This Weekend in 1968
This Weekend in 1968: The Kool-Aid Acid Test
Ann Heppermann
Kara Oehler
AUGUST 16, 2008Full Episode Audio
- Miniature Further buses
- (Courtesy of Zane Kesey)
- View the Slideshow
- Decorating
- (Courtesy of Zane Kesey)
Web Resources
- The Rex Foundation
- "Primo Plant: Growing Marijuana Outdoors" by Carolyn Garcia
- Zane Kesey
- Ken Babbs
- "Acid Dreams" by Martin A. Lee
- "The Gang that Wouldn't Write Straight" by Marc Weingarten
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Forty years ago this weekend, people across the country cracked open a brand new book by Tom Wolfe called "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." In the mid-60s, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters hosted big parties where people got together, played music, and dropped acid. What happened at those parties spilled over into pop culture and ultimately defined the day-glo painted, summer-loving, acid rock, psychedelic '60s.
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From Psychedelphia, 08/19/2008
books, videos and prankster artifacts can be purchased via zane kesey's website: http://www.key-z.com -- tell 'em "shady sent me!"
From Culver City, CA, 08/18/2008
I heard the broadcast RE: "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" on August 16, 2008 on KPCC FM 88.9 in Los Angeles. I heard on the broadcast that copies can be purchased on-line of the Acid Tests. Can you tell me how these can be purchased and which ones you have available? Thank you.
From Lexington, KY, 08/17/2008
you can see colors!? you can hear colors.. and see sounds.. that's what someone told me anyway.
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