Category Archives: Merry Pranksters

Hunter S. Thompson vs. To Tell the Truth (1967)

Posted on December 26, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… In what is perhaps the most gloriously absurd author/game show crossover, a contractually-obligated (?) Hunter S. Thompson and his two impostors tread the boards before perennial To Tell the Truth panelists Peggy Cass, Kitty Carlisle, and Tom Poston. … … Continue reading →

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Dog Soldiers – Robert Stone (1974)

Posted on May 1, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Dog Soldiers is a novel by Robert Stone, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1974. The story features American journalist John Converse, a Vietnam correspondent during the war, Merchant Marine sailor Ray Hicks, Converse’s wife Marge, and their involvement in a … Continue reading →

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Ken Kesey’s Buchla Box

Posted on April 13, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Ken Kesey’s PA Controller, photo credit Don Kennedy, National Music Centre, Studio Bell. “In the mid to late sixties, counterculture was in full swing, and the momentum that was getting behind the ‘High Tide’ (as Hunter S. Thompson called it) … Continue reading →

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What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been (February 26, 1976)

Posted on December 18, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The San Francisco scene started at the Red Dog Saloon, as much as you can say it started at any one place. Most of the elements were there: rock & roll, a sort of light show, the first psychedelic dance … Continue reading →

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Ken Kesey on the Lam, Voice Goes to 15 cents!

Posted on September 4, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Where is novelist Ken Kesey? It has been months and still no word on him. Not since O. Henry, 70 years ago, has an American literary figure taken it on the lam after getting into trouble with the law. O. … Continue reading →

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Youth International Party

Posted on August 22, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s. It was founded on December 31, 1967. They employed theatrical gestures, … Continue reading →

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LSD Turns 75: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

Posted on April 25, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

March 25, 1966: LIFE Magazine “It would be another 24 years until Jimi Hendrix would release ‘Are You Experienced,’ but Albert Hofmann became the first person in history who could conceivably answer in the affirmative to that when he discovered LSD’s … Continue reading →

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A Space Cowboy’s Curriculum

Posted on June 27, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Ten things I know about John Perry Barlow: 1. John Perry Barlow died this past February at age seventy, but people have been trying to describe him for decades. Among the attempts: ‘Internet guru,’ ‘the thinking man’s Forrest Gump,’ and … Continue reading →

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The Science of the Psychedelic Renaissance

Posted on June 4, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Three new books suggest that psychedelic drugs did not necessarily have the power to rewrite society, but, instead, brought on revelations concerning earthly themes. “In 1960, Allen Ginsberg wrote a letter to Timothy Leary, then a professor at Harvard. Leary … Continue reading →

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Ken Kesey Talks About the Meaning of the Acid Test

Posted on May 29, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“For me, there have always been at least three Ken Keseys. First, there was the antiauthoritarian author of the madcap 1962 classic One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Inspired by Kesey’s own work as an orderly at a Menlo Park … Continue reading →

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