Numbers, Michael, numbers; they blow my mind. Jack was 47 when he died and he's been dead for 55 years. He's been dead longer than he was alive. I was 4 when he died and I'm almost 60. And you posted your original comment 4 years ago. Soon we'll all be dead. The earth and sun too. Ah, to sleep in eternal zen of nirvana is the goal of every dharma bum.
Currently in the middle of my "Road Trilogy" Started with "On The Road" now in middle of "Electric Kool Aide Acid Test" and finishes with "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas". They are, of course connected by characters and the road.
Great music should be mixed down. Often in music backing poetry. The mix favors the music. It should be as my buddy BE Bop Bill Young the master jazz drummer said, the musician is supposed to make the poet sound good.
if want to know ; real neal aka dean then read the electrickoolaid acid test - you learn he was the only one to keep young after dylan era jack sat at home drank beer ate pizza to death and alan did buddha chants - there was era change - jack wasnt interested but the 50s was more cinema meets tv meets rocknroll meets mccarthy meets nuclear doom meets juvenille delinquency meets roger corman meets return of hit parade clean cut boys
"The charging restless mute unvoiced road keening in a seizure of tarpaulin power." ~ Jack Kerouac's favorite line from "On The Road" Take to the road with The Halli Casser-Jayne Show #The Beat Generation. bit.ly/beatspreak
The bovine non-entities that seem to encroach the sidewalks of criss crossed Church infested avenues intersected by quietly scattered coffee sanctuaries where newspapers are opened and closed in the mines of caffeinated tourists wanting endless power to mindlessly proceed towards the end of the runway
Yes! You know what goes well together? Bitches Brew and Howl. Approximately the same length. Very creepy and affecting. I suppose i could upload that myself but im a surfer, never actually uploaded anything...
Where did you did find this material? I just agreed to assist a high school classmate -- by luck we attended high school where JK did a post-graduate before matriculating at Columbia University -- on his KEROUAC documentary. Friend lives in San Fran. Thank you for posting.
sitting in Starbucked just a darma bum old not well hung but have sung the blues on occasion the sensation of obscurity but this will not always be...thx Jack plagiarism the sincerest form of flattery.. always will love your soul as well as poetry
He privately expressed a lot of remorse over the treatment of his children in the last years of his life. He was a troubled man with a mind too brilliant to truly understand.
Oh my gosh this tune is fantastic I don't have to mention Kerouac in another universe I'm going to have to check out cannonball again thank you for posting this
Try listening with ear phones, it may be clearer... Yes I agree in places Jack sits low in the mix. In my defense my first few Volumes I wasn't really thinking on a technical level. I practically threw them together. I promise the production gets better as I evolved through the Volumes...Appreciate the feed-back all the same.
Well this is Jack Kerouac……he invented it. The hippies hi-jacked it……..then the whole meaning was lost………with the possible exception of early Tom Waits.
