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BillO
Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
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Feb 19, 2010 - 10:30am PT
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Bump for Ken just to make an even 50 posts.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Feb 19, 2010 - 11:37pm PT
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Ken Kesey indirectly had a big influence on my life. I read his book One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest while I was working at a Mental Hospital in LA. It was one of the voices that caused me to Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out and head for Camp 4.
Thanks Ken
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I'm all about letting a little daylight into the swamp.
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leena
climber
Pinecrest, CA
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This Guy:
I'm pretty sure the protagonist from One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is modeled after him.
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tom Carter
Social climber
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It's all true even if it didn't happen.
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fosburg
climber
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"The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began"
Sometimes a Great Notion is a great American novel!
"What a gray world it would be without LSD", Jerry Garcia
I love the part in Electric Kool-aid Acid Test where Kesey is berating the guy for secretly polishing off the last of the acid in New York, "We needed that, for the Rockies!"
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jul 11, 2012 - 11:29pm PT
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bump Sometimes A Great Notion
Good night Irene.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jul 12, 2012 - 12:05am PT
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There is a certain link to climbers in the Tetons and "the bus." If I remember, think 63 Everest expedition. Someone out here must know. Jennie?
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Jul 12, 2012 - 12:53am PT
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I’m perplexed on the connection to Teton climbers, Joe.
My mother knew Barry Corbet from Jackson who was on the 1963 Everest team but doesn’t know the link.
(She claims she was a mormon hippie…but I think she’s lying…or maybe gotten an F in Psychedelic Studies, ;-)
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 22, 2015 - 07:28pm PT
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I had forgotten about this great thread. Stuff like this is a big part of why ST is a wonderful place to hang out.
Pieces of gold among the dog turds.
Makes it all worth-while.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 22, 2015 - 07:32pm PT
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At the show in lake placid
Where we all were on acid
From the third row
To the Raffters
Of the Olympic stadium
Where USA Hockey won gold,
The To Lay Me Down,
was turned up to Stun !!
Wheel to the turnig Sky
Wheel to the turn an' FLY
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 22, 2015 - 09:47pm PT
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I maintain that his greatest work was Sometimes A Great Notion.
It certainly ranks in the top 5 American novels list.
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Gilroy
Social climber
Bolderado
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Feb 22, 2015 - 10:11pm PT
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I and others here (it appears) agree, Reilly. Southern Gothic set in the Pacific Northwet. Too bad the movie was so flawed. A waste of great actors and Kesey's novel.
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Gilroy
Social climber
Bolderado
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Feb 23, 2015 - 06:07am PT
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Oh, I enjoyed the film aplenty but it fell so short of the novel's scope and story-telling for me. Henry Fonda as the curmudgeonly patriarch was memorable. I think the flick was re-titled "Never Give an Inch"?
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Feb 23, 2015 - 06:10am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
He admits the CIA's involvement, interesting. So, what do we, or they (the CIA) have to show for their little experiment? What was the overall outcome? Are we better off for LSD? What if it was never invented? Would we be missing out on some grand revelations?
My feeling is that the doors they don't want us to look behind are not the ones in our minds.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 23, 2015 - 06:14am PT
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Geuss I'll have to give notion another try....
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smith curry
climber
nashville,TN
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Feb 23, 2015 - 07:33am PT
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I got to know Kesey fairly well about 25 years ago as my GF's mom was Jane Burton (her pregnancy being the reason for the infamous bus trip)...He was unbelievably kind and generous---Very encouraging to me about my musical aspirations. The man just exuded charisma---the very definition of a born leader.
For my birthday he bought me a tiny wooden guitar that rotated on a stand and played a song (like a music box) and had Bob Weir sign it for me. Unfortunately it disappeared during my tumultuous 20's.
A great writer and human...Sigh.
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smith curry
climber
nashville,TN
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Feb 23, 2015 - 07:35am PT
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For the record he hated the Cuckoo's Nest film hahaha
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 23, 2015 - 07:52am PT
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The man single-handedly invented the word "poozle".
"...legs long enough to lock around his mighty back , and a little cup of poozle warm and juicy and sweet as butter an' honey..."
Though Leadbelly gets the invention credit, Mr. Kessy gets the award for best adatpation of someone else's work.
Sometimes I lives in the country
Sometimes I lives in town
Sometimes I take a great notion
To jump into the river an’ drown
Birdman
Professor stackin' signs
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Feb 23, 2015 - 07:55am PT
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Listen to Jerry talk about the Acid Tests and the Haight Ashbury scene. Then, consider what Kesey says above about the CIA involvement in LSD distribution.
My question is: To what extent was all this a truly organic movement, and to what extent was it instigated or contrived? Did it start out as an authentic grass roots movement that, like so many others, soon got co-opted and twisted. Or, was it contrived from the beginning?
This interview with Jerry is fascinating and entertaining. He was right in the middle of all this.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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