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.

@gilli2k561

3 ай бұрын

That’s a hell of a story man, how’d you meet him?

@jvaish

2 ай бұрын

He didn't

@gardensofthegods

2 ай бұрын

Kerouac is how it's spelled .

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!

I love how Hunter Thompson needs subtitles.

@DerekMogambo

7 жыл бұрын

~mumble mumble~ ~GODdamned swine! Dumbo! Sessions!~ ~mumble mumble~

@kenlieck7756

7 жыл бұрын

When he gave a "lecture" here in Austin, his bud Jerry Jeff Walker had to "translate" for him the whole time!!!

@will.a.benjamin

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah and the subtitles become more useful as the film progresses and as I assume Hunter progresses with his chemicals lol

@anglicanbeachparty

5 жыл бұрын

YES!!

@deborah3912

5 жыл бұрын

Hunter Thompson, snuff film maker and pervert.

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 .

@paulyricca3881

2 жыл бұрын

👴🏻I KNOW YO MOTHER

@thefamilydog3278

Жыл бұрын

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.

@thehypnoticdog6682

Жыл бұрын

What a long strange trip it’s been

@mtg1470

Жыл бұрын

sexual liberation, pot smoking and acid trips are not freedom. maybe one day you'll figure that out

@durangomcmurphy1529

Жыл бұрын

@@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 .

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.

@DanHalper

Ай бұрын

Well put

The most incredible experience in my life. No doubt. Thankyou acid.

Played a concert on top of that bus. Wonderful memories.. :)

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.

@daystar4909

3 жыл бұрын

Amen sister :)

@charleshawtrey5636

2 жыл бұрын

You don't meet God on LSD, it's just a mind fuck that deceives you..CIA pushed LSD hard back in the 60s

@SJ-ni6iy

Жыл бұрын

It’s nothing to take lightly.

@noelsalisbury7448

Жыл бұрын

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.

@HeartFeltGesture

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

@clarkewi

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@clarkewi

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@lethrbear32

5 жыл бұрын

#NothingLasts

@lethrbear32

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

@LuckyBaldwin777

4 жыл бұрын

@@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...

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! ✌☮

@zdog2017

2 күн бұрын

True man

The original bus should be in a cultural museum!! One love to all viewers here!! ❤

@tomadams9172

5 ай бұрын

Great idea...wonder where it is ...?

@matthewjohnson7649

5 ай бұрын

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.

@domakazie1

3 ай бұрын

The Smithsonian tried to acquire it. Kesey refused and tried to prank them with a fake bus. It is in Oregon on his ranch.

The world is going through a dark time. This made me smile.

@Frag-Drache-Offiziel

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe a good Time for an Acid Test to see the World different?

@karendalsadik7119

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frag-Drache-Offiziel yeah I could see that.

@freddrog4689

2 жыл бұрын

darkness is always present, creating light in darkness is up to us

@michaelcraig9449

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@toastyghosty489

Жыл бұрын

@@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!” 🤮

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.

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.

@briteness

4 жыл бұрын

It figures the Unitarians would support somebody like Kesey. His little Prankster cult was morally ambiguous at best, and criminally irresponsible at times.

@MatanuskaHIGH

4 жыл бұрын

David Carpenter lame fuck. I bet you’re a real joy to be around.

@hansknutson2327

3 жыл бұрын

So what happened

@MatanuskaHIGH

3 жыл бұрын

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...

@perryleduc1954

3 жыл бұрын

@@MatanuskaHIGH some people will never get it , for they do not have the capacity of thought outside their own bubble.

Ken Kesey's "Sometimes a great notion" is awesomely brilliant.

@ashleyupshall7641

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it’s a brilliant and underrated novel 😊

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.

@MichaelSodaro

5 жыл бұрын

@Cj He did it for both, and what a win-win that was lol

@dylbre3773

5 жыл бұрын

Cointel pro

@whocares8735

4 жыл бұрын

Integral Stanley or to distribute LSD for the government...

@MatanuskaHIGH

4 жыл бұрын

Buddha Stalin 😂. It’s possible. Even if he didn’t realize it and Did it inadvertently

@charleshawtrey5636

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like ridiculous decadent hippie bullshit borne our of too much free time and money

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.

@egodust11

3 жыл бұрын

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."

@egodust11

3 жыл бұрын

@David Wang I resemble that remark! 😵

i love how the bus is like a work in progress, continually being transformed

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.

@donnavaughn9409

10 ай бұрын

required huh?

@BushyHairedStranger

9 ай бұрын

@@donnavaughn9409yup, trying something different, something new to you is part of experiencing what it is to be a human.

@user-cx7kg6ok9b

6 ай бұрын

Noone should ever be required to take any drugs, legal or illegal. But especially not psychoactive drugs. Most people today aren't equipped to deal with it.

@mad_cat_1st

6 ай бұрын

@@user-cx7kg6ok9b People like you, obviously.

@mad_cat_1st

6 ай бұрын

@@donnavaughn9409 OK, trigger girl. how about - SUGGESTED?

I'm a child of this generation- and I pay my respects

@pattyleabo426

5 жыл бұрын

David Schlessinger I’m a child of your generation, I pay my respect to you sir!

Should be show in schools. A true documentary of the 60s

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.

@Raviolli

Жыл бұрын

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

@stephennewcombe452

Жыл бұрын

I would like to go to Eugene,Oregon 😊 I would have liked to ride the magic bus 😊

@andrewtedlow6552

Жыл бұрын

Especially with the Country Fair!!

@Me97202

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I lived in Eugene for 20 years. Worked in media. Met Kesey twice. Echos of Kesey still reverberate.

@angelajudson8156

5 ай бұрын

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.

@jc4388

3 жыл бұрын

He changed his opinion after Altamonte.

@deez7406

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine ozzy saying, you need to go to rehab man!

@profile2047

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@noelsalisbury7448

Жыл бұрын

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.

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 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

@martina4226

2 жыл бұрын

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

@cristianperez2903

2 жыл бұрын

@@martina4226 Thank You🤗

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.

@lipby

7 жыл бұрын

I'm betting Kesey came closer to wisdom than you're capable of.

@DerekMogambo

7 жыл бұрын

ha ha haaa~! #Troll, much?

@benjaminpickett3502

7 жыл бұрын

whats the song at 28 mins 15 seconds PLEASE

@brianvaughan2624

7 жыл бұрын

"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.

@kenlieck7756

7 жыл бұрын

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 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!

@deejannemeiurffnicht1791

2 жыл бұрын

further goes beyond further! And furthger than even that!

@brentjbomia

Жыл бұрын

The bus came by, and I got on...thats when it all began

@thehypnoticdog6682

Жыл бұрын

The key was knowing when to get off the bus

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.

@MLATX512

11 ай бұрын

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.

@MLATX512

11 ай бұрын

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.

@rosesprog1722

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@MLATX512

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@rosesprog1722

11 ай бұрын

@@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

Thank you so much for the upload! This is absolutely fantastic!

What a fascinating program! Much gratitude to the generous uploader!

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!

@terrygood8391

3 жыл бұрын

I used to sell orange barrels and purple microdots from the same bag

Props to whomever for using "More Oar" tracks in the doc. Skip Spence made exemplary psych masterworks with and without Moby Grape.

@jimc3891

Жыл бұрын

Ah Moby Grape. “She”

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.

@dirkdiggler2507

5 жыл бұрын

Right on.

@chikkipop

4 жыл бұрын

I wish there was a "Wow!" button here.

@claychandler3468

4 жыл бұрын

Bulshit

@jamesbrooks9567

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@chikkipop

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesbrooks9567 You are misguided. Seems to be increasingly common these days.

I read my dad's copy of The Electric Koolaid Acid Test when I was 14. I had some good influences. Lol

@kittenfuud

3 жыл бұрын

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!

@hubbrd

2 жыл бұрын

@@kittenfuud lol

@paulyricca3881

2 жыл бұрын

👨🏻‍🦰SHUT UP DRUG ADDICT

@paulyricca3881

2 жыл бұрын

💅🏻👩🏻‍🦰💅🏻 U DRUG ADDICT

@noelsalisbury7448

Жыл бұрын

​@@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 😉?

Thanks a lot for putting this up! I've been looking for it for a long long time.

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.

@josephbeenchanged990

3 жыл бұрын

Wait me to is it on youtube?

@dateland-twopalmspress755

2 жыл бұрын

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

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.

@robertcalvert8196

3 жыл бұрын

same here , i loved the stuff , couldnt get enough of it

@Chipiipii23

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@paulyricca3881

2 жыл бұрын

😵U DRUG ADDICT

@paulyricca3881

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertcalvert8196 👱🏻‍♀️U IS A DRUG ADDICT

@paulyricca3881

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chipiipii23 😡U KNOW U IS A DRUG ADDICT

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".

"You have to move out of consciousness to be able to see beyond the doorway of the cave."

Incredible audio quality from a recorded VHS copy!

@jeremyfluff138

Жыл бұрын

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. :)

Thankyou Jeremy for posting thus Gem!

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

@jimellis2118

Жыл бұрын

Keep on Keeping on all.

@Geoplanetjane

11 ай бұрын

Keeping on here

@andysocial415

11 ай бұрын

Read this before I even realized who posted it🫵🫡

@stevenmorrison8639

10 ай бұрын

The Movie Going Furthur is a fresh take on the current Pranksters .

@MDProdTV

8 ай бұрын

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'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!

@lastnamefirst4035

4 жыл бұрын

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)

@MatanuskaHIGH

4 жыл бұрын

The original hazes and skunks came from that area. Haze bros and BOEL

@MatanuskaHIGH

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@noelsalisbury7448

Жыл бұрын

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.

@jessemontano762

4 ай бұрын

​@@MatanuskaHIGHsuper silver haze is incredible. Can't find skunk anymore. Don't know

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.

@Imabeatyouman

6 жыл бұрын

Nora Hope Karan jerry Garcias ex as well

@zak-a-roo264

4 жыл бұрын

Did you know my mom Martha Richdale?

@rogbrown1458

3 жыл бұрын

Glad the bus is still running.the hippie dream continues. Rog brown. Pacific sunset records.

@jazzmanchgo

3 жыл бұрын

@@rogbrown1458 Well, it's not "THE" bus; Kesey & friends recreated it. The original pretty much disintegrated over the years in a barn on the farm.

@rogbrown1458

3 жыл бұрын

@@jazzmanchgo ok then but the dream lives on with a newer bus. Now where did I leave my smokes. Rog. Pacific sunset records.

Thank you for posting this.

Exactly what I was looking for. I remembered this. Nice one, Jeremy!

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.

@luckydave328

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@johnallen2771

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@luckydave328

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnallen2771 Btw I think Quinn the Eskimo was dealing 'snow' (cocaine) not acid.

@johnallen2771

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

I absolutely loved doing papers back my day an indescribable experience

Thank you for uploading!!!

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

Anybody who thinks life was no fun before Ken Kesey and acid came along is obviously hallucinating.,😂

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. ..

@johneeeemarry34

11 ай бұрын

American wasn’t divided before the vile counter culture came out of the universities promoting their moronic ideas …

@laurelaltman6138

11 ай бұрын

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 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

@michaelhockin1984

7 жыл бұрын

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!

@nicoleking5597

7 жыл бұрын

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

@championsoundrecords

5 жыл бұрын

6 was 9 for you

@descartesdonkey4291

5 жыл бұрын

Buy it.it on sale now

@dylbre3773

5 жыл бұрын

You'd be brainwashed

1964. I had forgotten it was that early.

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

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.

@bwiebelhaus1

9 ай бұрын

Yes!

@jessemontano762

4 ай бұрын

That's exactly it.

An LSD trip is an event thats impossible to describe

@odonnghaile5164

4 жыл бұрын

It's like viewing the world for the first time again. Or so I believe.

@hashburystumble8808

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@jeremyfluff138

4 жыл бұрын

Shpongled covers it pretty well.

@jhbraucht

4 жыл бұрын

Love

@GGcidmusic

4 жыл бұрын

I've never had a bad trip !

Love love love this thankyou❤❤❤❤

We need the Pranksters more than ever now!

@zj7124

5 жыл бұрын

We need another movement

@eldiran2

5 жыл бұрын

Since it ended badly for many, I'd say we need New Type of Pranksters, ones who do NOT identify their Freedom with A particular drug or guru or creed, etc. This movement was important & meaningful, but ultimately self-defeating.. There is a saying in the East: The finger that points out the moon--the wise man realizes it is about the Moon & the idiot attachs to the finger.

@zj7124

5 жыл бұрын

eric russell of course it has to be new, modern and unique to have an effect really! And yeea classic buddhist saying that more humans need to know such things

@krisscanlon4051

Жыл бұрын

Why ?

“Whatta they call it? Place where you put art things...? Museum!”

Seeing is believing...this was a reality for some back then. There were many "Magic Buses". Great post at this '69 Woodstock Anniversary year

@profile2047

2 жыл бұрын

All influenced by the first one.

awesome documentary,loved watching it. wish i lived in those times man

@paulyricca3881

2 жыл бұрын

👱🏻‍♀️IT WASNT DAT GREAT I WAS WHITE FLIGHT FRUM EBBETS FIELD ON BEDFORD AVE

"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.

37:12 my favorite part of any interview of all time

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.

THanks for the upload! wow those were fun times…..

“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…” 🤣

I've read 'on the road' 3times.. that whole beat scene is cool asf mang, fascinates me.. peace x

@JesusIsKingAndSavior

5 жыл бұрын

Kerouac was a Republican and thought the hippies decadent. Or, basically, he was a Catholic mystic. Look it up.

@tetrahedron1000

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

Really well done documentary thank you

Thank you Ken Kesey and the Pranksters for inspiring me/us. Hope for next revolution. What i live for!

"The one thing criminals and artists have in common is they both defy rules" Malcolm McLaren 45:02

@mrham1997

3 жыл бұрын

@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.

@robertpoen5383

3 жыл бұрын

"To live outside the law you must be honest." -Bob Dylan

@noelsalisbury7448

Жыл бұрын

​@@robertpoen5383 Bob knows the difference between - Outlaws & Criminals

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 . . .😎 😎 😎

this is some great footage!

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 !!

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.....

thank you!

Just saying you can tell a lot about a man by his hat wear and Hunters is always legendary

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.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test written in 1968 by Tom Wolfe (before I was born... '72) is an incredible trip, journey, adventure of a band of community misfits (yes, you would think that's an oxymoron) being their "enhanced" selves. Oh boy were they enhanced... READ IT, it's great!

@leonwaltemate6152

Жыл бұрын

The book sits on my coffee table!

@fortybelow1973

Жыл бұрын

Read the book 1970. Read Hunter S Thompson Hells Angels book earlier. The overlap of the two books was interesting. T Wolfe also wrote an article about poorly paid store staff in London. Reminded me of, as a teenager, working at Oxford University Press Bookstore on Charing Cross Road. Strong "trips" available. Best from Sandoz, Switzerland.

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.

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.

@Marcos-xm8dq

3 ай бұрын

100%, but it was by design."

If school buses were painted like that I'd enjoy school much more often

An enlighting journey! Let's everyone celebrate the spirit of The Summer of Love 1967 and its 50th Anniversary!

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.

I read the book as a teenager in the 80s and it had a profound effect on me.

God damn I wish I could've experienced the acid test bus and met the Merry Pranksters. We need them back now. 💜✌️

@naphtaliweinstock2721

7 жыл бұрын

you can find the pranksters all over, often at The Country Fair

@WhatCanSmith

5 жыл бұрын

@MCD LSD isn't dangerous, emotions are. LSD is just truth buried in the mind being exposed in a way that can not be ignored.

@TheGranti7a

5 жыл бұрын

F13at Cat Then...

@championsoundrecords

5 жыл бұрын

Just take a trip, sit under a tree and read 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'

@Holy_hand-grenade

5 жыл бұрын

F13at Cat no we don’t. Millions of people are tripping the fuck out millions of times every year. don’t be so sentimental.

i miss tripping with friends.

@tonyb8653

5 жыл бұрын

oh man, ain't that the truth. me to cuz to this present day i have never ever laughed at anything as much as when i used to be tripping my nuts off. i miss dem days bigtime.

@russelnokes1095

5 жыл бұрын

I miss it also.

@dmvconartists2542

5 жыл бұрын

Diddo

@TanTanWaWa

5 жыл бұрын

I would love to have a montage trip 20 yrs later.

@JohnWayne-86ed

5 жыл бұрын

Why are you all talking like life is over, go trip with some friends!

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!!!!!

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.

A jewel of American history!

I've heard the merry pranksters concept inspired the Beatles' film: Magical Mystery Tour.

I was 1 year old when they started. I thank you now.

Wonderful! Music from Oar, too. Love it.

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".

@monkeytheo

4 жыл бұрын

💯% agree. I learned so much while tripping in the woods.

@jnbeatnik

2 жыл бұрын

A lack of walls makes for a much nicer time overall.

@mindsigh4

2 жыл бұрын

@ 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

@noelsalisbury7448

Жыл бұрын

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 '

@stephennewcombe452

Жыл бұрын

Like minded people Just living free Very cool

this was heavenly good !

I love how hunter gets subtitles, and he’s the only one

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!