The 'entities' motif debuted in discourse of psychedelic subculture, as part of a picture painted of psychedelic phenomenology, what they do - by a particular figure, no need to name him. As reflects above, DMT became tagged It - or maybe a donkey on which the 'entity' (AKA 'elves') tale was pinned.tories of 'entities' enter the trip reportage discourse-only after the debut of Terence McKenna (mid-1970). The only prior report I know of, from any DMT studies, of anything 'entity'-like, is a 1950s study of DMT's effects. Not on normal reasonably well-adjusted subjects, but upon-schizophrenics.
11 Famous Bands Who Used to Have Very Different Names. During one of the Beastie Boys tributes after the death of MCA I heard a reporter mention that the group was originally named the Young Aborigines. I'd never heard that before.
Nine Inch Nails - The curse of band naming. The most likely explanation is the one given by Trent Reznor himself. In an interview in Axcess Magazine (1994) he said: 'I don't know if you've ever tried to think of band names, but usually you think you have a great one and you look at it the next day and it's stupid. I had about 200 of those. Nine Inch Nails lasted the two week test, looked great in print, and could be abbreviated easily.