Ken Kesey talks about Neal Cassady

Kesey describes a beautiful scene where Neal blows his nose on his driver's license in order to avoid arrest.

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[CRACKtakular]

hey what dead song is playing in the beginning?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[jackblacksutube]

@jackblacksutube dig

[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

[420drummerguy]

@pillarosociety Your pillar of society is made of salt

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[acebackwords]

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

[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).