Del Close & John Brent

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Basic Hip 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
Uncool 00:00 Tools
Cool 00:00 Tools
Vocabulary Building 00:00 Tools
The Loose Wig 00:00 Tools
The Hang Up 00:00 Tools
The Riff 00:00 Tools
Field Trip No. 1 00:00 Tools
Summary 00:00 Tools
Field Trip No. 2 00:00 Tools
Put On, Put Down, Come On, Come Down, Bring Down 00:00 Tools
Field Trip No. 3 00:00 Tools
Psychological Testing 00:00 Tools
Gernal Introduction To Psychoanalysis 00:00 Tools
Diagnosis and Therapy 00:00 Tools
Vocabulary Buliding 00:00 Tools
The Action 00:00 Tools
The Psychoanalytic Session 00:00 Tools
The Diagnosis of Dr. Siegfried Gesalt 00:00 Tools
The Rules Of Hip 00:00 Tools
How To Speak Hip - A1 - Introduction 00:00 Tools
Put Ons Put Downs 00:00 Tools
General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 00:00 Tools
01-Introduction 00:00 Tools
Field Trip 3 00:00 Tools
Completion 00:00 Tools
The Villiage 00:00 Tools
02-Basic Hip 00:00 Tools
How To Speak Hip 00:00 Tools
Time Square 00:00 Tools
How To Speak Hip - A2 - Basic Hip 00:00 Tools
How To Speak Hip (A) 00:00 Tools
FIELD TRIP NO 3 00:00 Tools
Introduction [1959] 00:00 Tools
FIELD TRIP NO 2 00:00 Tools
FIELD TRIP NO 1 00:00 Tools
Field Trip No.3 00:00 Tools
Put On, Put Down, Come On, Bring Down 00:00 Tools
03-Vocabulary Building 00:00 Tools
04-The Loose Wig 00:00 Tools
Field Trip 2 00:00 Tools
The Village 00:00 Tools
11-Field Trip No. 2 00:00 Tools
05-The Riff 00:00 Tools
12-Field Trip No. 3 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Put Ons, Put Downs 00:00 Tools
The Riff (2 of 3) 00:00 Tools
The Riff (1 of 3) 00:00 Tools
Times Square 00:00 Tools
The Riff (3 of 3) 00:00 Tools
Excerpts from 'How to Speak Hip' 00:00 Tools
07-Put On, Put Down, Come On, Come Down 00:00 Tools
08-Cool 00:00 Tools
09-Uncool 00:00 Tools
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Del Close and John Brent were a comedy team who recorded the 1959 beatnik parody album How To Speak Hip for Chicago based Mercury Records. Later on Close befriended, worked with, and quite often did copious amounts of drugs with the likes of Lenny Bruce, Wavy Gravy, the Grateful Dead, and the Merry Pranksters. As director of Chicago's infamous Second City improv troupe, Close mentored and inspired many of the country's greatest comedic talents including John Belushi, Bill Murray and Chris Farley before his death in 1999. His life and work are documented in a biography called "Guru". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.