Furthur - the name veered occasionally to Further, but Furthur stuck - was the bus used by the Merry Pranksters, a group of 14 happy friends of Kesey's, for a cross-country trip (in more ways than one) in 1964. So finally I got to join my dad in his most treasured memory when he was young and free and making a difference in this world, and fighting the forces of war and domination. The foundation, which has raised about $15,000 for startup expenses, is spearheading the effort to resuscitate Furthur. KESEY2-B-10SEP67-DD-DOWNEY - Ken Kesey and the last reoccurring psychedelic mural, in the Camp Hobby Shop. ", Michael Taylor is a former staff writer for The Chronicle.

[37] Some Pranksters have released footage on their own, and a version of the film edited by Kesey is available through his son Zane's website. is doing much better than Europe right now in... 'Listening to a bunch of racists': SF school meeting... Photo shows how coyotes in SF have become used to humans, Police ID suspect in theft of Maki the lemur from the San Francisco Zoo, Steve Young: Lack of trust between Jimmy Garoppolo, Kyle Shanahan holding 49ers back, If He Loses Election, Trump Muses, 'Maybe I'll Have To Leave the Country', Welcome to the Lost Sierra: An hour away from Tahoe is a corner of California history, David Perdue's mispronunciation of Kamala Harris' name immediately backfires, Police: Teen boys sparked fire on San Francisco area hill, Test your cloth, N95, or KN95 mask at home, This is what you need in your wildfire preparedness kit. The next morning, a variety of national media were asking to "come along on the trip to the Smithsonian." The license plates read "MAZ 804". Kesey had flown to New York in November 1963 with his wife Faye and Prankster George Walker to attend the Broadway opening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

I got to be the narrator of the film, then I got to get on the bus and arrive at festivals, and have people say “You’re the Pranksters!” and we would say “Yes!”. They then wouldn't let him get the bus out of the parking lot, forcing him to hang around the event until it ended.[12]. When I would discuss my own experiences with my dad, his first question was always “Did you learn anything?” I’m grateful that I never had that feeling of shame or that I was doing something against the will of my parents like many other people have to deal with. ", Once the Pranksters set to painting it, they decided it was not going to be school bus yellow. When I was in bed, all snuggled up, dad told me about the “magic stuff” and all the associated adventures and misadventures with it. Fully restore the Furthur bus to its 1964 splendor. The fundraiser was successful, and the trip took place between June and September 2014. What it RepresentsMore than any other work of art, the bus represents the sweeping changes that came over the country in the 60s. Their haircuts were conservative too—long hair was only starting to come into fashion with the Beatles. Indeed, the Pranksters' bus driver was Neal Cassady, the Kerouac pal lightly fictionalized as Dean Moriarty in On the Road. To follow Alex’s awesome endeavors, follow him on Instagram and Twitter, check out Avatarism on the web and Twitter. The movie's prologue claims that the Pranksters' journey "changed everything." Tom Wolfe’s popular 1968 account of the trip and the bus, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, would go on to cement Furthur and the Pranksters as cultural icons signaling broad changes in American society. E-mail: metro@sfchronicle.com, Ken Kesey's Furthur bus on new trip - to restoration. Strange, roaring together and vibrating off each other as if somebody had given Hieronymus Bosch 50 buckets of Day-Glo paint and a 1939 International Harvester school bus and told him to go to it. [31], The psychedelically painted bus's stated destination — "further" — was the Merry Pranksters' goal: a destination that could be reached only through the expansion of one's own perception of reality. Due to the chaos of the trip and editing difficulties, the footage of their journey was not released as a movie until the 2011 documentary film Magic Trip—although the bus featured prominently in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Furthur’s DeclineBy the late 1960s, the original Furthur began to fall into disrepair. The second bus is labeled "Further" on the front and "Furthur" on the back. It's now in covered storage, awaiting restoration. The bronze sculpture depicted a life-size Kesey reading to three children while seated on a curved granite bench covered with quotations from Kesey's novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964). In New Orleans, Cassady showed them the nightlife, and then the Pranksters accidentally went swimming in a 'blacks only' area on Lake Ponchartrain. (Cassady preferred speed, which fueled both his long hours at the wheel and his manic raps.). Ken Kesey bought another old school bus in the 1990s and, with other original Merry Pranksters, prepared the new incarnation of Further. The "Great Smithsonian Prank" was a prank perpetrated on the media. He never graduated college, and didn’t even graduate high school until I was an adult and got his GED. ", Their route took them first to San Jose, California and then Los Angeles. Posted by Wesley Thoricatha | Jun 15, 2017 | Interviews, Psychedelics | 0. My dad would talk about the bus and the Pranksters a lot. Photo by Joe Rosenthal. And yes you can get that spark without the aid of a substance, and that is one of the cool things that really clicked for me on the Furthur bus.

They were stopped several times by police and highway patrol, but explained they were filmmakers. You come from a psychedelic lineage of sorts, I’m curious to hear about your dad and how he influenced you. Kesey was in flight from a drug charge at the time.

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