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About this CD

Compact Disc

December 4, 1996

General

Shows/Movies

1

Stereo

Studio

1996

Margaritaville Records

731452430922

Editorial Notes

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS is an audio play, with backing music, based on Hunter S. Thompson's classic book. It was recorded to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the book's publishing. The musical background includes several classic rock songs referenced by the text. Principal cast includes: Harry Dean Stanton (narrator); Jim Jarmusch (Duke); Maury Chaykin (Gonzo); George Segal (Dr. Bloomquist); Joan Cusack (Lucy); Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone Editor); Todd Snider (Hitchhiker); Harry Shearer (Cop At Flamingo Registration, Executive Director and Police Chief At D.A. Conference, Biker At Mint 400, Lacerda, Dwarf, Sound Equipment Man, Voices Of Nixon and Walter Cronkite); Buck Henry (Desk Clerk); Jimmy Buffett (Cop In Desert). Includes liner notes by Ralph Steadman. Written by Hunter S. Thompson. FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS includes music by Jefferson Airplane ("White Rabbit"), Three Dog Night ("Joy To The World"), Brewer & Shipley ("One Toke Over The Line"), Waddy Wachtel ("Sympathy For The Devil") and Todd Snider.

Tracks on This CD

  • Intro - Hunter S. Thompson

  • On The Road To Las Vegas...

  • Strange Medicine In The Desert...

  • Covering The Story...Ugliness And Failure

  • Night On The Town...Drug Frenzy At The Circus-Circus, A

  • Paranoid Terror...A Flashing Of Knives And Green Water

  • Savage Invitation From The Police, A

  • AAWW, Mama, Can This Really Be The End...Down And Out In Vegas With Amphetamine Psychosis Again

  • Another Day, Another Convertible And Another Hotel Full Of Cops

  • Savage Lucy

  • Terrible Experience With Extremely Dangerous Drugs, A

  • Getting Down To Business...Opening Day Of The Drugs Convention

  • Breakdown On Paradise Boulevard

  • Heavy Duty At The Airport...

  • End Of The Road...

  • Outro - Hunter S. Thompson

From the Critics

Musician (3/97, p.90) - "...Reminds you what it's like to lose all your middle-class superego coordinates, which is to say it makes you feel free, as a great work of art should....you get swept away in a time and place as distant as the American Dream Hunter set out to find."

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