Tripping (1999 Ken Kesey / Merry Pranksters documentary)

Broadcast by Channel 4 in August 1999 in anticipation of Ken Kesey's trip to the UK for the total eclipse, this is a well constructed documentary look at Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, the bus trip, the Acid Tests and all the other fun they got up to. It features lots of great archive footage; contemporary (late 90s) footage filmed at Kesey's home and on the road with the latest bus; and interviews with the relevant (Hunter S. Thompson, subtitled!) and the curious (Malcom McLaren and Fatboy Slim?).
I could see no trace of this interesting artefact online (or maybe the generic title just makes it hard to search for) so I've extracted my 1st generation VHS video copy. I make no claim to copyright.

[@mad_cat_1st]

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]

required huh?

[@BushyHairedStranger]

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

[@mad_cat_1st]

@user-cx7kg6ok9b People like you, obviously.

[@mad_cat_1st]

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

[@RabbiPorkchop]

​@@mad_cat_1st you're in michigan still?

[@steevecunt5371]

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

[@jimc3891]

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]

Well put

[@nobodyuknow3]

Spot on...until google got its greedy claws into it.😂😢

[@stargate121]

I love how Hunter Thompson needs subtitles.

[@DerekMogambo]

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

[@kenlieck7756]

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

[@will.a.benjamin]

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

[@anglicanbeachparty]

YES!!

[@deborah3912]

Hunter Thompson, snuff film maker and pervert.

[@stephaniemccord8677]

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]

Amen sister :)

[@charleshawtrey5636]

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]

It’s nothing to take lightly.

[@noelsalisbury7448]

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]

@@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.

[@lawrencecarver4233]

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]

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

[@jvaish]

He didn't

[@gardensofthegods]

Kerouac is how it's spelled .

[@joseflemire4284]

@@gardensofthegods a little too much of the good stuff😇

[@gardensofthegods]

​@@joseflemire4284yeah , i know what you mean , my friend , i know what you mean 🤣

[@durangomcmurphy1529]

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]

👴🏻I KNOW YO MOTHER

[@thefamilydog3278]

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]

What a long strange trip it’s been

[@mtg1470]

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

[@durangomcmurphy1529]

@@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 .

[@radakinryder2741]

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

[@ianedmonds9191]

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.

[@jonathansheehan3121]

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

[@Frag-Drache-Offiziel]

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

[@karendalsadik7119]

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

[@freddrog4689]

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

[@michaelcraig9449]

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]

@@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!” 🤮

[@clarkewi]

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]

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]

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]

#NothingLasts

[@lethrbear32]

@@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]

@@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...

[@joncavanaugh9980]

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]

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

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

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

[@hansknutson2327]

So what happened

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

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]

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

[@Raviolli]

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]

Keep on Keeping on all.

[@Geoplanetjane]

Keeping on here

[@andysocial415]

Read this before I even realized who posted it🫵🫡

[@stevenmorrison8639]

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

[@MDProdTV]

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.

[@khatarootube]

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]

further goes beyond further! And furthger than even that!

[@brentjbomia]

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

[@thehypnoticdog6682]

The key was knowing when to get off the bus

[@alexandramvg]

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

[@johnallen2771]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

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

[@johnallen2771]

@@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.

[@mjs3764]

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]

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]

@David Wang I resemble that remark! 😵

[@eqx7168]

"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]

He changed his opinion after Altamonte.

[@TheDude420.69]

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

[@profile2047]

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]

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.

[@ichaffee1]

ya know looking back on all of it.. what a bunch of BS.. and as far as teens not having any fun til Ken Keasy showed up.. really?? what about the 50s.. and very early 60s,, and all the generations before that who had their own fun.. The 60s and early 70s spawned a bunch of self righteous, self entitled brats,.. I cant tell you how many casualties mental and spiritual I saw during that time. I had friends that were permantly changed and not for the better. There were some who came out on the other side ok,, and enlightened to an expanded consciousness, but for most, the burnout was not worth it.

[@charliemorris2338]

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!

[@integralstanley]

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]

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

[@dylbre3773]

Cointel pro

[@whocares8735]

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

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

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

[@charleshawtrey5636]

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

[@johngray5401]

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

[@ashleyupshall7641]

Yes, it’s a brilliant and underrated novel 😊

[@johns3106]

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.

[@KJ-xc6qs]

Ken volunteered in the CIA's MK-Ultra experiment, interesting. Now our dark, dangerous world is overshadowed by its residual effects.

[@davidmccall4776]

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]

True man

[@PeterDad60]

Drugs are messed up. LSD is a head trip, but it's not real. Been there done that. Stay in reality and become yourself.

[@arlowallace7775]

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

[@klausrain111]

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

[@WarGrrl3]

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]

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

[@laurelaltman6138]

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.

[@davidschlessinger9945]

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

[@pattyleabo426]

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

[@planetmchanic6299]

This video is a propaganda piece. I was at altamont and that isn't even what happened. When the airplane was playing, three beautious babes invited by Grace herself jumped up on the stage, topless, and started dancing next to the band and then the 'angels' started to viciously beat them with those pool sticks and literally kicked them off the stage. But, like, it was totally gnarly. Everybody freaked and Grace yelled into the mike, "fuck this shit" and threw the mike down and that was the end of everything. Most of the huge crowd didn't know what had even happened. I was just at the right of the stage and saw everything from 50" away. I had just gotten back from Viet Nam and was like, bikers beating down beautiful babes? I mean these gorgeous ladies were way seriously hurt needing emergency surgery as they had been whacked really bad several times in the face and ribs and couldn't even stand up. It just shattered my world. I went to the medical tent a short time later and two of the topless dancers had to go to the hospital, don't know what happened to the other one. Later when the stones came on it got even more disastrous. Then and there, I decided that hippies suck bad and dropped out of the scene. Then the bad acid with rat poison was being pushed by the angels flooded the bay area and bad trips were the thing. Maybe a coupla hundred people died. No more Owsley either. Reagan declared war on the hippies and that was that. When that Linkletter's daughter jumped from her 10th floor apartment in LA and that Manson shit started, it was all the hippies fault. Open season on freaks. So, ya, this videos is glamorizing the 'hipness' but it's not even what really happened. The older generation believed it was ok to kill and terrorize their children and got busy with genocidal atrocities. So much for the dead dream of the 'summer of love'.

[@michaels1416]

This is why the comment section is so important. You get the whole truth. I did mushrooms three times, the first two were good but the last one made me say "never again". That was about 40 years ago. God bless you.

[@michaels1416]

The Stones song, "Sympathy for the Devil", takes on a whole different meaning.....

[@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488]

​@@michaels1416bubblegum

[@GGcidmusic]

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]

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

[@Chipiipii23]

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]

😵U DRUG ADDICT

[@paulyricca3881]

@@robertcalvert8196 👱🏻‍♀️U IS A DRUG ADDICT

[@paulyricca3881]

@@Chipiipii23 😡U KNOW U IS A DRUG ADDICT

[@EllotusFreeholy]

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

[@spicacolorado]

One needs a psychedelic reset at least once a year

[@robertraymond3681]

Which one?

[@spicacolorado]

@@robertraymond3681 DMT/ LSD

[@jlion31685]

You misspelled week

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@VenusRising im interested to see how that goes. Ill bet they will be really tight w who they will prescribe to

[@Hypersp4ce]

I try for about two big trips in a year. I get results and it works for me.

[@elanorerigby987]

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]

Wait me to is it on youtube?

[@dateland-twopalmspress755]

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

[@wickfields]

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

[@colmancostello]

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.

[@norahopekaran1879]

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]

Nora Hope Karan jerry Garcias ex as well

[@zak-a-roo264]

Did you know my mom Martha Richdale?

[@rogbrown1458]

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

[@jazzmanchgo]

@@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]

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

[@EastboundandUp]

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

[@tomadams9172]

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

[@matthewjohnson7649]

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]

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

[@mrham1997]

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

[@mrham1997]

@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]

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

[@noelsalisbury7448]

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

[@enviousfred]

I bet if you licked the floor of that bus you'd be away for a few days!

[@nonbiz1520]

no, it would just be gross.

[@chucklemuchuckle2170]

@Lorin Stoll not to mention chlamydia and aids

[@dozerdlx4183]

LMFAO

[@chrisknight9682]

@@chucklemuchuckle2170 the bus was pre-AIDS !

[@corvusdelicti8853]

@@chucklemuchuckle2170 Dumb ass. Do you even know that the AIDS pandemic began, more or less, in the mid-70's? No, you wouldn't know that, because you're a dumb ass.

[@cristianperez2903]

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]

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]

@@martina4226 Thank You🤗

[@matthewturner8063]

Muched preferred the orange sunshine documentary this one didn't do much for me.

[@haydenquakenbush8626]

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

[@kittenfuud]

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]

@@kittenfuud lol

[@paulyricca3881]

👨🏻‍🦰SHUT UP DRUG ADDICT

[@paulyricca3881]

💅🏻👩🏻‍🦰💅🏻 U DRUG ADDICT

[@noelsalisbury7448]

​@@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 😉?

[@scottmatheson2390]

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!

[@needfulldzithings5450]

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.

[@johnnikas4248]

Your statement pretty much proves that you are NOT the former Governor of Utah.

[@scottmatheson2390]

@@johnnikas4248 lol

[@animalmother5473]

@@needfulldzithings5450 Did taking acid at ten years old change your personality?

[@jg6698]

@@animalmother5473 you believe that BS? Come on 😏

[@cynthiamadrid1430]

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]

Yes!

[@jessemontano762]

That's exactly it.

[@rosesprog1722]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@NxDoyle]

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]

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

[@jnbeatnik]

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

[@mindsigh4]

@ 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]

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]

Like minded people Just living free Very cool

[@scottd.1089]

"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.

[@duanemcclure8324]

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]

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

[@davidcurtis7547]

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

[@minenotyours212]

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

[@willyc7150]

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

[@danthefan5378]

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".

[@sammyscotch9945]

An LSD trip is an event thats impossible to describe

[@odonnghaile5164]

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

[@hashburystumble8808]

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]

Shpongled covers it pretty well.

[@jhbraucht]

Love

[@GGcidmusic]

I've never had a bad trip !

[@andyallen7437]

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

[@kevinsysyn4487]

There were a lot of mental/emotional casualties of the LSD culture. LSD was a heavy duty mind-fuck a lot of people weren't equipped for.

[@Rafman316]

Damn right.

[@Lea99Jones]

It's true. Altering one's reality can have its downsides, and the more emotionally fucked up you went in, the higher the likelihood of having a bad trip. Overall, acid didn't cause the sorts of problems addictive drugs still do.

[@kevinsysyn4487]

@@Lea99Jones That's true. It was a different equally lethal.... for certain people.

[@mikesaunders4775]

Why bother interviewing Fatboy Slim or Jarvis Cocker,or Malcolm McClaren ?

[@cedarbay3994]

Thought the same thing-is the filmmaker Brish?

[@mikesaunders4775]

@@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.

[@ginadevreaux1922]

@@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.

[@mikesaunders4775]

@@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.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

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.

[@thomassimon8031]

This could not happen today - we were a different country in 1964

[@alerdic6574]

William s boroughs

[@jamessilver6429]

music and cocacola was better and automobile fashion

[@jamesbrooks9567]

Sure was different

[@howardkoor2796]

Nowadays, you need permission to do anything

[@onelove8062]

Not true :)

[@martianshoes]

1. This documentary completely skipped how the Pranksters went to Mexico in January 1966 2. Altamont is what happens when a celebrity arranges his own security instead of it being managed by experienced professionals. And it didn’t “ end the 60’s” either. It was just an ugly blip on the radar screen of those times. Kent State....Robert Kennedy’s and Dr King’s assassination; then later American withdrawal from SE Asia really ended that era. You just have to love the narrow thinking of white celebs. 3. Corporate America always co-opts and appropriates any pop culture....how many hiphop flavored commercials and children’s cartoons are extant now (May 2020)? 4. They also skipped Kesey’s earlier book (considered for a Pulitzer) and that he was nearly Olympic level as a wrestler. 5. Did anyone hear a mention of Augustus Owsley III? He supplied the acid....he financed the Acid Tests....and the embryonic Grateful Dead.... Kinda significant, ya think?

[@philipfranklin3958]

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

[@sidarthur8706]

all of you people lamenting the end of the good old days rejoice in stead because we're in the psychedelic renaissance. well we were a few years ago, it ended as soon as it started for the UK. but around europe there are still loads of good legal psychedelic drugs going around. buy a bus, find yourself a nutter who likes juggling spanners and fill his head up with speed, go pranking for yourselves. nothing's over yet, let's keep it going

[@frankboothsedated.7054]

Who can afford to just do a bunk to Europe? It's not the cost of the ferry to Rotterdam that prohibits me, it is having enough time off work to make it worthwhile.

[@nickfurbeck2338]

Ed Gein's Mum that’s the point fuck work it’s you and the open rode if I could I would drop it all to be in the time they where and follow the dead and it was just a better time

[@frankboothsedated.7054]

@@nickfurbeck2338 True. I may well have done some continental wandering in my youth if I wasn't shackled to bloody methadone. I was chained to that bastard radiator for 20-years, aged 17-37, and now it's probably too late.

[@pattyleabo426]

Amen brother.

[@DarlingPhenylethylamine]

@@frankboothsedated.7054 Get the fuck out, it's never too late! (Get the fuck out! Now!) 37's good. You're lucky, and a whole lot luckier than some.

[@docbobster]

Great documentary marred only by decision to intersperse commentary from clueless and irrelevant 1990s British pop stars du jour.

[@sadtoast6122]

Assuming they all did LSD because the beetles did

[@ianhamilton6372]

Hey, the beauty of living in the free world is the right to be wrong!

[@augustusbetucius1572]

I would have to agree with you.

[@chrissnyder5665]

docbobster Here, here, my man! Obviously one of the “Informed” few!!

[@gregpotemkin2547]

@@sadtoast6122 sorry Beatles got it a bit on down the road in time though. 1st weed. By Dylan. We gave it out freely. It was legal. No one can explain how great freedom &500 mics of sandbox liquid . omg omg. Tim Leary Ginsburg and there. And me.

[@bruceverdi2627]

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]

Right on.

[@chikkipop]

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

[@claychandler3468]

Bulshit

[@jamesbrooks9567]

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]

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

[@diogenesrevoltaire2049]

Kesey makes me queasy.

[@lawrencefeldman7744]

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

[@jimc3891]

Ah Moby Grape. “She”

[@ronaldpetrin5823]

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]

All influenced by the first one.

[@MLATX512]

1964. I had forgotten it was that early.

[@losaikosavetheearth4215]

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.

[@sammyscotch9945]

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

[@sammyscotch9945]

Theres alot of people who feel just as you, myself being 1

[@dr.jamesolack8504]

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.

[@editingandy]

“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…” 🤣

[@rrbaggett7]

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

[@michaelchrist5356]

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!

[@LeftyPem]

Incredible audio quality from a recorded VHS copy!

[@jeremyfluff138]

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. :)

[@plutoplatters]

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 !!

[@MrBrian8749]

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

[@thermionic1234567]

I’m 54 and remember when liberals were fun...

[@Miller_Time]

Still are

[@lastnamefirst4035]

We still are. People didnt used to call us stupid names

[@dsnodgrass4843]

I miss when rightists weren't so peevish for inserting their politics into literally everything.

[@thermionic1234567]

D Snodgrass You infiltrated and took over the commanding heights in politics, culture, academe and even the economy - especially the personnel offices of the large corporations. You control the media and call people like me and my wife “peevish.” I’m mad as hell and I will stand in line with 100% corona virus-infected people if necessary to vote for and ensure President Trump wins in November.

[@dsnodgrass4843]

@@thermionic1234567 Lol. Your millionaire and billionaire owners have set the governmental, economic, and media agendas for the last 40 years. Watch Noam Chomsky's "Requiem For The American Dream"; it's free on KZbin Movies rn. Maybe it'll teach you something, but i doubt it. If you think Donald Trump is the "answer" for anything; you've already been thoroughly suckered.

[@jamesagwe2981]

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

[@MrBrynmair]

I couldn’t get over how clean their clothes were, all the hippies in my day were filthy,definitely not wearing pure white t shirts.

[@Ohionortheast]

I absolutely loved doing papers back my day an indescribable experience

[@ChewingToons]

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!!!!!

[@justinmus2896]

Take 3.5g dried mushrooms. Sit alone in complete darkness and silence. When the fear comes start to listen to the album "chants of India" and enjoy the company of God.

[@ricklambert9718]

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]

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

[@DerekMogambo]

ha ha haaa~! #Troll, much?

[@benjaminpickett3502]

whats the song at 28 mins 15 seconds PLEASE

[@brianvaughan2624]

"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]

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!

[@jessebodenmusic8885]

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]

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]

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

[@andrewtedlow6552]

Especially with the Country Fair!!

[@Me97202]

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

[@angelajudson8156]

I live in Eugene and as much as it's the same, I ts different now. Meth has totally changed the vibe

[@williammccarthy2265]

Jack Kerouac said that Kesey and company ruined Neal Cassidy.

[@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488]

Neal just.showed up at kens house. His own fault. No body forced him. Prison ruined neal.

[@joeshoe6184]

Kerouac himself was pretty well ruined by alcoholism by the time he made that comment.

[@Unfamous_Buddha]

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.

[@QED_]

Ken Kesey will a have a lot of karma to pay for having contributed to the sad, humiliating, self-parodization of Neal Cassady . . .

[@QED_]

@Samuel Roth: I'm grateful for his writings. I'm sorry that he came to the end that he did. And I recognise that there's no legitimate excuse for his being the jerk that he often was . ..

[@jamesbrooks9567]

Did you know him

[@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488]

Going to prison broke Neal not ken.

[@reeceschrock396]

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

[@leeannalynx4890]

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.

[@SeaHorseGypsy]

"If you're doing anything to see god, you better be damn sure you're ready to see god. Otherwise, he will kick your ass all over hell and heaven both."

[@ichaffee1]

unfortunately that is what usually happens.

[@arlowallace7775]

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

[@tarralynne9256]

If you lived and experienced the Oneness the of All, you were blessed. We were Blessed. We thought it was the Beginning, but it was the end. The beginning of the end. And here we are. The Sixth Extinction. Peace & Love everyone ✌️ ☮️ ❤

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

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?!

[@hubbrd]

:)

[@brobrian6666]

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.

[@johnking5691]

The bus came by and I got on, that's where it all began.

[@richierugs6544]

take it from a Boomer, that was real lsd not the whatever kids today think is acid--5th row with Garcia looking into your eyes with understanding--at one point during a slow eepy passage of the Other One the band band somehow made about 50 of us get out of the way of the music, and we all swayed like kelp and groaned in ecstasy as it channeled it's way thru us----ya had to be there

[@SIMKINETICS]

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]

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]

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

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

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]

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]

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

[@michaelviens2894]

Ride that two wheeled with the sore of the flame is running through your hair saddled on the bewildered beast across the ravage road with a fat joint Dr. Thompson R.I.P

[@flamingooneleg77]

Then The wind blew your hair and you ended up being bald & over Weight & The girls began to look like mothers and the guys began to look like fathers. They all looked disgusting to the young. And when it’s all over everyone’s screaming and yelling in hell gnashing their teethWith no way out.

[@codex_logos]

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

[@JesusIsKingAndSavior]

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

[@tetrahedron1000]

@@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.

[@charlie.something]

everything's over

[@Miller_Time]

Uhhhh what

[@tonyduncan9852]

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 . . .😎 😎 😎

[@celtiberian07]

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.