| Author | Message | ||
     Steve Emmott Prolific User Username: steve_e Post Number: 166 Registered: 11-2018 |
Daily Mail (UK) today ....... a 30,000 GBP paint job to recreate John Lennon' Rolls Royce https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6845703/Baby-paint-car-Taxi-driver-reveals-30-000-copy-Lennons-psychedelic-Rolls-Royce.html | ||
| Brian Vogel Grand Master Username: guyslp Post Number: 2809 Registered: 6-2009 |
Quite the nice homage. I have never understood why this particular paint job is called "psychedelic." It's way too "traditional" (in the rococo sense) to be psychedelic and, if memory serves, is based on Roma themes (which are about as far from psychedelic as you can get). It was absolutely a statement piece, though, and the Shadow version is equally striking. Brian | ||
| Jim Walters Prolific User Username: jim_walters Post Number: 219 Registered: 1-2014 |
The paintwork was patterned after a Gypsy caravan Lennon had in his garden that was painted in Romany style artwork. I've had the great honour and pleasure of maintaining the original for the Royal British Columbia Museum for the past 24 years.  SRH8505 SRC18015 SRE22493 NAC-05370 www.bristolmotors.com | ||
| Steve Emmott Prolific User Username: steve_e Post Number: 170 Registered: 11-2018 |
Brian I suspect it is the first part of the WIKI term meaning of the word here that applies rather than the art or music form that resulted from perhaps that state of mind. quote...Psychedelia is the subculture, originating in the 1960s, of people who often use psychedelic drugs such as LSD, mescaline (found in peyote) and psilocybin (found in some mushrooms). The term is also used to describe a style of psychedelic artwork and psychedelic music. I also think the word originates from a Greek background PSYCHE which again is 'substances that induce a heightened state of consciousness characterised by a hyper state of the brain... |
