Another giant has fallen — another angel taken flight. Carolyn Cassady has just left us to join Neal and Jack on that great road trip in the sky. Her son John, the light of her life, was there by her side till the end. After a year’s refusal of entry into the U.K., just 3 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Real-life Adventure Tales'
Carolyn Cassady tribute 1923 – 2013
September 20th, 2013 · 146 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
Tags: Carolyn Cassady·Carolyn Cassady tribute·Jack Kerouac·John Cassady·Neal Cassady
The Northport Report
August 30th, 2013 · 17 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
The Northport Report Whale, we had another Jackfest — dancing with Big Sur by the Sea, My Brothers! — this time in Jack’s wave-lapping hometown of Northport, the idyllic little living Rockwell harbortown where he went to dock near the darkness of the city but still remain a slip away. I’m just back […]
Tags: Big Sur reading in Northport·Carolyn Cassady·Jack Kerouac·Jack Kerouac's Big Sur·John Cassady·performing Kerouac
The Dr. John in Toronto Adventure
June 24th, 2013 · 20 Comments · Music, Real-life Adventure Tales
So … oh man … I took a nap that afternoon and lived a dream where I stayed home and didn’t go to this show and regretted it later … then woke up to find it was only 3:30 in the afternoon! Insane. Follow your dreams, baby. God works in mysterious ways. It’s Toronto […]
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Who-all was there — Boulder ’82
June 18th, 2013 · 19 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
An excerpt from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac” The Adventure of the Boulder ’82 On The Road Conference — Finding Kerouac, Kesey and The Grateful Dead Alive & Rockin’ in the Rockies I guess I haven’t mentioned who all was here yet . . . This was the biggest gathering of Beats […]
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The Long Island Mansions Adventure
May 11th, 2013 · 14 Comments · Music, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
Soooo, this happened . . . We were out there at Sands Point, Long Island, shooting a Steve Winwood video in one of those Great Gatsby mansions, hanging at this round banquet table with just Steve and the prop guy and a couple others, and he was talking in his gentle British accent which […]
Tags: Bob Dylan·Brian Hassett's adventures·Grateful Dead·Great Gatsby mansions·Long Island mansions·My Father's Place·Neal Cassady·rock n roll parties·Sheryl Crow·Steve Winwood·Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon
Meeting Your Heroes 101
April 27th, 2013 · 32 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
chapter 4 — Meeting Your Heroes 101 An excerpt from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac” The Adventure of the Boulder ’82 On The Road Conference — Finding Kerouac, Kesey and The Grateful Dead Alive & Rockin’ in the Rockies . One of the first and forever impressions I had was — being on […]
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The Day I Heard The Tambourine Man
March 28th, 2013 · 18 Comments · Music, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
The Day I Heard The Tambourine Man I, like others, was whisked away by the Gallatin genie just as I was about to drown in the requirements of my previous school. If NYU hadn’t had a school-without-walls, I wouldn’t have graduated, if you want a soundbite about it. The trade-off they offered was that […]
Tags: Bob Dylan·discovering Dylan·Gallatin Division·Hassett and Raubicheck·Jack Kerouac·Mr. Tambourine Man·the Kettle of Fish·Tracy Chapman·Walt Whitman·Walter Raubicheck·Washington Square Park·William Blake·Woody Guthrie
“On The Road” Comes Home — The New York Premiere
December 24th, 2012 · 19 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
“On The Road” Comes Home — The New York Premiere The day of the “On The Road” premiere in New York (Dec. 13th, 2012) I was up at the NYPL trying to get through the doors of the hermetically sealed vault of the Berg Collection, home to a gazillion literary papers from Emerson to Shelley […]
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The “On The Road” Scroll Auction
October 14th, 2012 · 22 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
Part I, The Author’s Song The passing of the scroll … It’s gone to a good place … . . . with an iconoclastic, white-tie wearin’ John Lennon lovin’ “huge Bob Dylan fan,” spirit of the 60s, buddy of Brinkley’s, crony of Thompson’s, and owner of the Indianapolis Colts (my new and forever favorite […]
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Making better time On The Road
September 8th, 2012 · 40 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies, Real-life Adventure Tales
Making better time On The Road So, I get to the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto at 7PM for a 9:00 show (on Sept. 6th) and there’s already a whole scene. It’s the World Premiere of the new and forever “On The Road” — the first-ever screening of the director’s revised and final cut. There’s a […]
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