Image via Elisa Dor­man, Wiki­me­dia Com­mons What­ev­er oth­er cri­te­ria we use to lump them together—shared aims of psy­che­del­ic con­s­cious­­ness-expand­ing through drugs and East­ern reli­gion, frank explo­rations of alter­na­tive sex­u­al­i­ties, anti-estab­lish­­ment cred—the Beats were each in their own way true to the name in one very sim­ple way: they all col­lab­o­rat­ed with musi­cians, wrote song or … Con­tin­ue read­ing Allen Gins­berg Teach­es You How to Med­i­tate with a Rock Song Fea­tur­ing Bob Dylan on Bass