The Setting: The new Bob Center is in Tulsa Oklahoma because the Woody Guthrie Center is there, and because both were paid for by the OK billionaire philanthropist George Kaiser. Tulsa is remarkably like the midwestern town of Winnipeg I grew up in — flat farmland, low-rise, about a half-million people — and both with […]
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The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa
April 30th, 2023 · 5 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
Tags: Barack Obama·Bob Dylan·George Harrison·Jack Kerouac·Lenny Bruce·Neil Young·Oklahoma·Pete Seeger·Ralph Gleason·Tom Wilson·Tulsa·Woody Guthrie
Revival69 — Documentary Review about John Lennon’s Toronto Concert in 1969
December 31st, 2022 · 14 Comments · Movies, Music
Revival Revived Klaus Voormann’s drawing of the 1969 plane trip The most important musical event that ever occurred in Canada — and one of the most important concerts in history — took place at a university football stadium in downtown Toronto in 1969. It’s true! London had The Beatles’ farewell on the rooftop, […]
Tags: Alan White·Alice Cooper·Bo Diddley·Bob Ezrin·Bobby Neuwirth·Chuck Berry·cinéma vérité·Cold Turkey·D.A. Pennebaker·Don't Look Back·Frances Thompson·Geddy Lee·Gene Vincent·Jack Kerouac·Janis Joplin·Jerry Lee Lewis·Jimi Hendrix·John Brower·John Lennon·Ken Walker·Klaus Voormann·Little Richard·Mal Evans·Michael Lang·Monterey Pop·Plastic Ono Band·Revival69·Ron Chapman·Shep Gordon·The Beatles·The Doors·Toronto Pop Festival·Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival·Wally Heider·Woodstock·Yoko Ono
The Chad Allan Story
April 30th, 2022 · 26 Comments · Music, Poetry, Real-life Adventure Tales
The Chad Allan Story . When I was in grade 7 at St. John’s Ravenscourt school, a teacher, Bernie Beare, told me I could write well. I didn’t know what-the-hell good that was gonna be, but apparently it was something I could do. So I started to focus on it, and pay attention in English […]
Tags: Bob McMullin·Burton Cummings·Chad Allan·Enid Hassett·Jim Kale·Randy Bachman·River Heights·songwriting·The Guess Who·Winnipeg
Beatles post Get Back Lessons and Reflections
January 30th, 2022 · 3 Comments · Movies, Music
Some reflections on The Beatles post Peter Jackson’s masterpiece, and some fun facts picked up along the way . . . It was so much the blending of the four compatible yet different personalities that was key to their creativity and longevity. And that there were four different individuals for people to identify with and […]
Tags: Albert Maysles·Alice Cooper·Billy Preston·Brian Epstein·Derek Taylor·Elvis Costello·George Harrison·George Martin·Jack Kerouac·Jerry Garcia·John Lennon·Malcolm Gladwell·Maysles brothers·Paul McCartney·Peter Jackson·Ringo Starr·Robert Frank·The Beatles Get Back·The Grateful Dead·Tommy Hilfiger·Will Hodgson
The Beatles: Get Back — Time-Coded and Annotated
December 28th, 2021 · 64 Comments · Movies, Music
The Beatles: Get Back Time-Coded and Annotated . Some of the characters beyond the Fab Five: (And yes, it’s five — because in this doc The Beatles become a quintet. 😉) Peter Jackson — the cinematic master behind this entire production Jabez Olssen — Peter Jackson’s super-skilled right-hand-man editor – never seen on screen, but […]
Tags: Alan Parsons·Apple Studios·Billy Preston·Bob Smeaton·Denis O'Dell·documentary films·Ethan Russell·George Harrison·George Martin·Get Back·Glyn Johns·Jabez Olssen·John Lennon·Let It Be·Mal Evans·Neil Aspinall·Paul McCartney·Peter Jackson·Ringo Starr·The Beatles·Twickenham·Yoko Ono
The Beatles, The Beats & The Beard
August 31st, 2021 · 31 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Music
. The Rule of Three — Comedians live by it. Hockey players call it a hat trick. Children learn about three blind mice, Goldilocks and the three bears, and how genies always grant three wishes. The Constitution gave us the trio of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Christians talk of the Holy Trinity. […]
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Andy Warhol·Barney Rosset·Barry Miles·Bill Graham·Billy the Kid·censorship·Dennis Hopper·George Harrison·Haight-Ashbury·Jean Harlow·Jim Morrison·Michael McClure·Paul McCartney·Richard Bright·Rip Torn·Rocky Horror Picture Show·The Beard·The Beatles·The Rule of Three
Woodstock 50th Anniversary in New York
August 23rd, 2019 · 28 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me, Woodstock
A Festival of Festivals . I said somewhere on social media leading up to the Woodstock 50th that it should and would be experienced by people in different ways all over the world. “Friends not corporations create Woodstock.” There was no required location or situation. As Jerry Garcia said of the Beats — “… it […]
Tags: Arlo Guthrie·Arrowhead Ranch·Bethel Woods·Jerry Garcia·John Fogerty·Melanie·Merry Pranksters·Michael Lang·Santana·Tedeschi Trucks Band·Woodstock·Woodstock '94·Yano·Yasgur's farm
Woodstock ’94 Concert Opening
March 31st, 2019 · 8 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales, Woodstock
. While I was stopped behind the stage carefully taking notes on the human traffic flows, I heard the promoter John Scher start talking from the stage. “Holy smoke! It must be 10:00!” I realized. “Sounds like he’s opening the show!” In the press kit they gave us at the Friar Tuck I noticed a […]
Tags: Joanne Shenandoah·Michael Lang·Peter Max·Woodstock '94
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac videos
November 16th, 2015 · 4 Comments · Brian on YouTube etc., Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
. Here’s some video from various “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac” appearances . . . in the order the pieces appear in the book . . . Here’s a whole bunch of clips in one YouTube Playlist in the sequence they appear in the book . . . 🙂 . Here’s a great group […]
Tags: Jack Kerouac·Jerry Garcia·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·Mark T Band·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac
Grateful Dead Farewell in Chicago
July 11th, 2015 · 20 Comments · Grateful Dead, Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
I saw the best minds of many generations, dancing, hysterical, naked … at the Farewell send-off of the Gratest live band in history. While The Grateful Dead were breaking the all-time attendance records for Soldier Field stadium in Chicago — I was seeing them in a small venue from about 5th row center. I […]