blowing people s minds. the whole idea of blowing people s minds was you have to present something that is so different, there s a crack comes open where something new can come in. and the reaction to all these people was wonderful, because what it was in 1964, there was no other thing like this happening. it s part of a kind of cultural revolution going on, making the squares pay notice to this underground of america. when we got to new york city, which is the home of the beats, where kerouac lived, and picked him up, because we were in his presence, we were just acting as goofy as we could, playing music, putting on costumes, doing all kinds of acts and stuff like that. and then kerouac sat on the couch, drinking a big, tall budweiser. he was obviously not an enthusiastic guy. those beats, they had done their thing, you know? i really felt like the torch had
when we got to new york city, which is the home of the beats, where kerouac lived, and picked him up, because we were in his presence, we were just acting as goofy as we could, playing music, putting on costumes, doing all kinds of acts and stuff like that. and then kerouac sat on the couch, drinking a big, tall budweiser. he was obviously not an enthusiastic guy. those beats, they had done their thing, you know? i really felt like the torch had been passed from those guys to the psychedelic generation. kesey was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would start to let you see a larger truth and thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead.
making the squares pay notice to this underground of america. when we got to new york city, which is the home of the beats, where kerouac lived, and picked him up, because we were in his presence, we were just acting as goofy as we could, playing music, putting on costumes, doing all kinds of acts and stuff like that. and then kerouac sat on the couch, we would get a big, tall budweiser. he was obviously not an enthusiastic guy. those beats, they had done their thing, you know? i really felt like the torch had been passed from those guys to the psychedelic generation. kesey was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would start to let you see a larger truth and thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks.
presented with is when you grow up, you can join the army, go to war, get a gig as an engineer, become a vegetable, drive to work in your own car, your own, big, metal box. and it just looks absurd, people in their metal boxes like this going all over from job to job, frustrated, uptight. what joy is there in life? life should be life is and should be ecstasy. the counterculture had the arrogance to tell everybody else what they were doing is wrong. and nobody likes that. it s estimated that anywhere from 10,000 to 200,000 youngsters may pour into haight-ashbury this summer. many people are apprehensive. they feel that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a stage setting for riots. haight-ashbury cannot handle 100,000. of course, there isn t room. the tension between the government and the people began
when we got to new york city, which is the home of the beats, where kerouac lived, and picked him up, because we were in his presence, we were just acting as goofy as we could, playing music, putting on costumes, doing all kinds of acts and stuff like that. and then kerouac sat on the couch, drinking a big, tall budweiser. he was obviously not an enthusiastic guy. those beats, they had done their thing, you know? i really felt like the torch had been passed from those guys to the psychedelic generation. kesey was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would start to let you see a larger truth and thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead.