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Cronies : a burlesque : adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, The Merry Pranksters, and The Grateful Dead / Ken Babbs.
Record details
- ISBN: 0989446298
- ISBN: 9780989446297
- Physical Description: 513 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Eugene, Oregon : Tsunami Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021.
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "...Come along for the ride on the famous bus trip to Manhattan. Join the Hells Angels at their partying best. Drop in for the early acid tests. Experience the Berkeley Vietnam anti-war rally. Relish the stories of Kesey's pot busts and "suicide." Climb aboard--"Board"--for six months on the lam in Mexico. Take the Further tours with the Grateful Dead. Make the ultimate move to Oregon, where Babbs and Kesey grew a magical friendship and collaboration until Kesey passed in 2001..."--Publisher provided. |
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Author Notes
Cronies, a Burlesque: Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead
Ken Babbs , Ohio-bred and Ohio-born, is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a member of two NCAA tournament basketball teams. He was turned on to writing at Miami by Walter Havighurst, a fine scholar and scribe.He attended graduate school at Stanford University, where he met Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry and other luminaries in Wallace Stegner's writing class. Five years in the Marine Corps followed, serving as a helicopter pilot, with his final tour of duty in Vietnam. He got off the chopper and onto the bus, Further , for the famous trip to Madhattan in 1964, chronicled in print by Tom Wolfe and filmed and taped by the Merry Pranksters.He shared forty-three years of collaboration and shenanigans with Kesey-doing shows, speaking engagements and musical catastrophes-plus writing books, magazine articles, and co-editing six issues of Spit in the Ocean . Babbs co-wrote Last Go Round with Kesey, and went on to publish a novel based on his experiences in Vietnam, Who Shot the Water Buffalo? Married to a retired high school English teacher, he lives on a six-acre farm in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon.
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