One wonders why acid didn't enable the likes of Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, or Graham Nash to create their own Piper.
Had Eric been an instrumentalist as well as a vocalist, I reckon he could have produced a classic psych album with the New Animals. As it is, 'The Twain Shall Meet' and 'Everyone of us' are pretty outstanding in their way, and you could compile a killer single LP from the best of the New Animals' four albums.
Also, the rest of the band were probably as scrambled as he was; not something you could say of the Floyd!