Jerry Garcia & Ken Kesey on the Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show

[fishybishbash]

So what happened America?

[noerobbins24]

I want this video on my VK1010 phone.

[oshuabailey38j]

This vid is popular on Roseau

[zaal08]

five people now

[knightschwartz]

Tom Synder stand in for the spineless WASP elite. mass immigration is destroying the west.

[Mirada84]

I've haven't tried LSD yet. Only Psilocybin from Mushrooms. Honestly i don't know where to find Acid unless i drive the 2 hours to San Francisco. Can you still buy transcendence with 10 bucks a hit these days?

[mglenwright09]

@Mirada84 i dunno what transcendence means, but yeah, 10 a hit is the most id pay for a good single hit of lucy in sf

[skater120790]

@mglenwright09 how can you eat l but not know what transcendence means.

[mglenwright09]

@skater120790 i know exactly what it means, i meant in reference to acid. i'm pretty sure i posted that comment when i was drunk, and didn't get the reference at the time. i get it now, thanks

[TheYankees2300]

Check this out all !!!

[KeepRockin55]

The problem with LSD is idiots take it. You can't really contain "stupid". If someone is sound enough t handle LSD, do it. Some people can witness a murder and go on with life. Others need therapy, and xanax and lots of therapy. Same with LSD

[mrswiss420]

@KeepRockin55 LSD in purest form is fine...sounds like you need to try some

[RyMac923]

"it's german wine, the acid came from Switzerland" haha

[GratefulVince]

Would loved to have gotten high with these guys

[dylanc00]

Oh my god Jerry's first remark is great.

[Raoul33]

"you trade off"

wise words

[HannahKinStudio]

@Raoul33 hey what does he mean by that??

[IExposeMormonism]

In 1969 "we" rented Medway Forest, a Ken Kesey Electric acid kool aid test house near Skylonda. Poncho Pillow was still there. I can see why he was "Off the buss". There were others. Never met K.K. But there are stories. Like when the cops came down looking for Paul Cox, witness to the Altamont murder. Medway was Full of Afghanistan Temple Hash Balls with an official gov't stamp on them, pure LSD from a Stanford chemist, heroin, MJ, peyote, but the cops left it all alone?! true.

[frediablo]

Positive drug discussion on tv. Seems like a thousand years ago.

[jmay054]

I LOVE ACID!!



[kIoudie]

Unfortunately douches like Ted Nuggent can still create good music.

[MrFahCough]

only four people had bad trips

[cybermental]

"Yeah Hunter was into those ....." ;)

[bigmac036]

I want to hear recordings of those acid test shows.

[timmy2b2]

@bigmac036 most of them are up on archive.org

[uhohthatsadollar90]

four people had bad trips

[LsDmT123]

LOLLOLLOLjerrys facial expression at 9:32 after getting told he want kens opinion

[aplofty]

hahaha taking down the balloon @1:47



[M0j0S0D0pe420]

@poopoop119 which makes him square. in counterculture lingo, if you havent turned on, you aint hip, you're square

[EarlieGee]

Here's to Psychotropic thought on every level!



[mushroomagical]

Jerry Garcia and Ken Kesey are awesome. I wasn't even born at the time of the acid tests...but it's all still going on. Mind and consciousness expansion is always truckin' on, and everybody's welcome to come along for the ride.

[terminalbacon]

lol



[jaceo187]

DMT DMT DMT DMTDMT DMT DMT DMT DMT !!! ALL THE WAY ALLL THEE WAAAAY

[cybermental]

@jaceo187 ever tried it ?>

[olbrocko]

Tom Snyder seems a little off that night. I know i liked watching him in the late 90's.

Thanks for uploading!

[spetrus]

Tom Snyder is a jackass. I can't believe Kesey and Jerry agreed to this interview.

[jimboschley]

this guy sucks

[balznago]

tom is a square man. that guy sucks

[d2777d]

2:25 It's helpful if the square host actually does his research before getting up on TV. Didn't even know the era (1900s) or the book title he was to discuss.

[Shivaho]

I remember watching & recording this on vhs... I still have it too...

what fun lol

[Shivaho]

I remember watching & recording this on vhs... I still have it too...

what fun lol

[Shivaho]

I remember watching & recording this on vhs... what fun

[DarkStarRift]

watching Tom on acid is crazy man, even watching this brings back vivid experiences..oO .he still looks like a wooden dummy puppet!!!!

[theBIGGESTmidgetz]

i love hearing jerry garcia talk. smooth voice.



[ToolShedDaddy]

Tom has some kickass eyebrows

[kristiep70]

oh good, i was afraid i'd never find the mensa people....

[MDProdTV]

Ted Nugent = Nefar!!

[Killinemdead1]

@alejandromartinezism shut the fuck up

[garzaeduardo]

if square is gay,then ted nugent is very square...

[Killinemdead1]

@garzaeduardo shut the fuck up pussy

[garzaeduardo]

rock lite

[dividethesky2]

ok who are those 4 dislikes from. what in tap dancing hell are watchin where this isn't badass

[ivystorm94]

How did Ken Kesey assess sanity and insanity when writing Cuckoos Nest?

[sjdinergrrl]

READ! The real history of Amerika_The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolf. Ken Kesey Somewhere Over The Cuckoo's Nest-The Rolling Stone Interviews with Jerry Garcia 1974. Henry Miller Big Sur and The Oranges of Heironymus Bosch. The late 50's and early 60's were a very interesting and exciting time in America. I believe the last great intellectual burst of freedom true freedom in Amerika. As usual sorry to see all the nonsense posts on the thread.. READ go to the library get a book

[Killinemdead1]

@sjdinergrrl shut up mother fucker

[love4thedead]

HELLLL YEEESSSSSSSSS!

(Oh, and Ted Nugent can eat shit!)

[mrswiss420]

@love4thedead That's right FUCK NUGENT! He thinks he is so cool with his thousands of guns and his hunting show. Ted you were a fag when cat scratch fever came out and you are still a fag now. You can have every gun in the world and people will still think you are a piece of shit.

[pupils777]

@mrswiss420 woooooahhhhhhhhh, could you please take these vibes to the nugent videos? all I see now is you as a problem.

[mrswiss420]

@pupils777 Yep you're right.  My comment went by 4 days without anyone saying anything. You're awesome bro.

[pupils777]

@mrswiss420 I actually didn't feel so hot about my attitude, it takes a strong person to be able to look back and see what should've been different, there are SO many people who don't know the difference.....or the concept of "change" in general.

[mrswiss420]

@pupils777 Why don't you go eat another blotter because I have no idea what you are saying. First you talk about your attitude...then somehow you switch to change with a bunch of useless words in between. I smoke a ton of pot and even I'm not that burned out.

[pupils777]

@mrswiss420 So I'm guessing this is the wrong time to ask you out?.....buy the way, are you a super cute, may I say fine italian girl with big tits and about 4'9''? You buy the first two drinks and if non of them fly at my head I'll let you sleep at my house. I know you love black labs......right?

[pupils777]

@mrswiss420 So I'm guessing this is the wrong time to ask you out?.....buy the way, are you a super cute, may I say fine italian girl with big tits and about 4'9''? You buy the first two drinks and if non of them fly at my head I'll let you sleep at my house. I know you love black labs......right? and by the word hot, I meant I'm smokin... I know you try your hardest with the animals and all, and I think that is a just cause. What charity do you like? 

[mrswiss420]

@pupils777 Yeah I am a 21 year old dude who is 6'4 220lbs. If that's what you call hot than that's cool, I won't judge you. And cat scratch fever blows. It gets old after the first verse and Nugent is a gun-hungry hillbilly with a license for automatic weapons. He is a loser and his music will die someday if it hasn't already.

[pupils777]

@mrswiss420 I really think that I'm falling in love with you, but you have to show cat scratch fever some respect........when was the last time you clawed someone?

[shockeyk]

What an incredible interview! Man the world is a darker place without these two brilliantly sparkling spirits of light.

[happyjack585]

wow, how cool. my favorite passage in the electric kool aid acid test, is when this annoying ass prankster, Pancho Pillow, just keeps shoving this magazine at the other pranksters, pissing all over their good vibes, and he does it to kesey, and kesey just says "why must i take your bad trip?". it totally blew my mind.

[mrswiss420]

2:14...jerry--"i thought it was the electric cuckoo's nest"

[setboy1]

@mrswiss420 That's Ken's voice

[mrswiss420]

before i do anything in life i ask myself this question...WWJD? what would JERRY do? it got me this far so if it works keep truckin

[Gatsby999888]

@mrswiss420 He'd probably shoot up.

[mrswiss420]

@Gatsby999888 I can't see Jerry as the needle and arm kind of heroin user though...I bet he just snorted it

[grasshoppa41]

@mrswiss420 he smoked it actually, chased the dragon..

[mrswiss420]

@grasshoppa41 that's always fun

[custymaster]

wow, snyder is the man, great questions that rival the greatness of the answers, interviewing at it's finest!

[custymaster]

i think that you don't get anything for free so you...trade off

[bksmartysrock]

when was this interview?

[mrswiss420]

@bksmartysrock sometime in the 80's

[bdahlberg12]

so the 60's were about.....sex. sex. and sex?

[nicoletheyhetti]

6:48 cracks me up!!

[StoneFredFlint]

"It's the passage back that we had trouble with," indeed. It's always the way.

[StoneFredFlint]

It's as if the early Christians had a media outlet. There's something profane about making public something as intensely private as an LSD trip. I think the continuing interest in the "phenomenon" comes from the spiritual emptiness of the times, then and now. Anything that appears to be genuinely human becomes "news" because it's so freakish.

[coolronification]

Love and Miss Ken, Jerry, Good LSD

[justiniscoolohyea]

the way he says sex = lolz

[ajsconnect]

this guy likes to say SEX

[xxxXGuNzXxxx]

people thought the hippies and people who did lsd were idiots. look at these guys. they're pretty intelligent and sane if you ask me.

[Zwenskaia]

This journalist is talking too much!!! He's just unbearable...

[yoda19hack]

Hahaha Garcia is awesome...i love the guy XD

[kiasmus]

A true friendship and an amazingly young spirit. My hat is off for them.

[kiasmus]

A true friendship and amazingly young spirit. My heat is off for them.

[sportsdadpw]

good times

jerry we miss u



[muffinman223]

if you like jerry garcia acoustic

[M1t20]

Ken Kesey: All American wrestler at Oregon

Jerry Garcia: never did any physical activity

[audiotrax2000]

That Tom Snyder comes off as a complete obnoxious jerk. Total failure as a talk show host.

[Mi37591]

Yeah, Ted Nugent, what a fuggin Azzhole.

[jazminekill]

Jerry was my uncle by marriage. 

[phamshane]

this is amazing..

[dbagmcgee311]

How even was that guy gave both sides on national TV musta been a good time

[cshubs]

The father of a friend of mine was on the bus for 8 years. He was a chemist alongside the Bear (at Woodstock, too!!).

[LetArtsLive]

scooby snack time

[LetArtsLive]

bet he loved it.....i figured out the universe we are an experiment.news mans trippin..wish i could

[TheThroney]

this is the greatest thing ever, thank you very much for uploading

[freedomsfart]

Ted Nuggent is a square.

[xxwantedxx]

@freedomsfart cause he has skill not talent thats why he's afraid lol

[Killinemdead1]

@xxwantedxx shut the fuck up bitch

[Killinemdead1]

@freedomsfart shut the fuck up you condom

[stupidlittleguitar]

Tom Snyder took those guys as serious as we did, he just did his thing on mainstream TV, while lots of us did ours a bit outside of mainstream I think his interviews hold up great, he got good stuff out of those guys, thanks for posting them

[rsummitt]

I read the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test many years ago---THANK YOU for this-I was not aware of this interview at the time...excellent!! what a time---memories!!!! ;-)

[rotolo]

little later on, when we get to the wimen u know what i meen hahhaa

[pixiewilson42]

Great to see Ken+Gerry together,,,,I hopped on the Magic bus about 7 yrs ago when it came to Liverpool..what a great experience...amazing artwork

[hanafields123]

it's in a swamp in oregon

[tylersimo]

last i heard, back when kesey was around, it was rusting out on his property.

[dana96150]

It is still there in Pleasant Hill Oregon!

[artaylor5615]

this is awesome

[prophetdude2]

Does anyone know where the original Furthur bus is now? I would LOVE to know.

[coloradojohnsons]

@prophetdude2 its at the smithsonian in D.C.

[ClueSign]

@prophetdude2 It's in Oregon on Ken Kesey's farm.

[IExposeMormonism]

This culture died in 1974. Everyone went from Psych degrees, Philosophy, etc to Business degrees. UCSanta Cruz went from highest SAT scores, more desirable than Stanford or Yale to the bottom of that list. "We" had an EAKAT house after K Kesey left. We were 19, they 30ish. We had pure LSD from Stanford's SLAC, did Light Shows for Greatful Dead, Family Dog, etc. We were 19 and had a bar to run and We lived up above, next to Stanford's entry! Later the Stanford Book Store @High and University st

[PunishedByJesus]

You are wasting time here.

Why are you not exposing mormons?

It's a very worthy cause.

[IExposeMormonism]

@PunishedByJesus Oh, I don't know, I thought I had been in that space. must have been the light shows we did for GD, etc, Living at a EAKAT house (Poncho Pillow was a pain), All the LSD from Stanfords SLAC, Running the nightclub in Palo Alto; The New Riders of the Purple Sage played first there. .. And that new bus is not the original bus, it's gone:: Even the coolest most liberated harry christmass types succumb to the material idolatry of the ages.....

[timhorpo]

Thanks for that! And as Kesey once said, you're either on the bus or not...and definitely Snyder has yet to take that trip

[tiedyekeith]

I still have a tape cassette recording he made of this interview....holding a mic up to the tv....you can hear my brother laughing at times when they cracked him up.....great fun times, man..

[soltisimba]

Dan Akroyd used to do Synder on Sat Night Live and he was very good at it. What a great interview in the greater picture! That is, if you care about learning about American culture and the strong influence the 60's had on us. I love Kesey's answer about if the drugs hurt him. However, I think a more positive answer is in order.

[louisguitarslinger]

"first connection between music and drugs" this guy is a complete fuckwit

[vicparis]

Actually he really wasn't. He always had really good bands that no one else would have on their shows. What other late night host would have Kesey and the Dead on their show?

[louisguitarslinger]

yeah but if you are proffestional journalist, you should really have your facts straight and not be basing your interview on a false premise. he obviously knew very little about the people he was interviewing....

[KulaAShaker]

is snyder his name? man this guy is a douche..a fucking conservative prick that doesnt know how to conduct an interview...go Ken!!

[halbie71]

KulaAShaker actually Tom Snyder was an OK guy.

[skatebaker21]

wow. ummm you my friend are an idiot

[KulaAShaker]

hehe..this interview is hilarious isnt it? shame you're surrounded by idiot friends..hehe

[momwentcrazy]

Tom Snyder: "...were, as they say, 'tripping out'..."

[gamerk1d51]

please can we stop the criticism and the flaming. We all need to accept that no matter what demogrpahic you are/ were (hippie, conservative sitter, etc.) these men and their bands influenced much more than any other political or media figure in their time, excluding great recognized transcending thinkers. Peace, love and general acceptance for what things are. One Love!

[Hapworth1924]

oh, i bet the narcs had a field day thinking of who they could bust while watching this

[SnoopUFO]

they slipped him some! lol!!!!!1

[dorito818]

you trade off.

he says that in his book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, when Harding says about the EST "you get a free trip to the moon, well not entirely free you pay with brain cells and in that bank we are all billionaires."

[DeanSatan]

...1900's . . tom snyder was a big ole douche

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Jerry lives on!

George Vreeland Hill

[shlempnar]

nothing lasts!

[buckfushes]

These hallucinogens teach us that we are all one...

Its a special moment in life

when one realizes this oneness.

[Funkatronical]

i realize this man it's good to know someone else has that thought

[DomBianco]

This was great, did you know that I played on the same stage as Jerry Garcia, I met him that night at the Keystone in Palo Alto Ca.

[marycigarettes]

wonderful clip....love those people

[Angry1541]

Actually, I think Snyder know both the guys quite well--but he has an image as a reporter...so...

[cassady41]

Tom Snyder is such a clueless creep.

[smithson876]

fuck this host is an idiot. so god damn rude and ignorant.

Giving some bad vibes that jerry and ken were not digging at all.

[TheButterflygarden]

yummy kooooooooolllllllllaid

[PolicemanKtonHouse]

They shoulda dosed the host.

[mushroomagical]

Jerry and Ken are the best! I love you both! And I am sure you are having a great time in the afterworld!

[Kayadogkw]

This is what late night is meant to be. These guys have seen some amazing sunrises just sitting around and shooting the shit together on the farm. Ernesto

[fomomoto3]

OK so how people other than Snyder would have given the likes of Garcia and Kesey 10 seconds of interview time on the networks at that time. Certainly not Carson, Letternan wasn't on the scene yet. Snyder handled it with s good sense of humor and gave them time to talk. To ask more is ridiculous.

We are talking commercial network television not PBS.

[slapdadjones]

Kermit the frog couldve done a better interview. Snyder is an ass.....

[Beatnuk]

He's close to artificial intelligence. A robot.

[zaphodfortytoo]

Haha Jerry..."wow....really"... Coulda just said "Fuck the commercials!"

[smizhead]

i put lsd up my bum one time

[LeopoldSampsonite]

congratulations

[fergusto]

did you see a sprectum of colours?

or have an out of bumhole experience?

[scottadams153]

haha sp-rectum...

[edgeangel]

Tom Snyder's from the devil and Jerry is God....Also new and old research on the subject of psychedelics is showing that they may play a key role in human evolution.

[Katanajoe7]

i could watch this over and over again. these guys are dudes, two of the coolest guys to ever live.

[baptistfundi]

LSD is from the devil.

[MicrophoneAssasin420]

the plants of the earth-including the grains- werwe given unto men by god, who told them that they were good. according to the bible, all things are permissable, but not all are benificial. If the devil uses somthing to decieve people who have a certain mindset, than he does, but he did not create anything.

[fullbeard420]

fuck you.

[equallyeasilyfuqyou]

and i love how jerry says "really? wow" after snyder says that jazz about going to commercial.

love it

[equallyeasilyfuqyou]

he refers to lsd as "dope"

hahaha

[npspec34]

Q: Do-do you feel that you may have hurt yourself at all from all the experiments or experiences you had?

A: " Na-na -na na-ne-ne NO. All right so far!"

[bermudadog]

Isn't it amazing that the so called "freaks" always seem so much smarter and together than the non-stoner interviewers in these things?

[himtroy]

Papers been running dry recently. Been rough

[dinobam]

I love watching this...i remember when it origially aired. Long live The Dead & LSD.

Still yippin' after all these years!

53M

i had some kid come up to me said to be selling "Hoffman's A" didnt really belive him cause everybody has a story where they got there shit from, but honestly this blotter i only ate 2 at once. and was wrecked. strongest cleanest acid i ever ate. and I'm only 22,been eatting A for years. shit kicked in fast too. like 45 mins and i wa