The Beat Generation Lives! will take place in the Starr King Room of the Unitarian Church, Starr King and Franklin, Sat. evening October 7, starting at 7PM.
To honor the 50th anniversary of the publication of HOWL, Gerald Nicosia is re-creating a big Beat poetry reading in a spacious room at the that holds close to 200 people--with coffee, wine, jazz.
All of the reading will be of beat poetry--no lectures or memoirs.
So far original beats Lenore Kandel, Jerry Kamstra, David Meltzer, and Ray Clark Dickson have agreed to paticipate, with John Cassady reading dad Neal's stuff.
Other readers include
Neeli Cherkovski reading Ginsberg
Mel Clay reading Bob Kaufman
A.D. Winans reading Jack Micheline
Latif Harris reading Philip Lamantia and Howard Hart
Nicole Henares reading Jan Kerouac
Gerald Nicosia reading Jack Kerouac
Sharon Doubiago reading Diane DiPrima and Joanne Kyger
Matt Gonzalez reading John Wieners
Phil Deal, jazz accompaniment on alto sa
$10 donation suggested, but no one turned away.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
The Beat Generation Lives!
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The Minus One
on slide show now playing
"The Minus One" is the name of the group Dana Alberts, Liam Hart and Mike Henry started in the eighties. The band released four singles through the "Skate Rock" series through Thrasher Magazine, and appeared on “One Giant Leap”, a compilation record released in England on Venture Records in 1983.
The next year, they recorded “Where A Man Was Made,” with Spencer Dryden on drums (Jefferson Airplane drummer) and Naomi Ruth Isenberg (Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks) on violin.
Minus One toured the U.S. in 1985 with the VKTMS, the punk band formed by drummer Louis Gwerder and featuring Nyna Crawford.
Later that year Alberts was approached by Danny Sugerman, the author and former manager of the “Doors, and Iggy Pop's manager, after Sugerman had heard a tape of the band.
This led them to an offer of a record deal from Geffen Records. The band, broke up before the deal could be consummated.
They reformed in late 2006, and are be currently rehearsing to play extensively in 2007.
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