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When the going gets weird...the weird turn pro.
| Artist | Song | |
| HST | Excerpt from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" | |
| Jimi Hendrix | Purple Haze | |
| Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited | |
| Kitty Wells | It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels | |
| HST | Smuggling Currency | |
| Warren Zevon | You're a Whole Different Person When You're Scared | |
| Jefferson Airplane | White Rabbit | |
| Norman Greenbaum | Spirit in the Sky | |
| HST | Why Go to Viet Nam? | |
| Three Dog Night | Mama Told Me Not to Come | |
| The Band | The Weight | |
| HST | Letter to William S. Burroughs | |
| Rolling Stones | Sympathy for the Devil | |
| Jimmy Buffett | Cultural Infidel | |
| Scott Campbell | Excerpt from "Rum Diary" | |
| Warren Zevon | The Hula Hula Boys | |
| HST | Hunter in Australia, 1976 | |
| Bob Dylan | Mr. Tambourine Man | |
Comment:
Warren Zevon on meeting HST: The first exchange we ever had was about 10 years ago, when my daughter and I arrived in Aspen. I said, "Dr. Thompson, I've got the most terrible headache you can ever imagine. I don't know what to do at this altitude." He said, "Acid."
While campaigning in Colorado in June 2004, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry met with the aging former gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. "Just to put your minds all at ease," Kerry remarked, "I have four words that I know will relieve you greatly. How does this sound: Vice-President Hunter Thompson?"
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
Hunter S. Thompson
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Great mix. Great tribute. Great writer. Great (if flawed) man.
haha. GREAT comments. and of course, the mix is also super.
Perfect!
Ditto Rob...add a great cover, too!
Here's an article HST wrote on Zevon and my favourite goaltender growing up, Patrick Roy:
http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1996490
http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1996490
Lookin' fabulous, here, Mr. Miles.
As to Thompson... never really a fan -ironically, one of his quotes has always inspired me when chasing after a goal: "Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
As to Thompson... never really a fan -ironically, one of his quotes has always inspired me when chasing after a goal: "Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
We're all gonna miss HST. Nice mix and cover. I saw him opnce at a lecture series years ago, he was an hour late and wasn't sober. We didn't care.As you were, I was. As I am, you will beHunter S. ThompsonSeems more poignant now...
One of my favorite childhood memories of my father involves watching him laugh so hard he cried while reading a Hunter S. Thompson book... Something about HST swinging a bag of lye around a crowded bar... He still can't tell the story without losing it...
A really great tribute, Joe. If you're up for a trade sometime, please let me know.
nice one......they don't make 'em like this anymore!!!!!
A lovely tribute = nice work!
Gene: HST was full of great nuggets like that. I was a huge fan back in those psuedo-bohemian college daze of mine. I thought I was so hip and in touch with the truth....ah youth....
Anyhow - the Dr. hadn't crossed my radar much in recent years, though I thoroughly enjoyed "The Curse of Lono" a while back & his ramblings for ESPN were good reading. I think the thing that appealled to me most about him was the lashing out at everything - on the surface perhaps blindly - but clearly w/a passion. Was it the passion for the act of lashing out? I don't know - but from what I saw, beneath that outward vinegar persona was a real human being.
Anyhow - the Dr. hadn't crossed my radar much in recent years, though I thoroughly enjoyed "The Curse of Lono" a while back & his ramblings for ESPN were good reading. I think the thing that appealled to me most about him was the lashing out at everything - on the surface perhaps blindly - but clearly w/a passion. Was it the passion for the act of lashing out? I don't know - but from what I saw, beneath that outward vinegar persona was a real human being.
Great tribute. Loved his books.
We'll miss him more than we presently surmise. A voice that told it not like we wanted it to be but how he saw it. He was usually right. (Look at Nixon.) He hit from both sides, too....
Excellent tribute, Joe. HST was a unique talent - anyone who can make me read a 500 page book on an old US election has to have something special about them :~)As you say, R.I.P. - H.S.T.
Excellent.