Michael McClure’s Collaborations with Ray Manzarek and Terry Riley

by Roxanne Power Hamilton

I don’t go to church, but when I heard that Michael McClure would perform with Ray Manzarek at San Francisco’s Noe Valley Ministries in January 2006, I knew I might be in for a religious experience. Not long before he died, Allen Ginsberg gave a spiritual gloss to the collaboration between the notorious beat poet and the Doors’ keyboardist, calling it a “ripening of good karma.” Part [...read more...]