Originally posted by Grub
nice to see someone here who also appreciates Kerouac. i read 'On the road'. then took time out after college to go over to the US with just my backpack to travel round the place financing myself ..ahem...through working illegally. [/B]

Kerouac's the greatest. His voice is so jazzy and poetic, and I am grateful that we have it recorded for posterity. Does anybody know of any current musicians using Kerouac's work in their music, such as stealing lines from his prosody or maybe using his book titles for songs? I think of Van Morrison's verse about Kerouac in "Cleaning Windows" and there is a band called the Dharma Bums, from India I think. By the way, check out the novel, The Dharma Bums, if you haven't already. It is often considered his second best work, though nothing really compares to On the Road.