HUNTERS WIFE FORGIVES HIS SUICIDE

Here's an article that tells what happened at Owl Ranch.

AMPIN' IT UP

Another fab concert brought to you by the folks at the AMP.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25TH!!!
ROCK OUT ROCK-STYLE WITH:SPLITSENSEMERICKDREAMS DIE TOOVISIONS OF THE BLIND (my band)HAPPY HOURandTHE CORPRALITES!show starts at 7pm bring 3 dollars and a smile!

I heard that I missed a really good show Monday night due working until close. I also hear that the scene is starting to pick up quite a bit. You hear that Todd, Shipley, Nick? Your bands should come up and play the Amp!

HUNTER S. THOMPSON BLEW HIS OWN MIND

I was saddened to find out that a cultural icon of times past took a gun shot to the head...by his own hand. I couldn't believe what I was reading. I thought Hunter was going to live forever or at least die in a blissful sleep loaded up on pot, tranquilizers and Chivas. Of course a grizzly suicide could have been his idea of a peaceful death. We don't know and so far the family hasn't released any info. We're in the dark.

Maybe it was the darkness that killed him. The darkness of another four years of Bush. Some might want to believe that. More realistically he could have been facing a horribly agonizing death sentence to be carried out by cancer or some other flesh and bone eating disease and wanted a quick way out.

Whatever the real reason is, his unique writing style and personality will be missed.

I recently watched the criterion collection version of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas and on the supplements disc there is an hour long interview conducted by the BBC around 1980. In it he talks about his death and how he was making plans to have a monument built after his death. I wonder if that monument will be built.

Goodnight Hunter.

WHAT'S HE THINKING?

You've got to love the album cover art from the 70's because they produced goodies like this one...

Check out those killer sandals! Let's have a caption contest; subject=What was Jay Fergusson thinking when this moment in time was captured? If I have a lot of participants I might just give the person with the best caption a copy of the Jay Fergusson Thunder Island album pictured above.