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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]
The book provides an inside look at America's beat/hip/psychedelic counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s. When I Was a Dynamiter! Or How a Nice Catholic Boy Became a Merry Prankster, a Pornographer and a Bridegroom Seven Times , is both autobiography and a valuable history of mid-century American Bohemia, the last days of journalism and the ...
The Hog Farm collective was established through a chain of events beginning with Ken Babbs hijacking the Merry Pranksters' bus, Furthur, to Mexico, which stranded the Merry Pranksters in Los Angeles. [citation needed] First Romney assembled a collective in North Hollywood, visited by musicians such as Ravi Shankar and Tiny Tim (whom he managed).
Ken Elton Kesey (/ ˈ k iː z iː /; September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
Revelers at an Acid Test staged by the Merry Pranksters. George Walker used his trust fund to bulk-buy LSD for some of these multi-media events, at which the hallucinogen was served in Kool-Aid.
The group was labelled as the "Merry Pranksters" and participated in a drug-fueled lifestyle. The "Acid Tests" — parties centered around LSD-laced Kool-Aid and carried out with lights and noise intended to enhance the psychedelic experience — started at Kesey's house in the woods of La Honda, California .
The book features the play "Over the Border" which is based on the time Kesey spent hiding in Mexico from drug charges in the United States. [ citation needed ] It is illustrated by the cartoonist and Merry Prankster Paul Foster , [ citation needed ] and also includes contributions from Paul Krassner , Neal Cassady , Allen Ginsberg , Hugh ...
Ken Babbs (born January 14, 1936) is a famous Merry Prankster who became one of the psychedelic leaders of the 1960s. He along with best friend and Prankster leader, Ken Kesey, wrote the book Last Go Round. Babbs is best known for his participation in the Acid Tests and on the bus Furthur.