After a year of unsavory street encounters, Bingham found himself lifting heavy things as the youngest strong man to ever throw an elephant in Calcutta Indiana's now defunct Cirque de Pyschedelique. He believes his precocious strength was the result of massive doses of LSD administered through the Nixon years of the President’s Physical Fitness Program which was run by the CIA. Kind of like a psychedelic Spiderman. You have to give the CIA credit – they had good acid. His worldview, was, um, altered.

Thrust into the limelight by a fortuitous circus orchestra conductor strike, Bingham quickly picked up the basics of songwriting and composing and found that he had a knack. He found the music business almost as fun as street prostitution, though the record company execs were a step below his old clients.

When the the Psychedelique went bankrupt, the band quickly found out the circus had failed to pay unemployment insurance, so when faced with a choice between starving and playing music in something like the old role, the band flipped a coin and Bone Poets Orchestra was born. Follow these madmen at your own risk, but whatever your poison, be prepared to experience.