Hip Glossary – Trips Festival

Trips Festival: Stewart Brand produced this LSD party in San Francisco in January, 1966. It was a three day festival of music at Longshoreman’s Hall with dancing and a light show that would simulate “an LSD experience without LSD”. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters showed up as this was the most public of the acid tests. The success of this event inspired Bill Graham to start holding these parties on a regular basis at the Fillmore Auditorium.