Jeff Baker on his Bookmarks blog at OregonLive has a great little piece and YouTube link to Kesey on the Tom Snyder-era Tonight Show.

“I just started rereading The Last Go-Round for a column, and it got me thinking about Kesey’s in public. He was always ‘on,’ always aware of himself as a performer and of the way people reacted to him. There’s a decent assortment of Kesey clips on YouTube, but this one from 1981, with Kesey and Jerry Garcia on Tom Snyder’s talk show, gets at his personality. Kesey and Garcia obviously are well-lubricated, and Snyder catches Kesey sipping from what the author says is ‘German wine,’ but once they quit yukking it up, their answers are thoughtful and cogent. Kesey remembered the appearance on his web site years later (see below), but this clip isn’t the segment he’s talking about.

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