CD'S FROM INTREPID TRIPS
NEAL CASSADY-- DRIVE 1
Good Ampex recordings from 35 years ago. We put Neal in an old station wagon and played the Drive music in his earphones while he rapped into the mike.One long track. 60 minutes. Stereo.
NEAL CASSADY -- DRIVE 2
This picks up where Drive 1 leaves off. Neal at his finest. Every inch a mile of road. Kesey says he considers these tapes the most valuable of the artifacts. Cassady was a prophet of some sort-- an avatar; a necessary link to something necessary.
Track 1: 20:52
Track 2: 29:11
Track 3: 8:51
Neal Cassady: Neal at the Wheel
This is from the '64 bus trip, Neal driving and rapping on the New Jersey Turnpike. "New York, 100." He goes nonstop through a cop stop, his own screenplay, and constant comments on the Pranksters and the road conditions and his own life in intimate detail.
13 takes.
73 minutes total.
Stereo.
The New Jersey Turnpike
Continuation of Neal at the Wheel, Part One, picking up where the other left off, going all the way to Madhattan.
58 Minutes CD
Pranksters and the Hells Angels
Sound City Acid Test
THE PRANKSTERS AND HELLS ANGELS is one of the best recordings we ever made. Done in 1966 in a recording studie in Sand Francisco, it tells the story of the Vietnam protest in Berkeley and the scene between the angels and the protestors and the pranksters and Allen Ginsberg's intervention.
THE SOUND CITY ACID TEST was recorded in 1966 in a studio
with the Pranksters spending the whole night wiring the place and waiting
for the grateful dead to show up. This came out on vinyl and you can still
see some of the knockoffs around. Good stuff. --K.B.
Acid Test Number 2
San Francisco Acid Test
When Kesey and the bus came back fro Mexico in late 1966,
they went to San Francisco State and met up with the Grateful Dead and
taped all the night long. The tapes were lost for a long time then resurfaced,
thanks to a guy named Ed. -- K.B.