ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to show the phenomenon of psychedelic rock as it developed marginally in a country in which access to psychoactive agents was limited. The socio-political and economic conditions were, moreover, unconducive to the hippie movement. Nevertheless, in Poland – despite being isolated from the West, and relying on random information concerning what took place there (transmitted by the contemporary press, foreign tourists or people traveling outside the socialist bloc) – a considerable number of youth were under the influence of the hippie counterculture. Profiles of artists and their most important achievements are presented in this chapter as well. This chapter also demonstrates (selectively at that) examples of the later creative output of Polish rock inspired more or less by Western psychedelic/acid-rock and experiences under the influence of psychedelic drugs.
