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Be-In Festival's Interests
General
Pictures from the Be-In After Party
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Be-in, a.k.a. Happening, is an outdoor counter-culture extravaganza.
The first Happenings or Be-ins were held frequently in the late 1960's,
but our semi-annual event is held once during the summer, almost every
summer. Our version of a Be-In combines an acoustic and electric
amplified concert with a b.y.o. picnic and barbecue, guest speakers,
poetry readings, creative arts, face and body painting, etc. There will
also be an After-party.
We’ve featured a stellar line-up of performers in recent years
including such names as Stradlatter, The Blue Scene, Jones Crusher,
Ricanstruction, George & Julius, The Others, Jay Mankita, Delicious Trees, David Brown, Mikey and the Merry Pranksters, John Flor, Mikey and The Angels and Brandon Burden. Poets and MCs in the past have
included Steve Kramer, Lisa Cowley and Kevin Rice.
Last year's lineup was no exception, as our daytime schedule featured
returning headliners Jay Mankita and Delicious Trees, plus, for the 1st
time, Halfstep; while our night-time line-up starred The Blue Scene,
1973 and Purple Operator! We also featured DJs theDEXorphan and Bill
McNulty, political speakers Mitchel Cohen and Susan Blake, poets Steve
Kramer and William Rafti, and there were more! Enjoy the slide show
from last year.
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Music
Reckoning
Movement
KARMASUTRA
Jada Bloom (as Stradlatter)
The Others
The Blue Scene
Free Grass Union
Ricanstruction
Montauk Project
The Crusher (Jones Crusher)
Katie Pearlman Band
George & Julius
Delicious Trees
Jay Mankita
Purple Operator
Rorie Kelly
Mikey & the Merry Pranksters
David Brown
Jebus
Michael Korb
Illuminati Murdock
Deborah Lombardi
Halfstep
John Flor
1973
Tom Groney
Kinky Porcupine
Jorge Renderos
Mikey & The Angels
DJ theDEXorphan
Common Thread
Joe Porcaro
More Than Nothing
Brandon Burdon
Try Me Live
Movies
The Film Works of the Following Directors: Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, James Whale, Val Lewton, John Huston, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Ed Wood, William Castle, Roger Corman, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Ishiro Honda, Roman Polanski, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulchi, George A. Romero, John Carpenter, George Lucas, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Blake Edwards, Terry Gilliam, Lloyd Kaufman, Sam Raimi, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, David Cronenberg, Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith, Trey Parker, Peter Jackson and Rob Zombie. (I guess you could call this my Top 40 Directors, but not in any particular order)
Until featured bands create videos to post here I’m going to put up some of mine. The “Be-In” event is mostly a music and arts festival with only a small amount of political talk, so these videos are not representative of the overall feel of the event.
Body Art Law Part 3 The Public Hearing
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This features the music of 1973, one of the many fine bands that performed at the 2006 Be-In Music and Arts festival. If you weren’t there you missed out on about 20 decent bands for only $5 (and so much more). –William Rafti
Body Art Laws Part 2
The Abbott & Costello Show, Absolutely Fabulous, The Addams Family, most of what's shown on Adult Swim, The Avengers, Batman, Batman: TAS, Battlestar Galactica (old, but the new show is growing on me), The Black Adder, The Brady Bunch, Chappelle's Show, Cowboy Bebop, Dr. Who (old and new - both rule!), Faulty Towers, Foolie Coolie, The Fugitive, Get Smart, Ghoul A-Go-Go, The Honeymooners, Justice League Unlimited, Kids in the Hall, League of Gentlemen, Lost in Space, The Monkees, Monty Python, The Outer Limits (old), The Prisoner, Red Dwarf, Scrubs, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, South Park, Spaced, Spawn, Star Trek (all), Star Wars: Clone Wars, Tripping The Rift, The Twilight Zone (old), Twin Peaks and The X-Files. (Again this works out to 40 shows, but it was unplanned - honest!)
Books
The novels and short stories of Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon. Also, the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Robert Hunter and Jim Morrison.
There are so many, so I tried to limit it to 40 (This time I grouped them loosely by relation, again, not in any particular order), but it wasn't easy:
Hunter S. Thompson
William S. Burroughs
Philip K. Dick
HG Wells
Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Emma Goldman
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mid Island Drum and Guitar
Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison
Bob Dylan
Jerry Garcia
Frank Zappa
John Lennon and George Harrison
Syd Barrett
Keith Moon
Bon Scott
The Ramones
Jello Biafra
Chuck D
John Coltrane
Rudy Ray Moore (a.k.a. Dolemite)
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Che Guevara
Abbie Hoffman
Mitchel Cohen
Bill McNulty
Julius Margolin and Jorge Renderos
Susan Blake
Jill Ann Walker
Mikey Layne
Muhammad Ali
Bruce Lee
Lon Chaney Jr.
Bela Lugosi
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Gene Roddenberry
Kevin Smith
Stan Lee, Kirby and Ditko
Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams
SUNDAY AUGUST 10th, 2008 @ The Bandshell in Shrorefront Park in Patchogue, New York. Located on the beautiful Great South Bay! .
NEW LOCATION!
Featuring Music by:
Reckoning
Movement
Katie Pearlman Band
Jebus
George & Julius
Kinky Porcupine
More Than Nothing
The Skeevotz (feat. members of The Beauty School Dropouts!)
False Alarm
All acts listed are confirmed! More to follow! Keep posted for a big announcement!
Your Emcees for the day:
Bill McNulty of WUSB Stony Brook's (90.1 FM) Lunch on Thursday Radio Program
and
Ahmad Ali of WBAI 99.5 FM (NYC)!
Plus Arts & Crafts! Guest Speakers! Non-profits! Vendors! A Merch Tent! Children's Playground on premesis! Free VIP Access for ticket holders who wish to volunteer (upgrade)!
This year's Be-In Festival will be dedicated to 4 indiviuals who've inspired us over the last 20 years who are no longer with us:
Susan Blake
Jill Ann Walker
Mikey Layne
Jerry Garcia (who will have been gone for 13 years, as of Sat., Aug. 9th)
And the charity of choice this year, is The Friends of Shorefront Park; their primary mission: to expand the children's playground at Shorefront Park and make it all handicapped access! This will be the only handicapped acess children's park in Patchogue and the closest one for many miles around! What a good cause that everyone can get behind - having better faciliites for our children and especially to the benefit of handicapped kids in our area!
McGreetings Be-In Festival Thank you for counting us among your MySpace friends. Please keep in touch, rock on! All the best to you and yours, from Pegasus in Bonnie Scotland.
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