Hunter S Thompson 1988 private stash, three hours of uncirculated interviews

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The story of Dr. Hunter S. Thompsons Private Stash. A few weeks after Dr. Thompsons suicide, an auction titled HST unpublished works and tapes appeared on ebay. Put up by a person we believe to be one of Thompson former assistants, it included a Xeroxed collection titled Drafts, Notes & Work Papers of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 1988-1990 correspondence, columns, and unpublished pieces complete with his editing marks


There were also three 90 minute audio tapes. Wed heard that HST taped
his conversations and interviews, which isnt surprising considering that
he kept carbons of every letter he ever wrote. At the very least, the USA
Today tapes begin with him saying. That conversation, incidentally, was split between twotapes with no continuity, so we named them Part 1 and Part 2. As for the sound, the amateur nature of these recordings was mostobviousin the Today Show tape. Its NOT a feed, as youll 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. Thompsons 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. At one point in the USA Today interview, you hear a strange snorting sound, too. How they came into the possession of the auctioneer, we honestly dont know. We believe theyre Hunters own copieshence the titleand thus the
only ones in existence. We certainly cant imagine Hunters assistants
keeping backup copies of every tape he made. We do, however feel safe in
saying that these tapes have never circulated. Until now.

1. The Gideon
Bible; I Have A General Distaste For Activists; 1968 Democratic Convention
2. We Were Mean; Ed Meese; A Victim of Some Kind of Horrible Mental
Illness
3. Are You Michael Jackson?; I Should Live Like I Want To; Be
Careful, Thats a Hair Trigger!
4. The Examiner Column; Were In The
Business Of Controlling Our Environment
5. Is There Anyone That Inspires
You Today?; The Ethic of Enlightened Self-Interest; If You Dont Do It,
Somebody Else Will
6. How Do You Translate To The Europeans?; Are You
Disappointed in the American Public?
7. Watergate; A Lesson Of Some Sort;
Journalism
8. Television Versus Print; Libel; Writing
9. Id Rather Write
Poems; You Know That Meese Is A Swine; Nixon
10. Have You Ever Made
Too Harsh A Judgment? Regrets; I Have Lawyers
11. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas; It Worked Fine And It Didnt Hurt; It AllGets Back To Being Lazy 12. I Love Writing; I Steal From The Right People;
One Long Sentence
13. I Never Thought Of Myself As A Journalist; Ive
Been Expecting To Die For So Long; Its Fun To Take The Chances
14.Mortality
A Magnificent Luxury; Bad Whiskey Is Like Tea
15. Doing

CutawaysUSA Today Part 1 07-08-88:

1. This Is For My Own Reference; George
McGovern; Why Get Into Politics?
2. We Had Good People on Our Side; The
Kennedys; All the Good Things Have Happened
3. Its Hard To Avoid
Reality; Jesse Jackson; Why Did This Thing Ring?
4. This Dumb Bastard;
Billionaires; Where Is the Progress?
5. The War On Drugs; Guns
6. I Beat the Hell Out of Journalism; Did Terry Take the Motherfucking
Tape Out of There?; Tracking the Video
7. This, That, Beta, VHS;
Journalism; I Know I Can Change One More Vote