Tag: the beats

• The Beat Goes On

  My interview with musician/composer David Amram has been selected as one of the 18 pieces in this new book from Literary Kicks.  Read all about it at Amazon.com: Literary Kicks, a website born in 1994, was there to witness it all, standing at the crossroads of emerging Internet culture and Beat inspiration. Here’s the tale…

  Bill Ectric

  July 29, 2011

  allen ginsberg, beat generation, David Amram, Diane DiPrima, Gary Snyder, Grateful Dead, Jack Kerouac, Jack Micheline, Jamelah Earle, John Perry Barlow, Laki Vazakas, levi asher, Lew Welch, Marty Matz, Michael McClure, Neal Cassady, on the road, Patricia Elliot, Philip Whalen, Ray Freed, Robert Creeley, Six Gallery, the beats, William S. Burroughs

• Interview with Photographer Larry Keenan

  Photographer Larry Keenan was there to chronicle the transition from the “Beat Generation”  to the “Hippie Generation”  – taking pictures of artists, musicians, and scene-makers like Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Bob Dylan, Michael McClure, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and more. Many of these photos are in the permanent collection of…

  Bill Ectric

  June 23, 2010

  beat generation, Bob Dylan, counterculture, hippies, Larry Keenan, photography, the beats