just stumbled upon this gem
http://sonic.net/~goblin/gins.html
Ginsberg interview
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stilltrucking
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I realized I´ve never seen & listen Ginsberg reading his poetry, I would like to!. I´ll try the link at the end of the article and also google it.
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Steve Plonk
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Looks like a great interview of Allen Ginsberg...It looks like it was done circa 2001.
I met Ginsberg at a U. of the South reading & concert, in Sewanee, TN,
in 1982. I also saw him a couple of other times elsewhere. Mr. Ginsberg was a very gracious and accomodating fella for someone so famous. He didn't mind discussing things with fans... He read his "Plutonium Ode" & sung some of his songs with a sgueezebox and had a college student on guitar playing with him. Ginsberg had a good tuneful voice as well.
One of the songs was called: "Don't Smoke the Established Dope", an anti-tobacco song, which suprised the heck out of some people.
I still have a tape of it somewhere in a packing box in storage. I also made a couple of copies of it. The tape hasn't been mixed, so it sounds kind of scratchy, I've been told.
I met Ginsberg at a U. of the South reading & concert, in Sewanee, TN,
in 1982. I also saw him a couple of other times elsewhere. Mr. Ginsberg was a very gracious and accomodating fella for someone so famous. He didn't mind discussing things with fans... He read his "Plutonium Ode" & sung some of his songs with a sgueezebox and had a college student on guitar playing with him. Ginsberg had a good tuneful voice as well.
One of the songs was called: "Don't Smoke the Established Dope", an anti-tobacco song, which suprised the heck out of some people.
I still have a tape of it somewhere in a packing box in storage. I also made a couple of copies of it. The tape hasn't been mixed, so it sounds kind of scratchy, I've been told.