tracks

"Shit, It's Only 11 O'Clock Here."
"We're Up At Bass Lake."
"All The Empty Cans And Beer Cartons Are Up On Top Of The Car."
"No Notes After Two Days Of This Hell's Angels Thing."
"It's August 5, Thursday Night. We're On The Freeway Now."
"Was Clovis A Run?"
"You Ever Try Peyote, Hunter?"
"I'm Not Worried Until The Book Comes Out."
"I'm Puttin' You To A Terrible Inconvenience, Hunter."
"On My Way Back Now From Taking Terry The Tramp Home."
"When I Was Talking To The Frisco Angels The Other Night About Their Wife-Swapping . . ."
"Also Like To Get The Idea Down."
"What Follows Here Is A Conversation Between Me And Allen Ginsberg And Two Police Officers."
"Ambulance Rolling, Code 3 [With Allen Ginsberg Humming]"
"Tonight Was Saturday, August 7."
"They Run It Down That This Girl Was A Poor 19-Year-Old Little Broad."
"Porterville Is The One That Time Used, Right?"
"Who Was She? Had You Ever Seen Her?"
"Do You Remember What Day It Was?"
"We're Going To Have To Get Some Wisdom, Some Comments Down."
"It's Snowy Outside, Getting Light."
"It's Monday Afternoon, We Have A White Cadillac Convertible."
"Did You See The Way That Guy Looked At Us?"
"Well, She Was Crazy. It Was Clear When I Came Into The Room That She Was Nuts."
"Abbe Lane At The Desert Inn. Louis Prima, Stardust."
"You Get What You Pay For."
"What We Should Do Is Just Call The Free Press."
"We Could Certainly Use Some Mescaline."
"The White House Says The Guest List For Tricia Nixon And Edward Cox's Wedding In June Is Limited To No More Than 400 People."
"Let Me Call Wilcook If I Can And See If I Can Get Us Some Drugs."
"Oh Hi, Is Jay There?"
"It's Ringing."
"If All Else Fails We Must Get Ether."
"Remote Control RM15."
"Maybe That's Where We've Gone Wrong."
"I'm Getting Tired Of Giving You Advice That You're Not Taking."
"Can They Rent That With The Option To Buy?"
"How Much Is Your Cheapest Clarinet?"
"What's This?"
"While Taking A Piss There It Suddenly Struck Me What's Going On Here."
"As Usual, You're Afraid Of Mexicans, Aren't You?"
"We're Approaching The Fog Cutter."
"We're Going To The Pussycat Now."
"Chances Are Very Good That I'll Leave Tomorrow."
"Yes, This Is Oscar Acosta In Room 1224."
"Boulder Highway, Headed Toward Lake Mead In The Great White Whale."
"Two Things We Should Probably Get Down."
"Ah Yes, We're Coming Over A Hill Here."
"I Was Just Kind Of Walking Around Picking Up All This Literature."
"A Strange Backwaters Of Some Sort; A 300-Pound Girl And 98-Pound Boy."
"I'm Pulling Off On A Side Road."
"Aw Jesus."
"Maybe I'll Drive Back Into These Weird Holes."
"People Appear Out Of Nowhere In This Desert."
"What The Fuck's Going On Here."
"Las Vegas, April 29, Thursday Night, After The D.A.'s Convention."
"I Can't Imagine How I'm Going To Get This Whole Fucking Room Into One-And-Half Suitcases."
"When I Start To Grapple With Vegas . . . "
"I Figure I'm Going To Start On Vegas II On Wednesday."
"Anyway, There's A Vegas To Be Finished."
"This Microphone Wound Up Beneath Something Down There."
"There's Signs Of Group Hysteria In The Passengers."
"Some Are Just Weeping Now."
"Well, The Beauty Of The Whole Thing..."
"It's March 30; Actually March 31."
"The Piece Was Interrupted; The Piece Ended Here Because The Telephone Went Out."
"Have Found Thompson, He's With Kissenger."
"They Still Can't Reach Me."
"The Story Is Fear And Loathing In Acapluco."
"Telephone Call Between Duke And Gonzo."
"The Girls Are Laughing."
"Here's The First Sympton Of This Goddamhn Evil Drug."
"I've Done What Most People Would Consider An Excessive Amount Of Coke."
"This Is Wednesday Night, The Third Day Of Our Cocaine Experiment."
"I Would Not Be Inclined."
"There Seems To Be Some Minimal But At Least Noticeable Physical Or Erotic Quality To It."
"June 28. I Think It's A Friday."
"We're Out Here, It's, Uh, I Don't Know What Time It Is, Sometime In The Early Morning."
"Yeah, We Should Just Relax For A Moment."
"Lying Down On The Bed In This Stinking Little Room."
"I Have Every Reason To Believe That We Won't See The Fight Tonight."
"Fiendish. The Thing Is So Bad There's No Way To Write A Story About It."
"Tomorrow Morning At 6 O'Clock In The Hotel Lobby...Many Ugly Little Scores Settled."
"There's No Way You Can Conceive What's Going To Happen To Us Tonight."
"...Called A Meeting Here."
"I Realize It's Difficult This Time Of Night."
"We Really Have No Tickets."
"Ladies And Gentlemen, The Captain Has Turned On The Seatbelt Sign."
"Hello, Hunter."
"Why Don't You Talk To Gloria?"
"Hello. Long-Distance Calling For Gloria Emerson."
"When Were You Last There?"
"Want To Go, Hunter?"
"We Should Be In Saigon, In Loren Jenkins' Room, #48 Or The Continental Palace Hotel."
"I Wasn't In A Position To Interpret That-Once Thousand Rounds, Two Thousand Rounds."
"Nine O'Clock, Thursday Morning, Saigon, Continental Hotel, Room #37."
"Now It's Friday Morning."
"What Did You Hear?"
"To Get To Where We Were Yesterday..."
"And That Was When This Goddamn Machine Broke."
"And Based On A Prediction That Ford's Speech Is Going To Be Rudely Received In Saigon..."
"Meanwhile I Have To Go Over To The Newsweek Office."
"Five Minutes Of Six, In The Newsweek Office."
"Let's See, The News Tonight."
"The Last Commerical Airliner Still Flying Out Of Here-Air Vietnam Flight 783, Hong Kong."

notes

Recorded between 1965 and 1975. Produced for Instant Mayhem Productions. Mastered at Pacific Multimedia Corp. All audiotapes, photographs, writing, quotations, and images - unless otherwise indicated - by Hunter S. Thompson.

The Gonzo Tapes is the companion volume to Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the definitive film by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney. The Gonzo Tapes is made possible through arrangement with Magnolia Films, Jigsaw Productions and the estate of Hunter S. Thompson.

Disc 1: Hell's Angels (Cat# 826663-10993)
Disc 2: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Cat# 826663-10994)
Disc 3: More Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Cat# 826663-10995)
Disc 4: Gonzo Gridlock 1973-1974 (Cat# 826663-10996)
Disc 5: Fear and Loathing in Saigon (Cat# 826663-10997)

All audio tapes, photographs, writing, quotations and images--unless otherwise indicated--by Hunter S. Thompson: ℗ & © 2008 The Estate Hunter S. Thompson/The Gonzo Trust under exclusive license to Shout! Factory LLC.

credits

Art Direction, Design – Al Quattrocchi, Jeff Smith (17)
Artwork [Original Cover Artwork] – Ralph Steadman
Executive-Producer – Alex Gibney
Liner Notes – Alex Gibney, Don Fleming, Loren Jenkins
Mastered By – Bob Fisher
Photography – Estate Of Hunter S. Thompson/The Gonzo Trust, The
Photography By – Don Fleming, Laila Nabulsi, Robert W. Bone
Producer – David McLees, Don Fleming
Recorded By – Hunter S. Thompson
Technician [Sound Preservation And Restoration] – Don Fleming

companies

Mastered At – Pacific Multimedia Corp.
Pressed By – Sony DADC

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