THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST Lp U.F.C.S. Records ? w/ Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia

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THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST
SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE
October 1st - 2nd, 1966 

Record and jacket in excellent condition.


Title:  The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test LP San Francisco State College 1966
Label: U.F.C.S. Records ?– SMS-001-1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Unofficial Release 
Country: Sweden (?)
Released: 1986
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock
Tracklist:
1.  The Head has become Fat   4:49  2.  The Stars tell a Story            2:45  3.  Out in the Jungle                   3:06  4. Tarnished Gallahad                4:12  5.  Large Soft Woman                6:10  6. Go Head on up                       2:30
7.  Announcement                   6:14  8.  Musical Interlude                3:49  9.  Space Flight                        9:27  10. Space Jam                   7:33  11. The Butcher is Back          11:01
Notes:
San Franciso State College October 1st - 2nd, 1966. The Acid Test recording is interspersed with short interview segments with Ken Kesey and Jerry Garcia taken from a 1980 Tomorrow Show.
This fan club album is not intended for sale, commercial distribution or air play is available exclusively from the United Fan Club Society, Goteborg, Sweden.
No artists are credited on the LP front cover.
Notes on rear sleeve includes these credits:   "..by the time they get all the wiring hooked up, and start rapping, Neal Cassady with a microphone inside the hall - introducing KEN KEEEEE-ZEEEEEE it is about 4 A.M. ... Kesey [Ken Kesey] there ... with an electric guitar ... rapping poetry into the microphone... Assisting Ken from the gym were Hugh Romney and Wavy Gravy (voices); Dale Kesey (violin); Jerry [Jerry Garcia] (guitar and organ); and Steve Newman, Ken Babbs, and Mountain Girl [Carolyn Garcia (2)] (engineers). That's Jerry and Mountain Girl on the back cover."
According to this Merry Pranksters discography the album was from the US despite the sleeve claiming that it comes from Sweden.
One week before the law that made LSD illegal in California was to take effect, Ken Kesey snuck back from his hideout in Mexico to attend the San Francisco State College Acid Test.  Word on the street was that Kesey had made a deal.  He didn’t!  The set-up was with Kesey, Jerry, Mt. Girl etc. off in a different hidden room secretly microphoned and wired so people could hear him and he could hear them and interact with the crowd in the auditorium.  This didn’t happen until around 4am. With Ken Kesey on guitar and vocals, Dale Kesey on violin, Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy) and Mountain Girl (Carolyn Garcia) backup and side-pranks, Jerry Garcia on Organ, and Steve Newman was engineering.         

creditseleased July 1, 1981 All music by Storm Bugs, sleeve design by Yann Farcy of L'invitation au Suicide.

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