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  2. Furthur (bus) - Wikipedia

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    Kesey and Babbs took on the frustrating challenge of editing over 100 hours of silent film footage and separate (unsynchronized) audio tapes. [4] They previewed their progress at regular open parties every weekend at Kesey's place, evolving into the 'Acid Tests' with live music from the Grateful Dead (known first as the Warlocks).

  3. Merry Pranksters - Wikipedia

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    The Merry Pranksters were followers of American author Ken Kesey.Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally at Kesey's homes in California and Oregon, and are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus called Furthur, organizing parties, and giving out LSD. [1]

  4. Going Furthur - Wikipedia

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    The bus was also featured in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. [ 4 ] In Summer of 2014, [ 3 ] Zane Kesey, son of Ken, took a replica of Furthur on the first major trip since Ken took the bus to Europe in 1999, on a 15,000 mile tour [ 5 ] of the United States, stopping at music festivals and other events.

  5. That weekend in 1972 when the Grateful Dead played on the ...

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    The creamery was owned by Chuck Kesey, brother of author Ken Kesey. The event was held in a parking lot at the site of what would become the Oregon Country Fair west of Eugene. At the time, it was ...

  6. THIS IS AMERICA: Twilight of a Merry Prankster - AOL

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    Ken Kesey and driver Neal Cassady roll through NYC in 1964 on Further, an old school bus that George Walker advised using instead of cars for the Merry Pranksters’ transcontinental shenanigans ...

  7. Magic Trip - Wikipedia

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    Magic Trip is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney, about Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, and the Merry Pranksters. [1] The documentary uses the 16 mm color footage shot by Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their 1964 cross-country bus trip in the Furthur bus. The hyperkinetic Cassady is frequently seen ...

  8. Furthur (bus) - en.wikipedia.org

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    Ken Kesey's Merry Band of Pranksters' 1960s hippie-bus Furthur is a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964 to carry his " Merry Band of Pranksters " cross-country, filming their counterculture adventures as they went.

  9. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Wikipedia

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    The Pranksters eventually leave the confines of Kesey's estate and travel across the country in a bus called Furthur. The bus is driven by Neal Cassady, who was the inspiration for the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road. Throughout the journey, the individuals on the bus take acid frequently.