bob dylan, allen ginsberg, and (a buried) jack kerouac remixed. music, poetry, and film - not to mention a book, on the road, which never appears in the video but is everywhere to be seen. sometimes the present archives the past in beautiful ways.
thanks pablo!
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according to my go-to book on all things dylan, bob spitz's dylan: a biography, this is part of the magical (and career-rebuilding for dylan) rolling thunder revue. it's a rock tour with a ton of guests. it's also one of the earliest reality shows in that dylan and filmmakers were trying to document a tour. when the tour rolled to lowell, massachusetts - home town of jack kerouauc - dylan and ginsberg "performed a psuedo-mystical ceremony at jack kerouac's gravesight.
david, this is a wonderful post. thanks for sharing it.
I interviewed Ginsberg in Berkeley about 25 years ago. He didn't want to talk about art; he wanted to talk about U.S. intervention in Nicaragua. As I failed to understand at the time, the mad poet was correct in all his particulars.
michael - if only some of today's artists / intellectuals in the US talked more about the war and less about their new products they're plugging.
hey, any chance you have your interview and/or article saved somewhere?
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