Merry Pranksters with Ken Keasey. Spelling error probably. Kin K wrote One flew over the Coo Coos nest. Had lots of money and did lots of acid and traveled around in a bus with the Merry Pranksters. The Grateful Dead played at a lot of the acid parties. A realistic look at the ‘60s acid scene with lots of words which went into hippy language of the early ‘70s
You’re right, Ken Kesey.
Neil Cassady was Jack Kerouac’s buddy, and in Jack’s “On the Road” Dean Moriarty is based on Cassady.
It’s weird how the 50’s beat poets were the pioneers for the ‘60s. So were some other social threads that had originated in pre WWII California.
I interviewed keasey, right after Jim Jones happened. Asked if he saw any correlations between his acid-spiked Kool-Aid on unsuspecting people, and Jone’s cyanide punch to followers.
He didn’t answer, but his look was toxic.