MICHAEL McCLURE

The Piano Poems: Live in San Francisco

Michael McClure is a Beat Generation poet, playwright and songwriter. Ray Manzarek is a founding member of The Doors, songwriter and music producer. Together with flautist Larry Kassin, they take their loyal fans on a musical mind expanding journey with their creations. Their collaboration was documented in the Oglio Home Video release “The Third Mind” and brought to life in this all new album of thought provoking poetry.

The Doors were influenced by the 1960s beat writers, and that spirit [...read more...]

There’s a Word!

THERE’S A WORD! captures a seventy-minute live concert by Ray Manzarek & Michael McClure on CD. Larry Kassin’s flute adds dimension to this vibrant performance.

Michael McClure’s introduction to the CD:
“Ray and I are bringing the together the words and the notes that shape them. There’s no way to be human without a politics or an anti-politics, without Art, anger, and generosity, without humor and kindness. That’s the edge!

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The Third Mind

The Third Mind, directed by William Tyler Smith, is a documentary focusing on the collaboration of Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek.

This is the third mind between the psychedelic and Beat sensibilities of Manzarek and McClure (who was a poetry mentor to Jim Morrison). This DVD features live performances interlaced with commentary on the nexus between spoken word and music. With appearances by Alan Ginsberg, Jim Carroll, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima, Ed Sanders, Lee Ranaldo,and Ann Waldman, “The [...read more...]

Love Lion

Love Lion, released as a video by Mystic Fire Video, and on CD by Shanachie, presents a live 70-minute performance at The Bottom Line in New York by Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek.

Michael McClure’s introduction to the CD:
When Ray plays I hear rock, blues, and boogie woogie as well as what sounds like the Russian mystic composer Alexander Scriabin. I give Ray the words, sometimes I mail them to him with a tape of my reading. Other times [...read more...]

 

Released August 14, 2012!

MICHAEL McCLURE & RAY MANZAREK

THE PIANO POEMS:
LIVE FROM SAN FRANCISCO

A collaboration between Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure, this live performance, recorded at an old church, features both new and older poems, with McClure’s words and Manzarek’s jazz piano.

On a cold, foggy night in San Francisco after a great Japanese meal, Manzarek and I stepped onto the stage and there were sparks of consciousness – the stage was on fire with poems and

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Mysteriosos Readings & Events

The first reading of Michael McClure’s new poetry collection, Mysteriosos, will take place for the Grolier Poetry Bookshop at the Pierre Menard Art Gallery in Harvard Square on Sunday, April 11.

The second event will be a performance with Ray Manzarek at the Jazzmouth Festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Saturday, April 24. Ray and Michael will present Mysteriosos and Michael will do signings.

City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco will host a reading and

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