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Gonzo: Music from the Film (Box Set) (CD)

By: Hunter S Thompson (Artist) and Hunter W. Thompson (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Gonzo: Music from the Film (Box Set) (CD) Album By Hunter S Thompson (Artist) and...
1   Shit, It's Only 11 O'Clock Here - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
2   We're Up At Bass Lake - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
3   All the Empty Cans and Beer Cartons Are On Top of the Car - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
4   No Notes After Two Days of This Hell's Angels Thing - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
5   It's August 5, Thursday Night, We're On the Freeway Now - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
6   Was Clovis a Run? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
7   You Ever Try Peyote, Hunter? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
8   I'm Not Worried Until the Book Comes Out - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
9   I'm Putting You To a Terrible Inconvenience, Hunter - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
10   On My Way Back Now From Taking Terry the Tramp Home - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
11   When I Was Talking To the the Frisco Angels the Other Night About Their Wife-Swapping... - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
12   Also Like To Get the Idea Down - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
13   What Follows Here is a Conversation Between Me and Allen Ginsberg and Two Police Officers - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
14   Ambulance Rolling, Code 3 (With Ginsberg Humming) - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
15   Tonight Was Saturday, August 7 - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
16   They Run It Down That This Girl Was a Poor 19 Year Old Little Broad - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
17   Porterville is the One That Time Used, Right? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
18   Who Was She, Have You Ever Seen Her? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
19   Do You Remember What Day It Was? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
20   We're Going To Have To Get Some Wisdom, Some Comments Down - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
21   It's Snowy Outside, Getting Light - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
 
DISC 2 for Gonzo: Music from the Film (Box Set) (CD) Album By Hunter S Thompson (Artist) and...
1   It's Monday Afternoon, We Have a White Cadillac Convertible - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
2   Did You See the Way That Guy Looked At Us? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
3   Well, She Was Crazy. It Was Clear When I Came Into the Room That She Was Nuts, - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
4   Abbe Lane At the Desert Inn. Louis Prime, Stardust - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
5   You Get What You Pay For - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
6   What We Should Do is Just Call the Free Press - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
7   We Could Certainly Use Some Mescaline - (with Hunter W. 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 - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
9   Let Me Call Wilcock If I Can and See If I Can Get Us Some Drugs - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
10   Oh, Hi, is Jay There? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
11   It's Ringing - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
12   If All Else Fails Swe Must Get Ether - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
13   Remote Control Rw15 - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
14   Maybe That's Where We've Gone Wrong - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
15   I'm Getting Tired of Giving You Advice That You're Not Taking - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
16   Can They Rent That With the Option To Buy? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
17   How Much is Your Cheapest Clarinet? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
18   What's This? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
19   While Taking a Piss There It Suddenly Struck Me What's Going On Here - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
 
DISC 3 for Gonzo: Music from the Film (Box Set) (CD) Album By Hunter S Thompson (Artist) and...
1   As Usual, You're Afraid of Mexicans, Aren't You? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
2   We're Approaching the Fog Cutter - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
3   We're Going To the Pussycat Now - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
4   Chances Are Very Good That I'll Leave Tomorrow - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
5   Yes, This is Oscar Acosta In Room 1224 - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
6   Boulder Highway, Heading Toward Lake Mead In the Great White Whale - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
7   Two Things We Should Probably Get Down - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
8   Ah Yes, We're Coming Over a Hill Here - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
9   I Was Just Kind of Walking Around Picking Up All This Literature - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
10   Strange Backwaters of Some Sort; a 300 Pound Girl and a 90 Pound Boy, A - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
11   I'm Pulling Off On a Side Road - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
12   Aw, Jesus - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
13   Maybe I'll Drive Back Into These Weird Holes - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
14   People Appear Out of Nowhere In This Desert - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
15   What the Fuck's Going On Here - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
16   Las Vegas, April 29, Thursday Night, After the D.a.'S Convention - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
17   I Can't Imagine How I'm Going To Get This Whole Fucking Room Into One and a Half Suitcases - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
18   When I Start To Grapple With Vegas... - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
19   I Figure I'm Going To Star On Vegas Ll On Wednesday - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
20   Anyway, There's a Vegas To Be Finished - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
 
DISC 4 for Gonzo: Music from the Film (Box Set) (CD) Album By Hunter S Thompson (Artist) and...
1   This Microphone Wound Up Beneath Something Down There - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
2   There's Signs of Group Hysteria In the Passengers - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
3   Some Are Just Weeping Now - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
4   Well, the Beauty of the Whole Thing.... - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
5   It's March 30th, Actually March 31 - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
6   Piece Was Interrupted; the Piece Ended Here Because the Telephone Went Out, The - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
7   Have Found Thompson, He's With Kissinger - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
8   They Still Can't Reach Me - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
9   Story is Fear and Loathing In Acapulco, The - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
10   Telephone Call Between Duke and Gonzo - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
11   Girls Are Laughing, The - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
12   Here's the First Symptom of This Goddamn Evil Drug - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
13   I've Done What Most People Would Consider an Excessive Amount of Coke - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
14   This is Wednesday Night, the Third Day of Our Cocaine Experiment - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
15   I Would Not Be Inclined - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
16   There Appears To Be Some Minimal But At Least Noticealbe Physical or Erotic Quality To It - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
17   June 28, I Think It's a Friday - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
18   We're Out Here, It's , Uh, I Don't Know What Time It is, Sometime In the Early Morning. - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
19   Yeah, We Should Relax For a Second - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
20   Lying Down On the Bed In This Stinking Little Room - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
21   I Have Every Reason To Believe That We Won't See the Fight Tonight - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
22   Fiendish. the Thing is So Bad There's No Way To Write a Story About It. - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
23   Tomorrow Morning At 6 O'Clock In the Hotel Lobby...Many Ugly Little Weird Scores Settled - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
24   There's No Way You Can Coneive What's Going To Happen To Us Tonight - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
25   ....Called a Meeting Here - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
26   I Realise It's Difficult This Time of Night - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
27   We Really Have No Tickets - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
28   Ladies and Gentlemen, the Captain Has Turned On the Seat Belt Sign - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
 
DISC 5 for Gonzo: Music from the Film (Box Set) (CD) Album By Hunter S Thompson (Artist) and...
1   Hello, Hunter - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
2   Why Don't You Talk To Gloria - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
3   Hello. Long Distance Calling For Gloria Emerson - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
4   When Were You Last There? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
5   Want To Go, Hunter? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
6   We Should Be In Saigon, In Loren Jenkins' Room #48 of the Continental Palace Hotel - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
7   I Wasn't In a Position To Interpret That One Thousand Rounds, Two Thousand Rounds - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
8   Nine O'Clock, Thursday Morning, Saigon, Continental Hotel, Room # 37 - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
9   Now It's Friday Morning - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
10   What Did You Hear? - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
11   To Get To Where We Were Yesterday.... - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
12   And What Was When This Goddamn Machine Broke - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
13   And Based On a Prediction That Ford's Speech is Going To Be Rudely Received In Saigon.... - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
14   Meanwhile I Have To Go Over To the Newsweek Office - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
15   Five Minutes of Six, In the Newsweek Office - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
16   Let's See, the News Tonight - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
17   Last Commercial Airliner Still Flying Out of Here-Air Vietnam Flight 783, Hong Kong, The - (with Hunter W. Thompson)
 

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Title Note

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

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