Talk:The Trip (1967 film)

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I eliminated the following trivia as being only tangential to this film.

The house used as one of the primary shooting locations for The Trip was located on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, California. It was the home of Arthur Lee of Love where he was living while recording the Forever Changes LP sessions.

Lee stored 25-pound bags of Purina dog food for his dog "Self" in a closet in his house, which was rigged with lighting effects as seen in The Trip. According to the book by Love drummer Michael Stuart-Wise "Behind The Scenes of the Pegasus Carousel with the Legendary Rock Group LOVE," Lee was quoted as saying, "Yeah, I hide in that closet myself sometimes." Band member Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer also used the closet as a "freak out" setting.

Nicholson also appears with Susan Strasberg in the Dick Clark-produced Psych-Out (1968), set in San Francisco, California, sporting a prosthetic ponytail.

One of the movie's promo posters is featured on the back cover of the cult 1980s compilation LP of obscure 1960s garage rock 'Wavy Gravy', on Beware records (BEWARE 001). Swinterich 04:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

George Lucas listed The Trip among the films most influential to him as a young director. The film's dream sequences, where Paul finds and understands himself, were a base for the landscapes in the [Star Wars] films. Namely the progression from Nothingness (Sand -> Tatooine), Seclusion (Snow / Cold -> Hoth), Consciousness of Ignorance (Swamp / Jungle -> Dagobah), to Content (Forest -> Endor). The dress and persona of Paul Groves was a model for that of Luke Skywalker. Swinterich (talk) 04:48, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

An interesting note about the movie poster and logo, in the early 1980's and 90's a local Los Angeles cover band, The Trip-The Ultimate 60's Experience changed their existing block lettered drum logo to the exact same logo as the 1967 movie The Trip. A few months later their "then" manager received a call from someone associated with the old production company that released the movie, saying that the band either had to change their logo or pay royalties in order to continue using it or face copyright infringement. After a lengthly phone call, The Trip's manager via his lawyer, told the company that since it had been over 20 years since the movie's release that The Trip was perfectly in their rights to use the logo, which they did until they disbanded in the late 1990's.

Moved by Swinterich (talk) 14:20, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]