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Merry Pranksters..

The book is very good. I just reread it.

The author claims to have never done LSD, which I believe, but he has great insights and really understood what was going on. It seems like he collaborated with Kesey and others so it's not pure fiction.
 
i find it hard to believe wolfe has never had it, maybe not intentionally but i reckon he's been dosed before. just the first paragraph or even page of the book would be hard to write like that without ever experiencing the drug. if he hasn't done L he must have had some serious help in writing the book imo. the things he describes and the imagery he picks up on is that from a person under the influence to me...thats why i enjoyed the book so much because it is obviously written by a tripper. there is no way he could have pick up and written about the unique things in that book without having his perception altered.
 
He wrote the book based on interviews he made with the merry pranksters, and other people who were around at the time.

That's why it sounds like he's a tripper. Some chapters are almost directly taken from the interviews, so in a sense the book can be seen as a large collage of different peoples experiences.

It came out in '68. Pretty amazing as that was while the "hippie movement" was still washing over the rest of the world.

Ken Kesey might not have been the "great leader" the book makes him out to be. What do I know? But I still think it's a great read. Highly amusing, and diffinetly contains a lot of legit descriptions of how things went down.
 
Read Kool Aid Acid Test before you watch the movie, that's my advice =D. I love wolfe's description of a trip: "Every particle a neon bulb." That pretty much sums it up for me. That's a general tidbit of a great read. It's descriptives are awesome. But - if you'd like to read a book that REALLY gives you those acid descriptives, pick up a copy of 'trippers' by bill booker. That guy can write!
 
My blotter signed by all the surviving Merry Pranksters...

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My blotter signed by all the surviving Merry Pranksters...

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Nice one. There's a massive restoration project going on with Furthur at the moment. It's been dragged from the ditch and Zane Kesey is looking for volunteers to come down to the farm and help with the restoration. I think that would be an amazing experience for anyone living in the area. Get on his facebook page (zane kesey) and keep up to date with the progress. To see Furthur fully restored is going to be an awesome sight.
 
@ jungle... Damn dude, that's sweet! <3 <3 <3.

@ velmwend.. That would be cool.

Ill have to post my art a little later.. :) no where near as sweet as jungle's though..
 
Thats cool the bus is being restored. I read the acid test, and thank those guys for what they did. Spread the message
Psychedelic A/V freakshows... the original raves. Plus their use of technology and early synths and shit, yeah I dig it.
The book was just captivating from beginning to end.
And we all know the kind of adventures tripping can lead to, actually road tripping with enough acid to trip for a year would be interesting to say the least. I forgot owsley died last year till i looked him up today. I read that rolling stone article about him a few years back.
 
To those that can't find LSD: I thought it was too rare and wouldn't ever come through my area. I searched for years and years until one day I got lucky and it was suddenly avaiable to me whenever I wanted it (for a lot less than you probably expect).

When you're ready for it, it will find you. But if you youngins want some advice: respect your elders and you might be preasently surprised..:) Do the math and you'll catch my drift...;)

Sorry for going off topic btw. I am on my phone so I can't give the pranksters a proper reply but they were some cool cats for sure. ;)

/carries on lurking
 
True story..believe it or not.

When I was a kid, between 8 and maybe 10 years old I (as a part of a more corrupt-c.i.a related psychdelic team..E.J.Gold related and what not) got to hang with the Pranksters...there was a boy there about my age and we were both given a mild dose of lsd...

Soooo we were having fun, goofing around, when we came to the edge of this cliff. We were goofing off by the edge of this cliff...pushing each other twards the edge of it, and pulling each other back...when the lip of the clifff crumbles and we both go over the edge...I was lucky enuf to grab onto a root growing out of the side of, but my playmate was not and hit the rocks at the bottom...dead.

Yelling, I attracted the attention of the grownups, one of which was able to grab my hand and pull me back up to the surface...I think his name was Gaylord.

Afterwards there was a wake, in which colored cystal goblet after goblet of lsd spiked liquid was consumed by one in all...I think this was partially to help me forget the whole aaffair..whip it out of my memory...Also for healing. I dont't recall any detail of this very high dose trip...other than a vision that I call "The Horey Head of God"...an absolutly horrendous, monsterous, enormous apparation..just a head..no body.

This event is related in Keysey's "Over the Border"...minus my involment as the other kid who went over the edge.

Believe it or not.

I'm sure the pranksters remember me..(I think they called me "Doug the Bug"). I had another run in with them at an Albion Michigan hang that used to be called the Ecumenical Society (same more corrupt pschedelic cult) In Wolf's book there's a scene were a kid burns his hand drinking some hot tea..gets prayed on my the leaders of this group, and the red hand amazingly healed... I was the this kid..and the secret (that I was let in on before hand) was that the water was heated to exactly the temperture that would cause temporary redding of the hand, but not actually burn...a prank my con-artist "buddies" pulled on the pranksters...and i helped!
 
pontifex01 said:
Parappa, what with a lot easily available RC psychedelics active at sub-milligram doses with similar duration and effects profile to LSD, it's difficult to find tried-and-tested, genuine LSD nowadays. A friend of mine who's been an acid head for more than a decade agrees with the above users; generally found in restricted circles, and treated with some reverence. A guy with a blotter sheet at a rave probably won't be selling you genuine LSD.
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Acid is definitely still about, this past year or so there hasn't been as much as recent years but that's expected after a good flow for a while. Although in America I'm definitely reading of a lot more blotters with NBOMEs on them and DOx although it isn't as big an issue in Europe.
 
It's definitely still around.. I've never tried it but NBOME you're suppose to be able to taste, I've heard anyway.. How true it is, idk...

@corky.. <3 that.. Way cool. :)
 
corky2 said:
True story..believe it or not.

When I was a kid, between 8 and maybe 10 years old I (as a part of a more corrupt-c.i.a related psychdelic team..E.J.Gold related and what not) got to hang with the Pranksters...there was a boy there about my age and we were both given a mild dose of lsd...

Soooo we were having fun, goofing around, when we came to the edge of this cliff. We were goofing off by the edge of this cliff...pushing each other twards the edge of it, and pulling each other back...when the lip of the clifff crumbles and we both go over the edge...I was lucky enuf to grab onto a root growing out of the side of, but my playmate was not and hit the rocks at the bottom...dead.

Yelling, I attracted the attention of the grownups, one of which was able to grab my hand and pull me back up to the surface...I think his name was Gaylord.

Afterwards there was a wake, in which colored cystal goblet after goblet of lsd spiked liquid was consumed by one in all...I think this was partially to help me forget the whole aaffair..whip it out of my memory...Also for healing. I dont't recall any detail of this very high dose trip...other than a vision that I call "The Horey Head of God"...an absolutly horrendous, monsterous, enormous apparation..just a head..no body.

This event is related in Keysey's "Over the Border"...minus my involment as the other kid who went over the edge.

Believe it or not.

I'm sure the pranksters remember me..(I think they called me "Doug the Bug"). I had another run in with them at an Albion Michigan hang that used to be called the Ecumenical Society (same more corrupt pschedelic cult) In Wolf's book there's a scene were a kid burns his hand drinking some hot tea..gets prayed on my the leaders of this group, and the red hand amazingly healed... I was the this kid..and the secret (that I was let in on before hand) was that the water was heated to exactly the temperture that would cause temporary redding of the hand, but not actually burn...a prank my con-artist "buddies" pulled on the pranksters...and i helped!
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is it just me or does this sound like a troll at work? im a or not disbeliever im afraid...

the acid tests were pretty irresponsible,
but pretty righteous!
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the same could be said for the governments MK-Ultra 'experiments' of young service men...or even just voting for Romney...
 
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