GonzoToday
  • Pages
    • Front Page
    • Featured content
    • The GonzoToday Interview
    • Commentary
    • Poetry
    • ART
    • News
    • Travel
  • Music
    • Music videos
    • Music Reviews
  • Columns
    • The Publisher Pontificates
    • Greetings from Scranton
    • The Vinyl Vault
  • Fiction
    • Books
    • Short Stories
    • FAN Fiction
  • About
    • Our staff
    • About GonzoToday.com
    • Mission Statement
  • Submissions
  • Log In

GONZOTODAY EXCLUSIVE FIRST RELEASE!!! Never Before Published Hunter S. Thompson Photographs and Faxes from Kevin Simonson

March 10, 2015 Clayton Luce Front page, News, Pictures 0

Tweet

 

Clay:

 

My office is literally full of archives and I thought it was about time to share some of this stuff with members of the Gonzo Tribe…Some of these items you might recognize but a lot of these pictures and letters and faxes and signed books have never been published anywhere.

 

-Kevin Simonson

FROM KEVIN:

Hunter & K.P.
Hunter and me at Owl Farm. Hunter’s left hand was wrapped in gauze after he accidentally dropped his cigarette into a steaming vat of chili. He quickly tried to retrieve the cigarette but he ended up scolding two of his fingers. — at HST Owl Creek Farm.
A little background:  I first met Hunter in 1990 when I booked him to speak at the University of Nebraska. From that initial meeting we formed a professional relationship and friendship. Over the years I made several visits to Owl Farm and spent countless hours on the phone. Most of the phone calls took place after 2am and my interaction with Hunter created a few problems.

 

One time he stole the robe from a Lincoln hotel room and I got stuck with the bill. What else? Oh…my fiancee during these “Gonzo Years” pulled the plug on our wedding plans and left the state (after spending six days at Owl Farm…more on that later).

 

Hunter somehow always made it up to me, though. Simon & Schuster sent me an advance copy of “Kingdom of Fear” and Hunter had included me on his “Kingdom of Fear Honor Roll”.

I met Ralph Steadman in Aspen a few years later and continue to correspond periodically and see him when he makes it to the States.  In 2005, I attended Hunter’s Memorial at Owl Farm.[tribulant_slideshow gallery_id=”4″]

  • Biography of Kevin Simonson

    Kevin P. SimonsonAuthor/Co-Editor of the book “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson” (University Press of Mississippi) with Beef Torrey. The book features his interviews with Hunter that appeared in the pages of SPIN, HUSTLER and The Village Voice. The book also contains interviews from Playboy, Columbia Journalism Review, Salon.com by such notables as Douglas Brinkley, William McKeen and Curtis Wilkie.

    Contributed interview (from SPIN magazine) to “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom” (De Capo Press) by Anita Thompson

    Contributed pictures to “Outlaw Journalist” (W.W. Norton & Co.) by William McKeen

    Wrote front page feature for the “Aspen Daily Times” during Hunter’s “sex and drugs” trial in 1990.

    His Ralph Steadman profiles have appeared in the pages of RAYGUN, Shout!, Omaha City Weekly and The Reader.

Share :

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X

Related

  • clayton l luce
  • fax
  • gonzo
  • gonzo journalism
  • gonzo today
  • hunter s thompson
  • Kevin Simonson
  • letters
  • owl farm
  • photos
  • ralph steadman
  • scans
Previous

Flying Dog Brewery Wins Six-Year Raging Bitch Case

Next

Hitler is a Cunt

SUBSCRIBE TO GONZOTODAY.COM

SEARCH OUR ARCHIVES

Support GonzoToday.com by buying our books... thanks!

or purchase directly through Amazon.com

Bobby “Blue” Bland – Turn on Your Love Light

Featured Content

  • Val Kilmer: Farewell to a True Artist

    April 2, 2025 0
  • WHAT IF Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & The Big Bopper Lived?

    January 29, 2025 0
  • Gonzo Today’s Facebook Page Has Been Hacked

    January 16, 2025 0
  • Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul: Fake or Real

    November 15, 2024 0
  • Trump Again. Now What?

    November 6, 2024 0
  • Trump Wins: What Does That Mean?

    November 6, 2024 0
  • A Sensation of Intense Disgust, but Don’t Give Up

    November 5, 2024 0
  • Muddy Creek & Co: Fighters & Lovers

    August 29, 2024 0
  • First RFK Jr., now Tulsi Gabbard

    August 29, 2024 0
  • Extreme Hideousness

    August 24, 2024 0
  • Summer of Weird

    July 30, 2024 0
  • Doors’ Jim Morrison girlfriend Mary Werbelow dead at 79

    July 2, 2024 0
  • Why Your Vote is Meaningless

    July 1, 2024 0
  • The Biden

    June 14, 2024 0
  • The Hyena & The Lizard (The Fight for Domineering Freedom)

    June 11, 2024 0
  • The Pets: On the Furniture

    June 8, 2024 0
  • Drug Run: Chapter 15 – Love Light

    June 5, 2024 0
  • Beyonce’s COWBOY CARTER: Racism vs Authenticity

    May 25, 2024 0
  • Award-winning literature from GT contributing editor Karene Horst and Flying Trees Publishing

    April 2, 2024 0
  • Gonzo Today: Still Standing Tall

    February 29, 2024 0

Hunter S. Thompson 1937-2005

Art
  • ART | How to paint like Ralph STEADman

    September 19, 2017 0
  • The Great Red Shark by Joey Feldman

    July 7, 2017 0
  • “People’s Fears” by Joey Feldman

    November 15, 2016 0

SUBSCRIBE TO GONZOTODAY.COM

Shorts
  • My Encounter with Hunter

    December 21, 2017 0
  • Drug Run | Chapters 1-10

    November 15, 2017 0
  • God’s Grace: An Abortion Story

    September 2, 2015 0
Music
  • Celebrating a Half Century of the Music of Frank Zappa

    June 5, 2017 0
  • Album Review: The Damn Truth’s Devilish Folk

    April 10, 2017 0
  • The Doors First Album and Mary Werbelow: 50 Years on

    December 30, 2016 0
The GonzoToday Interview
  • An Interview with Heathcote Williams

    July 7, 2017 0
  • A Quick Talk with Benicio Del Toro

    April 22, 2016 0
  • CIA Whistleblower John C. Kiriakou: the Gonzo Today Interview

    April 2, 2015 0

Copyright © 2025 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes

 

Loading Comments...
 

You must be logged in to post a comment.