Ken Kesey in Cuckoo's Nest writes of his sympathies for people who are conveniently labled mentally ill by the system. In New York, Cassady introduced Kesey to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, who then turned them on to Timothy Leary. At least that’s how Ken Kesey and his Pranksters saw it: LSD would allow us to unlock the potential of our limited animal intelligence and increase our powers of perception to unimaginable levels; and once everyone tried it, society itself would leap forward in a similarly inconceivable manner. Obtenez des photos d'actualité haute résolution de qualité sur Getty Images Directed by Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney. Merry Pranksters (que l'on peut traduire par « joyeux lurons ») est le nom d'un groupe psychédélique semi-nomade qui se constitue au début des années 1960, principalement en Californie du nord, autour de l'écrivain américain Ken Kesey avec, pour second dénominateur commun, le LSD et la marijuana dont ils sont d'intenses consommateurs et promoteurs. The eccentric author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest marched to the tune of his own drum. Now it is occupied by Kesey's niece… Ken Kesey découvre les hallucinogènes : le LSD, le peyotl, la mescaline. Who Was Ken Kesey? C’est ainsi que, le 17 juin 1964, Ken Kesey et ses amis proto-hippies embarquèrent dans un bus d’école International Harvester de 1939 que Kesey avait acheté pour l’occasion. American novelist Ken Kesey sits in a bus with his son and friend Ken Babbs circa January, 1970 in Springfield, Oregon. They named the bus “Furthur”—a purposeful misspelling—and Kesey and his friends, calling themselves the “Merry Band of Pranksters,” customized it with a sound system, an observation turret on top, and motorcycle platform. The Facts: "You're either on the bus or off the bus." Il écrit le roman qui va le rendre célèbre, Vol au-dessus d’un nid de coucou (1962). «Ou vous êtes dans le bus, ou vous êtes sur le trottoir», était la devise de Ken Kesey et des «Merry Pranksters». https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/aug/06/lsd-ken-kesey-pranksters-film Ken Kesey's "Further" Bus at Gas Station. Often he would host “happenings” where all his guests would participate in the “psychedelic experiences”, and those “happenings” certainly lead to the birth of the Hippie movement. Ken 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. Avec l’argent de son succès, il achète, près de La Honda, une maison, où il termine son second roman, qu’il estime être son chef-d’œuvre, Et quelquefois j’ai comme une grande idée, qui parait en 1964. See more ideas about ken kesey, merry pranksters, greatful dead. Author Ken Kesey performs in this May 10, 1969 file photo. After the bus trip, the Pranksters threw parties they called Acid Tests around the San Francisco Bay Area from 1965 to 1966. 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 never land ", an apparent reference to the original Furthur . Jul 9, 2013 - Explore Donny Hanks's board "Ken Kesey" on Pinterest. Many of the Pranksters lived at Kesey's residence in La Honda. In the only first hand accounts of the bus story (Larry Hankin's tale of Cathy's disappearance, the flashbacks of Ken "Intrepid Traveler" Babbs in On The Bus , and a short piece by Larry McMurtry in Spit In The Ocean #7 ) nowhere is there any mention of Cathy going crazy. Photo: Jeff Barnard/AP The fabled 1964 cross-country bus trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters - on a psychedelically painted school bus crammed with amplifiers, cameras, costumes, and assorted contraband as cargo and Beat legend Neal Cassady at the wheelmarked the irreversible end of the "Eisenhower Era, " and set an American cultural revolution in motion. Kesey died November 10, 2001 at the age of 66 following cancer surgery on his liver. He had surgery for liver cancer but did not recover. Photo of Ken KESEY. Ken Elton Kesey was born on September 17, 1935, in La Junta, Colorado. Ken Kesey découvre les hallucinogènes : le LSD, le peyotl, la mescaline. Mort de l'auteur de «Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucous». KEN KESEY with the original magic bus Furthur. As part of his adventures with the Merry Pranksters, Kesey embarked a non-conformist journey across the US on a Day Glo-painted school bus, shot a 48-hour long movie about it and popularised psychedelic culture in the early 1960s. And though Kesey would go on to write a number of later books in life, his stamp on American culture is bright and bold—the same DayGlo ink that painted the Prankster bus in the golden years between 1960 and 1970. Man prepares the Merry Pranksters' bus Further for its drive to the Acid Test Graduation in San Francisco. Skypilot Ken Babbs kindly escorted Scottish author Jenni Fagan and me and our driver Eric Miller to author Ken Kesey's farm, which was once a communal dwelling place for many folks. Ken Kesey’s original bus “Further”, photo credit As Kesey underwent a secretive drug testing program commissioned by the CIA, he later proceeded to experiment with the drugs on his own. 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