Title: Kesey and the 1960s Counter Culture
1Kesey and the 1960s Counter Culture
2Jazz musician Miles Daviss classic album helped
define 1950s cool
3Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac
The Beats, predecessors to the Sixties Counter
Culture
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5Ken Kesey, c. 1960
6Kesey and some of the Merry Pranksters
7A grainy black and white photo of Further circa
1965 doesnt really do the crazily painted
day-glo bus justice
8Further overgrown by the Oregon woods on Keseys
farm in Oregon plans are underway to renovate
the bus
9Neal Cassady on the bus
10Mountain Girl (Carolyn Adams) with Jerry Garcia
of the Grateful Dead
11The Grateful Dead at the corner of Haight and
Ashbury in San Francisco
12Ruth Bronsteen, The Hippys Handbook (1967)
13Blotter acid art
14Poster for a 1965 Acid Test with early examples
of op-art
15Timothy Leary in 1966 before a public lecture
explaining his new League of Spiritual Discovery
16One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you
smallAnd the ones that mother gives youDon't do
anything at allGo ask AliceWhen she's ten feet
tallAnd if you go chasing rabbitsAnd you know
you're going to fallTell 'em a hookah smoking
caterpillarHas given you the callCall
AliceWhen she was just small(1967)
17Jefferson Airplane concert poster, 1967
18Purple haze all in my brainLately things just
dont seem the sameActin funny, but I dont
know whyscuse me while I kiss the skyPurple
haze all aroundDont know if Im comin up or
downAm I happy or in misery? What ever it is,
that girl put a spell on me(1967)
19In-a-gadda-da-vida honey,don'tcha know that I
love you?In-a-gadda-da-vida baby,don'tcha know
that I'll always be true?Oh won'tcha come with
me,and take my hand?Oh won'tcha come with
me,and walk this land?(1968)
20Picture yourself in a boat on a river,With
tangerine trees and marmalade skiesSomebody
calls you, you answer quite slowly,A girl with
kaleidoscope eyes.Cellophane flowers of yellow
and green,Towering over your head.Look for the
girl with the sun in her eyes,And shes
gone.Lucy in the sky with diamonds.(1967)
21You know the day destroys the nightNight divides
the dayTried to runTried to hideBreak on
through to the other sideBreak on through to the
other sideBreak on through to the other side,
yeah(1967)