WHO WAS COWBOY NEAL?
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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman
Neal Cassady - real-life model for Dean Moriarity in Kerouac's "On the Road," muse to Allen Ginsberg, and Cowboy Neal in @GratefulDead's "The Other One" - was born OTD in 1926. This essay on him was one of the 1st things I ever published.
http://www.poetspath.com/Scholarship_Project/cowboyneal.htm
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he was at the wheel
he was at the wheel
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Not a good role model
Not a good role model
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Both Garcia and Paul Krassner
Both Garcia and Paul Krassner used him as a negative role model. Jerry dug his trip, but it made him realize he didn't want to create and/or be an individual art/artist, but rather a collaborator in a group situation.
Krassner was hitchhiking and Cassady picked him up. By the time they got to where Paul was going, the experience of Neal driving and talking was enough to convince Krassner to settle down and get married, which he did.
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Jerry,, hell of a musician,
Jerry,, hell of a musician, also not a good role model,,, don't know much about Paul
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Jerry Garcia was a great role
Jerry Garcia was a great role model. He was not into authority or telling people how to live their lives. If more people were like that there would be a whole lot less trouble in the world.
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A great scene near the end of
A great scene near the end of On The Road has Dean (Neal) waiting outside a San Francisco apartment while his friends rag on about what an asshole he is (basically), and Sal (Jack Kerouac) says, he is outside right now and alive, someday he will be dead, and what are you going to say to him then?
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>Jerry Garcia was a great
>Jerry Garcia was a great role model.
Lol. Ask his daughters, his ex wives.... Jerry was not a great person. He was brilliant musician.
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^If you make that kind of
^If you make that kind of comment but you didn't know the man then you're way off the mark, in my opinion. Also unless you have personally spoke to his "ex wives and daughters" then you don't have any place to tell anyone how they feel either.
My 0.02$ for that subject.
on the subject of the thread, thank you for sharing. That's a very cool essay
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Neal reminds me of Charlie, a
Neal reminds me of Charlie, a guy I met in Guatemala who followed me to Honduras when I told him I was going there. He was from Bakersfield and a very wild but nice and generous guy. He lived in Oaxaca City, Mexico at the time for some years. His dad knew and went to HS with Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. I knew him for maybe 2 months in Central America. Last time I was in Guatemala I heard his sister was looking for him as he would send his sister Mexican art and she would sell it. Dave the local hustler at San Pedro de la Laguna said his sister was looking for him. Dave said he was probably murdered. I agreed as Charlie would hit on women all the time down there when drunk. He probably pissed the wrong guy off.Sad as he was a good guy. Just horny and a drunk. Have lot's of stories of my adventures with him. Clark an old hippie from the 60's from Cali who had a restaurant and a few rooms to rent in San Pedro where I spent my days said Charlie was the most out there person he ever met.
Oh and his nephew or cousin was the guitarist in the band Korn from Bakersfield.