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Apparently the sound collages were recorded for the Acid Test show on Oct. 1, and all the Kesey craziness on the mic is the following night. Read Tom Wolfe's book.



I really do love all of that Prankster collage stuff - it isn't exactly great in a traditional sense, but it's rare to hear music so unabashedly psychedelic, so pure, so self-contained and *about* itself in an active kind of way. That "raga" thing, with the delay going on, is incredible - Jerry himself would delay during Space in this same spirit...



All the Kesey stuff is tougher to take - I mean, even if you try to keep up you're going to find it's an exercise in futility. Kesey knows it, too, which is what makes this thing so amusing...but it's really not something to hear over and over...

- October 1, 2014--