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Location: NJ | R.I.P.
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Location: NJ | he will be missed |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Who was he? |
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Location: out there | a gonzo journalist |
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Location: NJ | Author/Gonzo "journalist" from the 70's.
Wrote "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" which became a Johhmy Depp film some years ago (was orginally done as "Where the Buffalo Roam" with Bill Murray and Peter Boyle).
Crazy bastard. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Not crazy, just different. Well not all that different from some of us...... |
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Location: Houston, TX | We were somewhere near Barstow when the drugs took hold. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | R.I.P Hunter. Life is a hell of a ride and I'm glad you've been a part of it for us all. |
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Location: NJ | "Crazy" was intended as a compliment . .
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | I remember reading Hunter when his work was published serially; in Rolling Stone, I believe. There was a time I liked his work, but one of us changed.
He was the basis for one of the characters in Doonesbury, wasn't he? |
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Location: NJ | "Uncle Duke". |
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| Working for Muskie, Thompson wrote, "was something like being locked in a rolling box car with a vicious 200-pound water rat." Nixon and his "Barbie doll" family were "America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the werewolf in us."
Humphrey? Of him, Thompson wrote: "There is no way to grasp what a shallow, contemptible and hopelessly dishonest old hack Hubert Humphrey is until you've followed him around for a while."
That's why he'll be missed. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | He spoke at our college, circa 1981. He was late. We found him, drunk in the airport bar. He was totally inchorent. When he started his speech, he pulled out a bottle of scotch. By the end of the speech, half the audience was howling with laughter and the other half was howling with indignation. The laughter was joyful though, because he was giving the rest of them the finger. I'll miss him. He was real. Read his books. |
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Location: Midland, MI | He was what he was, but he was no Mark Twain. Still, unfortunate. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | I remember reading his "Fear and Loathing" when it was published in Rolling Stone, before the book was released. I guess the enormous amounts of drugs and booze he injested was true. What does this have to do with Ovation? Well many of us grew up in the cult of music, the early days of Rolling Stone magazine, who Thompson wrote for. The gonzo images, and stories, were all part of the late 60's early 70's mindset. Us guitar players, knew this like we know our O's, Rick's, Strat's, SG's etc....... and rock licks. "No one here gets out alive"
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Where The Buffalo Roam . . .