Grateful Dead

If you've read the EKAT then you know about this famous bus trip across America in 1964 with Cowboy Neil at the wheel of Furthur. The movie's editor/directors were interviewed in the Boston Globe's Movies section in today's edition. The review goes on to say that the prankster's were motivated by levity, a drier way of saying they were mocking American mannerisms and politics. This was said to be in response to living in the nuclear age, constantly under the threat of annihilation. They wanted others to laugh too: "Without it, we're a dead nation." Kesey is quoted as saying. The bus was stopped often, but most police thought it was a gag by fraternity boys out for a lark with their girlfriends and couldn't imagine there was LSD in the orange juice. They couldn't imagine, lyrically or metaphorically, where these kids were heading. The bus. the original bus, as pictured on Market St. in SF in 1966, has Further spelled differently than what the remaining members of the GD (w/o drummers) have called their current project. The movie itself was culled from forty hours of 16mm footage taken on and off the bus. It was a monumental task undertaken by Alison Ellwood & Alex Gibney, who persevered where others thought was only craziness. They claimed that this bus trip marked the beginning of the 1960s, Personally, I think Albert Hoffman marked the beginning of the 60s when he synthesized LSD-25 and accidentally took the first "trip" on November 16th, 1938. ~ The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began There was Cowboy Neil at the wheel of a bus to never-ever land ~