. Sphere & Laughing in Las Vegas photo by Jay Blakesberg for Dead & Company . This is the Acid Tests … in a two-billion-dollar spaceship! I’d been reading about The Sphere for years before it was ever built. It sounded too wild to be true! And of course I immediately thought how perfect […]
Entries Tagged as 'Real-life Adventure Tales'
Dead & Company at The Sphere in Las Vegas review
June 30th, 2024 · 7 Comments · Grateful Dead, Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
Tags: Acid Tests·Bob Weir·Dead & Company·Duke Ellington·George Lucas·Grand Canyon·Grateful Dead·Jay Lane·Jeff Chimenti·John Mayer·Las Vegas·Millennium Falcon·Oteil Burbridge·Sphere & Loathing in Las Vegas·Taylor Swift·The Sphere
Eclipse Totality in Bronte Ontario
April 10th, 2024 · 13 Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales
. TOTALLY DRAMATIC . . It wasn’t just a big-screen spectacular — it was a nail-biting drama! An old brother of ’70s shenanigans flew from Winterpeg to my place in Southern Ontario because I lived on the Path of Totality for the 2024 solar eclipse. We had invites to a big acid test weekend with […]
Tags: Bill Graham·Bronte Astronomers·Bronte Ontario·Grateful Dead·Oakville·Path of Totality·Solar Eclipse·toronto maple leafs·Winnipeg
Imaginestock
September 18th, 2023 · 13 Comments · Merry Pranksters, Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
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 […]
Tags: Bill Graham·Bob Marley·Dr. Seuss·Grateful Dead·Jerry Garcia·John Lennon·Max Yasgur·The Beatles·Woodstock
Squisha House in Bronte Village, Oakville
July 27th, 2023 · 4 Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
The Art of Glass, the Art of Business, and the Art of Love . One day a hundred years ago, or maybe it was five, I noticed this store called the Squisha House opened around the corner with insanely cool glass pipes! What the hell?! In little Bronte Village?! I had to investigate! After keeping […]
Tags: Bronte Village·Cameron Stubbins·Katelynn Stacey·Matt Robertson·Oakville Ontario·Squisha House
Oakville Astronomy Group
June 30th, 2023 · 1 Comment · Real-life Adventure Tales
Starry Nights in Bronte by Brian Hassett In my never-ending search for Adventure I stumbled into the coolest little enclave in the harbourfront park in front of my house — an astronomer’s meet-up digging infinity (to riff on Lord Buckley’s line). And these people are really doing it! Whenever there’s something special going on in […]
Tags: Albert Einstein·Bronte Village·Carl Sagan·Lord Buckley·Neil deGrasse Tyson·Oakville·Ontario
Fireworks in Oakville
May 31st, 2023 · 8 Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales
Fireworks in Oakville or The Day Florida Moved to Canada . . . What a riot we had last weekend in Oakville! A buncha teenagers came to my little harbourfront neighbourhood cuz it has a corner Variety store that’ll sell anything to anybody including fireworks to kids. We had a little to-do here a couple […]
Tags: Jack Kerouac·On The Road
The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa
April 30th, 2023 · 5 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
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 […]
Tags: Barack Obama·Bob Dylan·George Harrison·Jack Kerouac·Lenny Bruce·Neil Young·Oklahoma·Pete Seeger·Ralph Gleason·Tom Wilson·Tulsa·Woody Guthrie
David Amram & Brian Hassett On-Stage Collaborations
November 30th, 2022 · 6 Comments · Brian on YouTube etc., Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
David Amram and I have been performing together since we first started hanging in 1994 after an introduction by Teri McLuhan, Marshall’s daughter. It was the big NYU Beat conference — I write about it in Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy — I first saw him unloading his congas from his Farm Aid jeep on opening night, […]
Tags: Dave Amram·George Walker·Holy Cats! Dream-Catching at Woodstock·How The Beats Begat The Pranksters·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·On The Road with Cassadys·Teri McCluhan·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac (LCK) – Videos, Stories & Photos – 2015–2022
October 30th, 2022 · 7 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
Stories, videos and photos from the annual Kerouac hometown festival over the last several years I’ve been going. Edie Parker-Kerouac called and told me about the the initial commemorative dedication in July 1988 — which birthed LCK — saying that she, Henri Cru and “Big Tim” Moran were driving up for it, and that […]
Tags: Andy Clausen·Beat Angel·David Amram·Edie Kerouac·Frankie Edie Kerouac Parker·George Walker·Henri Cru·How The Beats Begat The Pranksters·Jack Kerouac·John Allen Cassady·Kerouac Centennial·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·Merry Pranksters·Michael McClure·St. Mark's Church·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac·Vincent Balstri·Wireless Mike Flynn
The Chad Allan Story
April 30th, 2022 · 33 Comments · Music, Poetry, Real-life Adventure Tales
The Chad Allan Story . With Chad Allan’s passing at age 80 on Nov 21st, 2023, the CBC called and we did this rockin fun playful jamming live radio interview that you wanna hear — https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-367-the-weekend-morning-show-manitoba/clip/16027369-chad-allen-drops-writes-song-winnipeg-teen…in-1977. Or they also wrote it up as a story you can read here — although my full account follows […]
Tags: Bob McMullin·Burton Cummings·Chad Allan·Enid Hassett·Jim Kale·Randy Bachman·River Heights·songwriting·The Guess Who·Winnipeg