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“Nature alone is antique; and the oldest art, a mushroom”*…
Every August, Telluride hosts the Telluride Mushroom Festival—an event that brings fungal science, conservation, foraging, cultivation, psychedelic research, art, and community together in the Colorado mountains. Tamara MC reports…
… Nestled in the Colorado mountains, Telluride has long been a town of festivals: Bluegrass, Film, Mountainfilm, and Jazz. But for more than four decades, the Telluride Mushroom Festival has carved out its own niche as the largest gathering of its kind in North America.
The festival began as the Aspen Mushroom Conference before moving to Telluride in 1981. Its early circle included Dr. Emanuel “Manny” Salzman, a Denver radiologist and one of its founders, and his wife, Joanne Salzman, along with Gary Lincoff, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms; Dr. Andrew Weil, the integrative medicine pioneer; Paul Stamets, the mycologist and entrepreneur who founded Fungi Perfecti; and Goodtimes himself. Furci credits Goodtimes with helping bring the gathering from Aspen to Telluride. Today, the festival operates as a program of the Telluride Institute.
What began as a relatively intimate gathering focused on psychedelics and fungal science has grown considerably. More than 700 people attended in 2019; by 2025, [Guiliana] Furci [here] says, attendance had reached about 1,500. The growth accelerated in the pandemic years, when mushroom foraging and other outdoor pursuits drew new interest, part of what Furci calls “the mushroom hype.” Roughly 70 percent of recent attendees, she says, were experiencing the festival for the first time. Yet despite the influx of newcomers, the gathering retains what Furci describes as a “tribe or family feeling,” with regulars returning year after year and considering one another family…
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… Without fungi, everyday life would look radically different: no beer, wine, chocolate, coffee, or bread. No penicillin. Fungi decompose organic matter and return nutrients to ecosystems, while fungal partnerships with plants helped make life on land possible and remain essential to much of terrestrial plant life.
“They are a life form that is different than plants and animals,” Furci explains. “They are neither plant nor animal nor bacteria. They can live on land, in the air, in water, both oceans and fresh waters.”
The fungal kingdom is astonishingly diverse, encompassing yeasts, molds, and mushroom-forming fungi, including everything from morels and chanterelles to conks and puffballs. Fungi also form the structural basis of lichens. When Furci mentions that morels and chanterelles are both fungi, she quickly puts the distance between them in perspective: “They are as closely related as a whale and a flea.”
Both whales and fleas belong to the animal kingdom, she notes, yet occupy profoundly different branches of it. The same is true within the fungal kingdom. “There are more ways to be a fungus than there are ways to be an animal,” Furci says.
Some of those differences challenge familiar ideas about reproduction. Schizophyllum commune, a widespread wood-decaying fungus, has more than 23,000 mating types—a genetic system far removed from a simple male-female binary.
Are fungi gendered? “No,” Furci says flatly. But she cannot bring herself to call them “it,” either. “They’re definitely not things, so I can’t talk about them as things. And they definitely don’t have a he vibe.”
For Furci, the problem is partly one of language. Calling a living organism “it” can reduce it to an object, while “he” or “she” imposes a gender fungi do not have. That attention to words extends well beyond pronouns.
Furci is one of the driving forces behind the “3F proposal”: Fauna, Flora, and Funga. For generations, “flora and fauna” has served as shorthand for the living world while leaving fungi linguistically—and often institutionally—out of the picture. In 2018, Furci and mycologists Francisco Kuhar, Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, and Donald Pfister published a paper formally delimiting “funga” as the fungal equivalent of fauna and flora: the diversity of fungi within a particular place or region.
The idea has traveled far beyond the original paper. The Fauna Flora Funga Initiative now counts more than 2,500 signatories across 77 countries and documents adoption or use of mycologically inclusive language by conservation groups, universities, museums, and government agencies around the world. In 2021, the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Re:wild formally embraced the three-F framework, calling for fungi to be recognized alongside fauna and flora in conservation language…
Much more: “The Telluride Mushroom Festival: Where Fungal Love Runs Wild,” from @tamaramc.bsky.social
Still, we’d do well to remember (Sir) Terry Pratchett‘s wise reminder: “All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”
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As we celebrate shrooms, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965, on their second day off during their tour of North America, that The Beatles rented a house owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Beverly Hills. There, they were visited by Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds as well as English actress Eleanor Bron, who’d appeared in their film, Help. While young girls stood outside the gates, John Lennon and George Harrison had their second experience with LSD, and Ringo his first. (Paul did not partake.) It was here that McGuinn introduced Harrison to Indian music, particularly that of Ravi Shankar.
Actor Peter Fonda was also present, and helped comfort Harrison as he grew unsettled after taking LSD and thought he was dying. According to Fonda, Lennon overheard him saying to George, “I know what it’s like to be dead,” recalling a childhood incident in which his heart stopped beating several times due to blood loss after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach. Lennon then told Fonda “You’re making me feel like I’ve never been born,” words that were later included in the Revolver track “She Said She Said.”
The crowd at the gate (source) #Beatles #culture #fungi #fungus #GiulianaFurci #history #IndianMusic #LSD #mushrooms #PeterFonda #RaviShankar #revolver #RogerMcGuinn #SheSaidSheSaid #Telluride #TellurideMushroomFestival #TheByrds -
"I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" is a song by the Los Angeles #folkRock band #theByrds, first released in June 1965 on the #Bside of the band's second single, "All I Really Want to Do". Despite initially being released as a B-side, the song managed to chart in its own right in the U.S., just outside the Billboard Hot 100. It was also included on the Byrds' debut album, #MrTambourineMan and #TheByrdsGreatestHits. The song was written by band member #GeneClark.
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"Jesus Is Just Alright" is a #gospel song written by American singer Art Reynolds and first recorded by Reynolds' group, The Art Reynolds Singers, for their 1966 album, Tellin' It Like It Is. The song's title makes use of the American slang term "just alright", which during the 1960s was used to describe something that was considered #cool or hip. The song has been #covered by various bands and artists over the years, including #theByrds, #UndergroundSunshine.
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Mr. Tambourine Man 🇮🇲
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) 🏎
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This is a keeper! Too bad about the first track on both sides. Lots of good stuff on here.
"Deportee/Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) is the second to last track on the second side. (Woody Guthrie tune!).
Had no idea of their music, except know "Mr Tambourine Man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swqw5a8I4b4&list=RDSwqw5a8I4b4&start_radio=1
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Gram
#gramparsons #southafrica #thebyrds #60smusic #70smusic #music #musiciansky #musicsky #chrishillman #rogermcguinn #theflyingburritobrothers #keithrichards #mickjagger #theglimmertwins July 29, 1968 ~ On the eve of their South African tour, Gram Parsons leaves The Byrds, refusing to play in front of South Africa's segregated audiences. It's summer and The Byrds are out on tour promoting their Sweetheart Of The Rodeo album. They did London before departing for South…
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) 🔄
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Mr. Tambourine Man ✨
#TheByrds
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) 🈺
#TheByrds
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) 🈺
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Mr. Tambourine Man 👨🚀
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) 🈺
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"Eight Miles High" is a song by the American #rock band #theByrds, written by #GeneClark, #JimMcGuinn (later known as Roger McGuinn), and #DavidCrosby. It was first released as a #single on March 14, 1966. Musically influenced by #sitar player #RaviShankar and #jazz saxophonist #JohnColtrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of #psychedelia and #ragaRock. Accordingly.
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I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better 🈵
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"You Showed Me" is a song written by #GeneClark and #JimMcGuinn (later known as Roger) of #theByrds in 1964. It was recorded by #theTurtles and released as a #single at the end of 1968, becoming the group's last big #hit in the US. The song has also been #covered or partially incorporated into other songs by a number of other acts over the years, including #theLightningSeeds, #SaltNPepa, #LutriciaMcNeal and #MadisonBeer.
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) 🏎
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"You Showed Me" is a song written by #GeneClark and #JimMcGuinn (later known as Roger) of #theByrds in 1964. It was recorded by #theTurtles and released as a #single at the end of 1968, becoming the group's last big #hit in the US. The song has also been #covered or partially incorporated into other songs by a number of other acts over the years, including #theLightningSeeds, #SaltNPepa, #LutriciaMcNeal and #MadisonBeer.
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Mr. Tambourine Man 👴
#TheByrds
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) 🤪
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GENE CLARK
White Light
2023 Spain Ltd. Edition reissueA phenomenal note-perfect songwriting masterpiece for a fine Saturday afternoon.
It baffles my mind that this album was only a commercial success in the Netherlands when it came out in ‘71.
Sure.
NOW it’s recognized as the stroke of genius that it is, but how could have people missed it back then?More than anything else, White Light shows that Clark was the true heartbeat of The Byrds.
The lyrics are poetry, the music absolutely sublime. Incredible countrified melodies. Just amazing on all fronts.Listen to his take on “Tears Of Rage” and tell me his isn’t the best version.
I dare you.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #geneclark #thebyrds #country #countryrock #folk #1970s #70s #70smusic
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I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better 🤒
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I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better 💌
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THE BYRDS
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
1968 Canada pressingLast spin of the night.
Unequivocally one of my three all-time favorite #60s albums.
This was the very first Byrds album I heard start to finish. My uncles (all 9 of them) all listened to country and folk music, but a few branched out into the more #psychedelic areas of those genres.
That’s where I first heard The Notorious Byrd Brothers. From my Uncle Ed, who sadly, passed away last week.
I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to hear this album without thinking about him, and how he taught me that they were much more than those few hit songs I heard on oldies and classic rock radio as a kid.
This album features a lot of different studio effects for the time, & it’s one of the first LPs to ever feature a Moog synth.
Gene Clark actually came back for a few weeks, & may or may NOT be on some backing vocals on 2 songs.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #thebyrds #1960s #60smusic
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"Jesus Is Just Alright" is a #gospel song written by American singer Art Reynolds and first recorded by Reynolds' group, The Art Reynolds Singers, for their 1966 album, Tellin' It Like It Is. The song's title makes use of the American slang term "just alright", which during the 1960s was used to describe something that was considered #cool or hip. The song has been #covered by various bands and artists over the years, including #theByrds, #UndergroundSunshine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q539m05DK3s -
I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better 🈵
#TheByrds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeKGPhcSPHk -
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) 🤪
#TheByrds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKP4cfU28vM
