John Cassady: Jack and Allen were sort of both my godparents. They get together with friends from time to time to sing songs and spin stories about Monte Sereno, Saratoga High and growing up in the South Bay in the '60s.

They drove to Awalt High School in Mountain View, where members of the Grateful Dead were hanging out in the teachers lounge before playing a show in the gymnasium. The two saw the Rolling Stones at Altamont together. He maintained pretty good up until the last couple of years.

Today, John works at a Los Gatos software company and JB pours drinks at Shoreline Amphitheatre and other local venues. Copyright © Metro Publishing Inc. It was sitting next to Neal watching him handle the gears of an old brown Ford that made Jerry Garcia realize that performing, rather than painting, would be his art.
There's no hurry, time goes slow on the road John said. On the Road (2012 film). "Hey, Dad!" I read all of your stuff!’ He was the rockstar of the show! The two men were Neal Cassady and Ken Kesey. "Jerry's got his Les Paul out, and he's talking philosophy with the principal," John remembers. [ Metro | Metroactive Central | Archives ], "This man says he's your father," the principal said. John Cassady remembers a day in the ninth grade at Saratoga High School when he was called to the principal's office in the middle of class. Presently working on a series of wall projections called “Scriptors” which will appear as gallery and environmental installations in the coming years. All I had was a matchbook cover and I had to borrow a pen from one of them. We go out to the car and it’s parked on the curb and it’s one of those giant Buicks. There was this one little oak tree, a sapling, really, 15-20 feet high and he’d hang the railroad lantern on a branch and he’d put out the sleeping bag.
An audio recording of Neal Cassady at the wheel of “Further,” the Merry Prankster’s bus on June 25, 1964, somewhere in New Jersey: Neal Cassady has been a lot of things to a lot of people, but for the few who knew him as “Dad”, he was everywhere and nowhere to be found at the same time. On the road On the road The week after the concert, John Cassady wore his father's orange boots to school. He had more than I did and I grew up with the guy! Pig Pen is in the corner with a jug of red wine. "We called it 'Sprawlus Overallus,' " JB says. John Cassady remembers thinking, "What's pot?" It was sitting next to Neal watching him handle the gears of an old brown Ford that made Jerry Garcia realize that performing, rather than painting, would be his art. John said. Even as a young man, Cassady had his trademark long white hair. "John" is John Cassady, son of Neal Cassady, the San Jose Southern Pacific Railroad brakeman who was the inspiration for the character Dean Moriarity in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. John Cassady remembers a day in the ninth grade at Saratoga High School when he was called to the principal's office in the middle of class. The week after the concert, John Cassady wore his father's orange boots to school. John said. "John" is John Cassady, son of Neal Cassady, the San Jose Southern Pacific Railroad brakeman who was the inspiration for the character Dean Moriarity in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. It’s parked in front of this funky old looking church. They get together with friends from time to time to sing songs and spin stories about Monte Sereno, Saratoga High and growing up in the South Bay in the '60s. "Jerry's got his Les Paul out, and he's talking philosophy with the principal," John remembers. [ Metro | Metroactive Central | Archives ], "Jerry's got his Les Paul out, and he's talking philosophy with the principal," John remembers. We’re in a little VW and the driver turns down one of those residential side streets and there’s the bus! The Dead were living on Ashbury at the time, ‘66 or ‘67. They never even got the cigarettes. I’m a blues singer now.’.

Wenstrom looks a lot like Goldie Hawn did about a decade ago. Cassady has five known children: Robert William Hyatt Jr. (1945), Cathleen Joanne Cassady (1948), Jami Cassady Ratto (1949), Curtis W. Hansen (1950), and John Allen Cassady (1951). When Benoit and Cassady were kids, they attended Oak Street School together and played at the Cassadys' Monte Sereno home. [ Metro | Metroactive Central | Archives ], John Cassady remembers a day in the ninth grade at Saratoga High School when he was called to the principal's office in the middle of class. I thought he was God." Stupid Beats.” What I meant by this was that the words “digital” (applied to moonlight), “scrawled” when linked to “neon” (neon is a much overused word by poets who want to sound like Beatniks) and “abrasive” (applied to organ pumps) weren’t working for me….”. Neal always told John and JB that the smell was "Turkish tobacco."

You flirted shamelessly for hours. "None for the kid," Neal said as they got in.

Well, they’d be under the hood smoking reefer – I didn’t know that! There's no hurry, time goes slow on the road And what a time it was. But, one might say of the time, what was "normal" was definitely subject to debate. They get together with friends from time to time to sing songs and spin stories about Monte Sereno, Saratoga High and growing up in the South Bay in the '60s. I just wanted to be Jerry Garcia. That didn’t affect Jack and Neal personally, but they were burned out by life in general. He just kind of lost it and everyone was feeding him LSD and speed and who knows what. I thought he was God." It was creepy! I’d never meet people like Jack Kerouac, or Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and Timothy Leary and Jerry Garcia. We’re sitting at the kitchen table in John’s San Jose home that he shares with his son’s family when he just launches into it – a tangent so tangled and yet precise that there’s no mistaking it. Ostensibly, it's a release party for her new self-titled CD, but it becomes a reunion of sorts between Wenstrom and two friends who grew up between Los Gatos and Saratoga at the knee of a Beat Generation icon and who came of age during the Vietnam War and the Summer of Love. They get together with friends from time to time to sing songs and spin stories about Monte Sereno, Saratoga High and growing up in the South Bay in the '60s. Make the rules up as we go I got Jerry's autograph. "Bob Weir and Phil Lesh were babbling to the teachers.


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