The Gonzo Tapes: The Life and Work Of Dr Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
CD BOX Rel Date: 2008-10-28
Recorded by Hunter S. Thompson between 1965 and 1975, these tapes capture his thoughts and descriptions both as they're happening and in reflection, as he would often go back to rerecord commentary while writing. Filmmaker Alex Gibney, producer Eva Orner and Gonzo archivist Don Fleming were given permission by Thompson's widow to explore the boxes of tapes stored in the basement of his Owl Farm home in Woody Creek, Colorado, left behind after Thompson's suicide in 2005. Fleming transferred the audiocassettes and reel-to-reel tapes to digital files, and they made their way to the cutting room for the film GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON. Now for the first time these previously unreleased recordings are available in a 5-CD set. THE GONZO TAPES features original cover artwork by Gonzo artist Ralph Steadman, an amazing 44-page booklet full of never before seen images from Hunter S. Thompson's estate, along with memorable photos and an introduction by film director Alex Gibney, an essay by journalist and Thompson's fellow foreign correspondent Loren Jenkins, and notes by the Gonzo Tapes producer Don Fleming, former front man of the Velvet Monkeys and Gumball who has produced Sonic Youth, Alice Cooper, Hole, and more.
Tracklist:
- Shit, It's Only 11 O'Clock Here
- We're Up At Bass Lake
- All the Empty Cans and Beer Cartons Are On Top of the Car
- No Notes After Two Days of This Hell's Angels Thing
- It's August 5, Thursday Night, We're On the Freeway Now
- Was Clovis a Run?
- You Ever Try Peyote, Hunter?
- I'm Not Worried Until the Book Comes Out
- I'm Putting You To a Terrible Inconvenience, Hunter
- On My Way Back Now From Taking Terry the Tramp Home
- When I Was Talking To the the Frisco Angels the Other Night Abou
- Also Like To Get the Idea Down
- What Follows Here is a Conversation Between Me and Allen Ginsber
- Ambulance Rolling, Code 3 (With Ginsberg Humming)
- Tonight Was Saturday, August 7
- They Run It Down That This Girl Was a Poor 19 Year Old Little Br
- Porterville is the One That Time Used, Right?
- Who Was She, Have You Ever Seen Her?
- Do You Remember What Day It Was?
- We're Going To Have To Get Some Wisdom, Some Comments Down
- It's Snowy Outside, Getting Light
- It's Monday Afternoon, We Have a White Cadillac Convertible
- Did You See the Way That Guy Looked At Us?
- Well, She Was Crazy. It Was Clear When I Came Into the Room That
- Abbe Lane At the Desert Inn. Louis Prime, Stardust
- You Get What You Pay For
- What We Should Do is Just Call the Free Press
- We Could Certainly Use Some Mescaline
- White House Says the Guest List For Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox'
- Let Me Call Wilcock If I Can and See If I Can Get Us Some Drugs
- Oh, Hi, is Jay There?
- It's Ringing
- If All Else Fails Swe Must Get Ether
- Remote Control Rw15
- Maybe That's Where We've Gone Wrong
- I'm Getting Tired of Giving You Advice That You're Not Taking
- Can They Rent That With the Option To Buy?
- How Much is Your Cheapest Clarinet?
- What's This?
- While Taking a Piss There It Suddenly Struck Me What's Going On
- As Usual, You're Afraid of Mexicans, Aren't You?
- We're Approaching the Fog Cutter
- We're Going To the Pussycat Now
- Chances Are Very Good That I'll Leave Tomorrow
- Yes, This is Oscar Acosta In Room 1224
- Boulder Highway, Heading Toward Lake Mead In the Great White Wha
- Two Things We Should Probably Get Down
- Ah Yes, We're Coming Over a Hill Here
- I Was Just Kind of Walking Around Picking Up All This Literature
- Strange Backwaters of Some Sort; a 300 Pound Girl and a 90 Pound
- I'm Pulling Off On a Side Road
- Aw, Jesus
- Maybe I'll Drive Back Into These Weird Holes
- People Appear Out of Nowhere In This Desert
- What the Fuck's Going On Here
- Las Vegas, April 29, Thursday Night, After the D.a.'S Convention
- I Can't Imagine How I'm Going To Get This Whole Fucking Room Int
- When I Start To Grapple With Vegas...
- I Figure I'm Going To Star On Vegas Ll On Wednesday
- Anyway, There's a Vegas To Be Finished
- This Microphone Wound Up Beneath Something Down There
- There's Signs of Group Hysteria In the Passengers
- Some Are Just Weeping Now
- Well, the Beauty of the Whole Thing....
- It's March 30th, Actually March 31
- Piece Was Interrupted; the Piece Ended Here Because the Telephon
- Have Found Thompson, He's With Kissinger
- They Still Can't Reach Me
- Story is Fear and Loathing In Acapulco, The
- Telephone Call Between Duke and Gonzo
- Girls Are Laughing, The
- Here's the First Symptom of This Goddamn Evil Drug
- I've Done What Most People Would Consider an Excessive Amount of
- This is Wednesday Night, the Third Day of Our Cocaine Experiment
- I Would Not Be Inclined
- There Appears To Be Some Minimal But At Least Noticealbe Physica
- June 28, I Think It's a Friday
- We're Out Here, It's , Uh, I Don't Know What Time It is, Sometim
- Yeah, We Should Relax For a Second
- Lying Down On the Bed In This Stinking Little Room
- I Have Every Reason To Believe That We Won't See the Fight Tonig
- Fiendish. the Thing is So Bad There's No Way To Write a Story Ab
- Tomorrow Morning At 6 O'Clock In the Hotel Lobby...Many Ugly Lit
- There's No Way You Can Coneive What's Going To Happen To Us Toni
- ....Called a Meeting Here
- I Realise It's Difficult This Time of Night
- We Really Have No Tickets
- Ladies and Gentlemen, the Captain Has Turned On the Seat Belt Si
- Hello, Hunter
- Why Don't You Talk To Gloria
- Hello. Long Distance Calling For Gloria Emerson
- When Were You Last There?
- Want To Go, Hunter?
- We Should Be In Saigon, In Loren Jenkins' Room #48 of the Contin
- I Wasn't In a Position To Interpret That One Thousand Rounds, Tw
- Nine O'Clock, Thursday Morning, Saigon, Continental Hotel, Room
- Now It's Friday Morning
- What Did You Hear?
- To Get To Where We Were Yesterday....
- And What Was When This Goddamn Machine Broke
- And Based On a Prediction That Ford's Speech is Going To Be Rude
- Meanwhile I Have To Go Over To the Newsweek Office
- Five Minutes of Six, In the Newsweek Office
- Let's See, the News Tonight
- Last Commercial Airliner Still Flying Out of Here-Air Vietnam Fl