Brianland

Here’s a bunch of online video clips

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Here’s my YouTube Channel   —   BrianHassettVideos   — https://www.youtube.com/user/BrianHassettVideos/videos

“Brian is the horse of a different color you’ve heard so much about.”
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Here’s my introduction to the masterpiece documentary “Magic Trip” about the Merry Pranksters’ historic bus trip across America in 1964 — by directors Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood — starring Neal Cassady, Ken Kesey, Ken Babbs, George Walker, Jerry Garcia, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone & others.

Filmed at the Luna Theater as part of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac — 7PM Sunday October 13th, 2024.

 

Here’s the impromptu Q&A following the “Magic Trip” screening at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac. George Walker was set to join us by Zoom but his internet was down so I rIffed it into jams on the importance of meeting kindred spirits, George Walker and the pyramids, Anonymous & the Calgary Stampede, the 50th anniversary Bus tour, Woodstock ’69 and 2014, the Wizard of Wonder, the “Magic Trip” DVD Extras, the Intrepid Trips “North to Madhattan” movie, George’s mustard bottle of peyote, Neal Cassady & Allen Ginsberg circa 1964, how fast America changed between “On The Road” in ’57 and the Pranksters On The Road in ’64, Timothy Leary at Millbrook, the uncanny similarities between Kerouac & Kesey, the 1964 Prankster party where Jack & Neal saw each other for the last time, and all sortsa stuff like that.

 

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Here’s my Main Stage performance at Bradstock XXI on September 1st 2024.  There’s a great introduction by founding Bradstock Chief Dennis O’Doherty, then I do “Floating Universities” from The Rolling Stone Book of The Beats — “Imaginestock”  (my ode to Bradstock) — the “Meeting The Bus at Kesey’s” part of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac — my “Ode To Jack” from the New Generation Beats 2024 book — the “Ode To Neal” from my On The Road with Cassadys book — and end with the climax of Holy Cats! Dream-Catching at Woodstock book.

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Here’s the President & CEO of the National Beat Poetry Foundation, Debbie Tosun Kilday, and myself in September 2024 shortly after being presented with their Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate Award.  As part of it, I read my “Ode To Jack“ which was included in their New Generation Beats 2024 book.

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Here’s an impromptu July 2023 interview (wearing the Dead & Company Ralph Steadman Sphere shirt) jamming on happiness, creativity, productivity, beating depression, writer’s block, philosophy of life, inspiring others, buoying spirits and so on.

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Here’s a great conversation as part of a Phil Lesh tribute in November 2024 about he and his band’s legacy and how they kept stretching the music since Jerry Garcia passed.

 

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Here’s a March 2024 rollicking positive upBeat interview just published on Michael Liminos’s great Blues & Culture site.

We riff on happiness and the keys to life, creativity, music, fun, art collectives, kindred spirits, the kindness of strangers, connectivity, empowerment, the counterculture, festival culture . . .

and Kerouac & the Beats, Jerry & the Dead, Kesey & the Pranksters, The Beatles, Taylor Swift, chamber music, ragtime, acid tests, Winnipeg, Manhattan, and all sorts of other people, places and ideas.

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Here’s a fun Dec. 2023 radio interview with the CBC in Winnipeg about the time I wrote a song with Guess Who founder Chad Allan at the age of 15 . . . 

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-367-the-weekend-morning-show-manitoba/clip/16027369-chad-allan-drops-writes-song-winnipeg-teen…in-1977.

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Here’s where I’m interviewed in a local Oakville news story in October 2024 about the new mural in the town square . . .

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Here’s the edited and torqued up “Jack on Film: Take 2” complete show from the hi-def camera in the center of the audience — done as a six-part series on YouTube — climaxing with the live Zoom interview with Big Sur director Michael Polish . . .

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Here’s the livestream of the “Jack on Film: Take 2” show at the Luna Theater in Lowell, Oct. 8th, 2023 — including an interview with Big Sur director Michael Polish.  All films and clips covered are time-coded with links in the description so you can jump to any part you want.

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Here’s an Oct 2023 interview on WCAP in Lowell riffing Jack and the film show — all set to photos like a documentary.

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Here’s the Sunday afternoon Amramless Jam where I riffed You Could Be Anything, the ‘Hearing Shearing’ part of On The Road, and the Ode to Jack.

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Here’s a 1-minute video by Julian Ortman of my annual trimming and cleaning up of Kerouac’s gravesite.

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Bradstock — Center Moriches, Long Island, New York — Sunday, Sept 3rd, 2023

The festival producer Dennis O’Doherty heard me do this at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac in 2022 and felt it encapsulated the spirit of Bradstock, then he went out of his way to pave the road so I could make it and lay this down for the assembled.  A large crowd gathered for it, and it may have been the most appropriate place for it to ever have been performed since everyone there pitched in and was part of a Collective making group magic happen.

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Lowell Celebrates Kerouac (LCK) 2022 — the Centennial Year — Oct 6th–10th

Here’s the “Jack at 100 Road Show” in four clips, including an Ode to LCK, a tribute to Edie Kerouac, the On The Road scroll auction, The Power of the Collective, and climaxes with an Ode to Jack.

Here’s the raw “Jack at 100 Road Show” YouTube live stream, from the Saturday night show, Oct 8th —

Here’s Mitch Corber’s nearly 50-minute video of some highlights of the Oct. 9, 2022, “Jack on Film” show — 

https://vimeo.com/793124726

Here’s the raw “Jack on Film” YouTube live stream — from The Subterraneans thru the Beat Angel climax —

Here’s some Ashlee Spirit audience footage on Facebook video:
Jack actor Vincent Balestri’s Zoom call climax of show — 

 

Setting up the Neal Cassady movie, plus the clip itself —

 

Setting up the Magic Trip movie, plus the clip itself —

 

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Here’s a nice profile piece that came out in the local Oakville News shortly after the centennial LCK —

https://oakvillenews.org/oakville-culture-and-lifestyle/beat-generation-meets-bronte-village-brian-hassett-author/

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Here’s Beat Museum founder Jerry Cimino’s story on the “Jack on Film” show and the great Vincent Balestri’s focus in it.

Beat Angel Gets Its Due at LCK

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Here’s a great March 2023 interview conducted by the renown British Beat & music writer Simon Warner on the birth of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac and the writing process, composing prose like music, the eternal nature of art, and shining the light, carrying the baton and passing the torch.

Here’s a great high-energy live interview with Wireless Mike Flynn WUML on Sept. 17th, 2022, leading into the climactic Kerouac centennial celebrations where we riff on the “Jack on Film” show, the Oliver Trager / Lord Buckley appearance, Jerry Cimino and The Beatmobile coming out from San Francisco and all sort of other cool stuff.

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Here’s the first live-in-person shows since the Covid lockdown — a Saturday matinee and evening two-fer — July 9th, 2022 at The Magic Genie’s Happy Place.

The afternoon show is a bunch of performance pieces I haven’t done since New York in the ’90s.  The first clip is positive poems about aging.

Part 2 is three poems about not being so hard on yourself, getting into relationships (or not), and a comedic poem “Answered Prayers” —

Part 3 — “New York Wins Another Round” and couple Kerouac pieces — 

The climax of the show — the classic show-stopper “Another Pious Frenzy” —

Or they are in a playlist where they’ll all simply play in sequence —

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Here’s a playlist with all 4 clips from the evening show — Saturday July 9th, 2022.

1.  The Prankster Address, the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac tribute, Jerry Garcia on Jack Kerouac, and an appreciation of Edie Kerouac.

2.  The Bernie Sanders rally climax from the 2020 New Hampshire primary, with a nod to Wayne Gretzky — from Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy.

3.  The On The Road scroll auction story, accompanied by Tricia Eileen Murphy on guitar.

4.  “Floating Universities: The Power of the Collective” from The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats  — and the climactic “Ode to Jack.”

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Here’s the first show for Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy  —  a Facebook live stream as part of Merry Pranksters / Twanger Plunkers virtual Acid Test on Saturday June 20th, 2020 . . . 

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Here’s the set list for the show:

3:00 — The Merry Prankster Address (update on The Gettysburg Address)
5:40 — Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy Intro
9:00 — The Franken Fracas — wild tale from 2004
19:00 — The Abbie Hoffman Memorial in NYC (with Wavy Gravy, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Krassner, David Amram et al)
21:00 — Pull My Daisy movie riff
31:00 — Where Wayward Jekylls Hide — performance poem for Obama from the ’08 campaign
The Rose of Hope — Obama Election night 2008 in NYC:
36:00 — Top Hat & Tails in Harlem
42:00 — Barackefeller Center
47:30 — Phil Lesh and “that uniquely American spirit”
49:00 — “Enjoy your Adventure.”
50:00 — Climactic Bernie Sanders rally — New Hampshire 2020

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Here’s 10 animated minutes of addressing the Oakville Town Council about a masterpiece of a new building proposed for my Village neighborhood.  (Oct 4th, 2021)

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And here’s where I came back for a very animated improv return engagement — free-flowing riffs on urban design, architecture, city planning, climate change and such — May 2nd, 2022.

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Here’s “A Portrait of Neal Cassady in Words & Music” I put together using the words of 25 people who knew Neal the best, with music by Kerouac’s principal musical collaborator David Amram.
The show opens with a 53-minute “talk show” about Neal featuring Wavy Gravy, and Merry Pranksters George Walker, Ken Babbs, Mary Microgram & Anonymous, along with myself and host Rachel Anne, on the Verse & Vibe Show, Sunday, June 7th, 2020.

Click on “Watch on YouTube” to see the full show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNHWb3wy0qQ

Or click on the screen-grab below to go directly to the Cassady tribute featuring impressions of Neal by Carolyn Cassady, John Allen Cassady, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, David Amram, Al Hinkle, Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey, Ken Babbs, George Walker, Ed McClanahan, Paul Foster, Wavy Gravy, Mountain Girl, Anonymous, Mary Microgram, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Robert Hunter, John Perry Barlow & Brian Hassett — all with David Amram answering musically.

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For more Dave & Brian, check out these three clips from the annual Amram Jam at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac — 

In 2017 — the climactic chapters of both The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac and How The Beats Begat The Pranksters — “Song of The Road I Sing” and “Be The Invincible Spirit You Are” . . .  

Or here we are in 2018 doing the On The Road scroll auction piece from my On The Road with Cassadys book, plus the “Visiting Vincent” poem that David & I used to do together in New York in the ’90s . . . 

Or here’s the 2019 Jam where I paid tribute to a beloved fallen brother Graham Robinson, plus debuted the then-new “Ode To Jack” performance poem, and performed the lyrical rocking climax of Holy Cats!  Dream-Catching at Woodstock . . .

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Here’s a wonderful tribute to the late great Al Hinkle — Big Ed Dunkel in On The Road — with three people who knew him — Rev. Steve Edington, Cathy Cassady and myself.

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Here’s a September 2020 upBeat poem of inspiration in the middle of the lockdown pandemic . . .

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Here’s a June 2022 podcast by a New Zealand historian where they do an episode on every person or event mentioned in Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire.  I rocked the “Kerouac” episode.   😉

https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/episode-56-kerouac/id1565762770?i=1000568341437

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Here’s another 2020 poem piece for the From The Ancestors project that features poets and shaman from 20 different countries around the world.  The piece is set to some very catchy upBeat world-beat jazzy-cool music by Gabriel Walker. 

https://fromtheancestors.com/brian-hassett/

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Here’s a lively April 2022 interview with me conducted by British Beat historian Simon Warner about the connections between the Beat writers and music, and the Beat influences on life itself.

https://simonwarner.substack.com/p/beat-soundtrack-15-brian-hassett?s=r

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Here’s probably my favorite interview ever.
Done with Beatdom publisher and author of books on Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Hunter Thompson — David Wills — in the spring of Jack Kerouac’s 2022 centennial.
We riff on how to write and design books that are pleasing to the eye, and on the history of the various Beat resurgences over the past 40 years, and all sortsa fun stuff.

On the Road with Brian Hassett

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Here’s a birthday riff to Winnipeg guitarist Dave Zilkie about the importance of the Acid Tests we threw in the ‘Peg back in the ’70s and the psychedelic bis trip we took across the continent at the same time —

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Here’s a fun riff by my fellow Canadian–Beat–Prankster–Deadhead brother Dave Olson from his hideaway Zen cabin in Japan, circa March 2022.

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Here’s a full YouTube Playlist of all the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac” excerpts performed live at 10 different shows, in 6 different cities, with 6 different on-stage line-ups — in the order the pieces appear in the book . . . 😉 

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Click here to jump to 2016 — the Kettle of Fish, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, Woodstock, Pranksters at the Stables . . .

Or here to go to 2015 — The Beat Museum’s big Shindig, LCK for the first time, the Hitchhiker’s debut in Wonderland, Bear’s Picnic, with Mark T in Toronto . . .

Or here for 2014 — the Carolyn Cassady tributes, the On The Road premiere stories, and Famous People Who Don’t Have Kids . . .

Or here for the massive 2009 Winnipeg / Kelvin / River Heights Reunion etc. . . .

“You’re a tough act to follow.”
Rob Burton, Mayor of Oakville, Ontario

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Here’s George Walker doing the introduction at the Prankster-Plunker Family Reunion — and the first time performing on stage together — Sat. May 6th, 2017 . . . 

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Here’s George Walker on “How The Beats Begat The Pranksters“ was written, and teaming up with Brian Hassett . . . 

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Here’s George Walker & I doing the “Jack & Neal Ride Again” show at an Acid Test in Pennsylvania (Oct. 28, 2017) . . .

 

Here’s a couple minutes from the Bloomington Writer’s Guild show at the Blockhouse on May 16th, 2019.

 

Here’s John Cassady & I doing “Cassady & Hassett Present Cassady & Kerouac” at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac on October 6th, 2018 . . .

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Here’s the opening show at the Prankster family reunion in Wonderland in 2019, including a couple duets with George Walker . . . 

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Here’s a Sept. 15th 2018 interview with Lowell radio station WUML and Mike Flynn . . .

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Here’s a wide-ranging podcast interview on the Subjective Perspective show from April 29th, 2020, that covers the new Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy book, as well as tales from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac and lots of other Road Adventures  — >

http://www.beawoke.com/tspsarchives/archives/04-2020

Or here’s a nice excerpt from it about Carolyn & John Cassady and the closeness of family and work ethics.

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Here’s a March 3rd 2020 podcast interview with Democrats Abroad following the New Hampshire primaries talking about Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy.  —>

https://anchor.fm/demsabroadca/episodes/Episode-5-DA-member-Brian-Hassett-attends-the-New-Hampshire-Primary-ebb5d6

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Here’s the second time Jack Kerouac’s novella “Pic” was ever performed in front an audience [see below for the first] — at the Prankster Family Reunion — Sat. May 6th, 2017 . . .

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Here’s an ad for LCK — Lowell Celebrates Kerouac — 2018 — talking about John Cassady & me around 1:40 . . . 

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Here’s the birthday poem for art glass shop Squisha House’s third anniversary delivered live in the shop in Bronte Village . . .

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Here’s the first time “How The Beats Begat The Pranksters“ appeared in front of a microphone . . . unexpectedly at a small club Toronto show with Trevor Cape . . . Sun. Oct. 1st, 2017 . . .  

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Here’s the Dalai Lama in Central Park — first time performed in nearly 20 years — from the Prankster Family Reunion — Sat. May 6th, 2017 . . . 

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Here’s another Kerouac book almost no one has ever performed — “Old Angel Midnight” — at the Prankster Reunion — May 6th, 2017 . . . 

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Here’s the second time George & Brian took to the stage as Jack & Neal — at the Prankster-Plunker Family Reunion — Sunday, May 7th, 2017 . . . 

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Here’s George Walker introducing Brian at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac  —>  a riff on the festival from “How The Beats Begat The Pranksters” — Sat. Oct. 7th, 2017 . . .

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Here’s the world premiere of “Kerouac on Record“ (Bloomsbury 2018) at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac  —  “The Grateful Dead: Jack Manifested as Music” — Oct. 7th, 2017 . . . 

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Here’s a live stream from the October 8 2017 Sunday Amram Jam of the “Be The Invincible Spirit You Are” piece from “How The Beats Begat The Pranksters“ with the very musician who stars in the piece staring in the performance . . . 🙂 

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Here’s an Ollie film of “Be The Invincible“ from the week after LCK — at The Bitter End on Bleecker St. in Greenwich Village — Sunday Oct. 15th, 2017 . . . 

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Here’s another killer Ollie film of George Walker describing driving into New York with Neal Cassady & Ken Kesey to see Jack Kerouac in 1964 . . . 

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Here’s a great high-energy & funny live stream of the “Jack & Neal Ride Again” show at The Mothership in Woodstock —Sky’s favorite show of the tour — George & Brian doing the “Hinkle’s Party” part of On The Road — Sunday Oct. 22nd, 2017  . . . 

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Here’s the full tour and all the info on that fall “Jack & Neal Ride Again” tour —>

https://brianhassett.com//2017/08/george-walker-brian-hassett-kerouac-cassady/#Fall-2017

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Here’s a live stream of “The Prankster Address” and the City Lights / Vesuvio’s scene from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac“ to open “Brian Hassett’s Beat Cafe” at The Beat Museum show, during the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco — June 2nd, 2017 . . . 

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Here’s another Ollie short film of George reading from his “Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind” book at our Beat Museum Summer of Love show — June 2nd, 2017 . . . 

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Here’s Philip Thomas’s live capture of “The Prankster Address” opening of the Prankster–Plunker Family Reunion — Friday June 29th, 2018 . . . 

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Or here it is from out in the field opening the Prankster Family Reunion on May 17, 2019 . . . 

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Here’s Patty Cake’s dancing floor capture of the “Atlantis” opening of the Under The Sea show at the Prankster’s Family Reunion — Sat. June 30th, 2018 . . . 

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Here’s a fuller version  —  the show itself starts (with me) around 11 minutes in  . . . 

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Or here it is on Facebook video . . . 

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Here’s opening the Prankster Family Reunion — Friday, May 5th, 2017 . . . 

and here’s part 2 . . .

And here’s the excellent song that ended the show! 

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2016

Here’s a group reading of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac” from the book release party at the Kettle of Fish — with Jami Cassady, Levi Asher and Prof. Walter Raubicheck . . .

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Reading the “Meeting your Heroes” part from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac“ — with David Amram and Kevin Twigg — at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac — upstairs at The Old Worthen — Oct. 9th, 2016 . . . 

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The opening of “The Road Show” at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac — Oct. 8th, 2016 . . .

The Wizard of Wonder’s introduction  —>  Vanity of Duluoz  —>  The Hitchhiker’s Guide  —>  an On The Road 420 moment . . . 

—>  a musical numbah . . . “Keep One Neal On The Wheel” . . . featuring Jason Eisenberg and George Koumantzelis . . .

—>  the conclusion of the hitchhiking trip from Boulder to Marin in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac . . .

or here it is from George K’s side-view camera — 

—>  the first public reading by anybody anywhere of Kerouac’s book “Pic” — Oct. 8th, 2016 . . .

Or here it is from George K’s side-view camera . . . 

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Here’s the group “Professor in The Park” theater piece from George K’s side-view camera . . . 

Or the whole show is now in a YouTube playlist here . . . 

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Or here’s Philip Thomas’s cool 6-minute movie from 2016 about the opening of “The Brian Hassett Road Show” — including the Wizard of Wonder’s intro, a Lowell paragraph from “Vanity of Duluoz,” and a little “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac“ . . . 

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Here’s the whole June 27th, 2016 Mothership show in Woodstock — in a 6-clip Playlist — including how the book came to be written;  the Andy Clausen / Jack Micheline section;  hanging with Herbert Huncke;  and the funny Al Aronowitz–Allen Ginsberg showdown on the final night . . . 

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Here’s the opening chapter of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac — plus Be The Invincible Spirit You Are Beat show prose-poem — at the Harmony in Woodstock, later the same evening, June 27th, 2016 — 

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Opening the wild Merry Pranksters / Twanger Plunkers Family Reunion weekend, Friday, April 29th, 2016 . . .

With:
Two poems that opened my two essays in “The Rolling Stone Book of The Beats“
1:57 — the funny and high-energy welcoming and acknowledgements to the Wizard of Wonder, the assembled Canadians, and the Lucky Dawgz
5:32 — “All of Us“
6:27 — “Spring Peace Piece“
8:40 — Jerry Garcia on ‘hearing’ Jack Kerouac
11:20 — Jack Kerouac’s (abbreviated) “Belief & Technique for Modern Prose“
14:49 — “Harmony“
23:01 — Excerpt from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac” — arriving at the original Furthur Bus for the first time

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Thanks to Lucky Dawg Miles — here’s a different view with a great close-up of the Hitchhiker’s Guide climax . . .

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Or here’s his take on the opening with the improv riffs and rhythmic poems and “the most enthusiastic noon-time crowd I’ve ever played to!”  . . .  🙂

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Here’s a 2-minute clip from Spiritmentalist & the Merry Prankster’s psychedelic 2016 play “The Secret Space of Dreams” — Sat. April 30th, 2016  . . .

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2015

Here’s the full & funny “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac” show at The Beat Museum’s Beat Shindig in San Francisco — Sunday, June 28th, 2015  . . .

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Also from The Beat Shindig — here’s the wild & funny Cassady panel with Al Hinkle, Jami Cassady, Levi Asher & myself  —  Sat. June 27th, 2015 . . . 

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Or here’s the great Gerd Stern’s talk about Neal Cassady’s legendary thought-lost “the Joan Anderson / Cherry Mary” letter to Jack Kerouac, at The Beat Museum’s Shindig — June 27th, 2015  . . . 

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Here’s the crazy Abbie Hoffman – Gregory Corso story from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac“ — from The Beat Shindig — Sunday June 28th, 2015 . . . 

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Here’s a crazy staged reading of The Professor In The Park section of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac with a bunch of Jacksters at Kerouac’s old haunt in Lowell — The Old Worthen — Sat. October 10th, 2015 — as part of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!

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Here’s “the San Francisco epiphany” part of On The Road — with Kerouac’s principal musical collaborator, David Amram, at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! — Sunday, October 11th, 2015 . . . 

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Here’s a Philip Thomas mini-movie of an excerpt from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac done live in the wind at Jack’s final resting place — October 2015  . . .

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Here’s the audio of a lively wide-ranging interview about the Beats, the Dead and the book on The Jake Feinberg Show (Nov. 15, 2015) . . . 

http://www.jakefeinbergshow.com/2015/11/the-brian-hassett-interview/

Or here it is on Spotify starting around 2½ minutes in.

 

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Here’s the first ever public reading from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac — at the inaugural “The Pranksters in Wonderland“ event — Sat. May 2nd, 2015 . . . 

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Here’s “Song of The Road I Sing” from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac — backed by JoJo Stella — video by Jeremy Hogan — May 2nd, 2015 . . . 

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Here’s another Ollie live capture of most of an excerpt from “On The Road” that Kerouac himself liked to perform — “Hearing Shearing” — with Adam’s Ale — at The Pranksters in Wonderland — May 2nd, 2015 . . . 

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Here’s another Ollie clip of a magic in-the-zone “Hearing Shearing” improvised with the bluegrass of the Still Hand String Band at Bear’s Picnic — August 2015 . . .

Or here it is from the front of house . . . 

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Here’s Jerry Garcia’s tribute to Jack Kerouac  —>  “Hearing Shearing” all backed by the improvisational skills of top Jerry Band in Toronto — The Mark T Band — Aug. 21st, 2015 . . .

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Or here we are doing the “Hitchhiker’s“ section about The Grateful Dead’s shows at Red Rocks as part of the Kerouac summit — filmed over two nights of performances — October & November 2015 . . .

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2014

Here’s a piece riffing the most popular single post in the history of BrianHassett.com  —  Famous People Who Don’t Have Kids  . . . 

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Here’s a tribute to Carolyn Cassady done for her Memorial on Sept. 20th, 2014 . . . 

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Here’s Carolyn & Neal’s son-in-law Randy reading my tribute to Carolyn (and getting laughs!) at her Memorial in San Jose . . . 

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Here’s a TV show Carolyn, John Cassady & I did in 1999 in Amsterdam.  I come at around 38 minutes, and at 38:15 you can hear Carolyn say, “Brian Gets Things Done.”

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Here’s an Adventure Tale video interview done for French filmmaker Noemie Sornet on the “On The Road” premieres in London and Toronto . . . 

and here’s the funny part two about sneaking backstage and meeting Walter Salles . . .  😉 

You can also read a written account of these two wild Adventure Tales in “How The Beats Begat The Pranksters“

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Or here’s my video of the Pranksters and Furthur invading the Woodstock museum during their 50th and 45th anniversaries respectfully — which is also chronicled in an epic Adventure Tale in “How The Beats Begat The Pranksters.”

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2009

Here’s the Kelvin / Winnipeg Reunion Breakfast Television show on CITY-TV with Linda Ranson in Winnipeg — August 5th, 2009 . . . 

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Here’s Shaw TV’s segment when they showed up at the tour of Kelvin (and I forgot they were coming!) — August 6th, 2009 . . . 

About keeping friends:  “Foster them, water the plants, enjoy the flowers, and tend to your garden of friends, because that’s where you’re going to be living the rest of your life. They’re gonna be with you, and you with them.”

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Here’s flying into Winnipeg for the Summit Reunion in ’09  and being met by the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow . . .

Great aerial shots of Ravenscourt, Grant Park, River Heights, Polo Park . . .

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Here’s filmmaker Clark McCaw’s 1-minute hit single version of the Portage & Main photo shoot . . .

This aired on CITY-TV, but I never got a recording of it.  Here was the voiceover:

Soundup for :11

 

Kelvin High School grads from some 25 cities around the world have returned to Winnipeg for Kelvin’s 30th anniversary reunion. 

Portage and Main seemed the natural place to take some historic group shots, to trade updates, and to meet each other’s grandkids. 

Interested alumnus will have access to the old high school from 1 to 3:30 (Today) Thursday August 6th.  Tours of the school and another photo op will be held at that time on the “famous” Kingsway Steps. 

 

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Here’s the 7 minute “album version” of the Portage & Main photo shoot with the old Gang, the evening of Wednesday — August 5th, 2009 . . . 

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Here’s 2 minutes from The Opening Reception — “Christmas in July” at the Myles’s . . .

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Here’s the funny Best Man’s toast / riff at Will Hodgson & Stacey Cox’s wedding — March 11th, 2012 . . .

Or here it is again from a different angle and different audio . . .

And here’s introducing the groom and his band via a modified Gettysburg Address — and I even work some Kerouac in there 😉 — the night before the wedding at the Pickering Creek Inn in PA — Saturday, March 10th, 2012 . . . .

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Or here’s where I show up in The Grateful Dead’s “Dead Ahead” movie — filmed on Halloween 1980 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.  I’m there at 1:29-1:31 in the lower left corner — I was second row fairly center and painted my face with Owsley’s Steal Your Face logo, the colors of our tribe, and they’re wonderfully smudged, this being the end of the second electric set, third set of the night, 8th night of the run.

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Or here’s where I appear flashing a peace sign (particularly starting around 3:35) behind Al Franken on MSNBC on the final day of the Republican convention in Cleveland — July 21st, 2016 . . . 

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/franken-expect-positive-message-at-dnc-729965123803

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“Where Wayward Jekylls Hide”  — the first video uploaded — Recorded Friday, Sept 26th, 2008, after the first Presidential debate between Obama & McCain.

We were planning to have a little pre-game show, but everyone was having such a good time we never got around to it . . . so, after the debate and almost everyone had left — just the hardcore’s remained — and by fluke I had the camera, and Ben Stiller just happened to come by, so I gave him the camera and he did a great job!

Location: The Royal Windsor Pub, in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

And here are the words … https://brianhassett.com//2008/09/the-mighty-bama-rama-rap/

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Or here’s The Crash Test Dummies’ Brad Roberts picking one of my lyrics for his song-writing collaboration on Hookist.com … starts around 1:05 . . .

or here he is singling out a 4-line riff I sent in on the first day … starting around 2:25 . . .

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.Or here’s Hershel Silverman from the fabulous LitKicks Summer Poetry Happening at The Bitter End in July ’99 that Levi Asher and I put on.

Man!  What a nine hour night!  And good ol’ Hershel wrote and dedicated this beatific poem for Levi & I and the historic evening . . .

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For something a little different — here I am addressing the Mayor and rocking the City Council of Oakville Ontario about a new proposed masterpiece of architecture on my corner.

I come on about 48:30 into it . . . 

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For a whole buncha interviews and news stories and such check out the Interview file here.

For more on “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac” — go here.

For more on “How The Beats Begat The Pranksters” — go here. 

For a linked list of over 500 of the greatest movies ever made — go here.

For more on that massive Reunion Adventure in the Peg — go here.

For some great Obama Inauguration Adventures — check out The D.C. Dispatches. 

For a wild poetic riff on the LitKicks Happening and all those Greenwich Village jazz & poetry show — check out Be The Invincible Spirit You Are.

For more on my connection to The Grateful Dead — check out The Grateful Dead Played My 30th Birthday.

And here’s the text to that Where Wayward Jekylls Hyde poem.

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Brian Hassett  —  karmacoupon@gmail.com   —  BrianHassett.com