“The Last Man Standing” is no longer standing . Update — A memorial tribute will be held to Al at the Cafe Stritch (374 S. 1st St.) in San Jose, CA — on Sunday, January 27th, starting at 5PM. All are welcome. . Here’s a riff with visuals . . . . . The last […]
Entries Tagged as 'Real-life Adventure Tales'
RIP – Big Al Hinkle – 1926 – 2018
December 27th, 2018 · 29 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
Tags: Al Hinkle·Anonymous·Beat Shindig·Carolyn Cassady·Jack Kerouac·John Cassady·Neal Cassady·On The Road·San Francisco
John Cassady & Brian Hassett Present Cassady & Kerouac Live
November 28th, 2018 · 7 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
You Tell Me . . We were talkin’ about gettin’ together, ol’ John Cassady and me. Seen each other off and on, and he even stepped up to the mic at one of the George Walker & Brian shows last year, but we hadn’t really shared any serious duetting theatrics in some 17 years. (There’s […]
Tags: Jack Kerouac·John Cassady·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·Neal Cassady
Canada’s Marijuana Legalization — The Mad Dash of The Mad Ones
October 17th, 2018 · 13 Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
The Mad Dash of The Mad Ones . Me and my bright ideas. Of COURSE there’s going to be throngs of people in downtown Toronto, Canada’s biggest city, celebrating the Midnight Moment marijuana becomes legal nationwide. Banners, signs, speakers, bands, drum circles, wandering guitars, “high” fives all around like when we won the hockey Gold […]
Tags: Marijuana legalization
The Birth of a Trilogy
August 31st, 2018 · 11 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
THE BIRTH OF A TRILOGY . I never expected any of it. A few years ago, a few people asked me on a Facebook group to tell them about a Kerouac gathering I was at back in 1982, and my response to the question became a book . . . in eleven days, it took. […]
Tags: George Walker·How The Beats Begat The Pranksters·Jack Kerouac·John Cassady·Merry Pranksters·On The Road with Cassadys·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac
The “On The Road” Scroll’s 50th Birthday in L.A.
May 31st, 2018 · 5 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
An excerpt from my upcoming book (Sept. 2018) — On The Road With Cassadys & Furthur Visions — This bit is about 2001’s 50th anniversary of Kerouac writing his On The Road scroll — and a show we put on for the occasion in L.A. on the day he finished it, April 22nd, after one held […]
Tags: Carma Bums·Charlie Parker·Chuck Berry·George Shearing·Jack Kerouac·John Cassady·Neal Cassady·On The Road·On The Road scroll·Slim Gaillard
BrianHassett.com Turns 10 Years Old
February 18th, 2018 · 2 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Real-life Adventure Tales, The Hockey Hippie, Weird Things About Me
. Ten years ago this month BrianHassett.com was launched. I’ve published at least one new story every month since it was birthed — except once! when I unexpectedly fell in love & went on tour in the same month (June of last year). 🙂 One thing about writing — you never know what’s gonna connect with […]
Tags: Carolyn Cassady·Detroit Red Wings·Edie Kerouac·Furthur·George Carlin·Henri Cru·Jack Kerouac·Jerry Seinfeld·John Cassady·Ken Kesey·LitKicks·Max Yasgur·Merry Pranksters·Woodstock
George-Walker-Brian-Hassett-Kerouac-Cassady
August 6th, 2017 · 19 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
George Walker & Brian Hassett Present Jack Kerouac & Neal Cassady . . Click here to jump to the Fall 2023 Tour dates & Locations Click here to skip to Show Set Lists with Clip Links Click here to go to Bios . George Walker & Brian Hassett first met in Boulder Colorado in July […]
Tags: George Walker·How The Beats Begat The Pranksters·Jack Kerouac·Jerry Garcia·Ken Kesey·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·Neal Cassady·The Beat Museum·The Grateful Dead·The Merry Pranksters
The Spilled Coffee Test
April 9th, 2017 · 9 Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
. . The Spilled Coffee Test . . . . How to know if you’re happy and centered . . . Something I’ve being using for decades . . . Very simple — If I ding (or worse) my coffee cup (or whatever) and cause a spill on the table (or wherever) my split-second reaction […]
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Hillary Clinton Javits Center 2016
November 13th, 2016 · 18 Comments · New York City, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales
Election Night 2016 in New York City . . It was such a beautiful fall Tuesday in New York. We were all in such a good mood. But in retrospect there were some early warning signs I’d rationalized and dismissed: The tollbooth clerk I had a happy election exchange with but when asked who she […]
Tags: Abbie Hoffman·Al Franken·Bob Dylan·Hillary Clinton·John Lennon·Ken Kesey·New York·Vincent Van Gogh·Woodstock
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac review
October 31st, 2016 · 10 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
. . In the Spirit of Jack — a spontaneous love ode that just flowed out … to that thing they do in Lowell . . . What’s cool about LCK is — everybody’s there for Jack . . . but all on their own terms. Everybody has a completely different relationship with their family […]
Tags: David Amram·Hunter Thompson·Jack Kerouac·Lowell·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·Walt Whitman