RIP Kris Kristofferson

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Oh noes . . ! All of my favorite peeps are moving on. He was a Rhodes scholar if I am remembering correctly
RIP Kris Kristofferson.
I has a major sad now.


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BillyL said:
Oh noes . . ! All of my favorite peeps are moving on. He was a Rhodes scholar if I am remembering correctly
RIP Kris Kristofferson.
I has a major sad now.
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A Rhodes scholar and a US Army helicopter pilot stationed in Kaiserslauten. Before my time, but if rumors are to be believed, did not associate much with GI's during his tour of duty in Germany, but preferred to hang-out with German nationals in his free time.
 
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Can you blame him?

A lot more frauleins in the German population than in the US Military.
 
Willie Nelson is the last remaining Highwayman. I would not have guessed that. Pills and booze will get you before pot.
 
Yeah, Five and a half years ago when I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer of the larynx, I was a little surprised that they thought it was the daily whiskey drinking and not the 45+ years of smoking pot. They said that had never found that to have been a factor. Drinking is third, behind tobacco and HPV.
 
Damn!! As a child of the 70s at the height of the trucker/CB craze, this was my introduction to Kris Kristofferson as Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald.



As I got older I fell in love with his music and marvelous songwriting abilities.

Not one of his songs here but appropriate nonetheless

"I fly a starship
Across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
I'll be back again and again and again and again and again and again....."

RIP to another legend.
 
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Was gonna post this...such a great song. Cool story, too:

As is well known, the song is about “coming down” on a Sunday morning after being stoned on Saturday night, which follows Kristofferson’s broader career trend of grappling with what happens after the fun is over. However, a less famous aspect of the song is that Kristofferson wrote it whilst living in a dilapidated tenement in Nashville, Tennesse, when working as a janitor for Columbia Records.

Symbolising the kind of meandering life Kristofferson has led, his job as a janitor came after achieving a master’s degree at Oxford University and rising to captain in the US Army. Wanting to be a songwriter as his profession, he turned down the role of a professor at the US Military Academy at West Point. Instead, he took the job cleaning Columbia’s offices while waiting for his big break.

There’s a bizarre tale surrounding Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and ‘Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down’. Kristofferson learned to fly planes in the military and allegedly flew his National Guard helicopter onto the Cash’s front garden to personally deliver the demo tape. The most common angle of the story is that this is the first time the pair had ever met, but in actuality, they’d known each other since 1965.

Clarifying the situation, Kristofferson told the San Luis Obispo Tribune in 2008: “I knew John before then. I’d been his janitor at the recording studio, and I’d pitched him every song I ever wrote, so he knew who I was. But it was still kind of an invasion of privacy that I wouldn’t recommend. To be honest, I don’t think he was there. He had a whole story about me getting out of the helicopter with a tape in one hand and a beer in the other.”

He continued: “John had a pretty creative memory but I would never have disputed his version of what happened because he was so responsible for any success I had as a songwriter and performer. He put me on the stage the first time I ever was, during a performance at the Newport Folk Festival.”

faroutmagazine.co.uk

The song Kris Kristofferson wrote while working as a janitor

Kris Kristofferson has lived a life of epic proportions, which includes penning a classic track when he was working as a janitor.
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“I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I’ve argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I’ve been a radical for a long time. I guess it’s too bad. I’d be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.”

R.I.P. Kris Kristopherson.
 
finesse said:
Yeah, Five and a half years ago when I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer of the larynx, I was a little surprised that they thought it was the daily whiskey drinking and not the 45+ years of smoking pot. They said that had never found that to have been a factor. Drinking is third, behind tobacco and HPV.
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Is your cancer in remission?
 
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Is your cancer in remission?
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Has been since the treatment ended. Mid January will be my five years. That's considered cured. Coming out of it in better shape that I was in a couple of years before diagnosis. About the only issues are a bit of a stiff neck from radiation damage and one vocal chord that was frozen by the combination of cancer and radiation. I can't talk loud and sound like I'm gargling gravel but that's pretty small change all things considered.
 
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