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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Weird Things About Me'
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
Tags: George Walker·Jack Kerouac·Merry Pranksters·Neal Cassady·On The Road·Rolling Stone Book of The Beats·The Beat Museum
Al Hinkle Hero of The Humble
January 31st, 2019 · 9 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Poetry, Weird Things About Me
Al Hinkle — Hero of The Humble . Gracious Giant, Gentle Giant. A Literary Giant’s Character for Eternity — Still alive in every copy of On The Road in every country In The World, The lovable affable portable — Big Ed Dunkel, The Everyman in the car, man. Not a Cassady — Not a Kerouac, […]
Tags: Al Hinkle·Jack Kerouac·Neal Cassady·On The Road
Canada’s Marijuana Legalization — The Mad Dash of The Mad Ones
October 17th, 2018 · 13 Comments · Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
The Mad Dash of The Mad Ones . Me and my bright ideas. Of COURSE there’s going to be throngs of people in downtown Toronto, Canada’s biggest city, celebrating the Midnight Moment marijuana becomes legal nationwide. Banners, signs, speakers, bands, drum circles, wandering guitars, “high” fives all around like when we won the hockey Gold […]
Tags: Marijuana legalization
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
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
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
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
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