Re: were the Who "On the Bus?"

[David & Rachael <arizona@itis.com>]

Kenneth Hawkins wrote:
> 
> Instead of working I and two of my colleagues were just
> discussing Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' legendary
> psychedelic bus trips across America, ca. 1966-67.  We know
> that the Beatles tried to turn this concept into a media event of
> their own which flopped (Magical Mystery Tour) but had to
> wonder, was there a connection between the single Magic Bus
> and the Pranksters' phenonmena?  if not at the outset, did the
> song ever eventually connote a freewheeling acid-laced road
> trip? did they play MB at the Monterey Pop Festival in '67? would
> people in the audience have perhaps perceived such a
> connection?

The Who where not along with the Merry Pranksters in physical form, but
their music was!!! What a great notion if they had been...