Me and Bobby McGee, his version, is my all time favorite song. I wrote song lyrics for about a decade, and he was one of the guys I admired most. Redneck/Rhodes Scholar in English. Sunday Morning Coming Down, Loving Her Was Easier, Help Me Make It Through The Night, For The Good Times, The Silver Tongued Devil. Incredible talent. I'll miss you, Kris. 88 years was a life well lived. RIP
Concert at Madison Square Garden back in 1992. He said a few heartfelt words in his introduction of the late Sinead O'Connor and I just have to say she made a real botch of it. She just stood there silently while Booker T gave her an organ intro to come in on. But she wouldn't do it. Booker T tried again... same result. Finally, Kris Kristofferson walked back out on the stage to whisper a few words of encouragement. Nope. She wouldn't have it. She finally belted out an off tone / monotone protest verse that fell flat on its face. She was devastated and finally Kris Kristofferson comes back out on the stage and hugs her and helps to escort her out of a mortifying situation.
I invite BBIers to peruse Kris Krisofferson's bio. You'll be amazed. He was a very unique individual you don't often find, especially in the field of entertainment. And if there is a heaven, a lot of people will be waiting there to extend him a hand. RIP Kris Krisofferson.
RE: I still have a vivid image of him at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary
Concert at Madison Square Garden back in 1992. He said a few heartfelt words in his introduction of the late Sinead O'Connor and I just have to say she made a real botch of it. She just stood there silently while Booker T gave her an organ intro to come in on. But she wouldn't do it. Booker T tried again... same result. Finally, Kris Kristofferson walked back out on the stage to whisper a few words of encouragement. Nope. She wouldn't have it. She finally belted out an off tone / monotone protest verse that fell flat on its face. She was devastated and finally Kris Kristofferson comes back out on the stage and hugs her and helps to escort her out of a mortifying situation.
I invite BBIers to peruse Kris Krisofferson's bio. You'll be amazed. He was a very unique individual you don't often find, especially in the field of entertainment. And if there is a heaven, a lot of people will be waiting there to extend him a hand. RIP Kris Krisofferson.
yes to all you said. He was unique.
RE: I still have a vivid image of him at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary
Concert at Madison Square Garden back in 1992. He said a few heartfelt words in his introduction of the late Sinead O'Connor and I just have to say she made a real botch of it. She just stood there silently while Booker T gave her an organ intro to come in on. But she wouldn't do it. Booker T tried again... same result. Finally, Kris Kristofferson walked back out on the stage to whisper a few words of encouragement. Nope. She wouldn't have it. She finally belted out an off tone / monotone protest verse that fell flat on its face. She was devastated and finally Kris Kristofferson comes back out on the stage and hugs her and helps to escort her out of a mortifying situation.
There's another part to the story. The MSG event was two weeks after Sinead's SNL appearance and her protest against the Catholic Church. There was noticeably loud booing when she appeared on the MSG stage and her conduct was in response.
Ironic that an artist's act of protest would engender that treatment at a Bob Dylan event.
KK wrote a song about the incident and there is a youtube video that plays the song over it. KK and SOC developed a lasting relationship.
but the planet and the people on it lost a great one today. Football related, Semi Tough. If you haven't seen it, watch it. Only one Highwaymen left now. RIP. Semi-Tough Official Trailer - ( New Window )
Carly Simon opened for him. Man, those were the days. Anybody who has never been, the place held like 200 people at the time. Incredible place to see top talent up close.
RIP.
I recall the SNL controversy and definitely the boos at the concert for Bob Dylan. But my recollection is that there was also a good deal of applause and I've always been under the impression that had she just forged ahead over the noise everything would have settled down. But that is just conjecture on my part.
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[quote] but the planet and the people on it lost a great one today. Football related, Semi Tough. If you haven't seen it, watch it. Only one Highwaymen left now. RIP. Semi-Tough Official Trailer - ( New Window ) [/quote
I second the Semi-Tough recommendation. He and Burt Reynolds and Jill Clayburgh were great in it. Plus it was written by Dan Jenkins, so it has to be good. I haven't watched it in years. It might be time to fix that.
I was always a fan of the songs he wrote, but other singers were always singing them and making hits out of them that for years I never knew what his voice sounded like. I was a late arriver to the Highwaymen music, but am glad I eventually got there.
RIP Kris. Thanks for your music and movies.
I recall the SNL controversy and definitely the boos at the concert for Bob Dylan. But my recollection is that there was also a good deal of applause and I've always been under the impression that had she just forged ahead over the noise everything would have settled down. But that is just conjecture on my part.
I agree with all of that. The sound of booing carries much more than applause, so it only takes a minority of people to make a majority of the ambient sound.
But it wasn't in SOC's nature to just pass it off. And KK redeemed the situation as best he could, admirably so.
actor. Had some great parts in good movies. Was not a great fan of his music, but even there he was talented.
Rest In Peace.
As far as SOC - if you want to make a controversial stand you had better have the guts to endure the push back. And that push back was as harsh as her criticism. Talented lady that I think was destroyed by that. Tortured soul to the end.
Me and Bobby McGee, his version, is my all time favorite song. I wrote song lyrics for about a decade, and he was one of the guys I admired most. Redneck/Rhodes Scholar in English. Sunday Morning Coming Down, Loving Her Was Easier, Help Me Make It Through The Night, For The Good Times, The Silver Tongued Devil. Incredible talent. I'll miss you, Kris. 88 years was a life well lived. RIP
as a 21-year-old college student at Pomona (3/31/1958):
"This dashing young man in the Rugby outfit plays standoff on the team at Pomona College in California, where he is a senior. But this is only a small facet of 21-year-old Kris Kristofferson's amazing record. He is also starting left end on the varsity football team, a Golden Gloves boxer, sports editor of the college paper, outstanding cadet in the ROTC battalion of which he is cadet commander. As an English major he is an honor student and member of the four-man senior honor society on campus. Kris won four of the top 20 awards recently given in a creative writing contest for college students. He composes folk songs which he sings to his own guitar accompaniment. And to crown this varied list of accomplishments Kris is a Rhodes scholar-elect, one of 32 young Americans chosen to go to Oxford this fall. As the eldest of three children of Major General and Mrs. Henry Kristofferson, Kris will find travel familiar. The family has done a lot of it keeping up with their airline-executive father (the senior Kristoffersons are in Saudi Arabia, where the general is operations manager for Aramco Airlines), and Kris has lived in Texas, Washington, New York and California. It was in San Mateo that he attended high school and distinguished himself as a distance runner. At Oxford he will study English literature to prepare for a writing career."
Kris was the MC for the ‘Bob Fest’ celebrating Dylan’s 30 years of music (OMG over 30 years ago now!) at MSG. George Harrison, Clapton, Neil Young, Eddie Vetter, Tom Petty, Roger McGuinn, just to name a few. Kris can be heard telling Sinead O’Connor “don’t let the bastards get ya down” when she was booed off the stage because she ripped up the Pope’s photo on SNL.
Except for that spectacle, it was a magical night.
Concert at Madison Square Garden back in 1992. He said a few heartfelt words in his introduction of the late Sinead O'Connor and I just have to say she made a real botch of it. She just stood there silently while Booker T gave her an organ intro to come in on. But she wouldn't do it. Booker T tried again... same result. Finally, Kris Kristofferson walked back out on the stage to whisper a few words of encouragement. Nope. She wouldn't have it. She finally belted out an off tone / monotone protest verse that fell flat on its face. She was devastated and finally Kris Kristofferson comes back out on the stage and hugs her and helps to escort her out of a mortifying situation.
I invite BBIers to peruse Kris Krisofferson's bio. You'll be amazed. He was a very unique individual you don't often find, especially in the field of entertainment. And if there is a heaven, a lot of people will be waiting there to extend him a hand. RIP Kris Krisofferson.
Concert at Madison Square Garden back in 1992. He said a few heartfelt words in his introduction of the late Sinead O'Connor and I just have to say she made a real botch of it. She just stood there silently while Booker T gave her an organ intro to come in on. But she wouldn't do it. Booker T tried again... same result. Finally, Kris Kristofferson walked back out on the stage to whisper a few words of encouragement. Nope. She wouldn't have it. She finally belted out an off tone / monotone protest verse that fell flat on its face. She was devastated and finally Kris Kristofferson comes back out on the stage and hugs her and helps to escort her out of a mortifying situation.
I invite BBIers to peruse Kris Krisofferson's bio. You'll be amazed. He was a very unique individual you don't often find, especially in the field of entertainment. And if there is a heaven, a lot of people will be waiting there to extend him a hand. RIP Kris Krisofferson.
Concert at Madison Square Garden back in 1992. He said a few heartfelt words in his introduction of the late Sinead O'Connor and I just have to say she made a real botch of it. She just stood there silently while Booker T gave her an organ intro to come in on. But she wouldn't do it. Booker T tried again... same result. Finally, Kris Kristofferson walked back out on the stage to whisper a few words of encouragement. Nope. She wouldn't have it. She finally belted out an off tone / monotone protest verse that fell flat on its face. She was devastated and finally Kris Kristofferson comes back out on the stage and hugs her and helps to escort her out of a mortifying situation.
There's another part to the story. The MSG event was two weeks after Sinead's SNL appearance and her protest against the Catholic Church. There was noticeably loud booing when she appeared on the MSG stage and her conduct was in response.
Ironic that an artist's act of protest would engender that treatment at a Bob Dylan event.
KK wrote a song about the incident and there is a youtube video that plays the song over it. KK and SOC developed a lasting relationship.
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Semi-Tough Official Trailer - ( New Window )
RIP.
Very interesting video... thanks for posting.
I recall the SNL controversy and definitely the boos at the concert for Bob Dylan. But my recollection is that there was also a good deal of applause and I've always been under the impression that had she just forged ahead over the noise everything would have settled down. But that is just conjecture on my part.
[quote] but the planet and the people on it lost a great one today. Football related, Semi Tough. If you haven't seen it, watch it. Only one Highwaymen left now. RIP. Semi-Tough Official Trailer - ( New Window ) [/quote
I second the Semi-Tough recommendation. He and Burt Reynolds and Jill Clayburgh were great in it. Plus it was written by Dan Jenkins, so it has to be good. I haven't watched it in years. It might be time to fix that.
I was always a fan of the songs he wrote, but other singers were always singing them and making hits out of them that for years I never knew what his voice sounded like. I was a late arriver to the Highwaymen music, but am glad I eventually got there.
RIP Kris. Thanks for your music and movies.
Very interesting video... thanks for posting.
I recall the SNL controversy and definitely the boos at the concert for Bob Dylan. But my recollection is that there was also a good deal of applause and I've always been under the impression that had she just forged ahead over the noise everything would have settled down. But that is just conjecture on my part.
I agree with all of that. The sound of booing carries much more than applause, so it only takes a minority of people to make a majority of the ambient sound.
But it wasn't in SOC's nature to just pass it off. And KK redeemed the situation as best he could, admirably so.
Rest In Peace.
As far as SOC - if you want to make a controversial stand you had better have the guts to endure the push back. And that push back was as harsh as her criticism. Talented lady that I think was destroyed by that. Tortured soul to the end.
+1
The word "legend" is often applied too casually. Kris Kristofferson was a legend.
Great show, despite his illness.
"This dashing young man in the Rugby outfit plays standoff on the team at Pomona College in California, where he is a senior. But this is only a small facet of 21-year-old Kris Kristofferson's amazing record. He is also starting left end on the varsity football team, a Golden Gloves boxer, sports editor of the college paper, outstanding cadet in the ROTC battalion of which he is cadet commander. As an English major he is an honor student and member of the four-man senior honor society on campus. Kris won four of the top 20 awards recently given in a creative writing contest for college students. He composes folk songs which he sings to his own guitar accompaniment. And to crown this varied list of accomplishments Kris is a Rhodes scholar-elect, one of 32 young Americans chosen to go to Oxford this fall. As the eldest of three children of Major General and Mrs. Henry Kristofferson, Kris will find travel familiar. The family has done a lot of it keeping up with their airline-executive father (the senior Kristoffersons are in Saudi Arabia, where the general is operations manager for Aramco Airlines), and Kris has lived in Texas, Washington, New York and California. It was in San Mateo that he attended high school and distinguished himself as a distance runner. At Oxford he will study English literature to prepare for a writing career."
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Except for that spectacle, it was a magical night.