Cassady, Kerouac, Kesey

[Mike Weaver]

There is a great piece about Cassady by Kesey in his Garage Sale collection.
And the Dead backed rap by Cassady which was in the original edition of the Dead Book by Hank Harrison can be heard at 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxWEyDOA6cg

Of Kerouac - "There wasn't nothing I'd do For him, there wasn't nothing he'd do for me, so we sat around all day doing nothing"



Matthew Cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote :

> And his friend Jack was already down in FLorida well on his way to where he would be less than a year after Neil took off walking. I suppose you know Kesey's piece, "The Day After Superman Died"; Neil's death was a blow to both Kesey and Kerouac. What I've often wondered is how large a blip that was on the (sub)cultural radar back then. I suppose Pynchon would have heard about it - wouldn't that revindicate his wariness of and aversion to the Fame Machine? Â If you want to hear the old Madcap ramble then go to Youtube and look for audio recordings from the Further bus.That "child of boundless seas" is still "Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac".If you want to hear Bob Weir and the Boys sing about him:





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