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“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.”
- Hunter S. Thompson in 1967
As told to Studs Terkel ( studsterkel.org)
Hear more from this rare interview: blankonblank.org/hunter-thompson
In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson spent more than a year living and drinking with members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club, riding up and down the California coast. What he saw alongside this group of renegades on Harleys, these hairy outlaws who rampaged and faced charges of attempted murder, assault and battery, and destruction of property along the way--all of this became the heart of Thompson’s first book: Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. Shortly after the book came out, Thompson sat down for a radio interview with the one and only Studs Terkel.
CHOICE QUOTES
“I can't remember ever winning a fight.”
"I used to take it out at night on the Coast Highway, just drunk out of my mind, ride it for 20 and 30 miles in just short pants and a t-shirt. It's a beautiful feeling.”
“ I tried to keep my eyes on him because I didn't want to have my skull fractured.”
“They want to get back at the people who put them in this terrible, this dead end, tunnel.”
“ The people who are most affected by this technological obsolescence are the ones least capable of understanding the reason for it, so the venom builds up much quicker. It feeds on their ignorance.”
Get more on Thompson and the Hell’s Angels, gonzo journalism, the full, unedited interview and GIFs from the episode:
blankonblank.org/hunter-thompson
Subscribe for new episodes every other Tuesday (it's free):
www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=blankonblank
Executive Producer: David Gerlach
Animator: Patrick Smith
Audio Producer: Amy Drozdowska
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@ 4:25 “Unfiltered” Wayne Murray, Paul Rawson
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- Hunter S. Thompson in 1967
As told to Studs Terkel ( studsterkel.org)
Hear more from this rare interview: blankonblank.org/hunter-thompson
In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson spent more than a year living and drinking with members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club, riding up and down the California coast. What he saw alongside this group of renegades on Harleys, these hairy outlaws who rampaged and faced charges of attempted murder, assault and battery, and destruction of property along the way--all of this became the heart of Thompson’s first book: Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. Shortly after the book came out, Thompson sat down for a radio interview with the one and only Studs Terkel.
CHOICE QUOTES
“I can't remember ever winning a fight.”
"I used to take it out at night on the Coast Highway, just drunk out of my mind, ride it for 20 and 30 miles in just short pants and a t-shirt. It's a beautiful feeling.”
“ I tried to keep my eyes on him because I didn't want to have my skull fractured.”
“They want to get back at the people who put them in this terrible, this dead end, tunnel.”
“ The people who are most affected by this technological obsolescence are the ones least capable of understanding the reason for it, so the venom builds up much quicker. It feeds on their ignorance.”
Get more on Thompson and the Hell’s Angels, gonzo journalism, the full, unedited interview and GIFs from the episode:
blankonblank.org/hunter-thompson
Subscribe for new episodes every other Tuesday (it's free):
www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=blankonblank
Executive Producer: David Gerlach
Animator: Patrick Smith
Audio Producer: Amy Drozdowska
Music You Heard via APM
@0:10 “Come and Get It” Wayne Murray, Paul Rawson
@1:50 “Four By Nine (Bed Version)” Brad Lindsay, David Cowan, Drew Allsbrook
@ 3:00 “Another Man’s Treasure” Steven M. Stern, Matt Naylor
@ 4:25 “Unfiltered” Wayne Murray, Paul Rawson
search.apmmusic.com/
More Blank on Blank episodes: blankonblank.org/pbs
BB King on The Blues
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tIphqWYu_s
Elliott Smith on Freaks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAP3sYaaBv4
Robin Williams on Masks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PHGmIAv4Dc
Wayne Coyne on Living with Death
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJXU7f0hI30
Maya Angelou on Con Men
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VybIJEA41yk
Bette Davis on The Sexes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNnTUyrxzWY
Michael Jackson on Godliness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoCa3Po7M_8
Jimi Hendrix on The Experience
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK2lfs_uiwk
Meryl Streep on Beauty
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG_T5dwnJuM
Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osn8rjkPyYM
David Bowie on Stardust
youtu.be/lFIDXXDsxAo
Gene Wilder on The Truth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PUW2POEjX4
John Lennon on Love
youtu.be/DmvmnYEy9NY
Johnny Cash on The Gospel
youtu.be/ALGi0tcFCcw
Heath Ledger on Role Playing
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Tupac on Life and Death
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x2FqX2YZws
Kurt Cobain on Identity
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Janis Joplin on Rejection
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