start with the funkadelic record "maggot brain"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81o_migAagY&feature=relatednext dig into the super session
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QzxtVvt9M0&feature=relatedand finally learn that space is the place with sun ra and his arkestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuirXgyT_-s&feature=relatedand climb the mountains of the moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OzC9UpSW_Apeople can knock on the Dead all day long, but read some early Robert Hunter lyrics and it's an acid test.
"the eleven"
No more time to tell how
This is the season of what
Now is the time of returning
With our thought jewels polished and gleaming
Now is the time past believing
The child has relinquished the reign
Now is the test of the boomerang
Tossed in the night of redeeming
Eight-sided whispering hallelujah hatrack
Seven-faced marble eye transitory dream doll
Six proud walkers on jingle-bell rainbow
Five men writing in fingers of gold
Four men tracking the great white sperm whale
Three girls wait in a foreign dominion
Ride in the whalebelly
Fade away in moonlight
Sink beneath the waters
To the coral sands below
Now is the time of returning