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author of “Allen Ginsberg: Material Wealth”and “Listen Whitey! Sounds of Black Power” and “Did It! Jerry Rubin” - reissue producer / liner note writer for Fire Records

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · Apr 18

I have a new book coming via Fantagraphics Press - a visual & oral history of Barney Rosset - Grove Press - Evergreen Review magazine 1957-1973:Bernadette Devlin, Germaine Greer, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Amiri Baraka, Eldridge Cleaver, Tim Leary, Dennis Hopper, Jean Genet, etc

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 5h

spent two weeks with these guys - hearing backstage conversations, running through airports, and screening the Dennis Hopper videos behind the band while they performed original songs about his life and art - this article perfectly captures what I experienced

www.salon.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Waterboys remind Americans how to be cool

With their latest project, the British Isles band rediscovers open road wildness through Dennis Hopper.

www.salon.com

Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 7h

The ones we do know about look fabulous

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 10h

“all those headlines, they just bore me now - I'm deep inside myself, but I'll get out somehow... all those people, they think they got it made - But I wouldn't buy, sell, borrow or trade anything I have to be like one of them”

Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 12h

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
- Malcolm X

Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Wednesday November 5th at City Lights books in San Francisco- I’ll be hosting a Howl 70th anniversary event

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 1d

I was at Abbey Road with George and Clapton on guitar, Paul playing bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, and Ringo in the drum booth. [myself on vocals]. People would have cut off their f*cking arms for that! - Jackie Lomax

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 1d

“Take a deep breath,
feel like you're choking?
Everything is broken” - Bob Dylan

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 1d

post I just saw:
“If you remember fake news about Rod Stewart having his stomach pumped, or Richard Gere and a gerbil, and you still believe lying political candidates, you're one stubborn SOB”

Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 2d

📸 Joan Baez, Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, 1968 ©Elliott Landy

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Rod & Sandy 1971

Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 2d

If you believe as Danny Goldberg and I do - go see his book events - LA, NYC, DC

Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know we made it, but we made it through the entire West Coast into the Southwest

Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 2d

“Yeats is gone; and now Joyce. But of one thing I am sure - whatever be the rights and wrongs of the relations between England and Ireland, I know Ireland will continue to take the finest and most ironical revenges on us: she will go on giving us great men of letters”

Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Tim Buckley

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Tim Buckley

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50 Years Ago Today: October 5, 1975-
•David Bowie "Fame" is #1

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when bars didn't have a dozen televisions ?!?

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Fred Neil & Joni Mitchell backstage at The Last Waltz, 1976. The Band asked Fred to come out and play but he wouldn't do it.

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know how they made it, but they made it - the Waterboys have been crossing America for the last month performing their sublime lyrical and musical tribute to the life, times, legacy and art of Dennis Hopper - tonight is the final show in Oklahoma City - ticket link below

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Sat 04- OKLAHOMA CITY, Tower Theatre
www.prekindle.com/event/43977-...

The Waterboys Tickets, Saturday, October 4 2025 | Prekindle

Tower Theatre presents The Waterboys on Saturday, October 4 2025 at 8:00pm, Tower Theatre, Oklahoma City, OK Find event information and buy tickets.

www.prekindle.com

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Kerouac holds a doll as he leaves the Artist's Club after a New Year's Eve party, New York, January 1, 1959.
The party also commemorated the Robert Frank film 'Pull My Daisy,'
Photo by Fred W. McDarrah