Patrick “the Lama” Lundborg died recently at age 47 of hitherto unknown causes. Patrick, or “Doz” as he was also known, was a dear friend since the mid 1980s, when we were both part of the same neo-garage scene in Stockholm. The years that followed were multicolored, bold and exploring, and became very formative for all of us active in what Patrick would later term “The Lumber Island Acid Crew.”
Life progressed and we all delved into family situations and attempts at professional outlooks. Many friends slowly drifted more or less apart. Some years ago though, an active friendship and collaboration between us began anew. I started publishing The Fenris Wolf again in 2011, and I immediately wanted Doz to be onboard. Not only because he was by this time an internationally established author(ity) and renowned expert on psych music and psychedelic culture and history in general. But also because he was simply such a great and innovative writer. He saw the big picture all the time, systematized, drew conclusions and left you with a feeling of having been hit with some seriously heavy and lucid intelligence.
His books The Acid Archives and Psychedelia – An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way Of Life became instant classics, and now, posthumously, the praise seems endless on Facebook and similar platforms. There is of course a reason why… They are really, really great books.
It’s Psychedelic, Baby will soon publish some interviews with Patrick, Stefan Kéry of Subliminal Sounds and myself about these early days in Stockholm. I would perhaps not go so far as to say we were some kind of Swedish version of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, but there was certainly something there that united us and a few other individuals. What was shared back then became the fundament of a whole lot of creativity in many different fields later on. And Patrick was always a big part of that, back then as well as in the 2010s.
He will be missed. Big, big, big time.
Patrick’s excellent website Lysergia can be found here!
The Fenris Wolf issues containing Patrick’s writings can be found here!
One of the best recent interviews with Patrick can be found here!
“For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy or there is none.
If there be one, try and find it;
If there be none, never mind it.”
(English Nursery Rhyme)
Photographs © Carl Abrahamsson
