The Gonzo Tapes: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)

Product Summary Label: SHOUT! FACTORY/SBME UPC: 00826663109924 Release Date: 10/28/2008 Buy.com Sku: 209612078 Item#: M4FTTY Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Shit, It's Only 11 O'Clock Here ~ Hunter S. Thompson 2. We're Up At Bass Lake ~ Hunter S. Thompson 3. All the Empty Cans and Beer Cartons Are On Top of the Car ~ Hunter S. Thompson 4. No Notes After Two Days of This Hell's Angels Thing ~ Hunter S. Thompson 5. It's August 5, Thursday Night, We're On the Freeway Now ~ Hunter S. Thompson 6. Was Clovis a Run? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 7. You Ever Try Peyote, Hunter? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 8. I'm Not Worried Until the Book Comes Out ~ Hunter S. Thompson 9. I'm Putting You To a Terrible Inconvenience, Hunter ~ Hunter S. Thompson 10. On My Way Back Now From Taking Terry the Tramp Home ~ Hunter S. Thompson 11. When I Was Talking To the the Frisco Angels the Other Night About Their Wife-Swapping... ~ Hunter S. Thompson 12. Also Like To Get the Idea Down ~ Hunter S. Thompson 13. What Follows Here is a Conversation Between Me and Allen Ginsberg and Two Police Officers ~ Hunter S. Thompson 14. Ambulance Rolling, Code 3 (With Ginsberg Humming) ~ Hunter S. Thompson 15. Tonight Was Saturday, August 7 ~ Hunter S. Thompson 16. They Run It Down That This Girl Was a Poor 19 Year Old Little Broad ~ Hunter S. Thompson 17. Porterville is the One That Time Used, Right? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 18. Who Was She, Have You Ever Seen Her? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 19. Do You Remember What Day It Was? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 20. We're Going To Have To Get Some Wisdom, Some Comments Down ~ Hunter S. Thompson 21. It's Snowy Outside, Getting Light ~ Hunter S. Thompson Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. It's Monday Afternoon, We Have a White Cadillac Convertible ~ Hunter S. Thompson 2. Did You See the Way That Guy Looked At Us? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 3. Well, She Was Crazy. It Was Clear When I Came Into the Room That She Was Nuts, ~ Hunter S. Thompson 4. Abbe Lane At the Desert Inn. Louis Prime, Stardust ~ Hunter S. Thompson 5. You Get What You Pay For ~ Hunter S. Thompson 6. What We Should Do is Just Call the Free Press ~ Hunter S. Thompson 7. We Could Certainly Use Some Mescaline ~ Hunter S. Thompson 8. White House Says the Guest List For Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox's Wedding In June is Limited To No More Than 400 People, The ~ Hunter S. Thompson 9. Let Me Call Wilcock If I Can and See If I Can Get Us Some Drugs ~ Hunter S. Thompson 10. Oh, Hi, is Jay There? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 11. It's Ringing ~ Hunter S. Thompson 12. If All Else Fails Swe Must Get Ether ~ Hunter S. Thompson 13. Remote Control Rw15 ~ Hunter S. Thompson 14. Maybe That's Where We've Gone Wrong ~ Hunter S. Thompson 15. I'm Getting Tired of Giving You Advice That You're Not Taking ~ Hunter S. Thompson 16. Can They Rent That With the Option To Buy? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 17. How Much is Your Cheapest Clarinet? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 18. What's This? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 19. While Taking a Piss There It Suddenly Struck Me What's Going On Here ~ Hunter S. Thompson Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. As Usual, You're Afraid of Mexicans, Aren't You? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 2. We're Approaching the Fog Cutter ~ Hunter S. Thompson 3. We're Going To the Pussycat Now ~ Hunter S. Thompson 4. Chances Are Very Good That I'll Leave Tomorrow ~ Hunter S. Thompson 5. Yes, This is Oscar Acosta In Room 1224 ~ Hunter S. Thompson 6. Boulder Highway, Heading Toward Lake Mead In the Great White Whale ~ Hunter S. Thompson 7. Two Things We Should Probably Get Down ~ Hunter S. Thompson 8. Ah Yes, We're Coming Over a Hill Here ~ Hunter S. Thompson 9. I Was Just Kind of Walking Around Picking Up All This Literature ~ Hunter S. Thompson 10. Strange Backwaters of Some Sort; a 300 Pound Girl and a 90 Pound Boy, A ~ Hunter S. Thompson 11. I'm Pulling Off On a Side Road ~ Hunter S. Thompson 12. Aw, Jesus ~ Hunter S. Thompson 13. Maybe I'll Drive Back Into These Weird Holes ~ Hunter S. Thompson 14. People Appear Out of Nowhere In This Desert ~ Hunter S. Thompson 15. What the Fuck's Going On Here ~ Hunter S. Thompson 16. Las Vegas, April 29, Thursday Night, After the D.a.'S Convention ~ Hunter S. Thompson 17. I Can't Imagine How I'm Going To Get This Whole Fucking Room Into One and a Half Suitcases ~ Hunter S. Thompson 18. When I Start To Grapple With Vegas... ~ Hunter S. Thompson 19. I Figure I'm Going To Star On Vegas Ll On Wednesday ~ Hunter S. Thompson 20. Anyway, There's a Vegas To Be Finished ~ Hunter S. Thompson Disc 4 Song Title Sample 1. This Microphone Wound Up Beneath Something Down There ~ Hunter S. Thompson 2. There's Signs of Group Hysteria In the Passengers ~ Hunter S. Thompson 3. Some Are Just Weeping Now ~ Hunter S. Thompson 4. Well, the Beauty of the Whole Thing.... ~ Hunter S. Thompson 5. It's March 30th, Actually March 31 ~ Hunter S. Thompson 6. Piece Was Interrupted; the Piece Ended Here Because the Telephone Went Out, The ~ Hunter S. Thompson 7. Have Found Thompson, He's With Kissinger ~ Hunter S. Thompson 8. They Still Can't Reach Me ~ Hunter S. Thompson 9. Story is Fear and Loathing In Acapulco, The ~ Hunter S. Thompson 10. Telephone Call Between Duke and Gonzo ~ Hunter S. Thompson 11. Girls Are Laughing, The ~ Hunter S. Thompson 12. Here's the First Symptom of This Goddamn Evil Drug ~ Hunter S. Thompson 13. I've Done What Most People Would Consider an Excessive Amount of Coke ~ Hunter S. Thompson 14. This is Wednesday Night, the Third Day of Our Cocaine Experiment ~ Hunter S. Thompson 15. I Would Not Be Inclined ~ Hunter S. Thompson 16. There Appears To Be Some Minimal But At Least Noticealbe Physical or Erotic Quality To It ~ Hunter S. Thompson 17. June 28, I Think It's a Friday ~ Hunter S. Thompson 18. We're Out Here, It's , Uh, I Don't Know What Time It is, Sometime In the Early Morning. ~ Hunter S. Thompson 19. Yeah, We Should Relax For a Second ~ Hunter S. Thompson 20. Lying Down On the Bed In This Stinking Little Room ~ Hunter S. Thompson 21. I Have Every Reason To Believe That We Won't See the Fight Tonight ~ Hunter S. Thompson 22. Fiendish. the Thing is So Bad There's No Way To Write a Story About It. ~ Hunter S. Thompson 23. Tomorrow Morning At 6 O'Clock In the Hotel Lobby...Many Ugly Little Weird Scores Settled ~ Hunter S. Thompson 24. There's No Way You Can Coneive What's Going To Happen To Us Tonight ~ Hunter S. Thompson 25. ....Called a Meeting Here ~ Hunter S. Thompson 26. I Realise It's Difficult This Time of Night ~ Hunter S. Thompson 27. We Really Have No Tickets ~ Hunter S. Thompson 28. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Captain Has Turned On the Seat Belt Sign ~ Hunter S. Thompson Disc 5 Song Title Sample 1. Hello, Hunter ~ Hunter S. Thompson 2. Why Don't You Talk To Gloria ~ Hunter S. Thompson 3. Hello. Long Distance Calling For Gloria Emerson ~ Hunter S. Thompson 4. When Were You Last There? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 5. Want To Go, Hunter? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 6. We Should Be In Saigon, In Loren Jenkins' Room #48 of the Continental Palace Hotel ~ Hunter S. Thompson 7. I Wasn't In a Position To Interpret That One Thousand Rounds, Two Thousand Rounds ~ Hunter S. Thompson 8. Nine O'Clock, Thursday Morning, Saigon, Continental Hotel, Room # 37 ~ Hunter S. Thompson 9. Now It's Friday Morning ~ Hunter S. Thompson 10. What Did You Hear? ~ Hunter S. Thompson 11. To Get To Where We Were Yesterday.... ~ Hunter S. Thompson 12. And What Was When This Goddamn Machine Broke ~ Hunter S. Thompson 13. And Based On a Prediction That Ford's Speech is Going To Be Rudely Received In Saigon.... ~ Hunter S. Thompson 14. Meanwhile I Have To Go Over To the Newsweek Office ~ Hunter S. Thompson 15. Five Minutes of Six, In the Newsweek Office ~ Hunter S. Thompson 16. Let's See, the News Tonight ~ Hunter S. Thompson 17. Last Commercial Airliner Still Flying Out of Here-Air Vietnam Flight 783, Hong Kong, The ~ Hunter S. Thompson   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Released as a five-disc set boasting over 100 tracks of audio recordings from Duke's vault, taken specifically between the years 1965 and 1975, The Gonzo Tapes: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is an extensive listen: extensive, but exhaustive in every sense of the word. While Thompson was on his assignments, whether it was on location for Rolling Stone or during a phone call with his editor, he documented everything; muttering thoughts onto cassettes haphazardly as his pill-propelled mind raced, before coming down to earth and typing his notes into fully realized stories. Thompson was an obsessive archivist and the basis for all of his written works was his tape recorder. Having a key to this vault and a chance to hear all these original tapes should be, in theory, a dream come true for his fans. It seems like a no fail. Here we have a raw voyeuristic look into the mind of a genius writer. Unfortunately, because the content at hand is so completely indecipherable, the collection falls way short of expectations. If it wasn't already hard to understand Hunter's speedy and sporadic lock-jawed ramblings in live interviews, the excessive background noise (air ducts, cover bands, outside conversations, howling Hell's Angels, Andrew Lloyd Webber albums, his lawyer's pan flute) makes his slur even more difficult to understand, as do the random mic bumps and variety of recorder settings (the pocket of his Hawaiian shirt is one, the sink of a bathroom while he showers is another). Even with a solid, 42-page booklet of notes, diehards will have a tough time determining exactly what is taking place, leaving one to wonder if this content should have only been pulled from its basement resting place for its original purpose of supporting the film documentary Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, and then laid to rest. Museum curators will get a kick out the historical value (especially the two and a half hours of material that would ultimately make up Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), aspiring writers will find his technique of getting ideas to print inspirational, but casual listeners will find it frustrating trying to decipher the babble from the static. ~ Jason Lymangrover It's fair to assume that Hunter S. Thompson's medicine cabinet sparked the fire for his journalistic style, but a lesser-known fact is that music motivated his writings just as much, if not more. John Prine's "Samstone" was spun countless times on his turntable as he furiously pounded "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" out on his typewriter, Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow was on heavy repeat while drafting "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", and James Booker's "Gonzo" not only fueled the momentum of "Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga", but it was the original source for the term used to define Thompson's New Journalism writing style. Even more notable than the chance to peek at the ingredients used to concoct Thompson's creative juices (a smidge of Bob Dylan here, a splash of Warren Zevon there), is the rare opportunity to hear the one and only song that he penned himself. "Weird and Twisted Nights" was co-written with his illustrating partner in crime Ralph Steadman, and, despite its lacking fidelity, it is a downright wonderful pop gem; one that circus-mirrors an LSD-fueled sea shantey and effortlessly brings together the reckless abandon of Dr. John and the trippy weirdness of Tomorrow's psych nugget "My White Bicycle." Many of the songs on Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Music from the Film seem especially fitting for analyzing the pretty colors of Haight Ashbury, but instead of merely piling on bender-influenced songs of the '60s, there are a number of straight forward, mellow ballads that Thompson used to soothe his soul while coming down. Lyle Lovett's "If I had a Boat" and Jo Stafford's "Haunted Heart" don't immediately bring to mind the madcap depravity often associated with Thompson, but make sense when remembering that Thompson spent much of his down time relaxing in a hammock on Owl Farm. Encapsulated with Californian peace power staples by his personal favorites the Youngbloods and Jefferson Airplane, story-driven narratives "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Send Lawyers, Guns and Money,", and the obvious ganja-referencing inclusions "Tambourine Man" and "One Toke Over the Line", the album becomes a fascinating porthole to Hunter's essence, excellently pieced together. Snippets from cassette-taped rough drafts (featured in full on the overly bloated box set The Gonzo Tapes) and soundboard clips of Johnny Depp reading Thompson's works tie everything together neatly in a tidy package that pays perfect tribute to the one of a kind icon. An insightful photo-filled 40-page booklet with notes written by Depp is icing on the cake. ~ Jason Lymangrover Producer: David McLees; Don Fleming   Associated Artists and Works California Dreams Original Soundtrack Original Soundtrack   Technical Info Release Date : 10/28/2008 Original Release Date : 2008 Catalog ID : 82666310992 Label : Shout! Factory Number of Discs : 5 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00826663109924    Product Image