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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Fri Jul 31, 2015, 12:02 PM Jul 2015

Newly found Hunter S. Thompson audio a rare, candid look at the legend

Forty-eight years ago, legendary writer Hunter S. Thompson was interviewed about the brutal ass-kicking he received while traveling with an infamous motorcycle gang. The rare audio from one of the 20th century's most cutting voices has been unearthed—and you don't need to be a fan to get hooked.

After all this was a journalist who said, at the time of the interview, “I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward," before going on to become the King of Gonzo only two years later. Thompson had a reputation so strong that it ultimately interfered with his ability to cover stories in the way he preferred to: quietly in the back, with a tape recorder in his hand and a brain swimming in whiskey.

But ending your case study of the Hells Angels with an expected savage beating will make words like that come out of you. That reporting went on to become the watershed Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga.

This nearly hour-long interview has been edited down to just more than five minutes by PBS Digital Studios, with animation added over it as a part of series Blank on Blank, which is all released via YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=26&v=P3QoKqEHS8s

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Newly found Hunter S. Thompson audio a rare, candid look at the legend (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2015 OP
Marking for later listen underpants Jul 2015 #1
"expected savage beating." malthaussen Jul 2015 #2

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
2. "expected savage beating."
Fri Jul 31, 2015, 12:37 PM
Jul 2015

I'd say "deliberately provoked savage beating," because Hunter knew his story wouldn't have legs without it.

-- Mal

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