almost HW stuff

[M Holmes]

Ted O. Jackson writes:

> That reference to the Merry Pranksters is, of course a direct link to
> Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, a goup who were certainly not
> fictional.  These are the folks that Tom Wolfe writes about in 'The
> Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.'  Better to read that than 'Hype.'
> Also, there is a [largely pictorial] book that chronicles the
> adventures of the pranksters, including their psychedelic-painted bus
> in which they travrsed the nation.  It's name escapes me now [too
> much kool aid?]

"Furthur"?

> Kesey is best known for having written 'One Flew Over
> the Cukoo's Nest,' and then semi-retiring.  There's an amazing
> vignette in Wolfe's book about the Pranksters attending a Beatles
> concert in San Fran/Oakland after the whole group dropped acid.  I
> don't know if the Pranksters were still around to appreciate early
> Hawkwind.

Some were. I think Hawkwind played a kinda revival Acid-Test gig on
their first US tour as a benefit for Timothy Leary who was then in Jail.
Kris Tait's book has a vignette about Learyites wanting Hawkwind to play
from a silver painted helicopter which would land in the prison yard to
rescue Leary.

> When was their first album issued?

1970.

FoFP