"The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice", also known as "STP with LSD",[2] is a song by rock band the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
[2] According to biographers Harry Shapiro and Ceasr Glebbeek, "...Laughing Sam's Dice" was "hardly commented upon at the time [of the release of "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp" single] – dismissed as a good-time joke with lots of guitar to fill up the B-side.
"[5] Due to its title, it has been suggested in later years that the song is a reference to (and possibly even influenced by) the hallucinogenics STP ("Stars That Play") and LSD ("Laughing Sam's Dice"), which were associated with psychedelic music.
The passenger on Jimi's joyride did not heed the warning about opening Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception without due regard to the dangers of sensory overload – and he certainly didn't have his parachute.
[8] The song was later included on the international (non-North America) edition of the Smash Hits compilation released in April 1968,[9] and posthumously on the 1974 Loose Ends and 1997 South Saturn Delta albums, and the 2000 The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set.