969 he started the music group Changes with his cousin, Nicholas Tesluk. After its revival in 1996, the group would go on to become a seminal part of the American apocalyptic folk genre. (more…)

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Changes can be considered the very first example of a neofolk band. Formed in 1969 by cousins Robert N. Taylor and Nicholas Tesluk, Changes has its roots in the earliest days of the folk revival and hippie scenes in the United States. (more…)

Robert N. Taylor

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The following is a transcript of a conversation which took place in November 2012. The transcription was made by Tyler Harding. The original audio is here.

Keith Preston: Good evening, and welcome to Attack the System. I’m your host, Keith Preston, here on Counter-Currents; with me tonight is Mr. Robert N. Taylor.

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Join Keith Preston as he interviews musician and former activist Robert N. Taylor (more…)