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Re: Organic Synthesizer


     When I attended The Evergreen State College in the late '70's, the 
guy who taught me
acoustics was none other than the electronics whiz on the Pranksters Bus, 
Lee Anderson.  He had
some amazing stories to tell, though I never heard him mention that one.

     Stephen


 
>   In Tom Wolf's  "Electric Koolaid Acid Test" ( about the Merry 
>Pranksters 
> and their Psychedelic Bus.The Who's "Magic Bus ,and the Beatles Magical 
> Mystery Tour are both allusions to the Prankster Bus called 
>Furthur,which is 
> what it's destination sign said) it is told that the pranksters who had 
>all 
> sorts of arcanely arranged microphones,echos and tape loops going during 
> their voyages, ( circa 1964) mic'd their guts and got similar gurgling 
> sounds but when they did it too the intrepid, Neal Cassady (Driver of 
> Furthur and Hero of Kerouac's"On the Road"),they got metallic clinks and 
> clanks,which amazed the rest of them.
> 



                
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