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unusual facts about The Beats



Gia-Fu Feng

Gia-Fu Feng (1919–1985) was prominent as both an English translator (with his wife, Jane English) of Taoist classics and a Taoist teacher in the United States, associated with Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, The Beats and Abraham Maslow.


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Benihana

The Beastie Boys song "Putting Shame in Your Game" from the album Hello Nasty features the lyric "I'm the Benihana chef on the SP12/ I chop the **** out the beats left on the shelf."

Imagism

Among the Beats, Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg in particular were influenced by the Imagist emphasis on Chinese and Japanese poetry.

Ron Dart

He has authored over twenty books that deal with the interface between literature, spirituality and politics, including Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades.

The Inner or Deep Part of an Animal or Plant Structure

The DVD features clips of the studio performances by Dokaka, Shlomo, Rahzel and Mike Patton that formed the beats for many of the songs on the album.

The Kings of the Beats 2

Most of the beats were based on songs that appeared on their albums Mas Flow: Los Benjamins, Mas Flow 2, and Mas Flow 2.5.

The Lost Scripts of K.O.D.

The beats that appear on the EP had been selected by the artist for inclusion on his previous studio album K.O.D. and he already had titles in mind for them, but he ended up filling the alloted time on the CD before writing to the selected beats.

The Platinum Brothers

In 2002, The Platinum Brothers provided the beats to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's Thug World Order.