Kesey and the 1960s Counter Culture

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Kesey and the 1960s Counter Culture
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Jazz musician Miles Daviss classic album helped
define 1950s cool
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Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac
The Beats, predecessors to the Sixties Counter
Culture
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Ken Kesey, c. 1960
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Kesey and some of the Merry Pranksters
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A grainy black and white photo of Further circa
1965 doesnt really do the crazily painted
day-glo bus justice
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Further overgrown by the Oregon woods on Keseys
farm in Oregon plans are underway to renovate
the bus
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Neal Cassady on the bus
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Mountain Girl (Carolyn Adams) with Jerry Garcia
of the Grateful Dead
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The Grateful Dead at the corner of Haight and
Ashbury in San Francisco
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Ruth Bronsteen, The Hippys Handbook (1967)
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Blotter acid art
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Poster for a 1965 Acid Test with early examples
of op-art
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Timothy Leary in 1966 before a public lecture
explaining his new League of Spiritual Discovery
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One 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)
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Jefferson Airplane concert poster, 1967
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Purple 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)
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In-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)
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Picture 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)
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You 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)