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Going Furthur is an American-Canadian documentary film about taking Ken Kesey's bus Furthur back on the road in 2014 for a 75-day trip covering 15,000 miles, along with a group of new Merry Pranksters.
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]
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 ...
Ken Kesey's quote "You're either on the bus or off the bus," as quoted by Tom Wolfe, is often repeated as a counter-culture slogan. In the Grateful Dead song "The Other One", Bob Weir sings the lyric "the bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began, there was cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land ", an apparent reference ...
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.
Ramon Sender co-produced the Trips Festival with Ken Kesey and Stewart Brand. It was a three-day event that, [28] in conjunction with The Merry Pranksters, brought together the nascent hippie movement. [29] The Trips Festival was held at the Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco in January 1966. [30]
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.
Known as "Field Trips", the first concert was held as a benefit for the Springfield Creamery, which is owned by members of Ken Kesey's family. [8] Until 1977, the fair was known as the Oregon Renaissance Faire. [9] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a virtual fair in the cloud(s) was held in 2020, and 2021. [10] [11] The in-person fair resumed in 2022.