Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if.....

If LSD ruined rock, then you're not a fan of The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Yes, Queen, etc.  I'd say you're missing out..  

@austinbob - thanks for mentioning Twelve Dreams. One of my favorites from the time of its release. I assume with your name, you are in Austin?
We just bought a period house here, and the chandelier in the entry way was a gift to the house  from Mark Andes when it was under restoration by the former owner, an ardent preservationist (who, I gather, knows him).
It’s just one of those little quirks of life that makes it pleasing to be here.

Within You and Without You of course was a George Harrison song, George was learning sitar from Rabi Shankar at the time. The sitar also popped up on Paint it Black (the sitar was played by Brian Jones (who one assumes was not adverse to ingesting acid or anything else within reach), a pop psychedelic song from the Stones. The India connection of WYAWY smacks of Timothy Leary’s Psychedelic Book of the Dead, the original Book of the Dead, a book that is psychedelic at its core.

Marijuana is in the halucinagin class of drugs. 

So, I guess, if merely taking a halucinagin while playing or listening to music makes it psychadelic music, then Reggae and Rap are types of psychedelic music. Well, probably not.

BTW, i think SP is great just the way it is and it sounds  as good  today as when I first experience it back in 1972. Yes, that was well after it came out.