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Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll

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by Simon Warner


  Naked and the Dead, The (Norman Mailer) 45, 443

  Naked Lunch, The (Burroughs) 15, 27, 31, 48, 66, 315, 384, 439

  Brion Gysin script 249

  Nameth, Ronald xviii, 287–93 (interview), 314, 320

  Naropa Institute, Boulder 28, 358, 362, 365, 369, 370, 401, 417, 421–2

  Nash, Graham 12, 160

  NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 70

  Nation, The (magazine) 143, 143n 3

  ‘Neal and Jack and Me’ (King Crimson) 54

  Neal Cassady (film) 203

  Neal Cassady Birthday Bash, The 204, 207, 210

  Neal Cassady Collected Letters, 1944–1967 205, 205n 2

  Nelson, Bill xviii, 313–20 (interview)

  Nelson, Willie 95, 97, 98

  ‘Neurotica’ (King Crimson) 55

  Neuwirth, Bobby 111, 118, 128, 366

  New Departures (magazine) 179, 185, 187, 234

  Live New Departures 235–6, 255

  New Journalism 17, 52

  Newman, Barnett 8, 74

  Newman, Randy 11

  New Musical Express (magazine) 16, 17, 389

  Newsweek (magazine) 142

  New World Writing (magazine) 330–1

  New York City 5, 49, 93, 105, 111, 112, 298, 346, 348, 368, 405, 410, 412

  Daily News, New York 410

  New York Dolls, The 56, 386

  New York Post 8, 114, 297

  ‘New York Talkin’ Blues’ (Dylan) 112

  New York Times 25, 152, 296 335

  ‘New Vision, The’ 6n 4, 24, 158

  new wave 42, 55, 371, 404

  Nico 48, 166, 289

  Nicosia, Gerald 155

  Nighthawks at the Diner (Tom Waits) 341

  Nin, Anaïs 245

  Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) 42, 225

  Nirvana xvi, 44

  No Direction Home (film) 37, 107n 1, 296

  No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre) 70

  ‘Norwegian Wood’ (The Beatles) 10

  ‘Not Fade Away’ (The Rolling Stones) 376

  Notting Hill Carnival 248n 83

  Nova Convention, The 63

  Nova Express (Burroughs) 27

  no wave 371

  Nuttall, Jeff 234, 241

  Oakland, California 116, 121, 135

  Objectivists, The 362

  occult, the 318, 394

  Off Beat/A Red Hot Sound Trip (Various Artists) 64

  Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac (David Amram) 87, 93

  Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg (Carolyn Cassady) 154, 204, 336

  O’Hara, Frank 93, 350, 372

  Oldenburg, Claes 20

  Olinksy, Frank 332

  Olson, Charles 167, 183, 186, 245

  ‘On Hyndford Street’ (Van Morrison) 54

  On The Road (Kerouac) xv, 9, 15, 22, 25, 26, 30, 54, 58–9, 66, 84, 92, 117, 129, 143, 152, 208–9, 213, 233–4, 259, 323, 330–1, 332, 332n 12, 334–5, 338, 340, 367, 380, 403, 417, 423, 432, 436, 441

  film 431, 431n 1, 451–3

  film soundtrack 451–6 (review)

  influence on Dylan 110, 112, 284

  Neal Cassady/Dean Moriarty 30, 203–4, 331, 452

  Original Scroll 334, 335–6, 336n 18, 417

  publication 27

  ‘On The Road’ (Jack Kerouac song) 334, 336–9, 455–6

  ‘On the Road’ (Tom Waits Song) 62, 323,339–44, 426

  ‘On The Road Again’ (Bob Dylan) 120

  ‘On The Road Again’ (Canned Heat) 448

  One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur 41, 321, 323, 344, 347, 363, 365, 427–8, 435

  review of 431–433

  soundtrack 435–8

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey) 50, 120

  Ono, Yoko 38, 169, 246, 315, 384

  Oppen, George 362

  Ordinary Madness (Charles Bukowski) 439

  Organic Trains (Jim Carroll) 368, 372

  ‘Orizaba 210 Blues’ (Kerouac) 95, 333–4

  Orlovsky, Peter xvii, 1, 26, 62, 114, 123, 128, 297, 407, 410, 422

  obituary 201–2

  Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Tom Waits) 343

  Orwell, George 215, 225

  Osborne, John 228

  Outsider, The (Colin Wilson) 228

  Oz (magazine) 16, 242

  Page, Jimmy

  Painful but Fabulous: The Lives and Art of Genesis P-Orridge 373n 1, 374, 396

  Paolozzi, Eduardo 20

  Paris Review, The (magazine) 104, 368, 372

  Parker, Charlie 6–7, 75, 89, 90, 104, 186, 299, 455

  Parker, Edie 54, 154

  Parker, Graham 23, 40, 326, 426, 427

  Parsons, Gram 437

  Parsons, Tony 17, 389

  Partch, Harry 315

  Pastorius, Jaco 161

  Patchen, Kenneth 53, 64, 126, 126n 86, 186, 187, 235, 245, 302, 446, 449

  Patten, Brian 38, 176, 186, 236, 247

  Peace and Noise (Patti Smith) 163, 355

  Peace Eye Bookstore, NYC 413

  Pearl Jam 40, 352

  Peel, John 313

  Pennebaker, D. A. 117–18

  ‘Penny Lane’ (The Beatles) 10, 258, 271–2, 280

  Performance (film) 249

  Perry, Mark 387

  People, The (newspaper) 231

  People and Places (TV show) 403

  ‘People Who Died’ (Jim Carroll) 369, 370, 372

  Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys) 9, 274

  Petting Zoo, The (Jim Carroll) 326

  Picasso, Pablo 184

  Pictures of the Gone World (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) 63, 84, 87, 321

  Pink Floyd 246, 251, 258, 274

  ‘Piss Factory’ (Patti Smith) 163, 350n 14

  Pitt, Brad 452

  Place of Dead Roads, The (Burroughs) 42

  Platters, The 89

  Playboy (magazine) 338

  Poet Song (Tina and David Meltzer) 305

  ‘Poetry and All That Jazz’ (UFO) 60

  Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg, The (Edward Sanders) 47

  Poetry for the Beat Generation (Kerouac) 61

  Poetry Olympics, The 190, 252

  Poetry Recordings in the Cellar with the Cellar Jazz Quintet (Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Rexroth) 63

  Poet w/Jazz 1958 (David Meltzer) 64, 301

  ‘Poisoned Wheat’ (Michael McClure) 123

  Pollock, Jackson 8, 74, 346

  Pop Art 19, 74, 81, 367

  Pop, Iggy 60

  Pop Matters (website) 379

  Popular Arts, The (Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel) 227

  P-Orridge, Genesis xvii, 43, 373–40

  collaboration with Burroughs and Gysin 379, 395–6, 398–9

  COUM Transmissions 383, 386, 390

  Industrial (record label) 389, 390, 395

  influence of the Beats 382–83

  mailart 383–4, 390

  meeting Burroughs 384–5, 390

  moving to the US 392

  pandrogyny 375, 378, 392, 394

  poetry 381–2

  use of cut-up 43, 374, 375, 385, 387–8, 395, 398–9

  see also Prostitution, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle

  Portable Beat Reader, The (Ann Charters) 109, 304

  ‘Positively Fourth Street’ (Dylan) 120

  post-beat 109, 346, 358, 360–1, 364, 368

  postmodernism 19, 75, 80

  Post Office (Charles Bukowski) 439

  post-punk 42, 57, 165, 173, 421

  Pound, Ezra 73, 362

  Prado, Perez 453

  Presley, Elvis xviii, 9, 30, 70, 78, 91, 136, 185, 210, 412, 447

  ‘Pretty Vacant’ (The Sex Pistols) 387

  Prez see Lester Young

  ‘“Priest” They Called Him, The’ (Burroughs) 44, 63

  Primus 40, 62, 334, 342, 426

  Prostitution (live show) 383, 386, 389

  Protest, The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men (Feldman and Gartenberg) 229, 232<
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  Psychic TV 397

  Puente, Tito 91

  Pull My Daisy (film) 61, 87, 92, 94, 160n 10, 210, 333, 334

  punk 40, 55, 147–8, 260, 351, 356, 371, 386, 401–2, 405, 409, 445

  ‘Queen Jane Approximately’ (Dylan) 120

  Queer (Burroughs) 26

  Quicksilver Messenger Service 52, 124, 137, 141, 302–3

  Radio Ethiopia (Patti Smith) 359

  Ragas (David Meltzer) 301

  Rage Against The Machine 38

  Ma Rainey 186

  Rakosi, Carl 362

  Ramones, The 262, 405

  Ranaldo, Lee 40, 57–8, 324, 332, 337, 426

  Rand, Ayn 20

  rap 60, 91 see also hip hop

  Raskin, Jonah 259–62 (Q&A)

  Rauschenberg, Robert 70, 75

  Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (Kerouac) 61

  Ready Steady Go (TV show) 377

  Reality Sandwich (website) 419

  Rebel Motorcycle Club 38

  Rebel Without a Cause (film) 71–2, 150, 217

  Reckoning (Grateful Dead) 52

  Red Hot Chili Peppers, The 60

  Redding, Otis 186

  Redl, Harry 296

  Reed, Lou 14, 23, 47, 49, 166, 260, 289, 357, 413, 450

  Syracuse University 14

  ‘Refuge of the Roads’ (Joni Mitchell) 161

  Reluctant Beat, A (radio show) 83

  REM 4, 58

  Renaldo and Clara (film) 37, 128, 129, 131, 297, 429

  RE/Search (magazine) 379, 385, 386, 392, 394

  Revolt Into Style (George Melly) 181

  Revolver (The Beatles) 9, 15, 277

  Rexroth, Kenneth 26, 49, 66n 3, 85, 139–40, 186, 229, 299–300

  Reznikoff, Charles 362

  rhythm and blues (R&B) 223, 377

  Ribot, Marc 62

  Richard, Cliff 222

  Richard(s), Keith 43, 90, 441

  art school 14, 313

  Riley, Sam 452–53

  Rimbaud, Arthur 56, 346, 351, 354, 357, 361, 362, 364, 365, 369

  Ring, Kevin 445–50 (Q&A)

  riot grrrl 3, 165, 166, 167, 173

  Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, The (David Bowie) 42

  ‘River’ (Joni Mitchell) 160

  River: The Joni Letters (Herbie Hancock) 161

  Rivers, Larry 8n, 92, 160n 10, 367, 372

  Roach, Max 455

  Road Movies (Lee Ranaldo) 58

  Road to the Western Lands, The (Burroughs) 63

  Robertson, Robbie 2, 122, 197

  Rock Against Racism 34, 449

  Rock Around The Clock (film) 72, 217

  ‘Rock Island Line’ (Lonnie Donegan) 219

  rock ’n’ roll 67, 71, 80, 87, 90, 96, 136, 138–40, 185–6, 216, 218, 259, 283, 329n, 446

  definition of xviii

  ‘Rock ’n’ roll Nigger’ (Patti Smith) 163

  rock music 9, 13, 135, 200, 207–8, 268, 271, 283, 371, 449–50

  Rogers, Jimmie 95

  Rolling Stone (magazine) 15, 16–17, 23, 42, 129, 141, 142n 2, 268

  Rolling Stone Book of the Beats, The (Holly George-Warren) 23

  Rolling Stones, The 17, 89, 90, 136, 223, 265, 373, 376–7, 441

  Rolling Thunder Revue, The 37, 108, 127–32, 162, 169, 187, 202, 222, 249, 260, 296, 429

  Rollins, Henry 59, 369

  Rollins, Sonny 255

  Ronson, Mick 129, 406

  Room at the Top (John Braine) 228

  Rosenquist, James 20, 75

  Roth, Phillip 72

  Rothko, Mark 8, 74

  Rotten, Johnny 386

  Roundhouse, The, London 275

  Rubber Soul (The Beatles) 277

  Rubin, Barbara 47–8, 241, 289, 360

  Rubin, Jerry 122, 420

  Rundgren, Todd 62

  Rushing, Jimmy 186

  Russell, Arthur 62

  Russell, Bertrand 233, 302

  Russell, Curley 455

  Russell, Tom 60, 448

  Rykodisc 323, 445

  Salinger, J. D. 73, 150, 266, 439

  Salles, Walter 431, 453

  Sampas, Jim 40, 84, 321–7 (Q&A), 332, 337, 425–30, 435, 436–7

  Sampas, John 324, 426

  Sampas, Stella 155, 321n 1, 426, 436

  Santaolalla, Gustavo 451, 453, 456

  San Francisco 1, 20, 38, 49–50, 52, 65, 84, 102, 116, 121, 122, 124, 137, 144, 176, 191, 239, 262, 280, 302, 307, 409–10, 432, 446, 453

  North Beach 1, 137–8, 176, 201, 213, 264, 296, 299, 309

  Summer of Love 263, 267–71

  Vesuvio’s 2, 83, 122, 198

  ‘San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair’ (Scott McKenzie) 279

  San Francisco Chronicle 194, 213

  San Francisco Oracle (newspaper) 267

  San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, The 49, 135, 296

  San Francisco Poets, The (David Meltzer) 305

  Sanders, Ed (Edward) 33, 45–47, 407, 412–16, 443–4, 446, 450

  TV appearance with Jack Kerouac 46, 418

  Sandman, Mark 323, 325

  Santana, Carlos 95, 98

  Saroyam, Aram 245

  Sartre, Jean-Paul 75, 224

  ‘Sartori in Tangier’ (King Crimson) 54

  Satori in Paris (Kerouac) 54

  Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (Alan Sillitoe) 228

  Savage, Jon 386, 389

  Scaduto, Anthony 108, 297

  Scaffold, The 247

  Schwartz, Delmore 49, 340, 357

  ‘Sea’ (Kerouac) 432

  Sebastian, John 11

  Second World War 216, 298, 360

  ‘See Emily Play’ (Pink Floyd) 258

  ‘See You Later Allen Ginsberg’ (The Band) 120

  Seeger, Pete 79, 118, 150, 221, 266, 437

  Selby Jr., Hubert 20

  ‘September on Jessore Road’ (Ginsberg) 127

  Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles) 9, 11, 48, 243, 245, 261, 263, 265–67, 271–7, 279–81

  cover (Peter Blake) 243, 272, 277

  Serra, Richard 143

  ‘Series of Dreams’ (Bob Dylan) 132

  Serpent Power, The 305, 309, 448

  ‘Seven Things about Kenneth Rexroth’ (Michael McClure) 140

  Seventh Heaven (Patti Smith) 350

  Sex (clothes shop) 386

  ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’ (Ian Dury) xix

  Sex Pistols, The 56–7, 262, 386–8, 405

  Sexual Politics (Kate Millet) 151

  Scorsese, Martin 54

  Scott-Heron, Gil 60, 186

  Scriptures of the Golden Eternity (Lee Ranaldo) 58

  The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (Kerouac) 58

  ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’ (Bill Haley and His Comets) 67

  Shakespeare, William 4, 20

  Shangri-Las, The 172

  Shearing, George 186, 453

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe 20

  Shelton, Robert 108, 296

  ‘She’s Leaving Home’ (The Beatles) 275, 276, 277

  ‘She Loves You’ (The Beatles) 376

  Shepard, Sam 128, 129, 321, 367, 371, 427, 432

  Sholle, Jon 62, 408

  Sillitoe, Alan 228

  Simon, Carly 169

  Simon, Paul 11

  Sims, Zoot 61, 322

  Sinatra, Frank 329n

  ‘Sister Ray’ (The Velvet Underground) 49

  681 Lexington Avenue: A Beat Education in New York City 1947–1954 (Elizabeth Von Vogt) 153

  Six Gallery, The, SF 26, 65, 84, 135–36, 410

  Sketches of Spain (Miles Davis) 81

  Skiffle 219–21, 220n 14

  Slant (website) 347

  Slick, Grace 11

  Small Faces, The 224

  Smith, Bessie 89

  Smith, Harry 365

  Smith, Patti xvi, 4, 18, 23, 38, 43, 56, 58, 155, 162–4, 208, 260, 321, 322, 324, 345–66, 368–9, 371, 372, 411, 419, 426, 432, 448

  Beat
connection 356–66

  connection with Dylan 365, 360

  friendship with Ginsberg 352–65, 363

  influence of Kerouac 363

  St. Mark’s debut 352

  Smiths, The 39

  Sniffin’ Glue (fanzine) 387

  Snyder, Gary 26–7, 52, 66n 3, 124, 143, 145, 162, 300, 318, 447, 450

  Soft Machine (band) 41, 188, 246, 250, 274

  Soft Machine, The (Burroughs) 27, 31, 41, 363, 384

  Soho, London 229

  Solomon, Carl 25

  Some of the Dharma (Jack Kerouac) 417

  Sometimes A Great Notion (Ken Kesey) 50

  Sommerville, Ian 387, 390

  Son House 455

  ‘Song’ (Ginsberg) 422

  ‘Song For Woody’ (Bob Dylan) 112

  Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake (Ginsberg) 62

  Songs of Leonard Cohen, The (Leonard Cohen) 55

  Sonic Youth 4, 23, 57, 166, 332

  Sopranos, The (TV show) 428, 432

  soul 224

  Southern, Terry 126

  Spacey, Kevin 343

  Spaniard in the Works, A (John Lennon) 243

  Spann, Otis 186

  Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (Burroughs) 63

  Specials, The 449

  Spice-Box of the Earth, The (Leonard Cohen) 55

  Splendor in the Grass (film) 87

  Spontaneous prose, spontaneity 95, 109–10, 437

  Springsteen, Bruce 22, 321, 405, 420, 423, 436

  St. Mark’s Church, NYC 46, 49, 66, 162, 325, 405, 413

  St. Mark’s Poetry Project, NYC 43, 154, 167, 348, 349, 356, 362, 365, 367, 369, 372

  ‘Star Me Kitten’ (REM) 59

  Stax Records 224

  Steele, Tommy 186, 222

  Steely Dan 41, 63

  Steinbeck, John 423, 439

  Stein, Chris 63

  Steinem, Gloria 149

  Steppenwolf 41

  Steve Allen Show 209

  Stevens, Cat 11

  Stewart, Kristen 452

  Stills, Stephen 12

  Stipe, Michael 40, 59, 324

  Straight Hearts’ Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters (Ginsberg and Orlovsky) 202

  Stravinsky, Igor 88

  ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ (The Beatles) 10, 258, 271–2, 280

  Strummer, Joe 4, 40–1, 57, 187, 189, 325, 404–5, 426

  Sturridge, Tom 453

  ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ (Bob Dylan) 10, 36, 118–19

  Subterraneans, The (Kerouac) 27, 119

  Sunday Times 439

  ‘Suite: Judy Blue Eyes’ (Stephen Stills) 12

  Summer of Love, The 23, 52, 124, 263–4, 267–71

  ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ (Cream) 248, 255

  Surrealism 240, 259, 357, 359, 393, 411

  Sutcliffe, Stuart 237

  Swinging Sixties, The 214

  ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ (The Rolling Stones) 261

  T-T, Chris 439–41 (Q&A)

  ‘Talkin’ New York’ (Bob Dylan) 10

  ‘Tangled Up In Blue’ (Bob Dylan) 285

  Taupin, Bernie 11

  Tarantula (Bob Dylan) 36, 125–6

 

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