Slim Gaillard and Van Morrison on Kerouac

On Oct 1, 12:31 pm, "Dave Moore" <d....RemoveThis@dsPaMmEjnOtmoore.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:
> Slim Gaillard remembers Kerouac (or does he?)

I also have my doubts. It seems like if either of them Slim would
remember Neal Cassady, as that was the one he interacted with. I know
if I were Slim and it was late in the day and someone was rising and
there was possibly room on the bandwagon, I'd hop aboard too.

But wasn't the only time Kerouac was around Slim was that fateful few
days when Neal left Carolyn in SF and the boys headed on east? Unless
I'm mis-remembering, Neal later complained about Carolyn, "She won't
let me go see Slim anymore." I'll bet Neal is the one he means when he
says Kerouac.

The value of these film clips is to hear how the songs went, how the
names were pronounced. You carry them around in your head for fifty
years and then you hear the characters themselves. (Like Kerouac doing
his poem "Well lookaway, baby, now baby, lookaway, it's ol' Lampshade
and he's comin' yer way!")

Sounds to me like Morrison is saying "Gail-yard"? And these rhythms
from Slim are different than his old recorded numbers,
bop-a-dop-bop-a-dop go de motorcycle (hittin' on one) and cement mixer
putti-putti.

I never saw anything in Road or thereafter from Kerouac about the
Haight. Anybody?
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