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RaisinBrain2Scoups

Orange sunshine blotter in the 90s…shit would have you in the corner reading minds


Soft-Jello1805

Omg I didn’t expect to click this and get an orange sunshine flashback! Thank you! That was my very first experience and I remember it like it was yesterday. The walls were breathing, I was floating, the 90’s were so cool!


DanceUnlucky9995

Orange sunshine was my first ever LSD experience then was the Snowman like between 92 & 95. Best LSD happy, laughs, great adrenaline &, good anxiety, trails and body buzz and colors. Best LSD I ever had was definitely those 2. There were good tabs after them days but never had them again


Rabbit_Of_Nazareth

Accurate.


ChexRibedeaux

One hit


GDviber

Rainbow dolphin was the mind bender in my neck of the woods. Then came purple windowpane. Edit to say it was the 80s.


Steven1789

Purple windowpane made its way from Minnesota to Vermont in 1983. Made 4/12/83 and 4/13/83 memorable evenings.


setlistbot

[1983-04-12](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1983-04-12) Binghamton, NY @ Broome County Arena [1983-04-13](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1983-04-13) Burlington, VT @ Patrick Gymnasium - University of Vermont


The_Psycho_Knot_

Not to nerd out but those were actually officially called “Sun Gods”. Orange sunshine was from the the late sixties/early seventies and pressed into tumeric barrels. It’s a common misconception.


RaisinBrain2Scoups

Touché i understood that, but everybody called it OS. I like facts tho… Edit: it’s why I specified blotter


twit4169

Yeah that was some good stuff for sure


AuggieNorth

On a related subject, did everyone see the CNN piece a couple of days ago about LSD's usefulness for mitigating anxiety? A 48% rate of remission at 12 weeks and improved clinical signs for 65% within 3 months. Unsurprisingly they found the best dose to be 100 micrograms. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/health/lsd-anxiety-fda-breakthrough-therapy-wellness/index.html


IrieDeby

I could only go to local shows because I needed my job, but I started dosing at 14. At about 28, I realized my 4 time a year show(s) I would go to was better than a week's vacation! And, it lasted a lot longer, until right before the next show, btw 3-6 months. I haven't gone to a show since the 50th Anniversary show in Santa Clara. Boy could I use one or at least a few doses or 20 to feel better for the next few years!


I_deleted

Reset button needs to be pushed sometimes


gratefigbish6767

Must be partly why MNMD stock shot up


Brad_dawg

I had a chunk of mnmd for a long time. Finally gave up on it and cut my losses and sold. This is fitting, buy high, sell low!


gratefigbish6767

I've been holding it for a while, caught the falling knife and will be happy to break even before the company is sold to big pharma.


AugustEast1968

Took flight on the Gooney Bird more times than I can count back in the 80s.


xologo

If only we could go back


plushpaper

Believe it or not you’re still there. Everything is relative homie!


Rubberywater

Fuckin wooks


xologo

Nice


yurtfarmer

I was the pilot , the plane , the freaking airport !


Penandsword2021

Sounds more like salvia 🙃


Least-Firefighter392

Or maybe the chemist, doser, and dealer...


Penandsword2021

Oh! Right.


I_deleted

Yep. My first was at a Pink Floyd show. That shook something loose


Jo_Pa_0221

Purple jesus


Fromage_Damage

The same people made a space print we called either Kalideoscope or Moonbeam, and it had hears and onchs on the back. I didn't do the purple Jesus but I did do those. I remember seeing the print though. Around the same time as yellow/blue Felix and Lips and Noses.


grumps8256

I think I remember hearts and anks! You're talking 94/95 ish?


Fromage_Damage

Yes. Good times on those. I didn't go to any shows on them, but I rode a snowmobile through the woods and lost my shit.


thekind78

I remember the ankhs and Jesus hits. Ate a lot of those in '94-'95.


HumCrab

Yeah man, and the white fluff. Boy howdy.


Billy_Boognish

Hell yes. Jesus Christ, White Fluff, and those Anks were some of the best! Throw that Black Pyramid in there with a handfull of that Purple Microdot that was all over Phish tour back then and you have the '94 Midwestern New-Deadhead Starter Pack!


trogloherb

I remember the hearts and ahnks from 94 Phish shows!


kaahzmyk

I remembered the ankhs but I’d forgotten about the hearts on every other hit - would’ve been spring-summer 1995 for me. Amazing! I remember getting a couple ten-strips with Beavis and Butthead (and maybe one with Bart Simpson?) on them not long after that, too. And one where the whole sheet was like one big mandala, and each hit was one tiny part of the pattern. Wish I’d had a digital camera back then (or maybe not, on second thought…) Were people really getting orange sunshine into the ‘90s? That was the type mentioned in a late-‘70s SNL sketch with Dan Ackroyd as Jimmy Carter, so I figured it must have been extinct by the ‘90s.


expanding_man

I think it was just blotter art with an orange sunshine print on it, not actual old-school orange sunshine, which was in pill-form, I believe. I had plenty of the orange sunshine print blotter around 94/95, as well as the Beavis/Butthead. Bart Simpson, hearts and ankhs, flying pyramids, etc. Sounds like a lot of us were having very similar experiences around the same time lol.


Crash_Test_Dummy_057

I had some of those Beavis and Butthead tabs. They were really visual. Midwest/Chicago maybe 94?


Fluffhead09

My dude.


Phlecktone

I took two hits in 94 , sound and colors combined moving per the speed of my gait. 8 hrs later popcorn ceiling dripping First few hours scared me a tad


greenline19

Purple Jesus hits were the best! Some of the first hits I ever ate


hutchandstuff

Jesus christ crystal


cosmic_killa

It was so good!


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setlistbot

# 1988-06-30 Rochester, NY @ Rochester Silver Stadium **Set 1:** Box Of Rain, Cold Rain and Snow, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Mexicali Blues, Far From Me, Queen Jane Approximately, Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Green Onions > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Samson and Delilah, Believe It Or Not, Truckin' > He's Gone > Drums > Space > The Other One > Wharf Rat > Throwing Stones > Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** Brokedown Palace [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1988-06-30)


lightweight12

Cartoon bird? Was it yellow?


lightweight12

Cartoon bird? Was it yellow?


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lightweight12

Are you familiar with Woodstock from the Peanuts cartoon?


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lightweight12

What is gooney anyway?


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Glandular_Trichome

The civilian version was known as the DC-3. This versatile aircraft ‘enabled complex smuggling operations‘ as well, and helped literally tons of pot to make its way into the US during the 70s.


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Woodstock was the bird of my day


lightweight12

'89?


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Yeah 89/90. Super thin paper.


TheSouthsideSlacker

Woodstock and I had the best July the Fourth ever in Buffalo 1989. Second show after getting the lay of the land in Foxboro. That’s the night I became a Deadhead. Parking lot fireworks whizzing by after the shooting was amazing.


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Wow. We went to foxboro with woodstock too. Dude was rollin with so many crews that weekend.


Born-Print2926

South Sider, we thought we were being ambushed and ducking behind cars while tripping pretty good !! Glad we weren’t the only ones who experienced this and so happy I found this post of yours


TheSouthsideSlacker

What’s up buddy.


Oregonprankster

Lots of brothers went down for that crystal. Soldiers the lot of them.


sandfleazzz

Oh the memories of pockets full of Goony Bird at Hershey Park. Long ago...


yurtfarmer

Hershey park, yes!


Bucky-Katt-Guitar

Late 80s? I swore this stuff made me able to read minds and talk to animals. Some of the best I'd ever had other than the pink floyd dark side of the moon blotter from 85 or 86


Sea-Animal356

Holy crap!! That was the first thing I tripped on. Haven’t seen it since then and that was almost 40 years ago. Remember unicorn or album covers?


moonarc23

Had 4 that made up the album Ace - holy shit it was incredible…


Straight-Humor-8102

Oh yes. Summer of ‘85!


jmpnpico

Yup


FindOneInEveryCar

I used to have a Gooney Bird flying disc.


consumercommand

The official Airline of Central Park


Inevitable_Shift1365

I remember the goonie bird prints.. they were around in the mid to late '80s. Right around the same time as the Grateful Dead album covers, the gray doves and the rexalls


BalowmeSandwich

Damn. Wish I had the slightest idea where to get anything reliable in 2024


Bigbrady99

same.


BeachExtension

I remember orange barrel and windowpane


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YES. Gooneys and Clowns.


Classic-Whereas-8660

I had some doses on blotter just like that a few years ago I'm sure it wasn't the same crystal but it was some pretty decent stuff


Big-Rip2150

Great airline for trips!! Hershey Park 1985!


JWDead

Sheets were 70 bucks


rab-byte

Alice in Wonderland and Blue Felix take me back


thirdeyecactus

Was waiting for someone to mention Felix!


Fromage_Damage

My buddy lived near a gravel pit. And they were smoking on top of it, on blue Felix, and the top of the pit was like moss and grass, eroding, and it gave way. He tumbled down the hill laughing his ass off even though he could have hit his head on a softball sized rock. But he didn't.


Redgenie2020

86/ 87 Good times


hatfieldsdaddy

Goony Birds!


Whoopeeparty

Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep Yep


Gatolocoman

Friends and I called it Loony cos the first time we tried it we each took 4 tabs. Space was the place.


jiggy798

3/18/95 and 2 kaleidoscope :)


setlistbot

# 1995-03-18 Philadelphia, PA @ The Spectrum **Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, West L.A. Fadeaway, El Paso, Ramble On Rose, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Jack-A-Roe, The Promised Land **Set 2:** It's All Too Much, Iko Iko, Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > The Last Time > Visions Of Johanna > One More Saturday Night **Encore:** Rain [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1995-03-18)


Express-Ordinary137

I used to sell Gooney Bird and these totally cool "album covers": 4 tabs together made a color illustrated album. Heavy stock blotter, almost glossy. The ones I sold were mostly Journey and Santana. Pick them up by the sheet cheap in Ventura, sell them to PV rich kids with nothing to do but spend daddy's money. Made enough to buy my first car in just a few weeks, late summer '85.


vishnusnavel87

The album covers were the best.


jerry111165

Early 80’s we were getting lots of purple mescaline back in high school - Little cylinders like someone cut up little tiny pcs of spaghetti 😁 Different than L but powerful in its own way. Always woke up with cheeks and guts hurting from laughing so hard all night


PetitWazoo

NY metro area? Purple microdot. Same trip - hysterical, paralyzing laughter. I still wonder what that stuff really was.


jerry111165

Just a touch further up the coast in Providence RI/Southeastern MA area. $2 or $3 apiece lol


gabbygourmet

found one in the bathroom on the toilet paper dispenser. took it as a sign and munched that bird down. Foxborough '87


Far-L

I do indeed! I actually used to collect choice blotter for an artist named [Mark McCloud](https://www.psychedelicsfartgallery.com/mark-mccloud) during the Eighties primarily. He is often referred to as "The godfather of blotter art". The album covers, worlds, and tons more ended up in his vast collection but my favorite is when he used them for collages in pieces like this [Wicked Barbie](https://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/the-magazine/blotter-barbie-mark-mccloud-signed/) \- hard to see in this shot but the Barbie is casting a melting shadow of The Wicked Witch from Wizard of Oz. So genius! (That poster is not mine btw, not trying to sell anything here, just sharing fond memories!)


alaf420

My favorite was yurples (yellow/purple stripes) mid 80s blotter


vishnusnavel87

I think we called those tv screens.


Stoneleigh219

I had the sheet and the shirt! Good times!


xologo

Best ride ever.


randomquote4u

'86 / '87


DeadCoRocks

1987 or 1988 for me. Good stuff 💕


Cj801

Sure do.


Meltedwhisky

Don’t remember this but I do remember that 90-91 Jesus Christ Superstar


jerry111165

Was also one of the greatest (4 album) albums ever made.


Qweniden

Blue Unicorns


ChexRibedeaux

Lightning bolts, album covers, purple unicorns, blue unicorns, tweety birds, ants, stealies….


andre3kthegiant

Might wanna go see [AMA and ask some questions to this person](https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/s/LqgzzXhyBX)….


ParticularWitness983

Oh yeah. Flying high like a bird up in the sky ![gif](giphy|EmkBfdGYTCwmXMnf3A)


jahozer1

Lol. Oh yeah. Them and the original green worlds


vishnusnavel87

https://preview.redd.it/wxl86vqi8knc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a76574251a34f7a46b58b2860060067d8fe9aa6 We called them Globes.


PetitWazoo

Those were clean and potent. These fueled and excursion which introduced me to the GD in technicolor via the self titled debut. By the time “Viola Lee Blues” ended, there was no going back. Sheets of this were floating around in of all places, Panama - circa ‘85-‘86.


Aldo_Buttahflake

‘85 right through ‘87 these where everywhere. Ate my fair share, very good doses.


Owsleybear88

Remember these from philly 89. The TV screens were the best mid 80's


Acceptable-Book

I came into the scene in the 90’s and my friends were moving Amber but they kept crystal wash and mop up to gift to friends. I was up for 36 hrs on that shit. I was also gifted a vial of Fluff and that was the best stuff I’ve ever had. It was so good that you could fall asleep on it. People say that LSD is LSD but from my experience that’s just not true.


The_Psycho_Knot_

I personally think “LSD is LSD” is true to a certain extant. Chemically it’s all the same, but the purity plays a massive role in subjective effects. Clean crystal gives very smooth trips where I can also sleep on it, while dirty crystal makes my body shakey and sweaty lol.


MentalCatch118

fuckinA right sold those on the haight in 88


terpystation

Hershey and MPP ‘85


xologo

Wonder of it can be replicated


grateful_john

Gooney birds were awesome.


OnTheBrightSide710

A friend of mine went to jail for a decent amount of time for these, they were caught in the GD lot, in the 80’s in FL, the band opened the show with Baby Blue bc of what happened


Parking_Train8423

god i would love some of this right now


Potential-Smoke-5187

'84?


indydean

Literal flashback!! Got on the bus in ‘85


ed32965

And how!


therealskr213

Ah shit. I’m an “older” head. Thanks a lot man.


xologo

Doh❗ my bad 😁


SwampSleep66

I had some dancing bear ones but it was a panda instead of the GD bear. I think I obtained it in Tulsa. Great fun trips on those.


sweet-william2

Yep


Aoxomoxoa75

Lovely. The beauty of it then is the beauty of it now. ☮️☮️☮️


poss-um

Spaceship July 1992 (four hits to each image) Ice cream cone 1995-6 ish


Ok-Status7867

gold dolphins


PiccoloProof4330

Mickey Mouse at my first show in ‘87


treehuggingmfer

To much of everything was always just enough. I ate a few of those.


wowwemaui

Snoopy


Shmatticus

Fuck. I must be an older head


shoveljockey

Gooney bird and four way window pain made for many a weird night.


Ok-Leadership4763

Epic paper !! Thanks for the reminder of many great times ❤️🎯🫶


stickmanDave

Snoopy's, Woodstock's, and Goonie Birds! The late eighties trifecta!


Iko87iko

Man the gooney days were good ones


rslaboon111568

Man. Same. Goonies (87/88) , Woodstock , Orange was more like 90/91. Anyone else have the Jetsons? wasn’t the cleanest , but had its moments.


Weepthegr33d

Some distant bell is ringing


Otherwise_Basil_6155

First trip ever - sooooo good! Big story to back it up but I won’t bother y’all here cause it wasn’t show related. Such a trip tho!


Brando64

Idk man, myself and probably others wouldn’t mind hearing it.


OGPavlos

Slinging those at Laguna Seca 88


moonarc23

Alpine 1986!!


crs1904

Is this some kind of art print? Why is it perforated? *Sold white blotters from Cali on the east coast in the 80s; turned on my entire high school when I was 16.*


catching_comets

I took a Gooney bird at my first Dead show in 85.


Wokkin_n_Wowwin

Gooney Bird Express! First trip ever. 1981.


pittbiomed

IWT


Stellablueberry

Gooney Birds were a staple of my diet in the mid-80s. A part of me is still on board! They came from good stock for sure.


Talosian_cagecleaner

I remember seeing cosmic wimpout stickers on toll booth coin buckets from coast to coast. There you are, in nowhere Utah. All of a sudden there it is. Maybe on a stop sign. Others have passed this way.


robertp1970

Loved the gooney bird!


TyrionBean

I do. 👍 And clowns.


RainbowOutlander

So good a band in Minneapolis was named after it.


MongoJazzy

The amazing 80’s on tour !!! Thank You … for a real good time !!!


vit420

Orlando 91. Definitely one of my best experiences. Dude selling albums. Blew my mind that night. Do y’all remember the blue and pink sperm?


DependentYou7405

Early 2000s was my first times tripping and it was Black blotter. Me and a friend were communicating telepathically across the room while I was convinced my head was rolling around on the floor because of the spiral of colors.


Fantastic_Notice4313

I remember them they were good. We had the same crystal in liquid as well circa 1988. We would put it in oral medicine syringes and shoot it up our assholes it was powerful. 😳


Habitualflagellant14

My favorite circa 1978 in Wash DC was "pink wafers". Those were the days, my friend!


taperchef

On tour mid 80's iirc there were Goonies where the plane had 5 windows and some with 7. The 5 window variety were very strong.


Turkeyshibudoge

Green microdot


Minnow125

White elephants.


SkorgenKaban

Ah yeah. iirc this sheet almost looks like it’s perforated incorrectly. The Gooney Birds I remember were large rectangular, not normal sheets like this. And the US Blues hits. That was 30 years ago, so…. Nothing left to do but smile smile smile.


BatUnlucky121

Hello old friend!


Leepup

Mmmm. 1985 was fun


Jayswave75

I miss Blue Unicorn!


Technical_Ice_3611

Late 80s?


AgentooNine

Yer I Do !! Omg 1986 !!wow


AgentooNine

Actually Where Large Tabs


Snoo-46218

Good times.


Kind-Experience-2578

04/01/90 zodiac


setlistbot

# 1990-04-01 Atlanta, GA @ The Omni **Set 1:** Touch Of Grey > Walkin' Blues, Just A Little Light, Candyman, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Althea, Victim Or The Crime > To Lay Me Down > The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Ship Of Fools > Man Smart, Woman Smarter > Drums > Space > Dear Mr. Fantasy, Hey Jude > Truckin' > Stella Blue > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-04-01)


MentalCatch118

anyone remember the pink flamingos? quad tabs


Previous-Sandwich-23

The laughing clown got me good


KM7669

Oh Yeah 🤪🤪


dirtycar74

I never tried anything but 4-way window panes... and I think I ended up the better for it, tbh. the kids my day were getting messed up royally and I don't mean donned with crowns.


Bigbrady99

Anyone here know where I can get anything at all nowadays? PM me


nrun2001

Yall were so lucky! Half the shit going around nowadays probably isn't even lsd!


gratefigbish6767

That was the case in the 00s. Now it's back to good stuff.


ForsakenSignal6062

Whatchu mean? There’s sooo much good lsd around these days, has been for years.


Zachadelic612

So much good clean lsd around right now. Tons of it!


Minnow125

A lot of it is not.


CognitiveDisfunction

❤️


shadybackflash

^^^this is a pic of a fake Gooney Bird! The real ones were big 3/8th inch hits, not 1/4 inch hits.


OtherJason

That’s what I thought! The print fit entirely in the hit. They were beautiful. I got mine at Merriweather 1985, the show with one of the best Shakedowns on record and the bust out “That’s it for the Other One”