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Re: Today in psychedelic history (12/04) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #27568791 - 12/04/21 09:17 AM (2 years, 1 month ago)

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The trouble arrived sooner than anyone expected and at its center were the Merry
Pranksters. As Alpert, who perhaps caught an intimation of the future that evening in La
Honda, described it: "We thought we had a few more years of sneaking under the wire with
legitimacy before the whistle got blown. But Ken made them blow the whistle. I mean, the
day after the San Jose 'acid test' the big headline in the paper was about a 'drug orgy.' Then
the legislators had to act. Their hand had been forced ." 22

The Acid Test was Kesey's experiment on the nature of group mind and a possible new art
form. It was total experience, Kesey explained to Wolfe, "with all the senses opened wide,
words, music, lights, sounds, touch— lightning ." 23

The first Acid Test was a dry run held at Babbs's place in Sequel, a town outside of Santa
Cruz. Except for an enigmatic poster— Can You Pass The Acid Test?— that appeared in a local
bookstore, no effort was made to publicize the event and aside from a contingent of San
Francisco bohemians who came with Allen Ginsberg, attendance was limited to the
Pranksters and their friends. The second Test, in San Jose on the night of a Rolling Stones
concert, was closer to the Grand Design. Although the Pranksters failed in their quest to find
a public hall, they managed to procure a rambling old house out in the suburbs that was
owned by an aging and somewhat gullible bohemian named Big Nig. When the Rolling
Stones concert ended and the doors opened to emit the flood of satisfied rockers, there
were the Pranksters, dressed in their Day-Glo finery, pressing handbills bearing that
enigmatic ... Can You Pass ... plus Big Nig's address ... into eager hands.

Kesey had hired a band for this Acid Test, a group of Palo Alto rockers who called
themselves the Warlocks, although they shortly would change their name to the Grateful
Dead. Consequently Big Nig's living room was filled with electronic equipment— amplifiers
and assorted Prankster playthings, microphones and tape recorders that were hooked into
each other, feeding Cassady's voice or Babbs's voice— "Have you lost your mind yet?"— out
over the suburban turf and into the suddenly wide-awake consciousness of the neighbors.
Who promptly called the police. Who found hundreds of people milling around Big Nig's
yard, a few freaking out, but most totally absorbed into whatever meaning the Pranksters
plus the LSD had been able to create.

"They had film and endless kind of weird tape recorder hook ups and mystery speaker trips
and all," recalls Jerry Garcia, the Warlock's lead guitarist. "It always seemed as though the
equipment was able to respond in its own way. I mean it ... there were always magical
things happening. Voices coming out of things that weren't plugged in ... it was just totally
mind boggling to wander around that maze of wires and stuff like that. Sometimes they
were like writhing and squirming. Truly amazing ."

In a sense, the electronic whisperings, the bop raps of Cassady, Babbs's metanoic chants—
these were comparable to the huge eight-hour tapes that Metzner had devised at Millbrook.
Both were designed to manipulate the suggestibility of the psychedelic condition, to move
the tripper in novel directions, except that the Acid Test piled on roaring guitars and flashing
lights and hundreds of ecstatic fellow voyagers going wherever the flow led them. The ideal
was to get everyone participating, adding their own creative juice to the gestalt. To get
hundreds, maybe even thousands, synched up ... to leave the planet!


(Storming Heaven: LSD and The American Dream by Jay Stevens)













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