Allen Ginsberg and Paul McCartney playing "A Ballad of American Skeletons"

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    'A Ballad of American Skeletons' was performed by Allen Ginsberg and Paul McCartney for an evening of poetry and performance at The Royal Albert Hall promoted by Goldmark entitled 'The Return of the Reforgotten' in 1995.
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  • @memoriamillenial
    @memoriamillenial 8 лет назад +429

    The Beat and the Beatle.

  • @DanielMarkMellor
    @DanielMarkMellor 4 года назад +53

    I have never adored a moment of history so passionately.

  • @TheTokenBrit1986
    @TheTokenBrit1986 10 лет назад +124

    Not only is this a fantastic performance with two legends. Paul couldn't have picked a better guitar out of his collection to play either! Love it!

    •  2 года назад +2

      It's his favourite!

    • @westonparadigm7649
      @westonparadigm7649 Год назад

      @ you are such a normie. nambla ginsberg google it

  • @dougshaw6050
    @dougshaw6050 4 года назад +24

    I love how they cue each other

  • @gdaig203
    @gdaig203 2 года назад +35

    This may be my favorite McCartney performance. He usually so guarded but you can see the real artist here.

  • @carol00210
    @carol00210 8 лет назад +54

    well this is legendary.

  • @lolgrant
    @lolgrant 2 года назад +6

    I was there near the front and just spotted myself very briefly at the end. A night never forgotten.

  • @jrbmgarner
    @jrbmgarner 6 лет назад +70

    "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness . . . "

  • @fredsaez5354
    @fredsaez5354 10 лет назад +46

    I have always wondered what a Paul McCartney / Patti Smith collaboration would be like.

    • @MrJonnyd7606
      @MrJonnyd7606 Год назад +1

      Something like this. Patti Smith Within You Without You ruclips.net/video/wrCk5ZWt3a8/видео.html

  • @carlbaumeister3439
    @carlbaumeister3439 6 лет назад +22

    Take away the poem and I'd've still enjoyed it. I wish Paul would play this style more often, because he rocks it!

  • @tahsinsabah833
    @tahsinsabah833 9 лет назад +13

    This man was a hero.

  • @jc6594
    @jc6594 8 лет назад +34

    Today Commemorates Allen Ginsberg's 90th Birthday~

    • @DrUndies
      @DrUndies 8 лет назад +1

      Hadda be playing on the jukebox (Flashing like the daily double)

  • @julioestrada3111
    @julioestrada3111 5 лет назад +9

    Some people (Paul) you can tell they've been playing guitar for so long. Not the most technically careful or anything, but plays so naturally and authentically it would be pointless to try and replicate

  • @dabreu
    @dabreu 10 лет назад +26

    Oh My God. this is just fantastic! Just today I discovered Beatles in is fact Les Beat! Got it? The Beat generation. Now I find this...only to confirm. I am in heaven! Look at Paul's expression of adoration.

  • @ClaudioDirani
    @ClaudioDirani 4 года назад +18

    There's a little mistake on the video credits. It's actually Royal Albert Hall 1995. --- On 16th October 1995 Paul joined legendary poet Allen Ginsberg on stage at the Royal Albert Hall, the two of them collaborating on a version of Ginsberg's poem Ballad Of The Skeletons. A year later, Paul recorded a version of the poem in the studio with Ginsberg, the CD version of which is now a collector's item.

    • @lolgrant
      @lolgrant 2 года назад +1

      I was thinking that they had got the date wrong too as I went to see it after just having moved to London for the first time in 1995.

  • @Poetry-cigarettes-coffee
    @Poetry-cigarettes-coffee Год назад +11

    This is one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen. Thank you internet and god bless all you amazing people who upload stuff. Gives me faith in humanity.

    • @Goldmarkart
      @Goldmarkart  Год назад +1

      Many thanks for your kind words

  • @FrankSouth
    @FrankSouth 5 лет назад +19

    Profound, inspiring, and flat out hilarious.

  • @gregorallnight371
    @gregorallnight371 3 года назад +20

    This is so great,the reading of a poem with much
    meaning and thought about the injustices that have
    gone on and are still going on by uncaring greedy
    earth polluting and plundering companies and the lying,
    cowardly bought off politicians that have let it go on and on...
    and that is some great guitar by a very talented natural born
    musician,singer & composer that can go places....cheers & thanks for posting..it is a great work of art

    • @ulpana
      @ulpana 2 года назад +1

      Allen took great delight in playing with young talented boys who were going places...Few if any have complained...Except for Allen also taking great delight in droning on all night far from any recognizable pitch or tune with or without his harmonium, um, if ya know what I mean...Paul shouldn't be discouraged, he'll make it to the big stages. Like Allen, Paul's also got a knack for dodging the really nasty risk factors! Good faith can take one to many worthy humane ends...ba ding

  • @JoaoCarlos-dt3ug
    @JoaoCarlos-dt3ug 2 года назад +5

    The master of melody

  • @jerroldcohen3988
    @jerroldcohen3988 6 месяцев назад +2

    I think the best music comes from collaboration. This is a wonderful example with pioneers of poetry and music. Ginsberg shows his unique sense of humor, and this is proof of McCartney's guitar chops.

  • @oweble
    @oweble 7 лет назад +11

    thé énergies were just right between them i Can feel .

  • @flaviuscountry
    @flaviuscountry 11 лет назад +132

    Paul, you are the only billionaire who deserves every damn penny.

    • @marcomoreiradasilva7294
      @marcomoreiradasilva7294 3 года назад +3

      best thing I read about a billionaire.

    • @DadsWatchingYouTube
      @DadsWatchingYouTube Год назад

      Sadly there are no billionaires who deserve every penny. I know thats not what your literally getting at. But I just feel the need to call everyone to actually take a second to realize how much a billion dollars is, and then how there are individuals with tens of billions and approaching a hundred billion dollars.
      If you spent 100 dollars every hour shopping, you would be shopping for 416,666,666 days with no breaks for sleep or walking or eating (youd have to literally just be sitting at the screen buying things), or 801,282 years with every single second accounted for. Considering that a huge majority of people on earth never even own 100 US dollars, its an astronomical figure.
      If someone with a billion dollars put it in a bank account that only pays 1% you would make 10 million dollars a year for doing nothing. And thats without compounding. Put that into stocks and its even more ridiculous.
      Now if only we could... tax this?

    • @scottbirkinshaw2009
      @scottbirkinshaw2009 Год назад +2

      I'm glad we have people like you to decide who deserves what.

    • @flaviuscountry
      @flaviuscountry Год назад

      Gee, thanks for your positive response to a comment that is nearly a decade old. And yeah, I'm allowed an opinion, you prick. Who would you say deserves money more than Paul? Trump? If I had to guess what color hat you have in your closet, I'd guess red.

    • @fernandoreynaaguilar1438
      @fernandoreynaaguilar1438 Год назад

      @@scottbirkinshaw2009 yep. Socialist detected.

  • @clausnielsen717
    @clausnielsen717 Год назад +2

    The best guitar I've ever heard Paul McCartney play

  • @runenorheim1125
    @runenorheim1125 4 года назад +5

    This song have been with me nearly from the release. Love this poem.

  • @dismith73
    @dismith73 2 года назад +3

    Irwin Allen Ginsberg June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997
    Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent
    kindness of the soul!

  • @MegaLaurabailey
    @MegaLaurabailey 11 лет назад +10

    True Troubadours!!!

  • @kfitterly
    @kfitterly 10 лет назад +10

    Beautiful song and guitar.

  • @JuanManuel-sc9tm
    @JuanManuel-sc9tm 3 года назад +5

    Extraordinarios

  • @amangadpale9284
    @amangadpale9284 3 года назад +2

    Both vibing

  • @robertavila3328
    @robertavila3328 4 года назад +8

    I've heard alot about this but never seen it, thx !

  • @user-yz9kz6vt9y
    @user-yz9kz6vt9y 3 года назад +6

    This is so great! I can hardly believe it exists!

  • @AK4TsEv3N
    @AK4TsEv3N 7 лет назад +7

    Oh fuck, YES! I feel fucking awesome that I found this.

  • @flaviuscountry
    @flaviuscountry 11 лет назад +15

    Why havent i seen this before? Hoooooooowwwwwwwlllll!

  • @BrucePGrether
    @BrucePGrether 9 месяцев назад +1

    This is a genuine total gem of culture, history, shared humanity!!! - BPG

  • @seanoleary1979
    @seanoleary1979 4 года назад +4

    Incredible....

  • @lightbox617
    @lightbox617 6 лет назад +5

    I was in school and working. I missed this because I was foolishly distracts by trying to stay fed and sheltered.

  • @KlausSgroi
    @KlausSgroi 4 года назад +22

    The fact the Epiphone is a bit out of tune just makes this more "beat generation" and countercultural hahaha

  • @louiso.4325
    @louiso.4325 9 лет назад +11

    Ginsberg actually has a poem about the Beatles when he attended their 1965 gig at the Portland Colosseum

    • @dabreu
      @dabreu 4 года назад +4

      Where can I see it?

  • @drewwalker9762
    @drewwalker9762 9 лет назад +18

    Great poem! And it's still relevant. What fantastic guitar playing, and all ad-libbed! Thanks for this.

  • @gordonmacdonald8660
    @gordonmacdonald8660 5 лет назад +4

    love it!

  • @midianpoet
    @midianpoet Год назад +2

    Fantastic !

  • @barefootfrolick
    @barefootfrolick 6 лет назад +8

    this is so good, Paul needs (needed) to do more music like this x

  • @peterfortunatoauthorartist1054
    @peterfortunatoauthorartist1054 Год назад +6

    Recorded almost thirty years ago, and I don't hear a line that's out of date. Sixty years ago, Allen was similarly calling attention to what Dylan would later call the "idiot wind" that blows and blows against ordinary, decent people. It's why poets have to keep talking back to it. RIP Allen Ginsberg, American bard.

  • @iaindrennan3552
    @iaindrennan3552 7 лет назад +5

    Wow how amazing was this !

  • @grumylynn
    @grumylynn 6 лет назад +2

    timeless

  • @colinellesmere
    @colinellesmere 3 года назад +2

    America. Are you listening? More relevant than ever today.

  • @kevinSwensonMusic
    @kevinSwensonMusic 3 года назад +6

    Great video. I had never seen this before! Had the CD for years. This has a very different vibe than the recorded version. Thanks for the upload.

  • @JaCeeMusic
    @JaCeeMusic 9 лет назад +3

    Luv!

  • @noomah4790
    @noomah4790 5 лет назад +1

    Yes!

  • @keegan343
    @keegan343 Год назад +1

    Gotta love Ginsberg. Throws himself at everything without the least bit of self consciousness.. This seemed awkward in parts but the spirit of the two to invent and take a risk shone though into a really good performance. All power to Ginsberg and McCartney.

  • @user-ws7px5tr3e
    @user-ws7px5tr3e 5 лет назад +5

    Аллен,Пол , вам нет равных и никогда не будет! Мир вам и любовь!

  • @thestarwarshub-gamingandmo68
    @thestarwarshub-gamingandmo68 2 года назад +2

    The most interesting

  • @Thresher042
    @Thresher042 11 лет назад +7

    This is glorious, thanks for the upload.

  • @reneekad
    @reneekad 2 года назад +2

    For Paul

  • @Goatchild90
    @Goatchild90 7 лет назад +3

    This is so boss!

  • @leighfoulkes7297
    @leighfoulkes7297 9 лет назад +86

    Ginsberg + McCartney = Bob Dylan.

    • @edlispartiesgatherings7163
      @edlispartiesgatherings7163 8 лет назад +1

      +Leigh Foulkes facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.656328474405688

    • @royarzunf
      @royarzunf 6 лет назад

      What a smart comment, absolutely right on.

    • @jackstrawfromwichita6168
      @jackstrawfromwichita6168 5 лет назад +1

      More like Ginsberg + Guthrie

    • @BilisNegra
      @BilisNegra 5 лет назад +3

      Have you listened to "Vomit Express"?

    • @ayr1225
      @ayr1225 5 лет назад

      Leigh Foulkes wow. Sounds like a sold soul to me.

  • @om3074
    @om3074 Год назад

    Simply awesome 😎

  • @beldengi
    @beldengi 5 лет назад +1

    about a dozen verses added here. Loved the original.

  • @ivana_playsjumpropeinyouryard
    @ivana_playsjumpropeinyouryard Год назад +1

    Ohhhh yea

  • @flaviuscountry
    @flaviuscountry 11 лет назад

    Love ya Allen

  • @vanderleiinocente3947
    @vanderleiinocente3947 3 года назад +1

    Uma reliquia q eu não tinha visto ! Beat generation ( walker, Brasilia Brazil )

  • @adriengomez2825
    @adriengomez2825 4 года назад +3

    Awesome! 🎸🎤

  • @mduffy5453
    @mduffy5453 Год назад +2

    Ginsberg.
    McCartney.
    Poetry.
    Blues.
    Where's my spliff....

  • @rilliencot1688
    @rilliencot1688 3 года назад +2

    Is anybody else hearing Mccartney riff off of the melody from "Under the Sea?"

  • @vincentc3475
    @vincentc3475 Год назад

    Allen please beat me !!!

  • @JohnnyMagiaRocks
    @JohnnyMagiaRocks 10 лет назад +1

    bello

  • @timholt9948
    @timholt9948 3 года назад

    First time I've saw this

  • @dr.buzzvonjellar8862
    @dr.buzzvonjellar8862 Год назад +1

    Paul’s got his Epiphone!

  • @excelsior999
    @excelsior999 2 года назад +3

    This "poem" was recited by The Poet Skeleton.

  • @msaintpc
    @msaintpc 5 лет назад

    Met Ginz at the Hitchcock estate in 1965.

  • @seensaki8501
    @seensaki8501 3 года назад +1

    Why i didn't find you sooner?!!!

  • @juveniledavidi1183
    @juveniledavidi1183 3 года назад +1

    get SIR Paul McCartney on the JRE to spill out some golden stories please

  • @merlinale
    @merlinale 11 лет назад +2

    Thanks a lot, because I lost so many seldom videos.

  • @ophiliac4536
    @ophiliac4536 7 лет назад +5

    this is just the greatest thing to have existed???????????

  • @RickVaughn
    @RickVaughn 8 лет назад +3

    +Elvis McCartney
    look up McCartney doing "Sing The Changes"

  • @Leatheryed1
    @Leatheryed1 7 лет назад +7

    Surprised that Paul didn't use a left handed guitar. It's one thing replacing the nut with a left handed, but when the jack socket and controls are in the way of your forearm it doesn't seem worth it? It doesn't look as if he is playing right handed chords either?

    • @lelopez86
      @lelopez86 5 лет назад +7

      Paul's had that guitar since 1964. It was originally a right handed guitar, but he had it modified so that he can play it.

  • @biancapickett2157
    @biancapickett2157 8 лет назад +1

    very good - mcartney surprisingly so

  • @user-lh8mo3cq9j
    @user-lh8mo3cq9j 9 лет назад +2

    竟有种莫名的感动

  • @emilygrim2973
    @emilygrim2973 4 года назад +1

    "True Statements"

  • @naniwanoedokko
    @naniwanoedokko 11 лет назад +6

    Real punk

  • @syleriam
    @syleriam 9 лет назад +3

    The Skelton Me llike this and the one made of Flesh too what a coincidence...Allen: Nice people that America used to have.

  • @medicabdullah9789
    @medicabdullah9789 3 года назад +2

    What was the date of this performance?

  • @mgreen733
    @mgreen733 4 года назад +5

    I’d watch 8 mins of Paul jamming out anyway

  • @coineye
    @coineye 6 лет назад +2

    I`m Loving This Man. He is still here. Profit of american Poem. I Will never took him Yellow Rose.
    Couse from his grave. He`s still here whit US.

  • @kahlodiego5299
    @kahlodiego5299 2 года назад +1

    👍

  • @ThomasDeLello
    @ThomasDeLello 6 лет назад +3

    What does the NAMbLA Skeleton have to say...?

  • @99juxta
    @99juxta 3 года назад +2

    Ginsberg is a king' mccartny hardly chargesthis.. Longlivepoetry

  • @gemmaskate
    @gemmaskate 8 лет назад +4

    Anyone know the basic chords to this?

    • @JoshGillMusic
      @JoshGillMusic 5 лет назад +4

      Gemma Pettersen E, A and B. Then it transposes up to G, C and D

  • @SaleemPernath
    @SaleemPernath 6 лет назад

    sat. 06-09-18 1355 new horizon cc, hempstead, ny !:-D> hvor er mary lamy her nu hermits? stoet denne kanal?

  • @leecoulson4224
    @leecoulson4224 3 года назад +2

    Did Paul play on the recording too?

  • @remorufer5754
    @remorufer5754 4 года назад

    beat beat beat BEAT BEAT FUCKIN BEAT

  • @wiretamer5710
    @wiretamer5710 4 года назад

    In the long run...

  • @CalvinAndHobbs
    @CalvinAndHobbs 2 года назад +1

    this exists

  • @jiyujizai
    @jiyujizai 4 года назад +1

    😃💛🥀🌱

  • @mikedeveau7075
    @mikedeveau7075 3 года назад +1

    Who’s that guy up there with Allen Ginsberg?

  • @mercop1472
    @mercop1472 7 лет назад +1

    Happy he mentioned gnosticism

  • @eroc.A.H.
    @eroc.A.H. 7 лет назад

    swing'n

  • @artismagical
    @artismagical 3 года назад

    DUDE

  • @kellyanquoe
    @kellyanquoe 3 года назад

    3500 wichita vortex from hair brought me here

  • @insight8881
    @insight8881 6 лет назад

    Did Allen invite Sir Paul to a Nambla meeting afterwards?