You wake up one day and your whole life changes just by the chance seeing of a picture. Much the way it might with a chance spotting of a poster on a bookstore wall. As Jack says, “My books are my children.” And as Mama always preached — pregnancy can happen in an instant. Unlike […]
Entries Tagged as 'Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac'
Writing “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac”
February 20th, 2023 · 13 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Weird Things About Me
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Jack Kerouac·On The Road Kerouac Conference Boulder 1982·Robert Frank·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac·writing books
Paul Krassner 1932 – 2019
July 22nd, 2019 · 9 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Merry Pranksters, Real-life Adventure Tales
. Here’s the chapter on the now late great Paul Krassner from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac about the time I met him and a buncha his croanies at the big Kerouac summit in 1982. I sent him this chapter when I was finishing up the book and he gave it his thumbs-up. . ch. 23 […]
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Brian Hassett Set Lists
May 31st, 2019 · 12 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Weird Things About Me, Woodstock
Midwest Tour — May 2019 . Thomas O’Shea House Party — Berea, outside Cleveland Ohio – Friday, May 10th, 2019 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac – the Marin Epiphany – from ch 26 – The Airplane Hanger in Marin The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac – ch. 3 – Dancin’ to The Boulder Boogie […]
Tags: George Walker·Jack Kerouac·Merry Pranksters·Neal Cassady·On The Road·Rolling Stone Book of The Beats·The Beat Museum
Brian Hassett Fall Shows 2018
September 22nd, 2018 · 4 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Weird Things About Me
. Fall Shows 2018 . In celebration of the new On The Road with Cassadys, & Furthur Visions and the just-completed Beat Trilogy. Friday Sept. 28th 8PM “The Hammer & The Hassett” with Robin “The Hammer” Ludwig the mighty blues master who I’ve done shows with for 20 years from Amsterdam to CBGBs to On The Road‘s birth […]
Tags: David Amram·Jack Kerouac·John Cassady·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·Neal Cassady·Vincent Van Gogh·Woodstock
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
Brian Hassett Interviews and Such
July 31st, 2018 · 8 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Interviews, Kerouac and The Beats, Weird Things About Me
. Here are a few different print, radio & video interviews and stories and reviews and such . . . . Here’s a wide-ranging jam from March 2023 with British Beat & music writer Simon Warner on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of writing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac — including riffing on […]
Tags: Beat Shindig·Gerd Stern·Grateful Dead·How The Beats Begat The Pranksters·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac
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 skip to Show Set Lists with Clip Links Click here to go to Bios Click here for the Fall 2017 Tour Dates George Walker & Brian Hassett first met in Boulder Colorado in July 1982 at the historic Jack […]
Tags: George Walker·How The Beats Begat The Pranksters·Jack Kerouac·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·Neal Cassady·The Beat Museum
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac at The Beat Shindig in San Francisco
March 19th, 2017 · 15 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Weird Things About Me
. . 15 minutes before this show I was lying on the ground behind the Cassady’s booth trying not to lose consciousness. . . . An hour into it I was running around the stage playing Gregory Corso on a football team. The build from wounded wobbly to careening comedy is completely crazy. Everything had been […]
Tags: Beat Museum·Beat Shindig·Jack Kerouac·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac
Finding Kesey
January 29th, 2017 · 13 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Weird Things About Me
Finding Kesey . Following the November 2016 election I knew it was time to get my own house in order. A year had been lost to a losing campaign, added to five years of On The Road domino-tumbling madness that had passed since my mother had passed in 2011, and there was a lot of […]
Tags: Grateful Dead·Jack Kerouac·Ken Kesey·Naropa·New York·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac·Winnipeg
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac – reviews and reactions Part 3
December 10th, 2016 · 10 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Weird Things About Me
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac Reviews & Reactions — Part Three . Here’s the first round of incoming reviews. Or here’s a whole second round. . I am bathing in the pages. Your book is a page turner of improbable adventures and characters — one crazy one after another. The writing is high spirited and […]
Tags: Carolyn Cassady·Grateful Dead·Jack Kerouac·Ken Kesey·Merry Pranksters·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac