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On the Road

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On the Road is the eighth album released by American comedian George Carlin. It was recorded on October 3, 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, and released in April 1977. The album was also included as part of the 1999 The Little David Years (1971-1977) box set. The original LP included a "libretto" - a word-for-word transcript of the album. On the Road would be Carlin's last album for three years because he suffered a heart attack in 1978 and took some time off afterwards before he would release A Place for My Stuff in 1981. A warning label that says "R: Recommended Adult Listening" appears on the cover of the album. This was an early example of warning people that albums contain questionable content before the Parental Advisory label was invented.

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Notable quotes

“Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.”
— Sal, Ch. 1
“A shadow of disappointment crossed Remi’s brow - he was always being disappointed about the funniest things. He had a heart of gold.”
— Sal, Ch. 11
“Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child, believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome, grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.”
— Sal, Ch. 14
“At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ectasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.”
— Sal, Ch. 1
“Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done — whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was.”
— Sal, Ch. 11
“In the hall itself the din of the music -for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for -was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as loud as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.”
— Sal, Ch. 5

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Notable quotes

“Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.”
— Sal, Ch. 1
“A shadow of disappointment crossed Remi’s brow - he was always being disappointed about the funniest things. He had a heart of gold.”
— Sal, Ch. 11
“Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child, believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome, grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.”
— Sal, Ch. 14
“At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ectasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.”
— Sal, Ch. 1
“Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done — whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was.”
— Sal, Ch. 11
“In the hall itself the din of the music -for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for -was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as loud as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.”
— Sal, Ch. 5

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

On the Road is the eighth album released by American comedian George Carlin. It was recorded on October 3, 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, and released in April 1977. The album was also included as part of the 1999 The Little David Years (1971-1977) box set. The original LP included a "libretto" - a word-for-word transcript of the album. On the Road would be Carlin's last album for three years because he suffered a heart attack in 1978 and took some time off afterwards before he would release A Place for My Stuff in 1981. A warning label that says "R: Recommended Adult Listening" appears on the cover of the album. This was an early example of warning people that albums contain questionable content before the Parental Advisory label was invented.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named On the Road: 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac · album by The Country Gentlemen · project to record and document the live concerts of The Stri · album by Count Basie