Allen Ginsberg Reading in Baltimore -1969
December 3, 2016
Allen Ginsberg at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, November 1969 A few weeks back, we featured Allen, in 1973, reading at the Maryland Institute. Here’s another recording, from 1969, four years previously, where he presents a little mantra, a little William Blake and a substantial selection (some still in early[…]
Friday’s Weekly Round Up – 293
November 18, 2016
Bob Dylan, The Mann Center, Philadelphia, July 13, 2016. via Bill’s Music Blog So Bob Dylan won’t be heading over to Sweden to pick up his Nobel Prize for Literature on December the 10th. The Swedish Academy said Wednesday that Dylan told them he “wishes he could receive the prize personally, but[…]
Allen and Bob – part 2
May 25, 2011
In 1965 Allen arranged for and fellow student photographer Dale Smith to photograph him and Michael McClure and Robbie Robertson and Bob Dylan in the alleyway behind City Lights Bookstore (originally for possible use on the Blonde on Blonde album[…]
Robbie Robertson reads Allen Ginsberg
May 23, 2011
Clare Ann Matz has put together an interesting tape – “Poetry of the Western World Read By Celebrities and Collected by Clare Ann Matz”, a miscellaneous collection of poetry reading (and attempted poetry reading!) by an odd mix of artists, among them filmmaker Wim Wenders, The Band’s Robbie Robertson, and footage of[…]