Cassady in the Backhouse (1972)

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• AY

  @ayldog · 2 years ago

  I’ve seen this dance a hundred times at Dollar General

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• DO

  @dogfase515 · 2 years ago

  Back when tweekers were considered eccentrics

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• DE

  @debussy10 · 2 years ago

  And he was the guy who drove the bus!

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• KI

  @kirtchase8050 · 1 year ago

  People think the 60s was all about pot and Acid.  But there was TONS of speed

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• TH

  @TheGalxz · 1 year ago

  He was of course different when he was younger.This is a portrait of someone in late stage methamphetamine deteriation.

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• JE

  @jevinday · 2 years ago

  Every time I did meth I felt like part of me died. It was the opposite of stream of consciousness, it made me anti social. So glad I'm done with that crap

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• LU

  @Luckycafenyc · 1 year ago

  bob weir, grateful dead's guitarist said he was his art. Canvases preserve the painters work, scores the musicians and books the writer but Cassady channeled all his genius into his personality. His canvas was the way he lived and therefore is mostly lost. But we have this video. and we have on the road, the better encapsulation of the man

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• ST

  @Stickteeth · 4 months ago

  Amazing footage and audio. Though, I need a valium just watching him...

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• MI

  @mikemarston7929 · 1 year ago

  Kerouac said it best in "On the road " He was a young jail kid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way," The man was way ahead of his time when pertaining to drug fueled, homosexual and non conforming  behavior compared to the quiet dullness of the late 1940's and 50's suburban post war era. People like him didn't exist in that day, he was some sort of human anomaly that made his appeal very strong to the counter culture movement.

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• JA

  @JacoBorg2025 · 11 months ago

  "Watch pull my Daisy" before you watch this.

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• SA

  @Sawdust5764 · 2 years ago

  Tweakers really ruined tweaking for the rest of us ( Neal included in the rest of us)

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• BO

  @BobShay · 2 years ago

  Blasted on crank

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