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panader0

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73. Neal Cassady, Kerouac's buddy

Mon Mar 18, 2013, 08:30 PM

Mar 2013

I'm rereading Ann Charters great bio of Kerouac at the moment.
I got to see Kesey a few times when I lived in Oregon, a smart guy.
My oldest friend's sister was a hippie in the Haight Ashbury in the day and remembers getting loaded on the bus.
Those were some times. Ah, and the Fillmore.... I saw the Dead, Santana (before their first album), Jethro Tull, CCR,
It's a Beautiful Day, Paul Butterfield and many more there.

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Help Restore the FURTHUR Bus (Kesey, LSD, Pranksters, hippies, Grateful Dead icon) [View all] Bennyboy Mar 2013 OP

What? Melon_Lord Mar 2013 #1

What what? Webster Green Mar 2013 #3

What? Lochloosa Mar 2013 #4

Like, hey, man, if you don't get it, you know, like Arugula Latte Mar 2013 #8

And up my spine came the Kundalini again not the real Kundalini mind you Warren DeMontague Mar 2013 #13

Hey man, UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #16

Message auto-removed C.H.O.M.P.S. Mar 2013 #72

I'm sure it will click with someone... Melon_Lord Mar 2013 #74

I gotta donate a little for that project. Webster Green Mar 2013 #2

That was the trip to the Smithsonian. Bennyboy Mar 2013 #5

Actually the Smithsonian story is not Bennyboy Mar 2013 #7

Somewhere I have a VHS tape of the first documentary Kesey and Babbs created on the topic... Earth_First Mar 2013 #6

Might this be it? Bennyboy Mar 2013 #9

Yep, that is exactly it... Earth_First Mar 2013 #10

Good thread. Good video. Times that changed me for good to a better drummer. PufPuf23 Mar 2013 #14

Umm, that's quite a sum of money they're wanting to raise there. MadHound Mar 2013 #11

Well that is why the project is onyl asking for 10K Bennyboy Mar 2013 #56

Except that very page you linked to states that they want to raise several million for restoration, MadHound Mar 2013 #63

Wanna do it? Bennyboy Mar 2013 #68

I did send your post along Bennyboy Mar 2013 #69

I would love to do it, but right now my life is too busy to take on such a project, MadHound Mar 2013 #70

You are amazing. Bennyboy Mar 2013 #71

Kick Warren DeMontague Mar 2013 #12

Who is this money going to? I thought the bus was already kas125 Mar 2013 #15

Did you go to the link & look at the pic of the bus. Webster Green Mar 2013 #19

I remember a 60 minutes story about the bus rusting in Kesey's back yard JPZenger Mar 2013 #80

Not everyone is happy about this. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #17

Lol! Webster Green Mar 2013 #23

That's totally cool. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #26

The Byrds! Berlum Mar 2013 #55

One of my favorite songs from the 60s. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #59

I saw the original, high on acid, with my parents waiting Bennyboy Mar 2013 #57

That's funny. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #58

Ken Kesey - dupe of a CIA project? Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #18

That is some crazy shit right there. Webster Green Mar 2013 #20

are you kidding? HiPointDem Mar 2013 #22

Am I kidding? Webster Green Mar 2013 #24

We dropped out, then we dropped back in, took to the streets, and ended the Vietnam War. Webster Green Mar 2013 #28

hello? the claim is that the psychedelics/drug culture killed the protest/political culture, and HiPointDem Mar 2013 #31

Yes, and I'm refuting that claim. Webster Green Mar 2013 #34

Another thing: Your dates citing the student movement and protests are irrelevent. Webster Green Mar 2013 #36

what you did during the era isn't what everyone did. the dates are more relevant than what HiPointDem Mar 2013 #37

Nope. Webster Green Mar 2013 #39

actually, you did. *got it?* is bullying, aggressive language that presumes to talk down to one's HiPointDem Mar 2013 #47

Well, you should alert on me then. Webster Green Mar 2013 #51

i don't alert except for spam, outright or implied threats, & racism of the blatant kind. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #52

there are tons of articles like those and who knows who wrote them. olddots Mar 2013 #33

+1. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #21

Really? Kesey, Ginsberg, Leary AND Jerry were part of the gov't?!!? kas125 Mar 2013 #25

Un-fucking-real. Webster Green Mar 2013 #27

Oh, yeah, all that stuff was VERY real. But to think kas125 Mar 2013 #29

What part, the Kesy quotes about his participation in a CIA program? Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #32

It's on the web, so it must be true. Webster Green Mar 2013 #35

mkultra didn't end until 1973. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #38

Irrelevent to the discusssion. Webster Green Mar 2013 #41

I was there. But like you, I wasn't 'there' in the US intelligence services, so I don't know shit HiPointDem Mar 2013 #45

Which part is bullshit?. Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #40

I said we stopped the war through our protests. I stand by that. Webster Green Mar 2013 #42

MC5 - Never heard of these cats Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #49

Saw them quite a few times. Webster Green Mar 2013 #50

I like their lyrics, sounds nothing like the Americana ballads the dead belts out. Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #54

They were in Chicago in '68, I think deutsey Mar 2013 #67

the guitarist married patti smith. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #53

MK-Ultra was about trying to find a way to incapacitate enemy troops via hallucinigens. Webster Green Mar 2013 #30

no, that wasn't its only purpose or program. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #43

OK, great. I give up. Webster Green Mar 2013 #44

I didn't say that, and neither does the OP. It says we can't know whether the popularizers of HiPointDem Mar 2013 #46

I admire you for remaining sane during this discussion while all kas125 Mar 2013 #48

Are you part of the cover-up or just poorly informed by the cover-up? Coyotl Mar 2013 #61

I saw a public speaking tour with Mountain Girl (Jerry Garcia's wife) kattycat Mar 2013 #62

A good book on the CIA and LSD deutsey Mar 2013 #66

Looks like a good read. Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #77

"I made more LSD than Owsley" Bennyboy Mar 2013 #60

Some Kesey stuff in here: Bennyboy Mar 2013 #64

from the website a cool story... Bennyboy Mar 2013 #65

Neal Cassady, Kerouac's buddy panader0 Mar 2013 #73

Upper deckers! Bennyboy Mar 2013 #75

This one's for you, Benny. Warren DeMontague Mar 2013 #76

Awesome..... Bennyboy Mar 2013 #79

Sounds like you're in the middle of an exam right now notadmblnd Mar 2013 #78

Thanks to everyone that donated so far Bennyboy Mar 2013 #81

Back at ya.. Bennyboy Mar 2013 #82

Almost there, thanks a lot to everyone Bennyboy Mar 2013 #83