Imaginestock . photo by Christy Worsoe . Imagine, if you will, a place where music and love fill the air, and every person works for free to build a utopian kingdom. Imagine a secret island hideaway whose location is only shared to people who’ve earned an invitation by a lifetime of good deeds. Imagine a […]
Entries Tagged as 'Merry Pranksters'
Imaginestock
September 18th, 2023 · 11 Comments · Merry Pranksters, Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
Tags: Bill Graham·Bob Marley·Dr. Seuss·Grateful Dead·Jerry Garcia·John Lennon·Max Yasgur·The Beatles·Woodstock
Pranksters for Proactive Politics
November 30th, 2019 · 1 Comment · Merry Pranksters, Politics, Weird Things About Me
. Original Merry Prankster George Walker & author-performer Brian Hassett team up to make elections fun again. Soon to be joined by an unlimited cast of players and Pranksters crisscrossing the United States in a new version of Ken Kesey’s original psychedelic Furthur Bus — and this one is going to go even Farthur! After […]
Tags: George Walker
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 […]
Tags: Abbie Hoffman·Jack Kerouac·Ken Kesey·Paul Krassner
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
Tom Wolfe Made Me Cry
June 17th, 2018 · 9 Comments · Merry Pranksters, Weird Things About Me
Tom Wolfe Made Me Cry . We’ve had a flood of famous & important people dying the last few years. 2016 was the recent one most think of as the mass kill-off year that had us all praying for it to end — which it did, sadly, in November, with democracy and decency being cremated […]
Tags: Dr. Seuss·Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test·Jack Kerouac·Jackson Pollock·Neal Cassady·Philip Seymour Hoffman·Shakespeare·Tom Wolfe
People Who Knew Jack Kerouac and Are Still Alive
March 13th, 2018 · 4 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters
. Just as when Gifford & Lee created Jack’s Book in the ’70s, and Allen Ginsberg did the Jack Summit in 1982 and all those documentaries were made — it was all because there were people alive who knew Jack well. Now there are very few. Here’s a list of Living People who either met Jack […]
Tags: Al Hinkle·Beat Generation·David Amram·George Walker·Gerd Stern·Jack Kerouac·John Cassady·Ken Babbs·Robert Frank
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
How The Beats Begat The Pranksters
September 17th, 2017 · 3 Comments · Grateful Dead, Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters
How The Beats Begat The Pranksters . Beat Carolyn & Prankster Babbs, Boulder ’82 . It all started on September 5th, 1957 when a certain book got published . . . Or no . . . it all started in April 1951 when a guy sat down at a typewriter with a long scroll of […]
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Beat Generation·Dean Moriarty·Dennis McNally·Jack Kerouac·Jerry Garcia·Ken Kesey·Merry Pranksters·Neal Cassady·On The Road·Perry Lane
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
Falling In Love in The Summer Of Love
July 30th, 2017 · 46 Comments · Grateful Dead, Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Weird Things About Me
Falling in Love in the Summer of Love . Yeah — it can still happen. To anyone anywhere anytime. Me mid-50s, she just over 40. We’d met a year earlier at a Prankster Family Reunion. I thought she was stunning. But she had this boyfriend. It was one of those couples that didn’t seem to […]
Tags: George Walker·Golden Gate Bridge·Grateful Dead·Haight St.·Jack Kerouac·Merry Pranksters·Red Vic·San Francisco·Summer of Love