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Sign for the Acid Test on November 27, 1965 by Ken Kesey, from the National Museum of American History, collection item #1992.0413.01. 1965. 27 November; Soquel, California: The first Acid Test was a party at Ken Babbs' house on 27 November 1965, although Babbs recalls it as being on Halloween night.
Owsley's association with Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead is described in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test (1968). Stanley's incarceration is lamented in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) as one of the many signs of the death of the 1960s. [77]
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1965. [1] [2] Known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia, [3] [4] the band is famous for improvisation during their live performances, [5] [6] and for their devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads".
According to author Kevin McEneaney, the Grateful Dead "invented" acid rock in front of a crowd of concertgoers in San Jose, California on 4 December 1965, the date of the second Acid Test held by novelist Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.
An Acid Test invitation from 1965. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test has been described as faithful and "essential" in depicting the roots and growth of the hippie movement. [5] The New Journalism literary style is seen to have elicited either fascination or incredulity by its audience.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
Kesey mainly kept to his home life in Pleasant Hill, preferring to make artistic contributions on the Internet [51] or holding ritualistic revivals in the spirit of the Acid Test. In the Grateful Dead DVD The Closing of Winterland (2003) documenting the New Year's 1978/1979 concert at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco, Kesey is featured in ...
30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965–1995 is a four-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.It contains 30 songs recorded in concert—one from each of the years 1966 through 1995—plus one song recorded in a 1965 studio session.