The Gonzo Tapes:The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson - The Gonzo Tapes:The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

The Gonzo Tapes:The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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Artist: Hunter S. Thompson
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Music Label: Shout Factory
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Bass Lake Run: Shit, It's Only 11 O'Clock Here.
  2. Bass Lake Run: We're Up at Bass Lake.
  3. Bass Lake Run: All the Empty Cans and Beer Cartons Are Up on Top of the
  4. Bass Lake Run: No Notes After Two Days of This Hell's Angels Thing.
  5. Terry the Tramp Interview #1: It's August 5, Thursday Night. We're on t
  6. Terry the Tramp Interview #1: Was Clovis a Run?
  7. Terry the Tramp Interview #1: You Ever Try Peyote, Hunter?
  8. Terry the Tramp Interview #1: I'm Not Worried Until the Book Comes Out.
  9. Terry the Tramp Interview #1: I'm Puttin' You to a Terrible Inconvenien
  10. Driving Back Through Oakland: On My Way Back Now from Taking Terry the
  11. Driving Back Through Oakland: When I Was Talking to the Frisco Angels t
  12. Driving Back Through Oakland: Also Like to Get the Idea Down.
  13. The Merry Pranksters Welcome the Hell's Angels: What Follows Here Is a Conv
  14. The Merry Pranksters Welcome the Hell's Angels: Ambulance Rolling, Code 3
  15. It's a Long Story...Ha-Ha, Not Thump-Thump: Tonight Was Saturday, Augus
  16. Terry the Tramp Interview #2: They Run It Down That This Girl Was a Poo
  17. Terry the Tramp Interview #2: Porterville Is the One That Time Used, Ri
  18. Terry the Tramp Interview #2: Who Was She? Had You Ever Seen Her?
  19. Terry the Tramp Interview #2: Do You Remember What Day It Was?
  20. Zing Zong Wing Ding Rush: We're Going to Have to Get Some Wisdom, Some
  21. A Question for the Ages: It's Snow Outside, Getting Light.
Music CD 2
  1. We Have Seized the High Ground: It's Monday Afternoon, We Have a White
  2. We Have Seized the High Ground: Did You See the Way That Guy Looked at
  3. We Have Seized the High Ground: Well, She Was Crazy. It Was Clear When
  4. One Toke Over the Line: Abbe Lane at the Desert Inn. Louis Prima, Stard
  5. One Toke Over the Line: You Get What You Pay For.
  6. One Toke Over the Line: What We Should Do Is Just Call the Free Press.
  7. One Toke Over the Line: We Could Certainly Use Some Mescaline.
  8. If All Else Fails We Must Get Ether: The White House Says the Guest Lis
  9. If All Else Fails We Must Get Ether: Let Me Call Wilcock If I Can and S
  10. If All Else Fails We Must Get Ether: Oh Hi, Is Jay There?
  11. If All Else Fails We Must Get Ether: It's Ringing.
  12. In Search of the American Dream: Remote Control RM15
  13. In Search of the American Dream: Maybe That's Where We've Gone Wrong.
  14. Terry's Taco Stand, USA: I'm Getting Tired of Giving You Advice That Yo
  15. Anybody in Search of the American Dream Needs a Lawyer, A Doctor and a
  16. Anybody in Search of the American Dream Needs a Lawyer, A Doctor and a
  17. Anybody in Search of the American Dream Needs a Lawyer, A Doctor and a
  18. While Taking a Piss There It Suddenly Struck Me What's Going on Her.
Music CD 3
  1. Goddamn! This Monster's Licking My Arm!: As Usual, You're Afraid of Mex
  2. Goddamn! This Monster's Licking My Arm!: We're Approaching the Fog Cutt
  3. Goddamn! This Monster's Licking My Arm!: We're Going to the Pussycat No
  4. Goddamn! This Monster's Licking My Arm!: Chances Are Very Good That I'l
  5. Goddamn! This Monster's Licking My Arm!: Yes, This Is Oscar Acosta in R
  6. Oscar Fled in Terror...Drug Up...Weird Road: Boulder Highway, Heading T
  7. Oscar Fled in Terror...Drug Up...Weird Road: Two Things We Should Proba
  8. Oscar Fled in Terror...Drug Up...Weird Road: Ah Yes, We're Coming Over
  9. Oscar Fled in Terror...Drug Up...Weird Road: I Was Just Kind of Walking
  10. Oscar Fled in Terror...Drug Up...Weird Road: A Strange Backwaters of So
  11. Oscar Fled in Terror...Drug Up...Weird Road: I'm Pulling off on a Side
  12. Oscar Fled in Terror...Drug Up...Weird Road: Aw Jesus.
  13. Across This Treacherous Sand...A Huge Tidal Wave Will Come in on Me Now
  14. Across This Treacherous Sand...A Huge Tidal Wave Will Come in on Me Now
  15. Across This Treacherous Sand...A Huge Tidal Wave Will Come in on Me Now
  16. Vegas D.A. Final Notes...the Whole Room Is Total Chaos: Las Vegas, Apri
  17. Vegas D.A. Final Notes...the Whole Room Is Total Chaos: I Can't Imagine
  18. Wenner Calls...with a Big "W" in 65-Pt Type: When I Start to Grapple wi
  19. Wenner Calls...with a Big "W" in 65-Pt Type: I Figure I'm Going to Star
  20. Wenner Calls...with a Big "W" in 65-Pt Type: Anyway, There's Vegas to B
Music CD 4
  1. Guts Ball: This Microphone Wound Up Beneath Something Down There.
  2. Guts Ball: There's Signs of Group Hysteria in the Passengers.
  3. Guts Ball: Some Are Just Weeping Now.
  4. Guts Ball: Well, The Beauty of the Whole Thing...
  5. Gozumel: It's March 30; Actually March 31.
  6. Fear and Loathing in Acapulco: The Piece Was Interrupted; the Piece End
  7. Fear and Loathing in Acapulco: Have Found Thompson, He's with Kissinger
  8. Fear and Loathing in Acapulco: They Still Can't Reach Me.
  9. Fear and Loathing in Acapulco: The Story Is Fear and Loathing in Acapul
  10. Fear and Loathing in Acapulco: Telephone Call Between Duke and Gonzo.
  11. Fear and Loathing in Acapulco: The Girls Are Laughing.
  12. Freud Cocaine Papers: Here's the First Symptom of This Goddamn Evil Dru
  13. Freud Cocaine Papers: I've Done What Most People Would Consider an Exce
  14. Freud Cocaine Papers: This Is Wednesday Night, The Third Day of Our Coc
  15. Freud Cocaine Papers: I Would Not Be Inclined.
  16. Freud Cocaine Papers: There Appears to Be Some Minimal But at Least Not
  17. Freud Cocaine Papers: June 28. I Think It's a Friday.
  18. Fear and Loathing in Kinshasa: We're out Here, It's, Uh, I Don't Know W
  19. Fear and Loathing in Kinshasa: Yeah, We Should Just Relax for a Second.
  20. Fear and Loathing in Kinshasa: Lying Down on the Bed in This Stinking L
  21. Fear and Loathing in Kinshasa: I Have Every Reason to Believe That We W
  22. Fear and Loathing in Kinshasa: Fiendish. The Thing Is So Bad There's No
  23. Fear and Loathing in Kinshasa: Tomorrow Morning at 6 O'Clock in the Hot
  24. Fear and Loathing in Kinshasa: There's No Way You Can Conceive What's G
  25. Fear and Loathing in Kinshasa: ...Called a Meeting Here.
  26. Fear and Loathing in Kinshasa: I Realize It's Difficult This Time of Ni
  27. Fear and Loathing in Kinshasa: We Really Have No Tickets
  28. Fear and Loathing in Kinshasa: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Captain Has Tu
Music CD 5
  1. I'm the One That's Supposed to Be Crazy: Hello, Hunter.
  2. I'm the One That's Supposed to Be Crazy: Why Don't You Talk to Gloria.
  3. I'm the One That's Supposed to Be Crazy: Hello. Long-Distance Calling f
  4. I'm the One That's Supposed to Be Crazy: When Were You Last There?
  5. I'm the One That's Supposed to Be Crazy: Want to Go, Hunter?
  6. Hotel Continental Palace: We Should Be in Saigon, In Loren Jenkins' Roo
  7. Hotel Continental Palace: I Wasn't in a Position to Interpret That-One
  8. Hotel Continental Palace: Nine O'Clock, Thursday Morning, Saigon, Conti
  9. The Thursday Night Panic: Now It's Friday Morning.
  10. The Thursday Night Panic: What Did You Hear?
  11. Last Stand at Xuan Loc: To Get to Where We Were Yesterday...
  12. Hong Kong: And That Was When This Goddamn Machine Broke.
  13. Hong Kong: And Based on a Prediction That Ford's Speech Is Going to Be
  14. Hong Kong: Meanwhile I Have to Go Over to the Newsweek Office
  15. Hong Kong: Five Minutes of Six, In the Newsweek Office.
  16. Hong Kong: Let's See, The News Tonight.
  17. The Last Dispatch from Saigon: The Last Commercial Airliner Still Flying ou

Music reviews of The Gonzo Tapes:The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Music Review: For a specific audience only!
Rating: 4 Stars

This item is very difficult to rate, as some will love it and most will not care for it. Do not buy this item unless you are a serious Gonzophile who is interested in Hunter's actual process in creating stories, as well as getting some insight into the realities of his life.

Do not buy it if you expect lots of gonzo bad craziness on the tapes: The Vegas portions are pretty pedestrian. Even when he is stoned, you are not experiencing the powerful internal experience; you are listening to it from the outside, and it can sound somewhat tired. You do get a couple interesting hints about how much was real and what really happened, but you have to listen carefully. This is Hunter Thompson the person, not Raoul Duke the personna.

As this is raw material, the sound quality can be really bad sometimes. Music and other conversations can occasionally make it really hard to hear.

You will hear a drug-wrecked Thompson totally incapacitated and useless in Kinsasha, and what he says in Cozumel in 1973 will definitely surprise you. The Politics book period is strangely absent, a shame because for me that was the period where his writing went from brilliant to chaotic.

I found the great hell of being a famous writer shown too often: everyone tries to tell you what your story is. Acosta does it in Vegas and Acapulco (it was eventually the reason for their falling-out), Wenner does it on the Vegas book, and Gloria Emerson goes to great length to put her Fear and Loathing in Saigon concept into him before he goes (the problem is that you cannot elogize the history of a place where you have never been).

The "Guts Ball" section will show pretty clearly why brainstorming a novel on mushrooms is a bad idea, and the Freud Cocaine self-test did not sound like any fun at all.

You will not find out how Hunter got that terrific prose style and those sharp insights onto the page. Both are basically absent from the tapes. The best part of Hunter came when it was just him and his Selectric, and the tape player wasn't running then.

So buy this if you are an aficionado seeking insight into the reality of Hunter Thompson, the kind of aficionado who read his letters collections and liked the Gonzo book of photos. Honestly, the joy of Hunter Thompson is in his writing, and most people would probably be happiest with his major works.
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Description of The Gonzo Tapes:The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

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.

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