I think Kerouac was usually under the influence of alcohol or drugs, so what he writes is the way he perceives it, in the same way that Hunter S. Thompson writes.
I agree. The primary goal of any writer (or artist) is to motivate/inspire/entertain the reader (or observer). To criticize his stylistic approach to this end is kind of besides the point.
Capote's criticism could actually be interpreted as a compliment. The speed of typewriting over old-fashioned pen-writing allows for truer stream-of-consciousness ideas and descriptions to fill the page, which ties into Kerouac's interest in Eastern mysticism and its focus on intuition and non-thought as paths to wisdom and enlightenment.
I think his statement is just jealous or spiteful bickering for Kerouac's fame at what he considered to be inferior writing.
Well, I believe he was sidelined from football with a broken leg and decided to leave college, which is not a rarity with self-motivated and artistic-minded people.
I live on the outskirts of Lowell. His tombstone, which is just a flat slab on the ground, is the most popular attraction in the city. Who would have thought that a cemetary site would have such power?
Him. Me. Everybody. But him especially. Death of his brother. Loneliness. Alcoholism. Who knows what else. It was the media that killed him. He couldnt handle the strain of being famous. He literally woke up one day and he was famous. He just lost his way. Drank himself to death. God bless him. God bless anyone who is living thru unbearable pressure.
I like to sing this when Im fellin down. I love it. He wa everything we are not. Everything we should be. Except for the sad, cold reality of loneliness and alcoholism. Sweet dear Jack. God aint pooh bear but God os at your side for real darlin. amen
Hey Rickfine this is from allisonfine--a name relative and lover of Kerouac and a writer who has crisscrossed our country over a dozen times and lived 8 years in the west in montana and utah and arizona and spent many many hours on the new version of route 66
Jacky, some of America loves you like you loved this land. We turn our collars up against the wind and trudge slipping across the changing terrain, cussing obsticales and reveling in joy we may find, simple Duloz's ongoing because you inspired more than a generation.
The hobo has two watches you can't buy in Tiffanys. On one wrist the sun, on the other wrist the moon, both bands are made of sky". A quote from "The Vanishing American Hobo" by Jack Kerouac
You should know me by now. I'm not speaking for Christ, but Kerouac was a sick man who turned his back on Christianity, and played the sentimental gutter outcast, the gutter-christ, who brings a gospel of "chill-out", "relax". Christ gave men a severe conscience. Kerouac Beats-off and sooths the conscience: spiritual death ensues. Nietzsche's Last Man. Hurrah!
Man had his faults. We all have faults. Shit, he sounds a little drunk when this was recorded. But face facts. Man influenced the American society of the 1960's in more ways then one, much to his disdain. He hated the hippies and the bohemians.
So, my father gave me "On The Road" when I turned 16. He bought it at that age also, And I made my own meaning out of Kerouac.
Guy was nothing other then HIMSELF. And that is what we all should aspire to be.
"The worst part is wondering how you'll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you'll find the strength for all that stupid running around,...
.... those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows."
I'm a little confused. This is a brilliant job. If you also composed that Eno-ish guitar line to sort of sync up with his free song, then you are uber-brilliant.
Another reason why Kerouac was bad? He glorifies the life of a vagabond as the life of a truly free & interesting man. This is pure fraud, & flattery for young persons who feel somehow excluded from the multitude. He actually corrupts by breeding easy self satisfaction, and low class attitudes in every eccentric know-nothing. He also makes ordinary persons feel deep. Slop for the herd.
Let's see... Getting drunk and sticking his infested mentual wherever there was an open door. Did Jesus do that? Losing one's mind on drugs. Did Jesus do that? Meandering around like a smug little fellow, preaching brotherly love, but living in filth and decadence. Did Jesus do that too? Did Kerouac die for our sins, or are we now in America dying for his?
On the Road is a work of a trivial man with no insights, filled with resentments, and in love with the gutter. He was a fallen Catholic. The writings of these obsessed and miserable frogs has come like one of the ten plagues. They leave their excrement everywhere, and in the excrement they leave their eggs.
Bouvard and Pecuchet too undertook landscaping, gardening, and agriculture. Does anyone know what happened to their farm?
It was Flaubert's belief that he he lived in the stupidest age in human history. But he didnt live to see America's youth and beat gnerations, and all that came tumbling after. How fortunate he was.
Watch the mirror and you shall see what fiction really is. Your life is a fiction.
Time will teach you that soon enough.
You are, I suppose, as gardener familiar with the seasons? Your winter of discontent will have no glorious summer. Education can nicely be compared to tending to one's garden: most people litter their's with trash and weeds. Not me. Do you as you please. That is your "freedom."
You ideas are very sterile, like the writers whom you seem to admire.
I had someone on Youtube ranting at me yesterday, like you, who thought the verses and prose on my page to be a bit dull. He didnt even blush when he discovered by whom they were written. Such persons are ineducable, permanently. They are, like you, a warning and example to others with some hope.
This whole absurd interchange reveals why the offspring of the beatniks are sterile and bungling babblers, scribbling about their personal moods, affecting great depth and insight.
But really they are just a herd of bourgeois conformists.
I see your tastes: revealing of a common but histrionic soul.
You dont like to hear it, do you?
You are a lover and devotee of polluted popular trash. Your charge against me of snobbery and pedantry is suspect. You just dont like to have any one question your ugly tastes.
But your conscience and soul is probably too weak, and your sordid desires mean too much to you.
You are on of those inhaitants of our days who perhaps lost the christianity of their ancestor, like Kerouac, but embrace the permissive and egalitarian sentimental spirit of the dead.
You are dying of terminal spiritual cancer, you with your coarse and smarmy sentimental pleasures. I see you are flattered by the histrionic idiocy of the son of Admiral George Stephen Morrison. Your heart has been polluted and excited by their grotesque shamelessness. The high and noble reveals the base and degenerate for what it really is. These never touch. So keep your infested thoughts far away!
Kerouac wasnt demonic. He was childish, philistine, and boring. You too.
If you really are 28, then explain to us why your "favorites" reflect the tastes of a corrupt and silly 15 year old. You lack all exposure to things good and beautiful. Or maybe you are just a dullard.
Dear Rick-- Just had to sign in and tell you that your video is tender and touching, a direct line in to those very aspects of Jack that are so human and memorable. A real gem, and very evocative. Best of all, I think JK himself would've loved the mix of elements.
The song is from the Ryko album On The Road and it is Kerouac with added music. I like the piano version Waits does on Orphans, but this, with Kerouac's original singing, is really intimate and beautiful. Thanks for posting it.
there is another version of this song, by Primus with Tom Waits singing, a lot louder and faster it has some great fire to it but not the intimacy that this holds, still worth a look tho.
Wow...this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard....beautiful video as video as well... I MUST find this song, download it, buy it, doesn't matter...please, somebody help me! Where can I find it? Thanks everybody...thanks Jack, for helping me to understand the essence of life, by writing On the Road...the best novel ever....
There are actually a wealth of audio recordings of Jack Kerouac out there, including several CDs where he reads from his work and a 3 CD box set of his jazz/prose. That is really him.
Jack was awesome to me when I was in my 20s. And I did all that; I travelled all over and was poor and bummed on trains and everything. But now that I'm older (and the age when Jack was writing about his travels and still doing his stuff), his writings appeal less and less to me. Now that I consider that he was a deadbeat dad, and that Neal Cassidy was a super deadbeat dad (I'm a dad), I just can't reason why they would abandon their kids for more "kicks" on the road.
I can relate to what you're saying, I'm 42 and a dad as well. But that sweet, freedom time in your life won't ever really go away. Kerouac was just a shlub like the rest of us, did some great things and some not so great. I just hope I can stay true to myself the way I "think" he did. I hope my kids read "On the Road" someday, and take off you know, like we did.
"Now that I consider that he was a deadbeat dad, and that Neal Cassidy was a super deadbeat dad (I'm a dad), I just can't reason why they would abandon their kids for more "kicks" on the road." - DARL
Would your opinion of them be different today had they stayed single , no kids ? Just curious. I think mine would.
The song is called On the road, and it's the one he sings in the book... at the beginning of a chapter. That song, based on a French Canadian folk song, was written by Kerouac
Years ago i read eveything Jack wrote that i could get my hands on, and every biography of him as well. Never heard him sing, but remember his friends in the bios stating Jack did a good job singing Sinatra songs in the sixties!
allways loved his books, today i first heard hiis voice on the yoy-tube videos but this singing of jack that's really something man....amazing, so deep
I think Kerouac was usually under the influence of alcohol or drugs, so what he writes is the way he perceives it, in the same way that Hunter S. Thompson writes.
skeightbored 3 years ago
Why use homophobia to make your point?
sptfgpn 3 years ago 3
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As Truman Capote said "Jack Kerouac doesn't write, he typewrites." In other words, his writings sucked.
dennis789111 3 years ago
As I say "Don't repeat other people famous line."In other words, built your own opinion
delysid22 3 years ago
I agree. The primary goal of any writer (or artist) is to motivate/inspire/entertain the reader (or observer). To criticize his stylistic approach to this end is kind of besides the point.
YanquiCharrua 3 years ago
Capote's criticism could actually be interpreted as a compliment. The speed of typewriting over old-fashioned pen-writing allows for truer stream-of-consciousness ideas and descriptions to fill the page, which ties into Kerouac's interest in Eastern mysticism and its focus on intuition and non-thought as paths to wisdom and enlightenment.
I think his statement is just jealous or spiteful bickering for Kerouac's fame at what he considered to be inferior writing.
YanquiCharrua 3 years ago 3
"Death of his brother. Loneliness. Alcoholism. Who knows what else" - Stacy
Flunking out of Columbia, quitting college football, moms apron strings, Dads business going belly up , closet "cake-boy"...
RideMyBMW 3 years ago
Well, I believe he was sidelined from football with a broken leg and decided to leave college, which is not a rarity with self-motivated and artistic-minded people.
YanquiCharrua 3 years ago
i would definitely drink with him but never like him
ilovemyjava 3 years ago
Oh Ti Jean Merci !
This was beautifully melancolic
MeekDrill 3 years ago
the greatest man who ever lived.
wolfmega321 3 years ago
I live on the outskirts of Lowell. His tombstone, which is just a flat slab on the ground, is the most popular attraction in the city. Who would have thought that a cemetary site would have such power?
BeatBuddy 3 years ago
Him. Me. Everybody. But him especially. Death of his brother. Loneliness. Alcoholism. Who knows what else. It was the media that killed him. He couldnt handle the strain of being famous. He literally woke up one day and he was famous. He just lost his way. Drank himself to death. God bless him. God bless anyone who is living thru unbearable pressure.
stacyblue1980 3 years ago
Who's singing anyway? Is it Jack Kerouac or Tom Waits??
LaNaniii 3 years ago
its jack mann. i love tom waits's version though. so beautiful...
pengwenwork 3 years ago
"Too many disappointments in life. Too much pain,for you or him?" - Sound
Both.
RideMyBMW 3 years ago
I like to sing this when Im fellin down. I love it. He wa everything we are not. Everything we should be. Except for the sad, cold reality of loneliness and alcoholism. Sweet dear Jack. God aint pooh bear but God os at your side for real darlin. amen
stacyblue1980 3 years ago
When the first civilian space ship hits the "galactic road", and they come and take
pictures of her and see the words "Jack Kerouac" painted on her bow, they will have eaten their words...
RideMyBMW 3 years ago
Yeah, he was definitely wasted when he did this
recording, but that's Jack Kerouac for ya!
pjharrison78 3 years ago
Hey Rickfine this is from allisonfine--a name relative and lover of Kerouac and a writer who has crisscrossed our country over a dozen times and lived 8 years in the west in montana and utah and arizona and spent many many hours on the new version of route 66
cyberlioness 4 years ago
I know where they are.
nodonnel 4 years ago
Jacky, some of America loves you like you loved this land. We turn our collars up against the wind and trudge slipping across the changing terrain, cussing obsticales and reveling in joy we may find, simple Duloz's ongoing because you inspired more than a generation.
roscoe008 4 years ago
"He turned his back on people also, at least during his final days. The true loner" - David
Too many disappointments in life. Too much pain.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
AHHHH THE REPETETIVE MUSIC
maxignaczak 4 years ago
This is BeAt! "Oh go see it folks...bring in the next bull!..."
redloms 4 years ago
The hobo has two watches you can't buy in Tiffanys. On one wrist the sun, on the other wrist the moon, both bands are made of sky". A quote from "The Vanishing American Hobo" by Jack Kerouac
zyxxrd 4 years ago
When the first civilian space ship hits the "galactic road", and they come and take
pictures of her bow and see the words "Jack Kerouac" painted on her, they will have eaten their words.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
You should know me by now. I'm not speaking for Christ, but Kerouac was a sick man who turned his back on Christianity, and played the sentimental gutter outcast, the gutter-christ, who brings a gospel of "chill-out", "relax". Christ gave men a severe conscience. Kerouac Beats-off and sooths the conscience: spiritual death ensues. Nietzsche's Last Man. Hurrah!
AristonMenHudor 4 years ago
"Left New York in nineteen forty-nine
To go across the country, without a dad-blame dime
Montana in the cold cold fall
I found my father in a gamblin' hall
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
"Father, father, where have you been?
I've been out in the world since I was only ten.
Son he sez : Don't worry about me,
about to die of pleurisy
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
Chill out mister AristonMen. It is ment as a metaphore..
Korving88 4 years ago
Louis Fedinand Celine was honest and authentic.
Kerouac was a liar and an actor.
Read Celine and see Your truth.
AristonMenHudor 4 years ago
October 21 1969
Once again on the road
looking for it
we miss you.
Thank you for everything!!!!!!!
greenglowingbanana 4 years ago
The 2 Jacks (London and Kero) and Chuck (Bukowski). All the lit I´ll ever need.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
Man had his faults. We all have faults. Shit, he sounds a little drunk when this was recorded. But face facts. Man influenced the American society of the 1960's in more ways then one, much to his disdain. He hated the hippies and the bohemians.
So, my father gave me "On The Road" when I turned 16. He bought it at that age also, And I made my own meaning out of Kerouac.
Guy was nothing other then HIMSELF. And that is what we all should aspire to be.
diabolicminds 4 years ago
"The worst part is wondering how you'll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you'll find the strength for all that stupid running around,...
rabmunch 4 years ago 2
.... those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows."
rabmunch 4 years ago
That was great. Thanks.
vernmiller23 4 years ago
"Montana in the cold, cold fall
found my father in a gamblin´ hall"
Man! If God gave you one of the good daddies; you´re Lucky.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
Jack wrote about post "atom-bomb" America. First writer to try to come to grips with the behemoth America(ns)was (were) becoming...
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
I'm a little confused. This is a brilliant job. If you also composed that Eno-ish guitar line to sort of sync up with his free song, then you are uber-brilliant.
kenrubes 4 years ago
Another reason why Kerouac was bad? He glorifies the life of a vagabond as the life of a truly free & interesting man. This is pure fraud, & flattery for young persons who feel somehow excluded from the multitude. He actually corrupts by breeding easy self satisfaction, and low class attitudes in every eccentric know-nothing. He also makes ordinary persons feel deep. Slop for the herd.
rabmunch 4 years ago
"Another reason why Kerouac was bad? He glorifies the life of a vagabond as the life of a truly free & interesting man" - RAB
Dude, Our Saviour Jesus Christ went on the road himself for about 15 years. A good way to learn about yer fellow man I sez.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
get thee to a nunnery.
rabmunch 4 years ago
Comparing Kerouac to Jesus?
Let's see... Getting drunk and sticking his infested mentual wherever there was an open door. Did Jesus do that? Losing one's mind on drugs. Did Jesus do that? Meandering around like a smug little fellow, preaching brotherly love, but living in filth and decadence. Did Jesus do that too? Did Kerouac die for our sins, or are we now in America dying for his?
AristonMenHudor 4 years ago
On the Road is a work of a trivial man with no insights, filled with resentments, and in love with the gutter. He was a fallen Catholic. The writings of these obsessed and miserable frogs has come like one of the ten plagues. They leave their excrement everywhere, and in the excrement they leave their eggs.
rabmunch 4 years ago
Mr.Jimbo - give up that garbage, and stop tempting others to it. Your not doing yourself or them any favors - no matter how pleased they might be.
We all know that some pleasing favors are the dignified.
rabmunch 4 years ago
He meant to say: some pleasing favors are rather UNdignified.
What about the Nekro-pedo scene of Naked Lunch?
Let someone here raise their voice in favor of those pleasures! I have no doubt someone will.
rabmunch 4 years ago
Bouvard and Pecuchet too undertook landscaping, gardening, and agriculture. Does anyone know what happened to their farm?
It was Flaubert's belief that he he lived in the stupidest age in human history. But he didnt live to see America's youth and beat gnerations, and all that came tumbling after. How fortunate he was.
How fortunate we are that he wrote.
rabmunch 4 years ago
Flaubert wrote fiction?
Watch the mirror and you shall see what fiction really is. Your life is a fiction.
Time will teach you that soon enough.
You are, I suppose, as gardener familiar with the seasons? Your winter of discontent will have no glorious summer. Education can nicely be compared to tending to one's garden: most people litter their's with trash and weeds. Not me. Do you as you please. That is your "freedom."
rabmunch 4 years ago
Mr. Jimbo has already run away it seems.
rabmunch 4 years ago
Why bother to attack me here?
Why not instead attack me in relation to the issue in question, or has that dropped out of your head?
Defend your super-ego kerouac. What have have you to say in his defense, or are you here only to slander and insult me without cause?
We shall then see if I am very full of myself, or if you are full of stale and unhealthy air.
rabmunch 4 years ago
You ideas are very sterile, like the writers whom you seem to admire.
I had someone on Youtube ranting at me yesterday, like you, who thought the verses and prose on my page to be a bit dull. He didnt even blush when he discovered by whom they were written. Such persons are ineducable, permanently. They are, like you, a warning and example to others with some hope.
Lasciate speranza, voi ch'intrate....
rabmunch 4 years ago
You think I might be Christian?
Well then, maybe you are Christ?
Christ, I have no objection to judging men and things, as long as it is done intelligently and tastefully, and sometimes with a lash and a cudgle.
You seem to be resistant to both.
Maybe I will crucify you instead!
rabmunch 4 years ago
Mr.Monkey and Mr.Jimbo - they aren't quite our Bouvard and Pecuchet, but they will have to do for the time being.
Actually, I think Bouvard and Pecuchet would like to give them a good public spanking.
rabmunch 4 years ago
"Chill-out." you said.
You couldnt have better grasped the essence of the Last Man.
Or better, "freeze to death."
No true passions, but resentment and smug self satisfaction. That is the beat generations.
rabmunch 4 years ago
This whole absurd interchange reveals why the offspring of the beatniks are sterile and bungling babblers, scribbling about their personal moods, affecting great depth and insight.
But really they are just a herd of bourgeois conformists.
rabmunch 4 years ago
Why do you then abuse me?
You should love and praise me since I am so low!
The low is beautiful according to you.
Your abuse of me refutes and reveals your hypocrisy.
You should love, praise and celebrate me for my lowness!
You are an unusual fool.
rabmunch 4 years ago
I see your tastes: revealing of a common but histrionic soul.
You dont like to hear it, do you?
You are a lover and devotee of polluted popular trash. Your charge against me of snobbery and pedantry is suspect. You just dont like to have any one question your ugly tastes.
rabmunch 4 years ago
you ought to be a christian.
But your conscience and soul is probably too weak, and your sordid desires mean too much to you.
You are on of those inhaitants of our days who perhaps lost the christianity of their ancestor, like Kerouac, but embrace the permissive and egalitarian sentimental spirit of the dead.
Do you not judge me? Oh, I suppose you pity me.
You are a tearful frog.
rabmunch 4 years ago
In brief, and in the vulgate of the bourgeois, Mr. Arty Jimbo, you are a "Low Class" man.
(Didnt your mother ever wash your mouth out with soap? Or did she teach you to speak that way?)
rabmunch 4 years ago
You are dying of terminal spiritual cancer, you with your coarse and smarmy sentimental pleasures. I see you are flattered by the histrionic idiocy of the son of Admiral George Stephen Morrison. Your heart has been polluted and excited by their grotesque shamelessness. The high and noble reveals the base and degenerate for what it really is. These never touch. So keep your infested thoughts far away!
Kerouac wasnt demonic. He was childish, philistine, and boring. You too.
rabmunch 4 years ago
Bile and venom are the natural and healthy immune responses of the soul to the infectious popular and base tastes of our time.
rabmunch 4 years ago
If you really are 28, then explain to us why your "favorites" reflect the tastes of a corrupt and silly 15 year old. You lack all exposure to things good and beautiful. Or maybe you are just a dullard.
rabmunch 4 years ago
Dear Rick-- Just had to sign in and tell you that your video is tender and touching, a direct line in to those very aspects of Jack that are so human and memorable. A real gem, and very evocative. Best of all, I think JK himself would've loved the mix of elements.
best, GARY
seeker53 4 years ago
Plebian. Unwashed guttersipe who wallowes in his own wretchedness.
At least he wasnt a pederast like Ginsberg.
Or was he?
rabmunch 4 years ago
The song is from the Ryko album On The Road and it is Kerouac with added music. I like the piano version Waits does on Orphans, but this, with Kerouac's original singing, is really intimate and beautiful. Thanks for posting it.
drybonesband 4 years ago
there is another version of this song, by Primus with Tom Waits singing, a lot louder and faster it has some great fire to it but not the intimacy that this holds, still worth a look tho.
traciragen 4 years ago
Wow...this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard....beautiful video as video as well... I MUST find this song, download it, buy it, doesn't matter...please, somebody help me! Where can I find it? Thanks everybody...thanks Jack, for helping me to understand the essence of life, by writing On the Road...the best novel ever....
eddyten 4 years ago
Tom Waits does a cover of this song. Good stuff.
nedFlandersII 4 years ago
There are actually a wealth of audio recordings of Jack Kerouac out there, including several CDs where he reads from his work and a 3 CD box set of his jazz/prose. That is really him.
scar78201 4 years ago
If this really is Kerouac singing, its a side of him that, until now, I've never really directly experienced.
km90210 4 years ago
Jack was awesome to me when I was in my 20s. And I did all that; I travelled all over and was poor and bummed on trains and everything. But now that I'm older (and the age when Jack was writing about his travels and still doing his stuff), his writings appeal less and less to me. Now that I consider that he was a deadbeat dad, and that Neal Cassidy was a super deadbeat dad (I'm a dad), I just can't reason why they would abandon their kids for more "kicks" on the road.
Darlington30 4 years ago
I can relate to what you're saying, I'm 42 and a dad as well. But that sweet, freedom time in your life won't ever really go away. Kerouac was just a shlub like the rest of us, did some great things and some not so great. I just hope I can stay true to myself the way I "think" he did. I hope my kids read "On the Road" someday, and take off you know, like we did.
kyhangdog 4 years ago
"Now that I consider that he was a deadbeat dad, and that Neal Cassidy was a super deadbeat dad (I'm a dad), I just can't reason why they would abandon their kids for more "kicks" on the road." - DARL
Would your opinion of them be different today had they stayed single , no kids ? Just curious. I think mine would.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
really nice video. what is the song?
LUKEHAPPYSAD 4 years ago
Great stuf. . . I think of Dean Moriarty. . . I Think of Old Dean Moriarty. . . Dean. . . Mor-i-ar-ty!!!
Eroscosmos 4 years ago
I think of him too
tsilaski 4 years ago
Is that correct? This is Kerouac singing? Where did you find this? thanks for the beautiful video!
Bobbytoo 4 years ago
thanks
jigmesam 4 years ago
The song is called On the road, and it's the one he sings in the book... at the beginning of a chapter. That song, based on a French Canadian folk song, was written by Kerouac
Paaaaaaaaaaap 4 years ago
yeah, what is the song? It's great
evasion89 4 years ago
sal & dean are my heroes. On the road is the best book ever I love it I've read it 22 times.
ps: What's the song?
robvicious 4 years ago
Gee!ù Even my mom likes it... she's says I am little too fan of Kerouac... everyone knows you're never too much of anything when you know Jack.
Paaaaaaaaaaap 4 years ago
A fitting sad,sweet song for old midnight Jack. Great pictures as well. Adios King!
canfor5 4 years ago
such a sweet song
siigne 5 years ago
THIS IS A JACK KEROUAC LULLUABY to us all...N bye bye...stay on the road...ON THE ROAD
craniocean 5 years ago
Years ago i read eveything Jack wrote that i could get my hands on, and every biography of him as well. Never heard him sing, but remember his friends in the bios stating Jack did a good job singing Sinatra songs in the sixties!
This was great---thanks for sharing.
roscoe008 5 years ago
what a intrigating voice
allways loved his books, today i first heard hiis voice on the yoy-tube videos but this singing of jack that's really something man....amazing, so deep
bommeldebommel 5 years ago
Francis Ford Coppella has owned the rights to ON THE ROAD for more than ten years. When the hell is he going to get started!
BeatBuddy 5 years ago
"Francis Ford Coppella has owned the rights to ON THE ROAD for more than ten years. When the hell is he going to get started"
Yeah ! He should stop slamming DeNiro and Pacino and get on with it! He´s afraid he might not have the goods...
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
We know this much, the Brazilian (can't remember his name) who directed THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, wants to direct ON THE ROAD.
BeatBuddy 4 years ago
oh,amazing. when did he do that song?
I've never heard of it.
skatemusic 5 years ago
thats kerouac singing...good fing video..
detectivesoap 5 years ago
this is absolutely amazing.
though the death parts were sad.
this song, is..brilliant.
factorygirl 5 years ago
Jack.
rickfine 5 years ago
do you know where you can get this song? What's it called?
scoos 5 years ago
i have the song if you didn't get it by now...great video by the way
gh30rgh3 5 years ago
wow...really enjoyed this wonderful video. wish all about his death had been left out though, its way too sad a note to end on
eurglys 5 years ago