60 years ago today (maybe), the muir beach acid test, during which the grateful dead & owsley stanley encounter one another for the very first time & owsley promptly freaks out & drives his car into a ditch. muir beach photo from later in the '60s. (sometimes the palo alto acid test is placed on 12/11 & muir beach on 12/18, but rosie mcgee says she met phil lesh for the 1st time on 12/11 & attended palo alto the following week, which seems to settle the matter.) [1/4]
tom wolfe’s account of muir beach in “the electric kool acid test.” https://archive.org/details/electrickoolaida0000wolf/page/244/mode/2up [2/4]
dennis mcnally’s puts the muir beach acid test together in “long strange trip” [3/4]
but my favorite firsthand account of muir beach comes in william craddock’s extraordinary 1968 novel, “be not content,” which can be read in its entirety on @internetarchive https://archive.org/details/benotcontentasub00crad
and in-print in a more recent edition: https://keokeebooks.com/products-page/writings-from-regional-authors/be-not-content-a-subterranean-journal/ #deadfreaksunite [4/4]
@bourgwick Well now I know what I'm planning for a family outing over the holidays. We are all going to Muir Beach! I just need to swing through Fairfax first.