Re: [microsound] O.T.: J.Cage in a quiz show

[pelagius pelagius <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

More half-remembered Cage trivia:

If I remember correctly, the money that Cage won from the Italian gameshow 
was the most money he ever made in his lifetime.  He spent all of the 
proceeds on a VW van and a grand piano (Steinway?).

He also organized a small business selling the exotic mushrooms he gathered 
to gourmet markets or restaurants (I don't remember exactly) in NY.  Though 
this business didn't last long I think he was one of the first to get the 
idea that there was a market for exotic mushrooms.  Of course today it's 
common to find all sorts of strange mushrooms in the supermarket.

> From: "scott allison" <lipistal3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cage
> apprently was the first western to go behind the iron curtain during the 
> cold war because the people of the soviet union really dig
> mushrooms and wanted him to basically keynote a major meeting on
> micology.

That's interesting because Gordon and Valentina Wasson also noted the 
Russian affinity toward mushrooms.  They were the first americans to search 
out and identify psychedelic mushrooms cultures in Mexico and they initially 
became interested in mycology after noticing different cultural attitudes to 
mushrooms.  Valentina (born in Russia) loved to pick wild mushrooms while 
Gordon feared them, considering them all to be dangerous and poisonous.

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