I met Ken Kesy up in Eugene Oregon. He drove me to his house and we went out in the field where the magic bus sat. Went inside the bus an we smoked a big fatty joint of weed I grew. He told me it was the strongest best tasting pot he ever smoked. Rest in Peace Ken. I use to live next store to Jone Karrowack. Jack's widow. May they both Rest in Peace. Hello David Karrowack if you see this comment.
Ken's description of the almost instantaneous changes that occurred immediately after the Kennedy assassination was one of the most astute observations that I've ever heard. Acid? I don't know, but the depth of perception among these cats was clearly deeper tham most, as well as their societal openness and intellectual curiosity. If LSD is capable of helping mankind to achieve these things, then we should all start tripping immediately! Safe travels! ✌☮
Nothing ended at Altamont. It fits a neat tidy time frame to wrap up an historical era to fit nicely on the pages of “Rolling Stone”. Everything cycles through time. The spirit of those times is alive and well and has been the main reason for any good left in this insane world.
Hippies noticeably died down after Altamont, and there weren't as many successful festivals, (see the Bull Island festival just a few years after). Altamont represented the end of hippie idealism and the psychedelic sixties, hard rock, metal and AOR flodded the airwaves in the early 70s, psych had become a passing fad, the late 70s punk came about and music and art became even more fractured and decentralized, it was clear things had changed drastically.
A lot of the "Hippy" stuff was manufactured from Laurel Canyon gov't operatives; LSD came out of CIA labs; A lot of the Hippy counter culture stuff came out of Frankfurt school post modernists along with Travestock Institute; Marilyn Manson was an MK Ultra brainwashing subject. Things were not exactly what they appeared back then.
22:04 - I took a LOT of acid in high school into (and after) college. From about 1980 until 1996, I tripped almost weekly - at a minimum monthly. I was in Michigan and one of my best friends had an older brother that went to U of M Ann Arbor and lived in Ypsilanti. We got really good acid all the time. What I noticed during those years was (1) You have to have a reasonably high intellect to enjoy the experience, and (2) After any of my friends had a "bummer", they never did it again. I never had a bad trip, but found myself alone at about 30 years old because I had no one left to trip WITH. I really miss the "brain enema" that follows a good trip, and now I'm in my 50s and would like to try again, but I have a family. I'm not going to be able to say to my son, "Hey, Man! Dad's gonna be pretty weird for the next 10 hours or so. So strap in!" Oh well, the memories are really good. I think everyone should be required to try LSD or mushrooms at least once, just as a learning experience.
I met Kesey , Babbs & Zonker at Naropa during the 1st Kerouac Festival . Most people are wrong , it's was not about LSD , not about Literature , not about ART or Music , it was and is , about FREEDOM . FundaMENTALLY , Kesey was a great guy . While all Last Beats ; Ginzy , Corso , McClure , Burroughs ( Sr. not Jr. ) were into hanging out with themselves , Kesey organized a poetry reading , a " Hoo-Ha " for the people and hung out with the students . He was an American in the true sense of the word . Miss him .
This is so true. I met him when he took the Further bus to the Phish show at Darien Lake summer 1997. He let any wandering kid onto the bus. He was willing to hang and talk with anyone.
@@mtg1470 Well , being YOU , an arrogant self righteous moralist , certainty has nothing to do with freedom . You seem to neglect Kesey was a serious , disciplined WRITER , and books like " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " , "Demon Box" , and " Sometimes a Great Notion " do not write themselves .
What Ken says about "make sure you're ready to meet God because, if you experience too much of God you will go crazy." So well said. Don't trip until It is ready for You.
I wish more people prior to considering dropping for the very first time - would be knowledgeable of KK --- and of his sage advice. But they mostly just jump into the 'deep end' without knowing exactly how deep it is.
@@noelsalisbury7448 The book called 'The Psychedelic Experience' written by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert is a good one to direct first-timers to or even seasoned people.
Vividly, I remember a school bus picking us up at Fort Hill elementary school on a Saturday,in 1964 to take us to a party so that we could boogie down to the British Invasion on vinyl and we danced our little butts off and life has never been the same since.Never a dull moment since the sex,drugs and rock and roll of the 1960s!God bless America and God bless LSD!
This film really shows how much freedom has been lost since Tom Wolfe's infamous book about the Pranksters. The world has become a very different place. And not for better.
I was in LA (Laurel Canyon area) 1966 before LSD was made illegal October. The going price for a tab of "White Lightening" which could be divided 4 ways was $5 and stayed at that price for a few years. There was alot of it about.
I was talking about the acid tests. I became aware of the tests towards the end in early '66. After that the tests morphed into "Love-Ins" where thousands showed up. Usually some bands. In San Francisco these took place in Golden Gate Park usually or at the local colleges. The Grateful Dead often played in these early events. These morphed into Woodstock and on the dark side Altamont.
@@clarkewi I'm sure the same stuff was loaded onto sheets for easier distribution later on. I believe this was circulating around 1980. www.etsy.com/listing/673752026/white-lightning-vintage-lsd-blotter-art
@@clarkewi When I was a kid I remember the free concerts in the Panhandle section of Golden Gate Park, which is on the north edge of the Haight-Ashbury. KSAN would announce them Saturday morning, an hour or two before they started. Me and a friend snuck into one in 1970. We were only 8 at the time, so we had to avoid the cops so they wouldn't make us leave. The band was Hot Tuna with Papa John Creach on the electric violin. Great show. P.S. The cops weren't there to harass the pot-smoking hippies. They were there to keep traffic moving on Oak and Fell. Times sure have changed...
Super fascinating Neal Cassidy footage and testimonials. I dont think the music in the doc fit in very well but the content was so good it was hardly missed.
I wrote about what you said a few days ago: "Our mission is to enjoy what I believe is an endless journey. *The journey itself is the destination* rooted in the ineffable wonder of now. "You were *never not* the actualization of the fulfilment you continuously fool yourself into believing you must somehow yet attain. Yeah, it's here right now, even as it inevitably comes with a price."
It was back then too, that is why rock and roll busted out, tue freedom music. Just like now, classic rock is busting out all over. The only difference is the clueless corporate media will not record or promote it. Rock and roll is still dangerous to the evil establishment. It is all about life, love ,fun. The garbage that is promoted now is all about violence, cruel weird sex, hatred, envy, greed, shootings, crime etc.. A lot of these media promoted "music" creeps even have devil statues and satan stuff onstage now. Yet the media used to say rock and roll is the "devils music." Not at all. The establishment just wanted their sheep clones to stay in line and not be free. The stuff they promote now is, because it glorifies all the truly evil stuff. Easy to see who is the truly evil ones.
@@michaelcraig9449 this is a horrible take. “They said our music was devil music but it wasn’t. Now that I’m their age the new stuff really is devil music!” 🤮
Apparently the major motivations for Ken Kesey's legendary bus trip and later acid tests were to spread joy and to teach us how to share joy with others. This sounds like a noble virtue to me.
I came by the Unitarian Church today where, in 1966, I was expressly forbidden to go because Ken Kesey was going to be there with the Merry Pranksters. I went anyway. I was 12 years old at the time.
It figures the Unitarians would support somebody like Kesey. His little Prankster cult was morally ambiguous at best, and criminally irresponsible at times.
David Wang i run an extraction lab 😂🤣. Yeah I’m just brain dead from a plant. You must be an idiot to think somehow cannabis makes you stupid... this is 2021 not 1969...
I'd say the Me Generation pretty resoundingly slammed the book on their youthful ideology in the 1980's and turned instead to cannibalizing their own culture for marketing profits, turning it into a gimmick. I did lots of acid in the 90's and still hadn't realized the Me Generation is the Generation of Broken Promise. I idealized the Beats and the Hippies. At least the Beats left good art and literature. The Me Generation, aka Generation of Broken Promises just left some great music and a ticker tape parade of self-adoration for the rest of us to clean up while abandoning every single ideal and empty words for convenience and wealth.
Now they've mostly turned into angry karens and we've all realized they're just mouthy brats full of hot air to be ignored. Just like they always were. Ooh, I did some acid and felt good about myself. Do you realize how low entry point that is? LSD can open the mind but it wears off. It's easy to break a promise and forget it all. That's what the hippies showed us.
@@MLATX512 I don't know who the ME generation is exactly, I'll look it up but what you're saying makes sense, market values took over our humanity, everything became a product and we all became consumers. Friendship, honesty, communication, love, telling the truth, compassion and the will to do and be good all became secondary to the mighty dollar... a sad affair indeed.
@@rosesprog1722 Sorry I unloaded on your comment. As you can tell, I've got some bitterness. The Me Generation is just another name for the Baby Boomers.
@@MLATX512 Oh, there is no need to apologize, I thought your words were respectful and interesting and now that I know you were talking about the boomers I agree with you even more. But thanks for looking up, I appreciate. Cheers.
That is one beautiful bus ,1939 International schoolbus . Painted by commity and dubbed Further cause that is where it was going . Cowboy Neal at the wheel and all the Merry Pranksteers along for the ride
I am surprised that it is not. I believe it is in Oregon on the farm. I also saw someplace that there was a 2nd one built later on. In Tom Wolfe's book the credo of art does not last seems the philosophy they took with the bus - for what it is worth.
I went there hoping to find free thinking people, 'on the bus', and was unfortunately sent home a little disappointed, regardless thought Oregon was incredible and beautiful though, much love
"The Hell's Angels are good guys!" - Keith Richards That is one of those hilariously ridiculous things you hear from rock n roll every now and then. Kinda like the story of Ozzy telling Slash he needed to go to rehab.
I’m not defending the Hells Angels here (they were violent and pretty messed up without a doubt), and I’m just hoping for reality, but has no one seen the video from altamont and heard the witnesses? The guy pulled out a gun. In addition to that the Hells Angels were dosed out of their minds. This is not just me, but book after book, person after person who validated this. Plenty of evidence contradicts this tale. Why not tell it like it is. Everyone was being irresponsible.
I think Keith had only came across the comparitively Jokey English Angels, who did the Security at their Hyde Park 1969 Gig. Keith was naïve, imo. There's a good video with Marianne Faithful who talks about this whole Altamont incident, and she pull no punches about what she thinks about Keith's thinking.
I never really knew the details about Kesey. I knew the name..but, damn! This has got to be one of the coolest videos I've seen in a long time! I was born in 67 so I grew up with acid during the 70s and 80s - when you didn't have to go to a Dead show to get it, although I've been to many of those too! We had 'Orange Sunshine' and '4 way Window Pane'! Kids today don't even know what those were..or 'barrels' either! Remember those? They looked like a little orange or purple can shaped tab. Whoa! You talkin' GONE for a good 12 hours! Nowadays, you're lucky to find decent blotter!
I happened to be at Leary's and Alpert's Millbrook mansion in '64 when the Pranksters arrived, receiving a cool reception from the two masters. Cassady was alone on the bus. I recognized him from his deformed finger, having read in some book about the deformity. Asking him why he came east on the bus he answered " Just to get a cup of coffee and tell the boys back in California that I made it to the east coast." Such memories will serve for some comfort on my death bed.
Masterbaters: Those 2 guys were goofs. The term hippie sounds so childish. Most "hip-pies" were lazy and dirty and I think we try to romanticize the past. To capture and relive the past is not hip at all.
The past, present, and furthur all rolled into one. Man, miss those days of yore. RIP Neil, Ken, and all the souls who enjoyed life and helped pave the way for the future generations of peace, love, and understanding.
"Little Hands" by Skip Spence, being covered by Robert Plant on the "More Oar" tribute C.D. which came out in 1999. "Oar" was Skip Spence's solo album which was originally released in 1969, but Bill Bentley of Birdman records put together this tribute album for Skip with a lot of well known artists.
We had that book in our conservative church library!! Of course I picked it up at 12 and read it cover to cover! I couldn't believe it was even IN there! Mom was the librarian. I never told her what it was. She apparently thought it was a kid's book HAHA!
@@kittenfuud was that the paperback with a Sugar Cube wrapped in Paisley wrapping paper ? ( That's the one I read, anyway! ) Another meaning for the 'head' librarian, I guess 😉?
I saw Kesey come out during space music in the Oakland coliseum after Poor Bill died. He red a poem by e.Cummings, all about wild Bill, with the dead in space mudic.I will never forget it!
The SONG used in the Yellow Flower Volkswagon commercial near the end is By The Orb with samples of an interview with The Kool & Great Rickie Lee Jones called " Little Fluffy Clouds".
I've lived in the South Bay Area since 1962, including San Jose when & where 'Further' made its first stop from La Honda. I was a hippie before the Summer of Love, and ended up living just 19 miles south of La Honda in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the early '70's (after an Army stint). Most of my life, I've lived in the same town that Neal Cassady was from back then. Although I've known about the Merry Pranksters since those times, and have been through La Honda by bicycle & car dozens of times, this documentary shows the first footage I've ever seen about their acid parties at La Honda! Jeremy Fluff, thanks a lot for this awesome blast from the past!
I was looking to buy a house in the boulder creek, la honda area and seeing this film now makes me wonder how it would feel to trip in the densely red wooded trees and the dark. Its dark, its full if wild life. Beautiful area- where neil youngs ranch is- la honda, (rather he and pegi lived while they were married)
Sammy Scotch I’ve tripped many times on the old growth Douglas fir in mt hood forest. I imagine redwoods would be even more cool. Tripping in the forest is always better than in the city.
Tripping in a big , 'reasonably' safe park with lots of beautiful quiet places with all that nature, with friends - for the First Time is a potentially very positive thing to do. Plus some drinking water, and don't get really, genuinely Lost. Stay safe. Love to all.
Reading Alan Watts', "This Is It" and a hit of acid in 1970 changed my world by letting me see exactly what was right in front of me, but from a 360º X 360º universal view.
That was the drug of my choice back in the day. Life seemed so much nicer. Things were easier. I never had a bad trip. I once wrote an entire rock opera on a acid trip weekend. My many talents seemed to be enhanced. There was also an increase in telepathy, or so it seemed. Being able to finish someone's thought, or sentence. And oh, the laughter!! Yep, that was my choice of drug.
I was one of those goobers that said “there’s no bad trips. Just learning experiences.” Pretty sure the mushroom gave me a healthy dose of psychosis one time. I had been traveling through many doorways and I think my brain wanted to crack under the weight of the expansiveness when I returned. And cid showed me eternity one time. Fuck that shit.
I went to a Quaker school with Carolyn Adams, known as Mountain Girl. She had a girl with Ken Kesey. Her name was "Sunshine". I never used psychedelics. I knew my ego was too frail.
I love Norman Cook and Jarvis Cocker in this doco because they represent me and people of my generation: people who were consumed with recreating the hippie ideals and aesthetic in the late 80s and early 90s. I would have loved to be able to chat with Ken Kesey and discuss the universe with him and show him that the spirit of the Merry Pranksters is sorely needed in the here and now
everything is still available, nothing has changed, be strong and you will find it if thats your choice. Plenty of good stuff on youtube to get you inspired
I was 16 in 1967 and had my license in Ohio. Me and my buddy drove a sports car out to SF and the "Summer of Love." What a trip, making love on LSD for the first time. Through it all, and I was at Kent State University when the National Guard shot and killed four and wounded nine, we were all seeking enlightenment. A lot of us found it and opened up a whole new reality of allowing free thinking into the mix of society's drab existence. A lot of us ended up with a deep belief in spiritualism and karma. We transferred that to the environment, realizing that the Earth must be respected and treated right. But it was all in an effort to reach a higher plane of living.
Ditto but without the car ( I always hated them !) and in UK a couple of years before you.Took Amanita Muscaria in '62. Did acid in '64 when it was still legal. The journey though was parallel to yours.
@@luckydave328 Do you remember a man named Owsley? He was always mysterious to me and I think Bob Dylan wrote a song called, "The Mighty Quinn," that I thought was about him. I was taking purple LSD that I was told was made by him. Our journeys take us to strange dimensions and you can see the change in America during the '60s. I think a lot of it had to do with LSD and marijuana and the things we took to expand our consciousness. Did we change the world? Well, I'll leave that for historians to argue about.
@@johnallen2771 Yes. I remember Owsley. He was supposed to have the best Acid. All my first trips were from Ronald Laing. He was getting it from Timothy Leary. I heard Leary got it from Owsley. Who knows though... and who cares really ? Right up until 67 it was always a clear liquid that we got. We used to do a few drops from a dropper bottle straight onto the tongue. Later there were blotters, sugar lumps and coloured pills Purple Haze, Orange Sunshine , Strawberry Fields and then it was Windows. One time just before it became illegal me and some friends did a very high dose. We did a 'bottle wash' of all this crystalised acid that was left in the chemists' (the cook I suppose they'd say now) bottle in a home factory. It was possibly hundreds of trips. I don't know. All I know is an express train made of light hit me full on and I disappeared ! I didn't do much acid after that. More of other psychedelics and psychotropics but several years later. It wasn't all good but it was an amazing time and amazing experiences. Yes of course we changed the world. I'd say mostly for the good but the dark forces were always trying to drag us off the path. I feel I am in a very good place now and those experiences led me here. I am very grateful for the times I have lived through...including now. 😁
@@luckydave328 Anybody who was alive from about '63, when Kennedy was shot, to about '70 with Kent State knew that something magical was happening in the world. Yes, we preached love and peace and I still do to this day. We were much more inquiring in those days, so much so that we didn't trust anyone, the government especially, to tell us the truth. We wanted to see what the real truth was. I also have "disappeared." It was on a peyote trip in the desert outside of Nogales, Mexico. I went to another dimension where I learned wonderful secrets I never knew existed. I am not espousing drug use, you can do the same thing with deep meditation. It's all in the mind. For about 7 or 8 short years we went through a learning process that took us from bobby sox to astral thoughts. Nothing really changes, I guess, there are probably similar periods in history where the same sort of thing happened. In many ways Trump and Pence remind me of Nixon and Agnew. I'm glad you're in a good place now, so am I. I often wonder if age does bring wisdom. I'm not sure yet.
It probably helped that it was ripped on the same VHS machine that it was recorded on. I'm sure I could get better quality video if I knew how to set it up properly. :)
best shit ever good stuff to whoever edits and puts together any psychedelic videos. you guys are really on the frontier planting seeds in the garden of the minds immortalizing what many may only look back on like experimenting with a dream that tried and failed. and helping the energy of something truly divine, survive kids need to know together we can change the world much love your way reader
The pranksters footage was finally edited into a movie in 2011, Magic Trip. They did a great job. Its a fun film and is like seeing The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test come to life.
I got physically ill when everything started changing and We ALL weren't at the SAME party anymore. My heart broke n I didn't understand why the people around me weren't heartbroken too. Disco, the political climate, the drugs sucked. Peo forgot the WE and it became all about the 'me'. I watch a vid like this n get a pit in my stomach. I so loved the feeling of 'COMMUNity'. We would never have let America become so brutally divided. Maybe its time for psychedelics to come back. ..
I was there (born 1948) and grew up in LA. my perception of that time is utterly opposite. It was the "love children" who hated everything that didn't fit into their very narrow narrative. All they really cared about was getting high, screwing anyone that was willing and wearing the uniform of the day. The kids of that era got VD, drug addled and thought church was bad but astrology was good. And, maybe most importantly, they turned into BMW-driving Yuppies. The whole "movement" was as deep as a dime.
I was a baby when that horrible Lyndon B. Johnson commercial with the nuke and the poor little girl being vaporized . It used to give me nightmares for many years.
That campaign commercial is why LBJ was elected instead of Goldwater. America would be a very different -- and much better -- place today if Goldwater had become President .. we had to wait for Reagan ... and then Trump
I never had a bad trip. As an artist, it was a self organized ART SHOW. The auras and vibrations Of solid atoms were surprisingly entertaining. LSD,, not what you see,BUT HOW YOU SEE IT.....ORANGE SUNSHINE, PURPLE HAZE. I personally had a Less colorful but much deeper experience with PEYOTE buttons. This was long ago.... Late 60s Early 70's.
I didn’t realize how beautiful Eugene, Oregon is. I lived there when I was a child and my mother and I left when I was 3 years old and moved to Silverton. I was born in 1963 and by 1970 I was kind f a flower child. My older brother told me when I was 15 or 16 years old what happened when he would drop acid when I was 7 and 8 years old. He said my face looked like it was melting, like a candle dripping. Interesting video.
looking for psychedelic books I found the kool-aid acid test and just loved! when you read the book and then see this doc, it`s a full experience, I highly recommend! In this order!!! Amazing
what a great documentary, i started taking lsd shortly before my 13th birthday, dont recommend starting that early, but what i will say, is that you are never the same after that first time.
"Neil gets things done." Read the part in Tom Wolfes' book where Neil is explaining to a cop about the quality of operation of the bus emergency brake which was, at the time, completely useless.
This documentary feels more like the 90s than the 60s. Jarvis Cocker, Fatboy Slim, music by Beck... Interesting, and shows how the 60s made a comeback in the 90s.
LSD over a thousand trips,met Ken in 1971,seemed like a good human then! We sold tie-dye cloth @ Oregon renaissance fair, he would come in to our booth buy some cloth we would smoke hash and talk. Little did I know he was Ken Kesey the writer ? He did not tell me until my third year there! He said “ you don’t know who I am do you “ I said “your Ken , he laughed and told me . I still respect him for that. We talked of great things.I am still alive on the Oregon coast @ 76 years,promoting the benefits of lsd,my old friend Eric Ghost made the best purist ever,just to expand the consciousness of the world. Keep the faith! We all need to further! Love Norm
@@JesusIsKingAndSavior By the late 60s, Kerouac was an alcoholic, living as a recluse with his mother and probably despondent that his books were no longer being read and that he was becoming forgotten about. And he was probably more decadent than the hippies were, the way he lived his life, although I am not judging anyone.
@@tetrahedron1000 On the road was not losing relevance in the 60s what, it retained more and more relevance as other countercultural movements sprung about throughout the late 20th century, you could say it only started to die down recently, most who grew up around that time had it as essential reading.
Apart from pretty obvious tips like drinking lots of water and being with people who know what and how much you've had, the one thing I'd say to anyone considering taking psychoactive, especially hallucinogenic substances like LSD or mushrooms is, "Go to nature".
@ i was about to dive under a wall that turned into a wave, there was a surfing poster on the wall, & the water just leaped out of it...someone said something from behind me, & i forgot about the giant wave & we went outside
I think it was Leary rather than KK who first said this one, ( and it doesn't Really matter either way!) but it encapsulates it for me the best :- ' Set , and Setting '
@David Wang Surely contributing to the good of society was also at the heart of Ken Kesey's mission, but yet at the time and even today he would still be classed as a criminal in the eye of the law.
The speech near the end of this reminds me of the one at the start of Lord of the Rings. "...and the bus passed into American folklore." Myth became legend.
@@cedarbay3994 Yes and probably a generation too young to fully appreciate the subject matter.It has become a standard procedure for British documentary makers to drag in 'contemporary' commentators to pontificate on subjects they have little or no knowledge of.
@@mikesaunders4775 I feel like it is relevant because it shows the reach of influence and how the pranksters were effecting the current period (the 90's) through such influenced people.
@@ginadevreaux1922 That is obviously the makers intention,but the lifestyles of these three people are nothing like those of the Pranksters. Malcolm Mcclaren was loudly vocal in his contempt for Hippies and the 60s counterculture in general.
Maybe because it was an English Channel Four made for TV production about some Prankster guys nostalgic trip to the UK in 1999. So the artists making the documentary used fellow artists of the time and of the arts as presenters. Notice how in the credits the camera woman is Joan Churchill. Likely a relative of Annabelle Churchill who from the late eighties was an associate worker on the Glastonbury Festival Organisers Group. So a very long association there exists with the Art or Preforming Arts. Art Festivals (Progressive Music Arts Festivals) which still continue till this day. So the point about the three: Slim, Cocker & McClaren is that they were them selves presenters working with in the Arts at the time. IE they have a view point about things with in the Arts and were out spoken on some aspects with in the Arts industry or Music events. So whilst some may easily ask the question what on earth are they doing talking on a Prankster, Ken Kesey video. It may be the other way around and the real question could be what on earth are the Prankster's doing visiting England? That is why commentators on the video happen to be English or of the UK. Because the visit was to the UK. Fatboy Slim or Jarvis Cocker & Malcolm McClaren back in the nineties happened to be on the Preforming Arts Guest List. They also happened to be at the locations in England where the Old Merry Pranksters were likely going to.
Amazing how little of all the actual footage shot at the time turned out to be useful in any way. I remember that big box of 16mm footatge left at the old Reno Hotel in SF while Kesey briefly did some time. Filmmakers looked through it and scratched their heads.........oops.....
We lived next to Ken Kesey's farm in the late 1960's who had two buses parked, Further and Farther. I played on them both at age 13 and wandered around his farm with Babbs son. The Ken and the Pranksters came to our house often and did lots of weird stuff. Soon we at our farm became a Jesus People commune in Pleasant Hill, Ore.
You know, I was born in '59, and was just a kid when all of this was going on. I member sneaking out of the bedroom window at 10 or 11 years old, and seeing the movie, Woodstock, in a local movie theater. Must've been 9 or 10 in the evening. Maybe Midnight, but I don't recall. Someone next to me passed me a joint. So I guess that was one of my defining moments in my life. It wouldn't be for another 4 years that I would experience my first dose of Lysergic Acid.
Trivia question, to which l don't know the answer. Owlsley was both a clean/potent LSD producer and an audiophile. Was he involved in setting up the original FURTHER sound system [mostly PA?]
Armies in battle have units called "squads." The main purpose of the squad in dangerous zones is to go into those zones. Go around the perimeters to see what's there and report back to the company so the company knows what to do and where to do it. In a squad one of the guys is the "point man." It's a rotated position, meaning one guy does it one time and the next time it's another's turn. He goes ahead of the squad. That job is almost a sacrificial one because if there are booby traps, or ambushes ahead, he's going to get it and the squad will know and either deal with that or retreat and report back to the company. People who go beyond the known or accepted in society, are like those squads. The company is like society governed by rules and regulations so that it runs smoothly and efficiently. But time changes all things but society becomes "addicted" to the rules and does not want to change what they have established even when change is necessary for continuation. The Pranksters were like that and Kesey was the "point man." He got busted "ambushed" and has passed on. The oldest "point man" I can think of is Socrates. The story of Jesus the Christ and his band of pranksters pointing the way to evolve is another one. In Socrates and Jesus time, they were considered dangerous to society because they saw what needed was too big a change for their societies. It can be hard for people meshed in their security and frustrations to know which point man and squad is the one to follow. Hitler certainly was a "point man" who got very good people to do very evil things. But the Pranksters showed us how to recognize and not be afraid of the squads that will lead us on the right paths. They create "love" "peace" "unity" "joy". They help you be your best you. The dark squads make demands. Work with negatives. Create fear and hate, anger, enemies. Divide us against each other. They appeal to the ego telling followers they are "super men". They appeal to greed. They mock compassion. The world is moving very fast and its population is growing faster. We need another point man and squads. We need to hear what they're trying to tell us which my be hard to understand because they may speak in ways that are not our society's norm. Add in the cacophony of voices coming from all media directions 24/7, and it becomes hard to know the wheat from the chaff. But that's our job. Harvest the wheat and compost the chaff. Peace please.
Bob Dylan said "Don't follow Leaders, watch your Parking Meters" - I've always bought into this (imo) healthy cynicism. Second thing is, glad you mentioned that "Fuehrer" who was certainly a 'point' man for the whole German Nation. An estimation of peak popularity,( when France was overrun ) in 1940 - would be upward of 90% ? Yet that 90% were wrong to hold that viewpoint, I hope you agree? So, how do we know Who or What to Trust with Government Power in 2023? I don't, personally.
An individual trip can be described, either as it happens or later if memory allows, but the listener or reader can only be expected to partially understand the head space being described to them. What we cannot describe is the experience anyone else might have.
Took it handful of times . would never take it now , but i got everything i could have from the time , it did open my mind saw things and thought things in very different perspective and was able to apply that when i was sober.
Things were buzzin' in the UK at the same time, with no Internet. The speed of social transmission was magical. 😎 It's still radical. No change, there . . .😎 😎 😎
Woah, Tom Waits covering Skip Spence! Wasn’t familiar w this, but it makes sense. Only thing odd is hearing it in a merry pranksters documentary, glad I did though!
I worry about breakdowns, fuel costs, and being stopped constantly. It is 2019 and we seem to be going backwards in today's society in many ways. I pictured a more caring America and changes world wide.
Today is hard for alot of us. I dont recognize our country anymore. Everyday is more chaos. Seems like all we fought for in 60s and 70s has been knocked down. Its not only sad but scary too
Losaiko Vote!!! Well, since November, 2016, our society has gone straight to hell. Give you three guesses why. Hint: it's orange and is a chronic, compulsive liar.
Yes it was a very fun and "lightening" time. I was there there for a good part of it. However, remember, "There is no time like the present." Part of the revolutionary aspect of those times was exploring and making a new point of view. That means working toward a way of living where everything is new and fresh. Those times are past. Too much nostalgia and you are just as stuck as we were before we got on the bus. I encourage the new "space cadets" to respect the past but keep exploring the present. The gems are always here and present but you have to look for them......Happy Trails 79tazman!
If I could time travel the first thing I'd do is join up with the Further expedition across the fresh green fields of America. No one had a clue who these people were rolling merrily through their towns singing dancing laughing and blasted out of their skulls on pure Owsley acid long before it became illegal. Hi ho!
I did owsleys blue barrel when I was 10 years old in the summer of love giving to me by a Hell's Angel I use to feed my lunch to every day at Golden Gate Park. I didn't want my lunch. I'd give it to this cool acting guy every morning before school. I would go and shoplift 10 candy bars before school everyday. Jimmie Hendrix played that night. I didn't know who he was and didn't pay any mind to him but saw him on stage and TV the next day. Somehow I made it home before 11:00 I believe.
Thanks...I saw Kesey and Ken Babbs talk in London back in the late 1990's. It was interesting for the home movie footage of the bus trip, but disappointingly, Kesey and Babbs had turned into two grumpy old men moaning about how kids today have no respect for property, or maybe they were always like that. I ended up walking out, bored and a bit jaded. I'm sure it was different back in the early sixties when it was all fresh. Nice that they used some of Skip Spence's brilliant music, including the rare track "Land of The Sun" pity the others weren't the original tracks from 'Oar'...now I sound like a grumpy old man. Maybe I am, maybe I always was?!
If that introduction had been written by a student in one of my classes, I'd have circled it and put a big frowny face beside it. In conference, we'd talk about how to open papers without making nutty claims. Thanks for posting.
At the timestamp 27 minutes why does the text say 1999 San Francisco I'm trying to fully pay attention, maybe I missed something, glitch in The matrix 😂
I took LSD one time with friends when I was in my twenties. We took the acid and then went to KMART to buy racketball rackets and balls. I started to trip at KMART, and was laughing loud because the other shoppers reminded me of ants. We got to the racket ball place and it was awesome. The balls were blue, and left trails everywhere they bounced. It was so much fun. I never did it again, I figgured once was enough.
I ate some peyote buttons and then went shopping at Safeway and the trip hit me when I was checking out my groceries. I had to have the check out lady count out the money because I didn't know what it was. I was laughing my ass off - everything was like a cartoon in the store. When finally got back up into the hills then it all made sense -- up there in Nature.
@@codeblue2532 Mescaline was like Mexican blankets and Hopi Kachina deities, Dancing Saguaro cactii and mult-colored lizards. Peyote button flying saucers. There was so much fake mescaline around that when you got the real stuff by making it yourself -- you really knew you were there. One time I was tripping on it and I looked up in the sky and burning words started forming. The words became like a burning Lord's Prayer in the sky. Then it read "On Earth as it is in Heaven" and I started laughing because I realized that it's all One -- Heaven and Earth are One.
“Free Love” Everyone wanted it at the time but as everyone should know it’s nothing more than an oxymoronic term. You’re only free when your ashes are scattered to the wind and as Dylan sang “the answer of when that will happen is blowing in the wind”. God bless you Ken Kesey and Hunter S.
Some original member of a commune in Taos NM claims the Magic bus is there.. I saw the bus, in a barn. It looked the same except I don't remember the plastic bubble on top. She said Ken drove it there and left it. I thought she was lying even to this day. That was in 1974
I met Ken Kesy up in Eugene Oregon. He drove me to his house and we went out in the field where the magic bus sat. Went inside the bus an we smoked a big fatty joint of weed I grew. He told me it was the strongest best tasting pot he ever smoked. Rest in Peace Ken. I use to live next store to Jone Karrowack. Jack's widow. May they both Rest in Peace. Hello David Karrowack if you see this comment.
That’s a hell of a story man, how’d you meet him?
He didn't
Kerouac is how it's spelled .
@@gardensofthegods a little too much of the good stuff😇
@@joseflemire4284yeah , i know what you mean , my friend , i know what you mean
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Ken's description of the almost instantaneous changes that occurred immediately after the Kennedy assassination was one of the most astute observations that I've ever heard. Acid? I don't know, but the depth of perception among these cats was clearly deeper tham most, as well as their societal openness and intellectual curiosity. If LSD is capable of helping mankind to achieve these things, then we should all start tripping immediately! Safe travels! ✌☮
True man
There was a thing, whatever IT is. The light, the flame, the idea. It was there. But its gone man. In the wind
Nothing ended at Altamont. It fits a neat tidy time frame to wrap up an historical era to fit nicely on the pages of “Rolling Stone”. Everything cycles through time. The spirit of those times is alive and well and has been the main reason for any good left in this insane world.
Well put
Hippies noticeably died down after Altamont, and there weren't as many successful festivals, (see the Bull Island festival just a few years after). Altamont represented the end of hippie idealism and the psychedelic sixties, hard rock, metal and AOR flodded the airwaves in the early 70s, psych had become a passing fad, the late 70s punk came about and music and art became even more fractured and decentralized, it was clear things had changed drastically.
A lot of the "Hippy" stuff was manufactured from Laurel Canyon gov't operatives; LSD came out of CIA labs; A lot of the Hippy counter culture stuff came out of Frankfurt school post modernists along with Travestock Institute; Marilyn Manson was an MK Ultra brainwashing subject. Things were not exactly what they appeared back then.
More controlled by corporations than ever, where are the hippies now? Oh that's right, they're invested in said corporations
22:04 - I took a LOT of acid in high school into (and after) college. From about 1980 until 1996, I tripped almost weekly - at a minimum monthly. I was in Michigan and one of my best friends had an older brother that went to U of M Ann Arbor and lived in Ypsilanti. We got really good acid all the time. What I noticed during those years was (1) You have to have a reasonably high intellect to enjoy the experience, and (2) After any of my friends had a "bummer", they never did it again. I never had a bad trip, but found myself alone at about 30 years old because I had no one left to trip WITH. I really miss the "brain enema" that follows a good trip, and now I'm in my 50s and would like to try again, but I have a family. I'm not going to be able to say to my son, "Hey, Man! Dad's gonna be pretty weird for the next 10 hours or so. So strap in!" Oh well, the memories are really good. I think everyone should be required to try LSD or mushrooms at least once, just as a learning experience.
required huh?
@@donnavaughn9409yup, trying something different, something new to you is part of experiencing what it is to be a human.
@user-cx7kg6ok9b People like you, obviously.
@@donnavaughn9409 OK, trigger girl. how about - SUGGESTED?
@@mad_cat_1st you're in michigan still?
I met Kesey , Babbs & Zonker at Naropa during the 1st Kerouac Festival . Most people are wrong , it's was not about LSD , not about Literature , not about ART or Music , it was and is , about FREEDOM . FundaMENTALLY , Kesey was a great guy . While all Last Beats ; Ginzy , Corso , McClure , Burroughs ( Sr. not Jr. ) were into hanging out with themselves , Kesey organized a poetry reading , a " Hoo-Ha " for the people and hung out with the students . He was an American in the true sense of the word . Miss him .
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This is so true. I met him when he took the Further bus to the Phish show at Darien Lake summer 1997. He let any wandering kid onto the bus. He was willing to hang and talk with anyone.
What a long strange trip it’s been
sexual liberation, pot smoking and acid trips are not freedom. maybe one day you'll figure that out
@@mtg1470 Well , being YOU , an arrogant self righteous moralist , certainty has nothing to do with freedom . You seem to neglect Kesey was a serious , disciplined WRITER , and books like " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " , "Demon Box" , and " Sometimes a Great Notion " do not write themselves .
Legend.
Thx to Kesey and his merry pranksters.
The world would be a poorer place without his input.
Acid for the masses.
Luv and Peace.
The most incredible experience in my life. No doubt. Thankyou acid.
I love how Hunter Thompson needs subtitles.
~mumble mumble~ ~GODdamned swine! Dumbo! Sessions!~ ~mumble mumble~
When he gave a "lecture" here in Austin, his bud Jerry Jeff Walker had to "translate" for him the whole time!!!
Yeah and the subtitles become more useful as the film progresses and as I assume Hunter progresses with his chemicals lol
YES!!
Hunter Thompson, snuff film maker and pervert.
What Ken says about "make sure you're ready to meet God because, if you experience too much of God you will go crazy." So well said. Don't trip until It is ready for You.
Amen sister :)
You don't meet God on LSD, it's just a mind fuck that deceives you..CIA pushed LSD hard back in the 60s
It’s nothing to take lightly.
I wish more people prior to considering dropping for the very first time - would be knowledgeable of KK --- and of his sage advice. But they mostly just jump into the 'deep end' without knowing exactly how deep it is.
@@noelsalisbury7448 The book called 'The Psychedelic Experience' written by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert is a good one to direct first-timers to or even seasoned people.
Vividly, I remember a school bus picking us up at Fort Hill elementary school on a Saturday,in 1964 to take us to a party so that we could boogie down to the British Invasion on vinyl and we danced our little butts off and life has never been the same since.Never a dull moment since the sex,drugs and rock and roll of the 1960s!God bless America and God bless LSD!
This film really shows how much freedom has been lost since Tom Wolfe's infamous book about the Pranksters. The world has become a very different place. And not for better.
I was in LA (Laurel Canyon area) 1966 before LSD was made illegal October. The going price for a tab of "White Lightening" which could be divided 4 ways was $5 and stayed at that price for a few years. There was alot of it about.
I was talking about the acid tests. I became aware of the tests towards the end in early '66. After that the tests morphed into "Love-Ins" where thousands showed up. Usually some bands. In San Francisco these took place in Golden Gate Park usually or at the local colleges. The Grateful Dead often played in these early events. These morphed into Woodstock and on the dark side Altamont.
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@@clarkewi I'm sure the same stuff was loaded onto sheets for easier distribution later on. I believe this was circulating around 1980. www.etsy.com/listing/673752026/white-lightning-vintage-lsd-blotter-art
@@clarkewi When I was a kid I remember the free concerts in the Panhandle section of Golden Gate Park, which is on the north edge of the Haight-Ashbury. KSAN would announce them Saturday morning, an hour or two before they started. Me and a friend snuck into one in 1970. We were only 8 at the time, so we had to avoid the cops so they wouldn't make us leave. The band was Hot Tuna with Papa John Creach on the electric violin. Great show.
P.S. The cops weren't there to harass the pot-smoking hippies. They were there to keep traffic moving on Oak and Fell. Times sure have changed...
Played a concert on top of that bus. Wonderful memories.. :)
Super fascinating Neal Cassidy footage and testimonials. I dont think the music in the doc fit in very well but the content was so good it was hardly missed.
Life isn't a destination. It's a journey. We all arrive at the same place, but it's how we get there that makes all the difference in the world.
I wrote about what you said a few days ago:
"Our mission is to enjoy what I believe is an endless journey. *The journey itself is the destination* rooted in the ineffable wonder of now.
"You were *never not* the actualization of the fulfilment you continuously fool yourself into believing you must somehow yet attain. Yeah, it's here right now, even as it inevitably comes with a price."
@David Wang
I resemble that remark! 😵
The world is going through a dark time. This made me smile.
Maybe a good Time for an Acid Test to see the World different?
@@Frag-Drache-Offiziel yeah I could see that.
darkness is always present, creating light in darkness is up to us
It was back then too, that is why rock and roll busted out, tue freedom music. Just like now, classic rock is busting out all over. The only difference is the clueless corporate media will not record or promote it. Rock and roll is still dangerous to the evil establishment. It is all about life, love ,fun. The garbage that is promoted now is all about violence, cruel weird sex, hatred, envy, greed, shootings, crime etc.. A lot of these media promoted "music" creeps even have devil statues and satan stuff onstage now. Yet the media used to say rock and roll is the "devils music." Not at all. The establishment just wanted their sheep clones to stay in line and not be free. The stuff they promote now is, because it glorifies all the truly evil stuff. Easy to see who is the truly evil ones.
@@michaelcraig9449 this is a horrible take. “They said our music was devil music but it wasn’t. Now that I’m their age the new stuff really is devil music!” 🤮
Apparently the major motivations for Ken Kesey's legendary bus trip and later acid tests were to spread joy and to teach us how to share joy with others. This sounds like a noble virtue to me.
@Cj He did it for both, and what a win-win that was lol
Cointel pro
Integral Stanley or to distribute LSD for the government...
Buddha Stalin 😂. It’s possible. Even if he didn’t realize it and Did it inadvertently
Sounds like ridiculous decadent hippie bullshit borne our of too much free time and money
I came by the Unitarian Church today where, in 1966, I was expressly forbidden to go because Ken Kesey was going to be there with the Merry Pranksters. I went anyway. I was 12 years old at the time.
It figures the Unitarians would support somebody like Kesey. His little Prankster cult was morally ambiguous at best, and criminally irresponsible at times.
David Carpenter lame fuck. I bet you’re a real joy to be around.
So what happened
David Wang i run an extraction lab 😂🤣. Yeah I’m just brain dead from a plant. You must be an idiot to think somehow cannabis makes you stupid... this is 2021 not 1969...
@@MatanuskaHIGH some people will never get it , for they do not have the capacity of thought outside their own bubble.
What a fascinating program! Much gratitude to the generous uploader!
I don't know what the 90s did to us but I miss so much doing crazy things with a bunch of happy people, oh boy do I miss that.
I'd say the Me Generation pretty resoundingly slammed the book on their youthful ideology in the 1980's and turned instead to cannibalizing their own culture for marketing profits, turning it into a gimmick. I did lots of acid in the 90's and still hadn't realized the Me Generation is the Generation of Broken Promise. I idealized the Beats and the Hippies. At least the Beats left good art and literature.
The Me Generation, aka Generation of Broken Promises just left some great music and a ticker tape parade of self-adoration for the rest of us to clean up while abandoning every single ideal and empty words for convenience and wealth.
Now they've mostly turned into angry karens and we've all realized they're just mouthy brats full of hot air to be ignored. Just like they always were.
Ooh, I did some acid and felt good about myself. Do you realize how low entry point that is? LSD can open the mind but it wears off. It's easy to break a promise and forget it all. That's what the hippies showed us.
@@MLATX512 I don't know who the ME generation is exactly, I'll look it up but what you're saying makes sense, market values took over our humanity, everything became a product and we all became consumers. Friendship, honesty, communication, love, telling the truth, compassion and the will to do and be good all became secondary to the mighty dollar... a sad affair indeed.
@@rosesprog1722 Sorry I unloaded on your comment. As you can tell, I've got some bitterness. The Me Generation is just another name for the Baby Boomers.
@@MLATX512 Oh, there is no need to apologize, I thought your words were respectful and interesting and now that I know you were talking about the boomers I agree with you even more. But thanks for looking up, I appreciate. Cheers.
Ken Kesey's "Sometimes a great notion" is awesomely brilliant.
Yes, it’s a brilliant and underrated novel 😊
One if my favorites…and I think some of Kesey’s “acid fans” would be surprised at the relative “everyday mundanity” of the subject matter.
That is one beautiful bus ,1939 International schoolbus . Painted by commity and dubbed Further cause that is where it was going . Cowboy Neal at the wheel and all the Merry Pranksteers along for the ride
The original bus should be in a cultural museum!! One love to all viewers here!! ❤
Great idea...wonder where it is ...?
I am surprised that it is not. I believe it is in Oregon on the farm. I also saw someplace that there was a 2nd one built later on. In Tom Wolfe's book the credo of art does not last seems the philosophy they took with the bus - for what it is worth.
The Smithsonian tried to acquire it. Kesey refused and tried to prank them with a fake bus. It is in Oregon on his ranch.
Eugene still vibrates with the energy and love of the original bus days. Makes it a very special place to live for the right person.
I went there hoping to find free thinking people, 'on the bus', and was unfortunately sent home a little disappointed,
regardless thought Oregon was incredible and beautiful though, much love
I would like to go to Eugene,Oregon 😊 I would have liked to ride the magic bus 😊
Especially with the Country Fair!!
Agreed. I lived in Eugene for 20 years. Worked in media. Met Kesey twice. Echos of Kesey still reverberate.
I live in Eugene and as much as it's the same, I ts different now. Meth has totally changed the vibe
"The Hell's Angels are good guys!" - Keith Richards
That is one of those hilariously ridiculous things you hear from rock n roll every now and then. Kinda like the story of Ozzy telling Slash he needed to go to rehab.
He changed his opinion after Altamonte.
Imagine ozzy saying, you need to go to rehab man!
I’m not defending the Hells Angels here (they were violent and pretty messed up without a doubt), and I’m just hoping for reality, but has no one seen the video from altamont and heard the witnesses? The guy pulled out a gun. In addition to that the Hells Angels were dosed out of their minds. This is not just me, but book after book, person after person who validated this. Plenty of evidence contradicts this tale. Why not tell it like it is. Everyone was being irresponsible.
I think Keith had only came across the comparitively Jokey English Angels, who did the Security at their Hyde Park 1969 Gig. Keith was naïve, imo. There's a good video with Marianne Faithful who talks about this whole Altamont incident, and she pull no punches about what she thinks about Keith's thinking.
I never really knew the details about Kesey. I knew the name..but, damn! This has got to be one of the coolest videos I've seen in a long time! I was born in 67 so I grew up with acid during the 70s and 80s - when you didn't have to go to a Dead show to get it, although I've been to many of those too! We had 'Orange Sunshine' and '4 way Window Pane'! Kids today don't even know what those were..or 'barrels' either! Remember those? They looked like a little orange or purple can shaped tab. Whoa! You talkin' GONE for a good 12 hours! Nowadays, you're lucky to find decent blotter!
I used to sell orange barrels and purple microdots from the same bag
Thanks a lot for putting this up! I've been looking for it for a long long time.
I happened to be at Leary's and Alpert's Millbrook mansion in '64 when the Pranksters
arrived, receiving a cool reception from the two masters. Cassady was alone on the bus. I recognized him from his deformed finger, having read in some book about the deformity.
Asking him why he came east on the bus he answered " Just to get a cup of coffee and tell the boys back in California that I made it to the east coast."
Such memories will serve for some comfort on my death bed.
Right on.
I wish there was a "Wow!" button here.
Bulshit
Masterbaters: Those 2 guys were goofs. The term hippie sounds so childish. Most "hip-pies" were lazy and dirty and I think we try to romanticize the past. To capture and relive the past is not hip at all.
@@jamesbrooks9567 You are misguided. Seems to be increasingly common these days.
The past, present, and furthur all rolled into one. Man, miss those days of yore. RIP Neil, Ken, and all the souls who enjoyed life and helped pave the way for the future generations of peace, love, and understanding.
I'm betting Kesey came closer to wisdom than you're capable of.
ha ha haaa~!
#Troll, much?
whats the song at 28 mins 15 seconds
PLEASE
"Little Hands" by Skip Spence, being covered by Robert Plant on the "More Oar" tribute C.D. which came out in 1999. "Oar" was Skip Spence's solo album which was originally released in 1969, but Bill Bentley of Birdman records put together this tribute album for Skip with a lot of well known artists.
Bill's a good guy. His Roky Erickson trib just got a reissue a week or two back. I'll tell him hi for ya!
I read my dad's copy of The Electric Koolaid Acid Test when I was 14. I had some good influences. Lol
We had that book in our conservative church library!! Of course I picked it up at 12 and read it cover to cover! I couldn't believe it was even IN there! Mom was the librarian. I never told her what it was. She apparently thought it was a kid's book HAHA!
@@kittenfuud lol
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@@kittenfuud was that the paperback with a Sugar Cube wrapped in Paisley wrapping paper ? ( That's the one I read, anyway! )
Another meaning for the 'head' librarian, I guess 😉?
i love how the bus is like a work in progress, continually being transformed
Thank you so much for the upload! This is absolutely fantastic!
I saw Kesey come out during space music in the Oakland coliseum after Poor Bill died. He red a poem by e.Cummings, all about wild Bill, with the dead in space mudic.I will never forget it!
Props to whomever for using "More Oar" tracks in the doc. Skip Spence made exemplary psych masterworks with and without Moby Grape.
Ah Moby Grape. “She”
I wouldn't be who I am today if it weren't for the Pranksters. Blazing a trail like nothing before. The bus went beyond further!
further goes beyond further! And furthger than even that!
The bus came by, and I got on...thats when it all began
The key was knowing when to get off the bus
"Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope" - Tuli Kupferberg
Should be show in schools. A true documentary of the 60s
The SONG used in the Yellow Flower Volkswagon commercial near the end is By The Orb with samples of an interview with The Kool & Great Rickie Lee Jones called " Little Fluffy Clouds".
I've lived in the South Bay Area since 1962, including San Jose when & where 'Further' made its first stop from La Honda. I was a hippie before the Summer of Love, and ended up living just 19 miles south of La Honda in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the early '70's (after an Army stint). Most of my life, I've lived in the same town that Neal Cassady was from back then. Although I've known about the Merry Pranksters since those times, and have been through La Honda by bicycle & car dozens of times, this documentary shows the first footage I've ever seen about their acid parties at La Honda!
Jeremy Fluff, thanks a lot for this awesome blast from the past!
I was looking to buy a house in the boulder creek, la honda area and seeing this film now makes me wonder how it would feel to trip in the densely red wooded trees and the dark. Its dark, its full if wild life. Beautiful area- where neil youngs ranch is- la honda, (rather he and pegi lived while they were married)
The original hazes and skunks came from that area. Haze bros and BOEL
Sammy Scotch I’ve tripped many times on the old growth Douglas fir in mt hood forest. I imagine redwoods would be even more cool. Tripping in the forest is always better than in the city.
Tripping in a big , 'reasonably' safe park with lots of beautiful quiet places with all that nature, with friends - for the First Time is a potentially very positive thing to do. Plus some drinking water, and don't get really, genuinely Lost. Stay safe. Love to all.
@@MatanuskaHIGHsuper silver haze is incredible. Can't find skunk anymore. Don't know
Reading Alan Watts', "This Is It" and a hit of acid in 1970 changed my world by letting me see exactly what was right in front of me, but from a 360º X 360º universal view.
That was the drug of my choice back in the day. Life seemed so much nicer. Things were easier. I never had a bad trip. I once wrote an entire rock opera on a acid trip weekend. My many talents seemed to be enhanced. There was also an increase in telepathy, or so it seemed. Being able to finish someone's thought, or sentence. And oh, the laughter!! Yep, that was my choice of drug.
same here , i loved the stuff , couldnt get enough of it
I was one of those goobers that said “there’s no bad trips. Just learning experiences.” Pretty sure the mushroom gave me a healthy dose of psychosis one time. I had been traveling through many doorways and I think my brain wanted to crack under the weight of the expansiveness when I returned. And cid showed me eternity one time. Fuck that shit.
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I went to a Quaker school with Carolyn Adams, known as Mountain Girl. She had a girl with Ken Kesey. Her name was "Sunshine". I never used psychedelics. I knew my ego was too frail.
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Glad the bus is still running.the hippie dream continues. Rog brown. Pacific sunset records.
@@rogbrown1965 Well, it's not "THE" bus; Kesey & friends recreated it. The original pretty much disintegrated over the years in a barn on the farm.
@@jazzmanchgo ok then but the dream lives on with a newer bus. Now where did I leave my smokes. Rog. Pacific sunset records.
I love Norman Cook and Jarvis Cocker in this doco because they represent me and people of my generation: people who were consumed with recreating the hippie ideals and aesthetic in the late 80s and early 90s. I would have loved to be able to chat with Ken Kesey and discuss the universe with him and show him that the spirit of the Merry Pranksters is sorely needed in the here and now
everything is still available, nothing has changed, be strong and you will find it if thats your choice. Plenty of good stuff on youtube to get you inspired
@@martina4226 Thank You🤗
I was 16 in 1967 and had my license in Ohio. Me and my buddy drove a sports car out to SF and the "Summer of Love." What a trip, making love on LSD for the first time. Through it all, and I was at Kent State University when the National Guard shot and killed four and wounded nine, we were all seeking enlightenment. A lot of us found it and opened up a whole new reality of allowing free thinking into the mix of society's drab existence. A lot of us ended up with a deep belief in spiritualism and karma. We transferred that to the environment, realizing that the Earth must be respected and treated right. But it was all in an effort to reach a higher plane of living.
Ditto but without the car ( I always hated them !) and in UK a couple of years before you.Took Amanita Muscaria in '62. Did acid in '64 when it was still legal. The journey though was parallel to yours.
@@luckydave328 Do you remember a man named Owsley? He was always mysterious to me and I think Bob Dylan wrote a song called, "The Mighty Quinn," that I thought was about him. I was taking purple LSD that I was told was made by him. Our journeys take us to strange dimensions and you can see the change in America during the '60s. I think a lot of it had to do with LSD and marijuana and the things we took to expand our consciousness. Did we change the world? Well, I'll leave that for historians to argue about.
@@johnallen2771 Yes. I remember Owsley. He was supposed to have the best Acid. All my first trips were from Ronald Laing. He was getting it from Timothy Leary. I heard Leary got it from Owsley. Who knows though... and who cares really ? Right up until 67 it was always a clear liquid that we got. We used to do a few drops from a dropper bottle straight onto the tongue. Later there were blotters, sugar lumps and coloured pills Purple Haze, Orange Sunshine , Strawberry Fields and then it was Windows. One time just before it became illegal me and some friends did a very high dose. We did a 'bottle wash' of all this crystalised acid that was left in the chemists' (the cook I suppose they'd say now) bottle in a home factory. It was possibly hundreds of trips. I don't know. All I know is an express train made of light hit me full on and I disappeared !
I didn't do much acid after that. More of other psychedelics and psychotropics but several years later. It wasn't all good but it was an amazing time and amazing experiences.
Yes of course we changed the world. I'd say mostly for the good but the dark forces were always trying to drag us off the path. I feel I am in a very good place now and those experiences led me here. I am very grateful for the times I have lived through...including now. 😁
@@johnallen2771 Btw I think Quinn the Eskimo was dealing 'snow' (cocaine) not acid.
@@luckydave328 Anybody who was alive from about '63, when Kennedy was shot, to about '70 with Kent State knew that something magical was happening in the world. Yes, we preached love and peace and I still do to this day. We were much more inquiring in those days, so much so that we didn't trust anyone, the government especially, to tell us the truth. We wanted to see what the real truth was. I also have "disappeared." It was on a peyote trip in the desert outside of Nogales, Mexico. I went to another dimension where I learned wonderful secrets I never knew existed. I am not espousing drug use, you can do the same thing with deep meditation. It's all in the mind. For about 7 or 8 short years we went through a learning process that took us from bobby sox to astral thoughts. Nothing really changes, I guess, there are probably similar periods in history where the same sort of thing happened. In many ways Trump and Pence remind me of Nixon and Agnew. I'm glad you're in a good place now, so am I. I often wonder if age does bring wisdom. I'm not sure yet.
Incredible audio quality from a recorded VHS copy!
It probably helped that it was ripped on the same VHS machine that it was recorded on. I'm sure I could get better quality video if I knew how to set it up properly. :)
trip or treat lol love it !! put's me in in mind of the early acid house/rave scene in the late 80s early 90s here in merry old England
best shit ever
good stuff to whoever edits and puts together any psychedelic videos.
you guys are really on the frontier
planting seeds in the garden of the minds
immortalizing what many may only look back on like experimenting with a dream that tried and failed.
and helping the energy of something truly divine, survive
kids need to know
together we can change the world
much love your way reader
Keep on Keeping on all.
Keeping on here
Read this before I even realized who posted it🫵🫡
The Movie Going Furthur is a fresh take on the current Pranksters .
The pranksters footage was finally edited into a movie in 2011, Magic Trip. They did a great job. Its a fun film and is like seeing The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test come to life.
I got physically ill when everything started changing and We ALL weren't at the SAME party anymore. My heart broke n I didn't understand why the people around me weren't heartbroken too. Disco, the political climate, the drugs sucked. Peo forgot the WE and it became all about the 'me'. I watch a vid like this n get a pit in my stomach. I so loved the feeling of 'COMMUNity'. We would never have let America become so brutally divided. Maybe its time for psychedelics to come back. ..
American wasn’t divided before the vile counter culture came out of the universities promoting their moronic ideas …
I was there (born 1948) and grew up in LA. my perception of that time is utterly opposite. It was the "love children" who hated everything that didn't fit into their very narrow narrative. All they really cared about was getting high, screwing anyone that was willing and wearing the uniform of the day. The kids of that era got VD, drug addled and thought church was bad but astrology was good. And, maybe most importantly, they turned into BMW-driving Yuppies. The whole "movement" was as deep as a dime.
I was a baby when that horrible Lyndon B. Johnson commercial with the nuke and the poor little girl being vaporized . It used to give me nightmares for many years.
Wait me to is it on youtube?
That campaign commercial is why LBJ was elected instead of Goldwater. America would be a very different -- and much better -- place today if Goldwater had become President .. we had to wait for Reagan ... and then Trump
I never had a bad trip.
As an artist, it was a self
organized ART SHOW.
The auras and vibrations
Of solid atoms were surprisingly
entertaining. LSD,,
not what you see,BUT HOW
YOU SEE IT.....ORANGE SUNSHINE,
PURPLE HAZE. I personally had a
Less colorful but much deeper
experience with PEYOTE buttons.
This was long ago.... Late 60s
Early 70's.
Yes!
That's exactly it.
I'm a child of this generation- and I pay my respects
David Schlessinger I’m a child of your generation, I pay my respect to you sir!
"You have to move out of consciousness to be able to see beyond the doorway of the cave."
1964. I had forgotten it was that early.
I didn’t realize how beautiful Eugene, Oregon is. I lived there when I was a child and my mother and I left when I was 3 years old and moved to Silverton. I was born in 1963 and by 1970 I was kind f a flower child. My older brother told me when I was 15 or 16 years old what happened when he would drop acid when I was 7 and 8 years old. He said my face looked like it was melting, like a candle dripping. Interesting video.
looking for psychedelic books I found the kool-aid acid test and just loved! when you read the book and then see this doc, it`s a full experience, I highly recommend! In this order!!! Amazing
awesome documentary,loved watching it. wish i lived in those times man
👱🏻♀️IT WASNT DAT GREAT I WAS WHITE FLIGHT FRUM EBBETS FIELD ON BEDFORD AVE
what a great documentary, i started taking lsd shortly before my 13th birthday, dont recommend starting that early, but what i will say, is that you are never the same after that first time.
"Neil gets things done." Read the part in Tom Wolfes' book where Neil is explaining to a cop about the quality of operation of the bus emergency brake which was, at the time, completely useless.
Seeing is believing...this was a reality for some back then. There were many "Magic Buses". Great post at this '69 Woodstock Anniversary year
All influenced by the first one.
This documentary feels more like the 90s than the 60s. Jarvis Cocker, Fatboy Slim, music by Beck... Interesting, and shows how the 60s made a comeback in the 90s.
100%, but it was by design."
LSD over a thousand trips,met Ken in 1971,seemed like a good human then! We sold tie-dye cloth @ Oregon renaissance fair, he would come in to our booth buy some cloth we would smoke hash and talk. Little did I know he was Ken Kesey the writer ? He did not tell me until my third year there! He said “ you don’t know who I am do you “ I said “your Ken , he laughed and told me . I still respect him for that. We talked of great things.I am still alive on the Oregon coast @ 76 years,promoting the benefits of lsd,my old friend Eric Ghost made the best purist ever,just to expand the consciousness of the world. Keep the faith! We all need to further! Love Norm
I've read 'on the road' 3times.. that whole beat scene is cool asf mang, fascinates me.. peace x
Kerouac was a Republican and thought the hippies decadent. Or, basically, he was a Catholic mystic. Look it up.
@@JesusIsKingAndSavior By the late 60s, Kerouac was an alcoholic, living as a recluse with his mother and probably despondent that his books were no longer being read and that he was becoming forgotten about. And he was probably more decadent than the hippies were, the way he lived his life, although I am not judging anyone.
@@tetrahedron1000 On the road was not losing relevance in the 60s what, it retained more and more relevance as other countercultural movements sprung about throughout the late 20th century, you could say it only started to die down recently, most who grew up around that time had it as essential reading.
“When people ask me what I think my greatest work is, I never hesitate the bus, there’s only one of those bus’, even though there’s two…” 🤣
Apart from pretty obvious tips like drinking lots of water and being with people who know what and how much you've had, the one thing I'd say to anyone considering taking psychoactive, especially hallucinogenic substances like LSD or mushrooms is, "Go to nature".
💯% agree. I learned so much while tripping in the woods.
A lack of walls makes for a much nicer time overall.
@ i was about to dive under a wall that turned into a wave,
there was a surfing poster on the wall, & the water just leaped out of it...someone said something from behind me, & i forgot about the giant wave & we went outside
I think it was Leary rather than KK who first said this one, ( and it doesn't Really matter either way!) but it encapsulates it for me the best :-
' Set , and Setting '
Like minded people Just living free Very cool
“Whatta they call it? Place where you put art things...? Museum!”
"The one thing criminals and artists have in common is they both defy rules" Malcolm McLaren 45:02
@David Wang Surely contributing to the good of society was also at the heart of Ken Kesey's mission, but yet at the time and even today he would still be classed as a criminal in the eye of the law.
"To live outside the law you must be honest." -Bob Dylan
@@robertpoen5383 Bob knows the difference between - Outlaws & Criminals
The speech near the end of this reminds me of the one at the start of Lord of the Rings. "...and the bus passed into American folklore." Myth became legend.
Why bother interviewing Fatboy Slim or Jarvis Cocker,or Malcolm McClaren ?
Thought the same thing-is the filmmaker Brish?
@@cedarbay3994 Yes and probably a generation too young to fully appreciate the subject matter.It has become a standard procedure for British documentary makers to drag in 'contemporary' commentators to pontificate on subjects they have little or no knowledge of.
@@mikesaunders4775 I feel like it is relevant because it shows the reach of influence and how the pranksters were effecting the current period (the 90's) through such influenced people.
@@ginadevreaux1922 That is obviously the makers intention,but the lifestyles of these three people are nothing like those of the Pranksters. Malcolm Mcclaren was loudly vocal in his contempt for Hippies and the 60s counterculture in general.
Maybe because it was an English Channel Four made for TV production about some Prankster guys nostalgic trip to the UK in 1999. So the artists making the documentary used fellow artists of the time and of the arts as presenters. Notice how in the credits the camera woman is Joan Churchill. Likely a relative of Annabelle Churchill who from the late eighties was an associate worker on the Glastonbury Festival Organisers Group. So a very long association there exists with the Art or Preforming Arts. Art Festivals (Progressive Music Arts Festivals) which still continue till this day. So the point about the three: Slim, Cocker & McClaren is that they were them selves presenters working with in the Arts at the time. IE they have a view point about things with in the Arts and were out spoken on some aspects with in the Arts industry or Music events. So whilst some may easily ask the question what on earth are they doing talking on a Prankster, Ken Kesey video. It may be the other way around and the real question could be what on earth are the Prankster's doing visiting England? That is why commentators on the video happen to be English or of the UK. Because the visit was to the UK. Fatboy Slim or Jarvis Cocker & Malcolm McClaren back in the nineties happened to be on the Preforming Arts Guest List. They also happened to be at the locations in England where the Old Merry Pranksters were likely going to.
Amazing how little of all the actual footage shot at the time turned out to be useful in any way. I remember that big box of 16mm footatge left at the old Reno Hotel in SF while Kesey briefly did some time. Filmmakers looked through it and
scratched their heads.........oops.....
We lived next to Ken Kesey's farm in the late 1960's who had two buses parked, Further and Farther. I played on them both at age 13 and wandered around his farm with Babbs son. The Ken and the Pranksters came to our house often and did lots of weird stuff. Soon we at our farm became a Jesus People commune in Pleasant Hill, Ore.
Thankyou Jeremy for posting thus Gem!
You know, I was born in '59, and was just a kid when all of this was going on. I member sneaking out of the bedroom window at 10 or 11 years old, and seeing the movie, Woodstock, in a local movie theater. Must've been 9 or 10 in the evening. Maybe Midnight, but I don't recall. Someone next to me passed me a joint. So I guess that was one of my defining moments in my life. It wouldn't be for another 4 years that I would experience my first dose of Lysergic Acid.
I've heard the merry pranksters concept inspired the
Beatles' film: Magical Mystery Tour.
I absolutely loved doing papers back my day an indescribable experience
Trivia question, to which l don't know the answer. Owlsley was both a clean/potent LSD producer and an audiophile. Was he involved in setting up the original FURTHER sound system [mostly PA?]
Wasn't he an alphabet agency shill?
I read his girlfriend was the producer. Ironically her family, Cargill, is one of the largest owners of the food industry.
Thank you for uploading!!!
Armies in battle have units called "squads." The main purpose of the squad in dangerous zones is to go into those zones. Go around the perimeters to see what's there and report back to the company so the company knows what to do and where to do it. In a squad one of the guys is the "point man." It's a rotated position, meaning one guy does it one time and the next time it's another's turn. He goes ahead of the squad. That job is almost a sacrificial one because if there are booby traps, or ambushes ahead, he's going to get it and the squad will know and either deal with that or retreat and report back to the company. People who go beyond the known or accepted in society, are like those squads. The company is like society governed by rules and regulations so that it runs smoothly and efficiently. But time changes all things but society becomes "addicted" to the rules and does not want to change what they have established even when change is necessary for continuation. The Pranksters were like that and Kesey was the "point man." He got busted "ambushed" and has passed on. The oldest "point man" I can think of is Socrates. The story of Jesus the Christ and his band of pranksters pointing the way to evolve is another one. In Socrates and Jesus time, they were considered dangerous to society because they saw what needed was too big a change for their societies. It can be hard for people meshed in their security and frustrations to know which point man and squad is the one to follow. Hitler certainly was a "point man" who got very good people to do very evil things. But the Pranksters showed us how to recognize and not be afraid of the squads that will lead us on the right paths. They create "love" "peace" "unity" "joy". They help you be your best you. The dark squads make demands. Work with negatives. Create fear and hate, anger, enemies. Divide us against each other. They appeal to the ego telling followers they are "super men". They appeal to greed. They mock compassion. The world is moving very fast and its population is growing faster. We need another point man and squads. We need to hear what they're trying to tell us which my be hard to understand because they may speak in ways that are not our society's norm. Add in the cacophony of voices coming from all media directions 24/7, and it becomes hard to know the wheat from the chaff. But that's our job. Harvest the wheat and compost the chaff. Peace please.
Very strange perception.
Nice, Jack Sprat. To be honest, I haven't been called that since my first crush, 1967. The first is always the one you never forgot...
I know exactly who you're talking about- well written and, unfortunately, the chaff is taking over. Nice post.
Bob Dylan said "Don't follow Leaders, watch your Parking Meters" - I've always bought into this (imo) healthy cynicism.
Second thing is, glad you mentioned that "Fuehrer" who was certainly a 'point' man for the whole German Nation.
An estimation of peak popularity,( when France was overrun ) in 1940 - would be upward of 90% ? Yet that 90% were wrong to hold that viewpoint, I hope you agree?
So, how do we know Who or What to Trust with Government Power in 2023?
I don't, personally.
so the school bus is just like ACID !! It picks you up and carries you safely away and back !! Ken just taught me a valuable lesson !!
Thank you Ken Kesey and the Pranksters for inspiring me/us. Hope for next revolution. What i live for!
An LSD trip is an event thats impossible to describe
It's like viewing the world for the first time again. Or so I believe.
An individual trip can be described, either as it happens or later if memory allows, but the listener or reader can only be expected to partially understand the head space being described to them. What we cannot describe is the experience anyone else might have.
Shpongled covers it pretty well.
Love
I've never had a bad trip !
Took it handful of times . would never take it now , but i got everything i could have from the time , it did open my mind saw things and thought things in very different perspective and was able to apply that when i was sober.
Just saying you can tell a lot about a man by his hat wear and Hunters is always legendary
THanks for the upload! wow those were fun times…..
Well, you learn something new everyday. Kesey wrote, " Cuckoos Nest." I didn't know that. Thanks, +Jeremy Fluff for the ul. I enjoyed this.
Things were buzzin' in the UK at the same time, with no Internet. The speed of social transmission was magical. 😎 It's still radical. No change, there . . .😎 😎 😎
Woah, Tom Waits covering Skip Spence! Wasn’t familiar w this, but it makes sense. Only thing odd is hearing it in a merry pranksters documentary, glad I did though!
Anybody who thinks life was no fun before Ken Kesey and acid came along is obviously hallucinating.,😂
I worry about breakdowns, fuel costs, and being stopped constantly. It is 2019 and we seem to be going backwards in today's society in many ways.
I pictured a more caring America and changes world wide.
Today is hard for alot of us. I dont recognize our country anymore. Everyday is more chaos. Seems like all we fought for in 60s and 70s has been knocked down. Its not only sad but scary too
Theres alot of people who feel just as you, myself being 1
Losaiko Vote!!!
Well, since November, 2016, our society has gone straight to hell. Give you three guesses why. Hint: it's orange and is a chronic, compulsive liar.
I was born in 79 but I love everything about the 60's the cars the music the culture I wish I was part of it because I would of loved it
Yes it was a very fun and "lightening" time. I was there there for a good part of it. However, remember, "There is no time like the present." Part of the revolutionary aspect of those times was exploring and making a new point of view. That means working toward a way of living where everything is new and fresh. Those times are past. Too much nostalgia and you are just as stuck as we were before we got on the bus. I encourage the new "space cadets" to respect the past but keep exploring the present. The gems are always here and present but you have to look for them......Happy Trails 79tazman!
79tazman Me too January 26th. I was raised by hippies who taught me to always question authority, and to help where I could in the world
6 was 9 for you
Buy it.it on sale now
You'd be brainwashed
So, Ken Kesey and company were some kind of inspiration for Sgt Peppers and Magical Mystery Tour?
thx for hosting this classic Mr Fluffy Toots! ;-)
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If I could time travel the first thing I'd do is join up with the Further expedition across the fresh green fields of America.
No one had a clue who these people were rolling merrily through their towns singing dancing laughing and blasted out of their skulls on pure Owsley acid long before it became illegal. Hi ho!
I did owsleys blue barrel when I was 10 years old in the summer of love giving to me by a Hell's Angel I use to feed my lunch to every day at Golden Gate Park. I didn't want my lunch. I'd give it to this cool acting guy every morning before school. I would go and shoplift 10 candy bars before school everyday. Jimmie Hendrix played that night. I didn't know who he was and didn't pay any mind to him but saw him on stage and TV the next day. Somehow I made it home before 11:00 I believe.
Your statement pretty much proves that you are NOT the former Governor of Utah.
@@johnnikas4248 lol
@@needfulldzithings5450 Did taking acid at ten years old change your personality?
@@animalmother5473 you believe that BS? Come on 😏
Thanks...I saw Kesey and Ken Babbs talk in London back in the late 1990's. It was interesting for the home movie footage of the bus trip, but disappointingly, Kesey and Babbs had turned into two grumpy old men moaning about how kids today have no respect for property, or maybe they were always like that. I ended up walking out, bored and a bit jaded. I'm sure it was different back in the early sixties when it was all fresh. Nice that they used some of Skip Spence's brilliant music, including the rare track "Land of The Sun" pity the others weren't the original tracks from 'Oar'...now I sound like a grumpy old man. Maybe I am, maybe I always was?!
:)
An enlighting journey!
Let's everyone celebrate the spirit of The Summer of Love 1967 and its 50th Anniversary!
If that introduction had been written by a student in one of my classes, I'd have circled it and put a big frowny face beside it. In conference, we'd talk about how to open papers without making nutty claims. Thanks for posting.
At the timestamp 27 minutes why does the text say 1999 San Francisco I'm trying to fully pay attention, maybe I missed something, glitch in The matrix 😂
I took LSD one time with friends when I was in my twenties. We took the acid and then went to KMART to buy racketball rackets and balls. I started to trip at KMART, and was laughing loud because the other shoppers reminded me of ants. We got to the racket ball place and it was awesome. The balls were blue, and left trails everywhere they bounced. It was so much fun. I never did it again, I figgured once was enough.
"...was laughing loud because the other shoppers reminded me of ants..." lol!
Tracers
I ate some peyote buttons and then went shopping at Safeway and the trip hit me when I was checking out my groceries. I had to have the check out lady count out the money because I didn't know what it was. I was laughing my ass off - everything was like a cartoon in the store. When finally got back up into the hills then it all made sense -- up there in Nature.
Gerry Lavelle ::: I found mescaline very delightful and playful....especially light, patterns, and color; welding and pyrotechnics.....imo
@@codeblue2532 Mescaline was like Mexican blankets and Hopi Kachina deities, Dancing Saguaro cactii and mult-colored lizards. Peyote button flying saucers.
There was so much fake mescaline around that when you got the real stuff by making it yourself -- you really knew you were there.
One time I was tripping on it and I looked up in the sky and burning words started forming. The words became like a burning Lord's Prayer in the sky. Then it read "On Earth as it is in Heaven" and I started laughing because I realized that it's all One -- Heaven and Earth are One.
“Free Love” Everyone wanted it at the time but as everyone should know it’s nothing more than an oxymoronic term. You’re only free when your ashes are scattered to the wind and as Dylan sang “the answer of when that will happen is blowing in the wind”. God bless you Ken Kesey and Hunter S.
Free love is sexual Marxism used to destroy people's family and thus hasten the inevitable day of glorious Communist revolution ☝️
We need a new set of Pranksters. The worlds a grey cold place and in bad need of some color! Lets start it in Houston Texas - PLEASE!!!!!
Some original member of a commune in Taos NM claims the Magic bus is there.. I saw the bus, in a barn. It looked the same except I don't remember the plastic bubble on top. She said Ken drove it there and left it. I thought she was lying even to this day. That was in 1974
The bus came by and I got on, that's where it all began.