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A LEGEND IN PASSING: KEN KESEY 1935-2001 [66] He's Gone... just a little bit FURTHUR... Leader of the Merry Pranksters, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) and Sailor Song (1992) also performed his poetry with The Grateful Dead at his legendary Acid Tests (as celebrated in Tom Wolfe's 1968 novel The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test). With Stewart Brand, Kesey helped create The Whole Earth Catalog in 1971. Other Kesey works include Over the Border (a Marvel Comics style screenplay that deals with Ken's adventures [as his novilistic alter ego "Devlin Deboree"] to and back from Mexico after a 1966 marijuana charge), that was later published in Kesey's Garage Sale (which was produced with fellow Pranksters Ken Babbs and Paul Foster). With Babbs, Kesey also self-published Spit in the Ocean (a sporatic arts magazine), that featured stories that later appeared in the 1986 collection of Kesey's short stories Demon Box. In 1984, Kesey tragically lost his son, Jed (a champion wrestler like his father), to a traffic accident. In 1986, Kesey returned to touring (promoting Demon Box) with his other son, Zane, and the Thunder Machine (a futuristic musical monster that was played by Kesey and various Pranksters, which was always in a continual state of evolution - part drums, harp, horns and washtub bass, old Thunder made several appearances on stage with The Grateful Dead). Also in '86, Kesey wrote a screenplay called Last Go Round (based upon the true story of two cowboys - one white and one black - and their meeting at the showdown of the 1911 Pendleton Round-Up). Kesey published Last Go Round as a novel in 1994. Kesey taught a creative-writing course during 1987-88 at the University of Oregon and a group-written novel called Caverns emerged from it. In 1990, Kesey published his fantastic full-color "unbook" The Futhur Inquiry (which featured a flip-book section of Furthur bus driver Neal Cassidy). The classic 1939 International Harvester school bus itself was was repired, restored and repainted in time for some Summer 1990 Grateful Dead shows in Eugene, Oregon. One final psychedelic bus prank was played when the Merry ones attempted to pass off a fake Furthur bus to The Smithsonian Institute. In 1991, Kesey published the acclaimed children's book, The Sea Lion (an allegorical story about ecological and spiritual respect). Key-Z Productions, another Kesey family business (Ken, with his son Zane and daughter-in-law Stephanie) began in the last decade of the 20th century. From Key-Z, fans and scholars alike can get videos, documentaries, books, music and art from the Pranksters' travels and related journeys. Also in the 1990s, Kesey and co. created "Twister" - a multi-media event that used video projections, lasers and high-tech sound for an experience that harkened back to the Acid Tests of the 1960s. Felled by cancer (two weeks after surgery to remove nearly half of his liver), Ken Kesey died at a hospital in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday, November 10, 2001. He is survived by his wife, Faye; a son, Zane; daughters Shannon Smith and Sunshine Kesey; his mother, Geneva Jolley; a brother, Chuck; three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. A true original, gone, but never forgotten... "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph", Kesey once said... Now He's Gone, but we all know for sure that he helped take everyone a little bit FURTHUR... |
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| Country Music Legend WAYLON JENNINGS age 64 |
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| Fab Guitar, Gently Weeping...! GEORGE HARRISON 1943-2001 |
| Bluesman & Actor RON TAYLOR age 49 |
| Master of Animation CHUCK JONES 1912-2002 age 89 |
| GONE... BUT NOT FORGOTTEN... |
| KEN KESEY Has Gone Just a Little Bit Furthur... Read Below... |
| Mister Television! "Uncle Milty" MILTON BERLE 1908-2002, age 93 |
| Actor, Comedian, Pianist DUDLEY MOORE 1935-2002 |
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| Film Director BILLY WILDER |
| Sci-Fi & Western Hero Actor JOHN AGAR Age 81 |
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| Emmy-Award Winner & Action Hero ROBERT URICH 1946-2002 |
| TLC'S LISA LOPES 1971-2002 |
| Song Writer "Don't Be Cruel"& "Great Balls of Fire" Otis Blackwell, age 70 |