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I really, really want to find this video, does anybody have a copy of this?? Any help would be appreciated. Supposedly it has the interview and performance by the Winos.I think it took place in '92, but i'm not sure.All I could find so far was this description of it:
"Hunter S. Thompson interview with Keith Richards and his X-Pensive Winos was classic. Richards greets Thompson at the door with an electric cattle prod and Thompson blasts him with a megaphone....they are both nearly incomprehensible as they speculate, next to a table full of mixed drinks and ashtrays, on J. Edgar Hoover coming back as a dung beetle....etc, great stuff!"
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| stonedinaustralia |
where did you get that quote beer??
i'd love to see that too or at least read a transcript
take a look at a site called "the great thompson hunt" - probably the best thompson site on the net ('tho there are links to others) if you dig around there you might come up with something - i'll have a look there myself and see what i can find - if all else fails you could email the adminstrator of the site - she might be able to help you out
good luck and keep me posted |
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| beer |
Hi SIA, I was just typing "Keith Richards interview" into search engines and i stumbled across it. i had heard of it before but I've never been able to find it.
I'm reading Hunter's new book "Kingdom Of Fear" right now. It's really good! |
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| stonedinaustralia |
i haven't read it yet - i'm waiting for the paperback!!!
i've heard some say it's a bit of a rehash of past glories - so i suppose it depends on how familiar you are with his earlier more seminal work
hunter's a bit like the stones in that respect - his best work's behind him but he keeps churning out stuff in a similiar vein but without the same immediacy or conviction of intent and some of the riffs sound a little stale if not forced or worse - like a self-parody
tho i've read a good excerpt where has a stand off with the fbi , at nine years of age no less, and actually calls their bluff |
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| beer |
Yeah, some of it is rehashed, but, it's still so funny to read in full detail about how he tried to run his neighbor outta town by shooting fully automatic weapons at their house, it's worth it. No other writer cracks me up like HST.  |
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| stonedinaustralia |
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beer wrote:
No other writer cracks me up like HST.
same here
and you know why?? - well it goes to that quote of muhammed ali's that thompson has cited more than once - you may know it - it goes like this -
"when i want to tell a joke i just tell the truth, because that's the funniest joke of all"
seriously tho (ha!,) despite his "wild and crazy" image thompson has (had??) a real grip on things - and in his heyday he used pretty much the same modus operandi as keith -flat out i couldn't give a fuck honesty - nice if you can afford it and you have the talent to back it up -
as he himself said (and i paraphrase) - he is the best writer going around who uses the english language as a musical instrument and a political weapon - when he's on song his work sings like no other writer - a great sense of rythym (witness F & L in Las Vegas and on the Campaign Trail") - plus a wicked sense of humour - well - in my mind the best writer to pick up a pen since conrad - more than a match for fitzgerald, much easier on the eye and ear than burroughs and hemmingway is simply left wallowing in his wake
and i sense he's undervalued in his own country (again cf. keith) - only when he's gone will his true worth be recognized
an idea!! - rocks off summit at the woody creek tavern - and it's just down the road from jaxx's place!!
did you know that when he was writing the vegas book he had "beggars banquet" on continuous rotation in the background - and, of course, he quotes or refers to ya-ya's in the vegas book more than once
that was one thing about the movie (with johnny depp) - they should have stayed true to the text in the car scenes and had ya - ya's playing on a portable tape player in the back seat at the same time as the radio played full blast in the front
"one toke over the line, sweet jesus - one toke over the line"
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| purrcafe |
I've got a copy of this somewhere. Rather than trade for copies of the VHS, I'd rather find someone who can convert to VCD. Anyone up to the task? |
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| stonedinaustralia |
brilliant purrcafe!! i can burn discs - does that mean i can do it - let me know - tia
what about you beer?? |
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| beer |
I don't have a burner but i do have a DVD player so this idea works for me. let's do this! What do we gotta do? give us some details purrcafe, and we'll work somethin out. |
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| Soul Survivor |
I have this on tape....I believe it was a special on ABC...
IT has performaces, The 'Eileen' video I think, and the Interview
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| mac_daddy |
I can convert VHS to VCD or SVCD with no problem...
don't know if that is what you are looking for, but I would be happy to do it. |
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| sirfito |
I'm VERY interested too, please.
Let me know when you can.
All the best,
Fito |
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| beer |
Soulie, what do you want to trade for that video. I have lots in great quality, let me know, please.... |
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| exile |
Hi ALL
Myself I am a massive Hunter S Thompson fan since I was 18
I agree Hunter has a wicked sense of humour
I enjoyed the film, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" a very hard film to translate Terry Gilliam did a great job but it did not translate the books humour if you ask me....
the funniest scene in the whole BOOK is the one where he is being chased by the highway patrol ,....for anyone who has not read the book its worth buying a copy just to read that extremely funny.
the movie could have done more with the flying bats maybe a bit of CG bats swooping down all in all the movie was ok.
I have read the great shark hunt and also those Hunter biographies that were about 10 years ago both of them. All very entertaining.
I was not aware that Hunter had a new book ill keep an eye out for it.
As for Hunter interviewing Keith Richards WOW!!!! where do you get a copy?? or transcript?? Imagine that with some of RALPH STEADMAN drawings of Hunter and Keith !!!
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| stonedinaustralia |
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exile wrote:
the movie could have done more with the flying bats maybe a bit of CG bats swooping down all in all the movie was ok.
Imagine that with some of RALPH STEADMAN drawings of Hunter and Keith !!!
hey exile
the thing with bats reminds me of one new thing the movie showed me - "the bats" - were proably just flies but due to the heavy intake of hallucinogens they looked like bats - both gillam and depp consulted heavily with hst on the movie so maybe he gave them that insight - i'd always read it as being he was so out of it he was literally seeing figments of his imagination
and yes drawings by steadman would be fantastic
i have a steadman "drawing" of the stones - it comes from an english book first publshed 1970 by one Tony Palmer titled "Born Under a Bad Sign" - it's "pop critique" type book mostly about the english "60s music scene - it is illustrated (lots of cut-up collage work)by steadman
the stones piece is in fact reminscient (or should that prescient) of the cover of "love you live" in partic. the cannibalistic overtones
beer check your pm |
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| Phog |
I remember seeing this on tv. It was pretty good. The bit with HST blasting the megaphone at Keef's door, and then being greeted by Keef and his cattle prod, was damn funny. Seems like I can remember HST wearing a "Main Offender" ball cap during the interview. Good stuff. |
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