How wild did things get in 1967? So wild that a label (Audio Fidelity) not particularly known for its hipness put out a record with an insert to send away for psychedelic ornaments so you, too, could throw an acid party! And the back cover offered instructions referencing everybody from Emmett Grogan of the Diggers to Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD. But perhaps the most amazing thing about this album was that, despite its almost comical (though well-informed) attempt to cash in on the psychedelic craze, How to Blow Your Mind and Have a Freak-Out Party wound up being a charming and even entrancing psych-pop gem of a record, albeit one with its requisite share of Eastern-influenced mumbo-jumbo. For its first-ever American vinyl reissue, were pressing up just 500 copies in orange sunshine vinyl, complete with the insert (you can try sending it in, but dont get your hopes up). Groovy, man!
how to blow your mind and have a freak-out party (orange)