Ken Kesey talks about Neal Cassady

[jackblacksutube]

i did what Ken was saying but i just think he was trying to hard with Magic trip and the bus "further". like he was trying to immortalize himself with the greats

[jackblacksutube]

@jackblacksutube dig

[RedwoodHippie]

What creativity.

[pillarosociety]

one of the best ways to keep your mind agile and ready and creative etc. is to not follow advice from simpletons like Kesey.

[420drummerguy]

@pillarosociety Your pillar of society is made of salt

[psalmo2]

I can't believe that I once admired this man and wanted to be like him. Nothing today can compare, however, with his two great novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion. Unfortunately, the psychedelics ruined his talent and his wisdom. He didn't write great novels because of LSD, but in spite of it.

[kingcole55]

@psalmo2 Except that he wrote most of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest while on acid, and in fact the most famous part (fog of schizophrenia) was a vision he had while on acid. By the time he had written Sometimes a Great Notion he was a huge acid head and had done almost every psychedelic you could find.

[acebackwords]

Rabiddog: Your comment is so lame and pointless its not even worth this much of a response.

[acebackwords]

Yeah, Ken Kesey -- the great man -- gets the credit for starting -- are at the least, popularizing -- the concept of public drug parties in America. Pot, acid, speed (cocaine and a bunch of other drugs came shortly after). Way to go, Ken. There's you claim to fame.

[rabiddog314]

@acebackwords read up on your history, it was the CIA who inadvertently turned America on...and government collusion with cartels that lead to the widespread availability of cheap cocaine (ie the Contra affair).

[kingcole55]

@acebackwords Kesey didn't make cocaine popular. Just look at who mostly did cocaine: (stereotypically) poor people in the projects. None of them were affected by Kesey. Kesey opened up our minds to a culture that ascended the social norm and did exactly what you, the individual wanted to do: be yourself. Kesey showed us not to be afraid of being yourself, therefore making America do what it does best: Democracy. Democracy can't work when everyone is following authority.

[acebackwords]

@Sharkonwitless: Why don't YOU do some research, moron. Kesey himself was upset at how Tom Wolfe portrayed the gang rape in Electric Koolaid like it was just some light-hearted goof. And its always interesting hearing the Keseyoids immortalize the legend Cassady. You should read what Cassady said to his own close friends and ex-wives about the nightmare period he went through during his Kesey phase, throwing the sledge-hammer and etc.

[infoanalysis]

These guys were so smart but they couldn't see that Cassady was just a psychopath. He was so cool because he was dead inside.Ernest Becker observed that Zen Buddhism was really a death of the mind

[acebackwords]

@kaktisbalaktikakel (quite a name there): So. So is dosing unsuspecting people with LSD a little harsh, like the Pranksters did on numerous occasions. So is inviting the Hells Angels to a party where there's dozens of people in a very vulnerable drugged-out state (I think the woman who got gang-raped at one of Kesey's parties found the experience a little harsh, too.

[acebackwords]

Sorry Killer (looks like you killed your brain along with your ego): I agree with Keroauc: Ken Kesey was a piece of dogcrap who ruined just about everything he touched. Hey, I got a great idea: LETS HAVE THESE WILD PUBLIC DRUG PARTIES WITH PLENTY OF SPEED, ACID AND POT! Hey, Kesey gets the credit for this particular innovation. As well as the drug epidemic that sprang from Kesey's cesspool.

[kaktisbalaktikakel]

@acebackwords Thats a bit harsh.

[sharkonwhisky]

@acebackwords You're a bigoted idiot. Ken Kesey is a legend among men. And Kerouac was just being a whiny little gimboid, he was jealous of Kesey after Cassady befriended him. Cassady was always gonna burn himself out young, live fast and leave a good lookin' corpse, it was entirely down to him and was just his destiny. Also that "gang rape" you talk of was actually a "gang bang", apparently it was one of the Pranksters friends ex partner wanting to get even. Go do some freaking research.

[acebackwords]

I like what Kerouac said about Kesey: "Kesey ruined Cassady."

[killyourego1983]

@acebackwords hahah NO...Cassady ruined Cassady it was just his path...get it right..that dude would destroy himself with anybody.

[zackhanscom]

tripsters are a plague on society. morons producing bad music and taking up space.

[pokeweedpathos]

what society. you could really use a wake-up call.

Ignorant optimism is not the monopoly of "tripsters" alone. But thanks for your brilliant and idealistic input, genius.

[rrritalin]

@zackhanscom

oh yeah, like you cunty little dog-walking, football-watching normals have a clue how to make music. fuck yourself in your lurid and bizarrely vulvic face. The only people that want drugs banned are lightweights ;)

[HaarlemmerHewe]

it is all controlled by the gov

[shinybald36]

can you not burn the flag, can you not belittle the president, I don't give a shit if people listen to phone calls, i'm attempting to blow anyone up. i'm more worried about whether the government will take my home to build condo's wake the f up. all this right wing left wing conspiracy shit is just to distract you.

[aaronamccoy]

that wouldn't fly today

[1dudeman2]

thats the funniest shit ive ever heard

[BeeGrau]

didn't Bush and co use a similar trick ie wiping their asses on the constitution/bill of rights etc?

they too learned from Cassidy :)

[souljahNbabylon]

surprised that worked:) It's like pullin peanut butter outta ur ass and eatin it in front of a judge

[collectiveconscify]

moew like surprised it "WOOKED"

[poptube87]

I'll have to give that one a try next time

[AlanTTT3]

Thats what too much acid, too often does to you - you start imbuing ordinary events with over blown thoughts of metaphysical significance.

Clashes with the law were a regular feature of Cassidy's life - he probably decided in advance that he would pull that stunt with his licence if stopped by the police. Its possible that it wasnt even his idea - he probably got it from a fellow inmate in jail.

It was a clever trick - but no need to over think it with a load of hippy bullshit.

[burkburke]

your an idiot

[6749er]

"He probably" Like you know? Hey it's just a fun Cassidy story, one of many.

Your the one dropping your load of bullshit on it. Maybe your over blown with thoughts of your own significance? I saw Cassidy in action. He didn't get to be him for nothing & what you think doesn't have anything to do with it.

[mushroomagical]

Ken Kesey is the greatest!!!

[handsomevision]

thats no big deal. i once crapped on my license for no reason at all. its all about bukowski.

[TheWirsching]

further.

[ArtofDreaming1]

Ken is really the most important figure in all that happened. He didn't even know it ,he just possessed the true healthy american spirit. Kesey was the human conduit that inadvertantly allowed it to all come to life. He was critical to a change that we are still growing from.

[Beatnuk]

Awesome. I want to see more of this interview.

[RemyFasolla]

That's the hustle -- the American hustle, willing to do the crime, do the time, and still be above the fray. There are people that do and there are the people that write about the people that do. Neal Cassidy has been written about by Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and Tom Wolfe, and so he remains the legend, without parallel.

[Pillage4Pleasure]

golden.

[ludogsonthemoon]

this guy is my hero

[stargate121]

What a bunch of horseshit. Brock Lesner didn't become UFC champ by thinking about yin and yang, but by beating the shit out of his opponent. Fuck you, hippies!

[drumspirit23]

but in his fighting he had to know when to dodge and when to attack. yin and yang.

[Marxinator]

What makes fighting so impressive?

[shanghaisam37]

damn it's good to have his voice

[Elidoransgar]

Dude. Kesey's stoned. You know he had that righteous weed.

[funkyfoolfromVanNuys]

Leary gets the lion's share of the attention from the era, but I think Kesey is the most intelligent and realistic of all the voices who survived the time.

[brockvond]

Nowadays officers are taught to say "would you wipe that off please sir (or ma'am)". There's a Red Queen effect. To stay current (=hip) you have to run as fast as you can. To get somewhere, you have to run twice as fast as that.

[CRACKtakular]

hey what dead song is playing in the beginning?

[eauclairedan]

"Death Don't Have No Mercy"

[wickedways63]

one of the best man

[newrealities]

I think it was just a sort of jam from the early 60's acid test happenings.

[eauclairedan]

It's definetely "Death Don't Have No Mercy" playing at the beginnning.

[newrealities]

And that is probably one of the earliest recordings, because it taken from the an Acid Test party of the Pranksters.

[walkingbear56]

This is a 1991..video of Kesey..

early acid tests were 64/65

[newrealities]

Yes but before Kesey gave a talk they showed some films from the Acid test days and they were playing this music.

[walkingbear56]

Ah heady days indeed!

thanks

[Lovegasoline]

I went to this event a Wetlands. IIRC it was more more than a one day event. Ken talked and showed some vintage Acid Tests film footage...pretty chaotic and raw footage.There was talk of releasing an Acid Test film. He also spoke and recited a little poetry in Central Park, NYC which I believe was during his same visit to the Big Apple.

[Lovegasoline]

I was also at this event at Wetlands. IIRC it was more more than a one day event. Ken talked and showed some vintage Acid Tests film footage...pretty chaotic and raw footage.There was talk of releasing an Acid Test film. He also spoke and recited a little poetry in Central Park, NYC which I believe was during his same visit to the Big Apple.

[hendrixqwe]

@CRACKtakular death has no mercy

[fgrod]

This is a comment on not just Cassady but America today and why we're so screwed in the mideast. Ken saw the whole picture not just little Nazi propaganda machines like Fox and Rush Limbaugh.

[androidstar]

Ken has it right! Bravo! Thanks for posting this! Cheers!

[CharlyCubit]

Whoops, I don't mean Ken Kesey. No he's great

I was talking to that nitwit nukes27 (flange)

[exiledfifer67]

ken kesey, an american hero

[RATTLEY67]

Ken tried to live up to the All AMERICAN IDEALS ! And got potted for it!

[trysum1841]

The hate mongers must love commenting on this one!! Pssst,, These meaning-less, divided "comments" on this screen will be forgotten into nothining-ness faster than the human race will be forgotten into nothingness. Many will never change into loving, gentle souls,many will keep on hating anything they don't understand. When you say "I hate" just add the word "Am" between the "I" and the "hate". It is YOUR OWN hatred aimed at your OWN fears. So simple. So destructive.

[nukes27]

Kesey used Neil for his own devices. Neal, divorced by Carolyn, estranged from his wife and children, and strung out on speed...needed the insanity of the Pranksters to run away from his life and family. Note- during this time period, he wasnt Neal- he was Superman..Speedlimit...TheHoly­Goof- the hippies used him up and threw him out like a novelty device and when all was said and done the miserable acid heads justify every action like they were doing something noble.

[kaktisbalaktikakel]

take it easy friend. no one s perfect

[djsvideodiarys]

@kaktisbalaktikakel everyones perfect =]

[kaktisbalaktikakel]

Henry Kissinger? Nixon? Blair? Churchill? Chenney? Hitler? Pott?

[djsvideodiarys]

@kaktisbalaktikakel tushay

[CharlyCubit]

Oh, Oh, No, Oh, and then they did this and, Oh, then they did that...

You Turd

were you really there?

[casinofire]

great story. these guys were the best.

[dazmalski]

Maybe I'm the ....ski-boy ;-)

But Kesey tells the stories...can anybody complete this interview?

[RATTLEY67]

Mwt Neil in a dream once.Roll on brother

[JohnAtra]

I have a tape of Neal Cassedy reciting to the audience with the Grateful Dead jamming behind him.

Neal rambles on something like this:

"Seen Spence? Haven't seen Spence since Forty ninth. Move 2, forty nine? Nope. Moved 2 Fifty First..."

"...the ski-boy...I excited him to move...the minister, i'll blow you for money said...ooo..what did he say?...."

[romancandlefight]

PLease can you upload that video??

thankyouthanyou

[VilleB123]

please my friend could you upload the tape?

[stuffthings7635]

do it

[SammyBozo]

Hear, hear, Lord Buckley!

There are some great Tubes of him, look them up!

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, great trippy jazz artist, he's here too.

Kesey, in my hero list!

The walls behind him in this interview look suspiciously like the decor in our gone but not forgotten CBGB's. Can anyone confirm that?

Is is. Furthur. Peace!

[newrealities]

The decor is from the Wetlands former Area club downtown on Laight street, or maybe it was Hudson.

[paulaqloria]

Larry Bloch says i should ask myself why I lacked the "courage" to carry the sign and made Rosalee (web fairy) do it. Thanks for being on my stream today.

[newrealities]

For those who missed it: The 3 great tripsters according to Kesey were Neal Cassady, Roland Kirk and Lord Buckley.

[LTm0rt]

nice video. what is this from?

[docattheradarstation]

who were the three tripsters?

I got cassady, roland kirk, who was the other one?

[lovelara2]

ken kesey perhaps?

[newrealities]

Lord Buckley is the third tripster-- hipster, rapper, wordsmityh poet of the word

[paulagloria]

We need more creative free-thinkers like these guys.

[damnright4]

Free Thinkers and creativity are a dying breed in America now.