The Song 'Beat Avenue' is a 26-minute story about a 24-hour day in November 1964, when Eric Andersen was a 20-year-old singer-songwriter living in San Francisco. One evening, after a poetry reading in Haight-Ashbury, Eric attended a gathering in the San Francisco hills along with Beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neal Cassady, Michael McClure, and David Meltzer. It was November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.