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Ken Babbs (born January 14, 1936) is a famous Merry Prankster who became one of the psychedelic leaders of the 1960s. He along with best friend and Prankster leader, Ken Kesey, wrote the book Last Go Round. Babbs is best known for his participation in the Acid Tests and on the bus Furthur.
11 de ene. de 2022 · Ken Babbs, a longtime friend and collaborator of Ken Kesey, shares stories of their adventures with psychedelic drugs, pranks, and the FURTHUR bus. Listen to his interview with Brian Bull, and read his new book "Cronies: a Burlesque".
Ken Babbs, Kesey's consigliere and a former Marine Corps pilot, shares his account of the 1964 bus trip across America with Kesey and other hippies, and the acid tests they organized in the 1960s. The book is a nostalgic and humorous memoir of the Merry Pranksters era, and a must-read for aging hippies and fans of the 1960s counterculture.
13 de nov. de 2020 · An exclusive interview with Ken Babbs, the co-founder of the Merry Pranksters and a psychedelic pioneer who co-created the Acid Tests and wrote the book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Learn about his life, work, recollections of Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, Hunter S. Thompson, and more.
Ken Babbs attended Stanford University and is the last member of the legendary Wallace Stegner Stanford writing class (Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Ernest Gaines, Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone) to write a novel. Babbs served in the USMC from 1959 to 1964, and was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam.
1 de jul. de 2020 · How did a basketball-playing Marine Corps lieutenant from Ohio become a driving force for the Merry Pranksters, an emcee for the Grateful Dead, farmer, novelist, publisher and raconteur? The ageless Ken Babbs talks with PKM’s Gregory Daurer about how he’s still living the American dream and has even, at 84, become a fan of Metallica.
11 de ene. de 2022 · It’s Ken Babbs’ “Cronies: A Burlesque”, which details his friendship with author Ken Kesey and their founding of the counterculture group, the Merry Pranksters in the 1960s. Babbs recently talked with KLCC’s Brian Bull. Bull asked Babbs how “Cronies” came to be published.
