Kris Kristofferson: C/D?

a texas friend quoted KK saying "Garth Brooks did for country music what pantyhose did for finger fuckin'."

haha

lol

great line in the sabre and the rose "when stagger lee had drunk his fill of moonlight / he turned his burning eyes upon my soul"

http://youtu.be/HaalvZ5S4Aw

this weird thing happened last night
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1174611_10201727473052288_1320997475_n.jpg
l-r: kris, me, lyle lovett

okay wow!

Details!

i'm kind of distantly related to kris and he and his wife were ridiculously nice/accommodating. lyle was dropping in to discuss their duet during his set. lyle seems like mayyyybe the nicest dude in the world.

omg!! wow.

are you meeting in a mine shaft or

ha, that's just the subterranean backstage of red rocks (http://redrocksonline.com)

everything about that is awesome, lucky you!!

such a great pic.

Too bad they hadn't been sharing stories about the women in their lives at that particular moment.

that rules!

best part was kris telling me about being a helicopter pilot in the gulf of mexico

i may or may not have offered to help him write his memoirs. he said he hasn't done it yet because he sits down to start writing, but then decides he would rather be watching a football game.

Kris otm

Kris Kristofferson...pilot...Gulf of Mexico...what was he transporting?

i think he was flying people back and forth out to oil rigs. he was also a pilot in the air force for a while. and was a rhodes scholar. dude had kind of an interesting life even before he became famous, really.

yeah that helicopter pilot/military stuff has cropped up in interviews I've read with him

amazing pic btw!!

also got to talk to him a bit about mickey newbury!

oooh, what he say about mickey?

"lyle seems like mayyyybe the nicest dude in the world"

lyle love it

(Kristofferson) achieved some success as a performer himself, following Johnny Cash's introduction of Kristofferson at the Newport Folk Festival. Kristofferson had previously grabbed Cash's attention when he landed his helicopter in Cash's yard without prior arrangement and gave him some tapes

oooh, what he say about mickey?
he seemed super excited -- said that he was his best friend, mentor and pretty much "the guy I wanted to be." when kris got fired from his pilot job, mickey was like "great! come back to nashville and pitch songs to the johnny cash show." so they hung out in one of the local hotels where guests for the show stayed and just played songs for whoever. kris also said he thought mickey could've been huge if he just went out and played live but for whatever reason he never liked it. said that his favorite thing was to "play a song and then pass the guitar to someone else." i mentioned "she even woke me up to say goodbye" as one of my favorites and KK pretty much shouted "SHE EVEN WOKE ME UP TO SAY GOODBYE! Can you believe that title!?"

ha! awesome.

she even woke me up to say goodbye, the bitch

If I could have been anybody during the '70s, I think I might have chosen him. (I mean, except for myself, of course.) He was definitively a 1970-71 guy, and he got to stay a 1970-71 guy for the whole decade and become more successful and more famous along the way.

I just noticed his RS cover with Rita Coolidge has an American version (with beard) and a British version without:

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/kris-1_zpsa65a2de1.jpg http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/kris-2_zps41ca728c.jpg

The headline changes on the Sex Pistols, too.

my first association with him will always be:

http://www.moviespad.com/photos/kris-kristofferson-convoy-0cef0.jpg

well that's pretty amazin'

it's unbelievable

Awesome

Sad, but he seems to be taking it in stride, and can still perform:

http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/01/26/kris-kristoffersons-memory-loss-worsens-but-his-sense-of-humor-is-great

Sorry to hear.

He frequently pops up in bios of the prior generation of musicians- Arthur Alexander, Charlie Louvin, Johnny Cash- and I am always touched by the respect he accorded these guys. The epitome of a gentleman and a scholar.

Also, wow at those RS covers.

Jerrod Niemann sings on his newest album that he, himself, is “no Shakespeare or Kris Kristofferson.”

The half assed hanging on to the words on the exhalations on "nobody wins" my god

<3

yea he's a pro

deserves more

like most dorks I fuck w those first two albums but these two from the notably less impressive Border Lord are so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exDp_PxLcCI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI0sfsunaL4

I went to see Dwight Yoakam Friday night and sat by a very intoxicated older lady who was telling me all about this Outlaw Country cruise she went on and how great it was. She said "Kris Kristofferson was there too! He died shortly after the cruise so I feel so blessed to have seen him." I looked at my wife and was like, should I tell her?

lol

He did legit retire shortly after a cruise, so she's probably just conflating/inflating. I saw him at Bonnaroo in 2010, and he was pretty ragged and rugged but he always was to some degree. It was a weird set, like 1 p.m. on a hot day, so we were all crowded in under the tent out of the sun, and the sound wasn't great because it was mostly just him and his guitar and it didn't carry well. Still! It was great. Found this clip from it, it has "Nobody Wins" and "From the Bottle to the Bottom."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_XJs50oc3M

There's this whole odd mid-90s concert of Kris Kristofferson and Lou Reed swapping songs (with Victoria Williams showing up for "Strawman" too):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxpTBYMG1-M

dying's just another word for nothin' left to lose

rip legend

sunday morning comin' down

I’ll get along

tried to post a link but SESAC dispute with YouTube meant YouTube blocked it. It was Gladys Knight & the Pips' cover of "Help Me Make It Through The Night."

The half assed hanging on to the words on the exhalations on "nobody wins" my god

― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Friday, February 9, 2018 2:50 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

simply one of the best songs ever

From the rocking of the cradle to the rolling of the hearse, the going up was worth the coming down.

Scorsese tells a story when they working on Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. He was dissatisfied with the ending, which was Alice moves in with Kristofferson's character at his ranch, and when he asked him about that Kris went "well fuck the ranch! she doesn't have to stay with him, he can go with her".

Nice remembrance from a friend who runs the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville:

In 2006, a little more than a year after the Theatre reopened after its massive renovation, Kris Kristofferson was booked to play. It was sold out. I got a phone call from a woman whose octogenarian mother, ill with cancer and entering hospice soon, wanted to meet him. "It would fulfill a lifelong dream," she told me. So I told her what I still tell people today: it is very unlikely for an artist to meet a random member of the public, but I will ask the tour manager. I told her not to get her hopes up.

This time, the answer was yes. The woman and her three adult children would be allowed to come backstage about 45 minutes before the show and wait in a room, where he would come to meet them. They showed up on time, their mother in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank, and we maneuvered through the lobby crowds and downstairs to the room.

In walked Mr. Kristofferson, lean and dressed ready to go on stage, with his wife Lisa. I expected a perfunctory visit: a handshake, a photo, autographing the worn album cover the old woman brought, and then heading back to his dressing room. Instead, he pulled up a chair, sat next to the frail woman, held her hand as she talked to him. Her three kids and I stood nearby, tears in our eyes as we watched this superstar shrink his world down to the eyes of her, his own eyes sparkling with kindness as he listened to her say things he'd heard for decades. He received it all as if it were the very first time.

Eventually, after about 20-30 minutes, his wife Lisa reminded him gently that he had to get on stage. He unfolded his striking frame, said thank you to all of us, and strode out of the room. He had made a lifelong memory for all of us.

Rest in Peace, Kris Kristofferson.

Jon Langford posted this performance of Kris in Wales:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7rAB-ES0PU

We don't talk much about his film roles. I dug him opposite Divine in Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind.

i love how Huston used "help me make it through the night" in "Fat City"

He's a real bastard in "Lone Star."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-aDHbBWfMQ

Nice.

Isaac Hayes did a nice cover of "For the Good Times" too