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The name "Acid Test" was coined by Kesey, after the term "acid test" used by gold miners in the 1850s.He began throwing parties at his farm at La Honda, California. [2] The Merry Pranksters were central to organizing the Acid Tests, including Pranksters such as Lee Quarnstrom and Neal Cassady.
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 Pranksters eventually leave the confines of Kesey's estate and travel across the country in a bus called Furthur.
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 ...
Vietnam veteran Ken Babbs (in face paint) with fellow Prankster Paula Sundsten and a Hell’s Angel at the Pranksters’ 1966 Acid Test Graduation.
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).
Ken Babbs was born January 14, 1936, and raised in Mentor, Ohio. [citation needed] He attended the Case Institute of Technology where he briefly studied engineering for two years on a basketball scholarship, before transferring to Miami University, from which he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English literature in 1958.
The escapades of Kesey and the Merry Pranksters are documented in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which describes the wildly painted school bus, 'Furthur', [15] driven by Neal Cassady, who had been the hyperkinetic driver in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. A neon sign in the Redwoods: Applejack's Saloon.
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