. 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 […]
People Who Knew Jack Kerouac and Are Still Alive
March 13th, 2018 · 4 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters
Tags: Al Hinkle·Beat Generation·David Amram·George Walker·Gerd Stern·Jack Kerouac·John Cassady·Ken Babbs·Robert Frank
Loving Vincent movie review
November 19th, 2017 · 15 Comments · Movies
. I love Loving Vincent. I’ve loved Van Gogh since the big Metropolitan Museum of Art show “Van Gogh in Arles” in 1984 and the “Saint-Remy and Auvers” show in 1986, and reading his Dear Theo book of letters to his brother around the same time. Those shows and that book changed my life by […]
Tags: George Walker·Grateful Dead·Jack Kerouac·Jerry Garica·Neal Cassady·Vincent Van Gogh
Red Roses, Green Gold theater review
October 17th, 2017 · 13 Comments · Grateful Dead, Movies, New York City
New Hunter-Garcia Musical comes up Roses . . Hear ye! Hear ye! Behold — a re-imagining of the Hunter-Garcia songbook. New life. New arrangements. New band. New set. New stage. New story. If you’d like a fresh way to approach Grateful Dead music — go to this show. If you like the Dead and theater […]
Tags: George Walker·Grateful Dead·Jerry Garcia·Neal Cassady·New York City·Phil Lesh·Robert Hunter
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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