by Dante | May 1, 2017 | Chapter 1, GDFA
Previous Next Ken Kesey Photos: Main – Herbie Greene, Inset – Ron Bevirt Previous...
by Dante | May 1, 2017 | Chapter 1, GDFA
Previous Next THE BLANDNESS OF AMERICAN CULTURE BACK IN 1950 WAS SUMMED UP WHEN SNOOKY LANSON SANG IT’S A MARSHMALLOW WORLD ON THE LUCKY STRIKE HIT PARADE. BUT, BY THE END OF THAT DULL DECADE, A SPIRIT OF CREATIVE ADVENTURE WAS RE-EMERGING ACROSS THE COUNTRY....
by Dante | May 1, 2017 | Chapter 1, GDFA
Previous Next Up at the Fillmore Auditorium, Ken Kesey’s Acid Test event was in action when I got there around the middle of the evening. The people were like the backstage crowd at the California Hall dance (that the Airplane played the same night). The...
by Dante | May 1, 2017 | Chapter 1, GDFA
Previous Next The nice thing about the Acid Test was that we could play or not. And a lot of times we’d really be too high to play, and we’d play for maybe a minute and then we’d lose it and have to leave —”This is too weird for me!” On...
by Dante | May 1, 2017 | Chapter 1, GDFA
Previous Next One of the highlights of the Muir Beach Test was … dare I, shall I breathe his name? Owsley pushing a chair along a wooden floor, this old wooden chair, running it along the floor making this noise, the most horrible screeching and scraping. It...
by Dante | May 1, 2017 | Chapter 1, GDFA
Previous Next The scene at Olompali The man in black smoking a cigarette in the middle of this group of partiers, is Michael Wilhelm of The Charlatans. From left: Tangerine, Rock Scully, David Freiberg (behind Rock), Girl Freiberg, and George Hunter of the Charlatans...
