by Simon Warner
—Desire (Columbia, 1976).
—‘Series of Dreams’ (Columbia, 1991), YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqGUBP3Cx0 [Accessed 15 February 2012].
False Prophets, Invisible People (Patois, 1990).
Richard and Mimi Fariña, Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard, 1965).
—Reflections in a Crystal Wind (Vanguard, 1965).
Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard, One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur (Atlantic, 2009).
Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Rexroth, Poetry Recordings in the Cellar with the Cellar Jazz Quintet (Fantasy Record, 1958).
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind (Rykodisc, 1999).
—Pictures of the Gone World (Synergy, 2005).
The Fugs, Village Fugs/First Album (Folkways/ESP-Disk, 1965/1966).
Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems (Fantasy, 1959).
—Allen Ginsberg Reads Kaddish (Atlantic Verbum Series, 1966).
—Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake (MGM/Verve Forecast, 1969).
—First Blues, Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs (Folkways Records, 1981).
—First Blues (John Hammond Records, 1983).
—Lion for Real (Island, 1989).
—Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems and Songs 1949–1943 (Rhino Word Beat, 1994).
—The Ballad of the Skeletons (Mercury Records, 1996).
Grimms, Grimms (Island, 1973).
Kerouac, Jack, Poetry for the Beat Generation (Dot/Hanover, 1959).
—Blues and Haikus (Hanover, 1959).
—Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (Verve, 1960).
—The Jack Kerouac Collection (Rhino Word Beat, 1989).
Rickie Lee Jones, Rickie Lee Jones (Warner Bros., 1979).
—The Duchess of Coolsville: An Anthology (Rhino, 2005).
King Crimson, Beat (EG Records, 1982).
Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek, Love Lion (Sanachie, 1993).
Material, The Road to the Western Lands (Triloka Records, 1999).
David Meltzer, Poet w/ Jazz 1958 (Sierra Records, 2005).
Joni Mitchell, Ladies of the Canyon (Reprise, 1970).
—Blue (Reprise, 1971).
—Court and Spark (Asylum, 1974).
—The Hissing of Summer Lawns (Asylum, 1975).
—Hejira (Asylum, 1976).
—Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (Asylum, 1977).
—Mingus (Asylum, 1979).
Pete Molinari, Walking Off the Map (Damaged Goods, 2006).
—A Virtual Landslide (Damaged Goods, 2008).
—A Train Bound for Glory (Clarksville, 2010).
Bill Nelson, After the Satellite Sings (Resurgence, 1996).
New York Art Quintet, New York Art Quintet (ESP-Disk, 1966).
The Plastic Ono Band, ‘Give Peace a Chance’ (Apple, 1969).
Psychic TV, ‘Godstar’ (Temple,1986).
Psychic TV, Godstar: Thee Director’s Cut (Hyperdelic, 2004).
Rage Against The Machine, ‘Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox’ (Epic, 1996).
Gustavo Santaolalla et al., On the Road: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Universal, 2012).
The Scaffold, The Very Best of the Scaffold (EMI Gold, 2002).
The Serpent Power, The Serpent Power (Vanguard Records, 1967).
Patti Smith, ’Piss Factory’ (Mer, 1974).
—Horses (Arista, 1975).
—Peace and Noise (Arista, 1997).
—‘Spell’ (Arista, 1997).
Patti Smith with Lenny Kaye, February 10, 1971 (Mer Records, 2006).
Gary Snyder, Turtle Island (Living Music Records, 1992).
Sonic Youth, ‘Hits of Sunshine’ (for Allen Ginsberg)’ (DGC, 1998).
10,000 Maniacs, In My Tribe (Elektra, 1997).
—‘Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso)’ (Matador Records, 2009).
They Might Be Giants, ‘I Should Be Allowed to Think’ (Warner Bros, 1994).
Throbbing Gristle, 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Mute Records, 1991, orig. released by Industrial Records, 1978).
Chris T-T, Beat Verse (Wine Cellar, 1999).
U2, Achtung Baby (Island, 1991).
—Pop (Island, 1997).
Anne Waldman, Battery: Live at Naropa 1974–2002 (Fast Speaking Music, 2003).
Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye, The Milk of Universal Kindness (Fast Speaking Music, 2011).
Various Artists, The Nova Convention (Giorno Poetry Systems Records, 1979).
—10% File Under Burroughs (Sub Rosa, 1996).
—The Beat Generation (Rhino Records, 1992).
—Howls, Raps and Roars (Fantasy, 1993).
—Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness (Rykodisc, 1997).
—Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (Rykodisc, 1999).
—Beat Poetry (ABM, 1999).
—Jazz Poetry (ABM, 1999).
—Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake (Gallery Six, 2003).
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve, 1967).
Tom Waits, Heart of Saturday Night (Asylum, 1974).
—Nighthawks at the Diner (Asylum, 1975).
—Small Change (Asylum, 1976).
—Foreign Affairs (Asylum, 1977).
—The Black Rider (Island, 1993).
—Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (ANTI-, 2006).
Filmography
Don’t Look Back, directed by D. A. Pennebaker (Leacock–Pennebaker, 1967).
Exploding Plastic Inevitable, directed by Ronald Nameth (Aardvark, 1967).
The Last Waltz, directed by Martin Scorsese (FM Productions/Last Waltz Inc., 1978).
The Life and Times and Allen Ginsberg, directed by Jerry Aronson (New Yorker Films, 2007).
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, directed by Martin Scorsese (Paramount, 2005).
One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur, directed by Curt Worden (Kerouac Films, 2009).
Beat, directed by Gary Walkow (Millenium [sic] Pictures, 2000).
Pull My Daisy, directed Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie (G-String Enterprises, 1959).
Renaldo and Clara, directed by Bob Dylan (Lombard Street Films, 1978).
What Ever Happened to Kerouac?, directed by Richard Lerner and Lewis MacAdams (New Yorker Films, 1986).
Wholly Communion, directed by Peter Whitehead (Lorrimer Films, 1965).
Broadcasts
Pattie Boyd, interview, ‘The 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love’, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, 27 August 2007.
Caroline Coon, interview, ‘The 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love’, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, 27 August 2007.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A Reluctant Beat, 90th birthday tribute, BBC Radio 4, 15 March 2009.
Michael Horovitz, The Poetry Olympian: Michael Horovitz at 75, 75th birthday tribute, presented by Simon Warner, BBC Radio 4, 4 April 2010.
Tom Waits, ‘Tom Waits: The whiskey voice returns’, interview with Robert Siegel, All Things Considered, NPR, 21 November 2006, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6519647 [accessed 29 November 2008].
Personal communication
Chapter 2 Chains of flashing memories: Bob Dylan and the Beats, 1959–1975
Dave Moore, independent Beat scholar, email, 26 August 2011.
Chapter 3 Muse, moll, maid, miss: Beat women and their rock legacy
David Meltzer, poet, critic and musician, email, 16 February 2009.
Sharon Mesmer, poet and novelist, email, 31 October 2011.
Anne Waldman, poet and critic, email, 28 September 2011.
Chapter 4 Raising the consciousness?: Re-visiting Allen Ginsberg’s Liverpool trip in 1965
Jim Burns, poet and critic, letter, 15 July 2006.
Christopher George, poet, email, 6 and 7 July 2006.
Michael Horovitz, poet and publisher, email, 24 and 29 July and 7 August 2006.
Edward Lucie-Smith, critic and author, email, 4 July 2006.
David Meltzer, poet, critic and musician, email, 9 July
2006.
Brian Patten, poet, telephone conversation, 6 July 2006.
Jonah Raskin, biographer and academic, email, 5 July 2006.
Steven Taylor, musician and writer, email, 5 July 2006.
Chapter 5 The British Beat: Rock, Literature and the UK Counterculture in the 1960s
Michael Brocken, academic and musician, email, 27 December 2010.
Pete Brown, poet and lyricist, telephone conversation, 6 December 2009.
Barry Miles, author, email, 29 November and 11 December 2009.
Chapter 7 The Meltzer chronicles: Poet, novelist, musician and historian of Beat America
David Meltzer, poet, critic and musician, interview, 5 October 1997, Hebden Bridge, UK.
—email, 20 and 21 April 1999.
Dave Moore, independent Beat scholar, email, 28 May 2012.
Chapter 8 Versions of Cody: Jack Kerouac, Tom Waits and the song ‘On the Road’
Vic Juris, guitarist, email, 24 November 2008.
Bob Kealing, Kerouac Project, Orlando, Florida, email, 27 November 2008.
Dave Moore, independent Beat scholar, email, 3 December 2008 and 28 May 2012.
Frank Olinsky, album sleeve designer, email, 8 December 2008.
Jim Sampas, producer of Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road, email, 20 and 24 November 2008.
Steven Taylor, musician/writer, email, 1 December 2008.
Chapter 9 Feeling the bohemian pulse: Locating Patti Smith within a post-Beat tradition
Victor Bockris, Patti Smith biographer and author, email, 3 February 2011.
Bart Bull, rock journalist with Spin and magazine writer, email, 7 February 2011.
Jim Cohn, ‘Postbeat’ poet and singer-songwriter, email, 8 February 2011.
David Cope, ‘Postbeat’ poet, email, 6 February 2011.
Holly George-Warren, journalist and editor of The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and the Counterculture, email, 18 July 2011.
Harvey Kubernik, music journalist and author, email, 11 February, 2011.
Lucy O’Brien, rock journalist, author of SheBop and academic, email, 10 March 2011.
Joyce Pinchbeck, novelist and biographer, email, 10 February 2011.
Philip Shaw, academic and author of Horses, email, 2 February 2011.
Steven Taylor, musician and writer, email, 1 February 2011.
Anne Waldman, poet, email, 1 February 2011.
Sheila Whiteley, academic and author of Sexing the Groove, email, 22 March 2011.
Chapter 11 All cut up? Unwrapping Genesis P-Orridge’s beatnik past
Jason Louv, ‘The GP-O Language’, email, 17 March 2005.
Genesis P-Orridge, rock musician/artist, telephone conversation, 20 July 2004.
—interview, Brooklyn, New York City, 20 July 2004.
Q&A details
Q&A 1 – Michael Horovitz, poet, publisher and British Beat, email, 2 January 2012.
Q&A 2 – Mark Bliesener, rock band manager and a founder of Neal Cassady’s Memorial Day in Denver, email, 18 November 2011.
Q&A 3 – Jonah Raskin, Ginsberg biographer and cultural historian, email, 14 November 2011.
Q&A 4 – Levi Asher, founder of acclaimed Beat website Literary Kicks, email, 19 November 2011.
Q&A 5 – Jim Sampas, notable Beat record producer including Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness, email, 15 February 2012.
Q&A 6 – Pete Molinari, British singer-songwriter, email, 9 August 2011.
Q&A 7 – Chris T-T, British political singer-songwriter, email, 8 September 2011.
Q&A 8 – Kevin Ring, editor of the magazine Beat Scene, email, 21 December 2011.
INDEX
4 Ups and One Down (Jim Carroll) 368, 372
8th Street Bookshop 114
10% File Under Burroughs (Various Artists) 63
11 Outlined Epitaphs (Bob Dylan) 114
14-Hour Technicolor Dream, The 246
1001 Ways to Beat the Draft (Tuli Kupferberg and Robert Bashlow) 444
10,000 Maniacs 59, 325
Abbey Road (The Beatles) 262
Abbey Road, London (studios) 277
Abraham & Strauss (department store) 102
Absolute Beginners (Colin MacInnes) 228
Abstract Expressionism 74, 160n 10
Ace (Bob Weir) 52
Acid Tests 52, 120, 207
Achtung Baby (U2) 44
Adler, Lou 270
After The Satellite Sings (Bill Nelson) 317
Against Refusing (Lee Ranaldo) 58
‘Airplane Blues’ (Ginsberg) 421
Albert Hall, The, London 117, 238, 240
Algren, Nelson 20
‘Allen Ginsberg in Liverpool’ (Christopher George) 180
Allen Ginsberg Reads Howl and Other Poems 62
Allen Ginsberg Reads Kaddish 62
Allen, Steve 61, 94, 213, 447
Allison, Mose 257
‘All You Need Is Love’ (The Beatles) 280
American Dream, The 208
Americans, The (Robert Frank) 59, 331–3
Amis, Kingsley 229
Amram, David xvii, 39, 61–2, 84, 87–105 (interview), 111, 127, 210, 322, 333–4, 338, 426, 432
An American Prayer (Jim Morrison) 54
‘Anarchy in the UK’ (The Sex Pistols) 386
Anarchy in the UK (The Sex Pistols tour) 386
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Burroughs and Kerouac) 24
Andersen, Eric 23, 302
Anderson, Laurie 60, 166
Angry Young Men, The (AYM) 214–15, 226, 229–32
Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Sharon Mesmer) 369
Anthem of the Sun (The Grateful Dead) 52
Apartheid 34
Apollinaire, Guillaume 184
Apple (record label) 37, 245
Arena (TV show) 392
Armstrong, Louis 7
‘Arnold Layne’ (Pink Floyd) 258
Aronowitz, Al 8, 8nn 10, 11, 114, 297
Artaud, Antonin 302
‘As Tears Go By’ (Marianne Faithfull) 250
Ashbery, John 146
Asher, Jane 189, 243
Asher, Levi 283–5 (Q&A)
Athlete’s Dream, The (Larry Rivers) 367
Atlantic Records 77, 427, 435
Atop an Underwood (Jack Kerouac) 105, 429
auto poetry 124
Avalon Ballroom, The, SF 147
avant garde 215, 345, 357
Babbs, Ken 52
Baby Driver (Jan Kerouac) 155, 331n 8
Bach, Johann Sebastian 404
Badfinger 245
Badlands 436
‘Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (in Lowell)’ (Tom Waits) 341
Baez, Joan 55, 128, 168
Baez, Mimi 55, 168
Baker, Ginger 256
Baldwin, James 73
‘Ballad of the Skeletons, The’ (Ginsberg) 37, 62, 187
Band, The 54, 97, 120, 128, 160, 284, 304
Bangs, Lester 17, 39
Banks, Lynne Reid 228
Baraka, Amiri 7n, 33, 57, 60, 153, 337n, 186
Barber, Chris 186, 219
Barger, Sonny 121
Barrett, Syd 249, 258
Bartók, Béla 88
Basie, Count 420
Basketball Diaries, The (Jim Carroll) 368, 371, 372
Barstow, Stan 228
Battery: Live at Naropa 1974–2002 (Anne Waldman) 167
Baudelaire, Charles 93, 357, 361
Bauza, Mario 91
BB Gun (magazine) 395
Beach Boys, The 9, 274
Beard, The (Michael McClure) 135, 138, 304
Beat (King Crimson) 54
Beat (film) 167
Beat Café (Donovan) 55
Beat Culture and the New America: 1950–1965 (exhibition) 28, 295
Beat Generation, The (Various Artists) 64
Beat Generation, The xv, 1, 25, 66, 88, 92, 95, 103–4, 108, 109, 176, 200, 207, 283, 288–9, 306, 309–10, 359, 381, 401–2, 441, 446
association with rock
scene 260, 283, 285, 446
attitudes to women 150
British connection 229–30, 381
definition of 213–14
influence of 35
political affinity 140–1
Beat Hotel, The, Paris 27, 246, 390
Beatles, The xv, 8, 9, 12, 17, 68, 89, 126, 136, 175, 222, 223, 237–8, 243–5, 249, 256, 280, 321, 373, 376, 403, 405, 409, 413
Beatlemania 37, 376
meeting Ginsberg 37, 118
beatnik 108, 213, 213n 4, 300, 313, 341, 381, 381n 17
Beat Scene (magazine) 181, 297, 445
Beat Thing (David Meltzer) 309–12
Beautiful Losers (Leonard Cohen) 55
bebop 5–8, 75, 112, 186, 256, 437, 454
Be Bop Deluxe 313, 316
Beck 23, 59
Beckett, Samuel 234
Becoming Hettie (Hettie Jones) 172
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Richard Fariña) 55, 168
Before The Flood (Bob Dylan) 128
‘Beginning of a Poem of These States’ (Ginsberg) 120
Be Here Now (Richard Alpert) 420
‘Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite’ (The Beatles) 272, 275
Bellow, Saul 72
Berkeley 121, 268–9
Berkeley Barb (newspaper) 16, 142
Bernstein, Leonard 87
Berrigan, Ted 46, 367, 372
Berry, Chuck xviii, 9, 11, 78, 89, 90, 186, 210, 446
Berryman, John 73
Biafra, Jello 60
Big Brother and the Holding Company 137, 141
Big Sur (Kerouac) 28, 41, 323, 336, 344, 347, 427–8, 432–3, 436–7
Big Sur Folk Festival 55
Big Sur (place) 432
‘Big Yellow Taxi’ (Joni Mitchell) 162
Biograph (Bob Dylan) 2n 2, 195
‘Birdbrain’ (Ginsberg) 284
Birth (Tuli Kupferberg) 443
‘Black Angel’s Death Song’ (Velvet Underground) 49
Blackbird Singing (Paul McCartney) 189
Blackboard Jungle, The (film) 67, 72, 78
‘Black Dada Nihilismus’ (Amiri Baraka) 64
Black Flag 59
Black Mountain College 73, 75, 183
Black Panthers 113, 443
Black Rider, The (Burroughs and Tom Waits) 63, 341
Black Sparrow Press 298
Blade, Brian 455
Bladerunner (Burroughs) 410
Blake, Peter 20, 243, 272, 277
Blake, William 20, 25, 45, 79, 143, 180, 234, 244, 358, 361, 365, 414, 419, 420, 439, 444, 447
