| Identifier | 7912625 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Note | various telephone conversations and interviews |
| Source Info | Aud |
| Trades Allowed |
Performance
| Hunter S. Thompson 1988-??-?? Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's Private Stash, Misc, Misc | |
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| Set 1 | Today Show (Raw) 06-21-88
The Gideon Bible I Have A General Distaste For Activists 1968 Democratic Convention We Were Mean Ed Meese A Victim of Some Kind of Horrible Mental Illness Are You Michael Jackson? I Should Live Like I Want To Be Careful, That’s a Hair Trigger! The Examiner Column We’re In The Business Of Controlling Our Environment Is There Anyone That Inspires You Today? The Ethic of Enlightened Self-Interest If You Don’t Do It, Somebody Else Will How Do You Translate To The Europeans Are You Disappointed in the American Public? Watergate A Lesson Of Some Sort Journalism Television Versus Print Libel Writing I’d Rather Write Poems You Know That Meese Is A Swine Nixon Have You Ever Made Too Harsh A Judgment? Regrets I Have Lawyers Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas It Worked Fine And It Didn’t Hurt It All Gets Back To Being Lazy I Love Writing I Steal From The Right People One Long Sentence I Never Thought Of Myself As A Journalist I’ve Been Expecting To Die For So Long It’s Fun To Take The Chances Mortality A Magnificent Luxury Bad Whiskey Is Like Tea Doing Cutaways |
| Set 2 | USA Today Part 1 07-08-88
This Is For My Own Reference George McGovern Why Get Into Politics? We Had Good People on Our Side The Kennedys All the Good Things Have Happened It’s Hard To Avoid Reality Jesse Jackson Why Did This Thing Ring? This Dumb Bastard Billionaires Where Is the Progress? The War On Drugs Guns I Beat the Hell Out of Journalism Did Terry Take the Motherfucking Tape Out of There? Tracking the Video This, That, Beta, VHS Journalism I Know I Can Change One More Vote |
| Set 3 | USA Today Part 2 07-08-88
A Dangerous Thing Dukakis Ted Kennedy Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick Let the Record Show Pat Buchanan A Fellow Thug and Brawler Jim Brady A Cheap Thief Nixon’s House in China Are There Any Politicians You Do Respect? Harvard Law School Political Talent Freak Power They Haven’t Got Me Yet That’s All We Eat Out Here AIDS I Would Kill Most Of The People Here White Trash Behavior I Insist That This Business Be Fun The Conventions Look What Happened To Julian Bond I Told A Guy From NBC… Generation of Swine Tattoos I’ll Take Any Excuse Not To Work |
| Comment | The story of “Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s Private Stashâ€
A few weeks after Dr. Thompson’s suicide, an auction titled “HST unpublished works and tapes†appeared on ebay; we won it for a few hundred dollars. Put up by a person we believe to be one of Thompson’s former assistants, it included a Xeroxed collection titled “Drafts, Notes & Work Papers of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 1988 – 1990â€â€” correspondence, columns, and unpublished pieces complete with his editing marks. (That collection is NOT included here. Sorry.) There were also three 90 minute audio tapes. We’d heard that HST taped his conversations and interviews, which isn’t surprising considering that he kept carbons of every letter he ever wrote. At the very least, the USA Today tapes begin with him saying, “This is for my own reference.†(One article in the collection, “Static Detonates the Gel,†describes the episode of Nightline that he and the interviewer are watching in Part 1 of the USA Today interview.) That conversation, incidentally, was split between two tapes with no continuity, so we named them Part 1 and Part 2. As for the sound, the amateur nature of these recordings was most obvious in the Today Show tape. It’s NOT a feed, as you’ll soon tell! In fact, we imagine it was recorded with a cheap, desktop recorder, because whenever someone hit the mic—which happened a lot!—the volume crashed dramatically and took a few seconds to return to normal. This is most obvious about 20 minutes in, when Thompson gets interviewer Stone Phillips to shoot one of his handguns into the darkness off his Woody Creek porch! We left a few of those jostlings intact, partly to preserve the conversation and partly because it added to the charm of the recording. There are some fluctuations in volume, but “Hunter S. Thompson’s Private Stash†is surprisingly listenable, especially considering the source. We spent about 15 hours micro-editing the first and only playing of the Today Show tape alone; the USA Today tape took far less work. Frankly we think they both sound pretty good—and we hope you agree. They’re great for their political insight, interesting opinions, classic wit, and the cries of Thompson’s peacocks wandering the grounds (the background sound in the Today Show tape is rain). At one point in the USA Today interview, you hear a strange snorting sound, too… How they came into the possession of the auctioner, we honestly don’t know. We believe they’re Hunter’s own copies—hence the title—and thus the only ones in existence. We certainly can’t imagine Hunter’s assistants keeping backup copies of every tape he made. We do, however feel safe in saying that these tapes have never circulated. Until now. After debating for years whether to liberate these recordings or return them to Thompson’s estate, we decided on the latter and offered to give them to Anita, free of charge, through an email to her wonderful website, www.gonzostore.com. She never replied, so light one up, crack one open, and start tapping the glass—then dip into “Hunter S. Thompson’s Private Stash.†|