"(cheering and applause)" " Thank you." "We're gonna do a song now..." "Y'all remember a guy by the name of Guy Terrifico?" "(cheering and applause)" " Guy-y-y-y...!" " I'll take that for a yes." " Terrifico lives!" " Well, I'm not gonna speculate one way or the other on that." "But I will say this:" "Guy, if you're out there, Bubba, you owe me 50 bucks." "(laughter)" "(harmonica playing)" "The moment that you saw him" "You just looked the other way" "The blood within his eye was like a curse" "He had two heavy pistols" "Which were greasied up and ready" "And a face like Bobby Dylan's only worse" "He ordered him a whisky which he drank like he was thirsty" "And ordered him another of the same" "Suddenly the silence of the frozen room was shattered" "By a kid who shot before he called his name" " Sorry, I gotta do it over." "(rewinding sound )" "Ahem." " You perform on the new Guy Terrifico album," ""Retribution Honky Tonkus."" " Yeah." " How did it come to be that you sing a duet with a man who's been dead for 30 years?" " I got a letter." " That said what?" " Bring it back home." " Just said "Bring it back home."" " It said "Bring it back home"" "and a phone number, which turned out to be" "Guy's manager, Phil Kaufman." " I didn't even know what "Bring it back home" meant until I started getting phone calls from all the boys." "And then it became very obvious." " Did you know what it meant?" " Yeah." "It meant "Get your ass in a recording studio and finish this damn record."" " I thought I did." "I got a pretty good idea." " In "Don't that beat all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day he was born" news, we just got word there's gonna be a new record from Canada's own influential" "and intoxicated contribution to the country-music scene," "Mr. Guy Terrifico." " He was an outlaw, he was just a natural-born world-shaker." " He was an angel." " Total fucking a-hole." " Great music, and just a turd of a person." " He was one of the most deeply uncoordinated people" "I've ever met." " Oops!" " And this record's actually gonna bring out a lot of attention." "Not just because it has a bunch of collaborations with some of the biggest stars in country music today or because he's a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, but because the dude has apparently been dead for the last 30 years." " If in fact Guy is dead." " Authorities are searching for the body of this man." " That death has to be considered one of the greatest tragedies in popular music." " I've never been able to sing..." "when I was dead on my feet, let alone really dead, you know." "If he pulls this off, he'll be bigger than Elvis." " Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Mr. Guy-y-y Terrifico!" " Guy!" "Guy!" "Where are you from, Guy?" " Where am I from?" " He said he was born in Kenton, Ohio, in the back of a pickup truck, on the same strip of road where Hank Williams died." "Said his mom was a stripper and, uh, fuckin', uh... fuckin', uh... fuckin' Daddy left him when he was six or seven." "And all he left him was a fuckin' old guitar and an empty bottle of booze." "And I fuckin' believed him." "I felt sorry for him." "That is until I realized he'd lifted the whole fuckin' story from Johnny Cash's "A Boy fuckin' Named Sue."" " Hold on here." "Where do I come from?" "Where do you come from?" "That's the question you should be asking yourself" " Do you have a girlfriend?" " Nah, I heard he was from Nashville and that he killed a guy in a bar fight and he moved up to Canada to escape the long arm of the law." " I thought he was from Austin." " Ah, whatever." "I know he killed a guy." "(gunshot) Just to watch him die." " Yeah." " My daddy was a gambling man." "Spent most of his time in New Orleans." "My momma, God bless her, mad from homemade hootch." " His name was Jim Jablowski." "He was born and raised above a junk shop in Northern Alberta." "Both his parents were Ukrainian immigrants." "Maybe that's what accounts for that thick southern drawl." " He was a good boy." " Bah!" " He was a good..." "Jim was a good boy." " Dickens." "A little dickens!" "And this so-and-so, he gives to him the devil's instrument." " The earliest recordings I've been able to find are from the mid-'50s." "Guy is 13, maybe 14, and there's this tune he wrote called "Perogie Moon."" "Perogie moon" "Shine down on me too  the lady of the Alberta sky" " And I mean, you know, he's this Ukrainian kid from Northern Alberta, but boy, has it got soul!" "(guitar music)" " Yeah, on his 14th birthday, I give him guitar that I buy from Sears because he worked so hard in the shop!" " Mm-hmm!" "And it was through the guitar that the devil was able to sneak into his body and turn him into this Damien, this Terrifico." "This is not my son." " Guy ran away from home shortly after writing those first songs." "He's about 15." "Hoboed all over the United States." "He was checking out blues down in Austin, bluegrass music in Kentucky, chicken-scratch in Phoenix, zydeco in Southwest Louisiana." "He was just soaking it up like a sponge." "But he ended up in New York City." "And I think that Guy was really modeling himself on Bob Dylan." "He was playing folk music." "Not so different than what we hear later, but much more on the folk tip." "Eventually he headed back to Canada, settled back into Vancouver and decided it was time to form a band." " When I first met him, he was about 20 years old and had been in Vancouver for a couple of years." "And, uh, he was trying to break into the business." "He was doing odd jobs around town, just trying to stay alive." " This is a very prolific time for Guy as a songwriter." "I mean, everything was on." "He'd met the love of his life, his June Carter Cash." " I was dancing at a club on Hastings then and Guy was running a hot-dog stand on the corner." "It was sort a... a meeting place, once the bars let out." "It must've been the busiest hot-dog stand in the city." "Even then, everybody wanted to be around him." "I would get off from my job at the club and then I would wait until Guy had sold all his hot-dogs." "And then we'd push his cart home." "We moved in together in this little apartment on Cordova and we had a little Jack Russell named Hank." "Uh... we had this big, old bathtub with legs." "I guess that we were poor... but I dunno, it seemed like we were richer." "You know?" "We were always... laughing, and singing music." " The apartment Guy and Mary Lou had, it was like this hub the centre, the nexus point, of the Vancouver singer-songwriters' scene at that particular moment." "(singing softly)" " There'd be a lot of people dropping by, and when they weren't around, then Guy and me would work together on his songs." "Or we'd, uh, take baths together in that big, old tub." "He said I had a voice like June Carter Cash." "I don 't think that I had ever been as happy as that in my whole entire life." "That was before we met Phil and got all the money and Barrio's." "I don't think I've ever seen Guy as happy as that neither." "Yeah." "God, it was nice back then." "This Alberta son" "Should go down In a blaze of glory" "Know down deep inside your heart my darling" "I will rise again" "This Alberta son" "Should go down in a blaze of glory" "Know down deep inside your heart my darling" "I will rise again" " I discovered him at a little local honky-tonk." "He had a little band, called Jim Jablowski and the Cabbage Roll Boys." "This kid jumps onstage and starts singing these songs." "There's something familiar about it, but it's something incredibly fresh." "It was like..." "like..." "I can't explain it, but I did know one thing:" "this kid had I-T, "it. "" "So I more or less just signed him there on the spot." "And a couple of weeks later, we're in the studio, cutting tracks." "Obviously, it was Guy's first time recording, so that made it interesting." "And it was the '70s, and recording sessions in the '70s meant you had a little madness, a little misbehaving, a little hankus-pankus." "It was all par for the course." " Where the hell's that guitar polish?" "Has anyone seen the guitar polish?" "Did I ever tell you how Waylon does it in the studio?" "Big mountain of cocaine on the table." "Beside that, big bottle of whisky;" "beside that, a loaded gun." "Everyone's sitting around just like this, having a good ol' time and, uh" " What're you doing?" " Polishing my guitar." " You're using my deodorant." " No, I'm not." "(laughter)" "Yes, I am." "(laughter)" " What happened?" " Did you miss that?" "I just polished my guitar with deodorant." "I didn't even know he used deodorant." " No!" "I mean what happened with Waylon and the coke" " Oh, yeah, Waylon." "Okay, check this out." "Waylon and the boys would snort up the mountain of cocaine, polish off that bottle of Beam and when the only thing left was the loaded gun," "Waylon would turn to the boys and say: "No mistakes, man." "No mistakes." (laughter)" " If you make me go get my gun, Jimmy, I'll be forced to use it." " You're not going anywhere, man." "You're gonna sit back there, press the buttons, let's record the album." "I hope you sound as pretty as you smell!" "(sniffing) Ooh." "All right, no mistakes." "No mistakes." "No mistakes." " Whenever you're ready." "It's worth a song" "The way the door slammed" "When you left me" "Way back then" "The way you begged me" "To take you back again" "It's worth a song" "Don 't deny it Because" "(clunk!" ")" " We were so much younger then." "Oh-ho-ho, shit." "I'd only been in the business five or six years then." "I guess you could say I didn't truly appreciate what it meant to manage and produce someone like Terrifico." "That it meant managing not only his music, but his life." " That was a big ol' mistake!" " The two were inseparable." "And, uh, Guy had some problems." "Or some tendencies that could lead to problems." " Every week when we were cutting that first album," "Guy would buy his lotto ticket." "And every time he did, he'd use Dolly Parton's measurements as his lucky numbers." "When I'd kid him, I'd say, "You still paying that Idiot Tax guy?"" "We'd kid each other like that all the time." "But one week - wouldn't you just know it?" " he hits the biggest jackpot in history." " Is there anything you'd like to say to our home viewers?" " Hell yeah." "I'd like to say to all the kids out there," "I wanna say, uh, you know, uh, learn an instrument." "And, uh, listen to your momma and don't take no shit from nobody." " I remember when he told me I just couldn't believe it." "Eight-million dollars!" " The recording sessions completely fell apart." "Guy got his first cheque and threw a party that he could argue lasted nearly the rest of his life." "But that inaugural party lasted a week." "He rented the entire second floor of the Mandrake Hotel, right there over the bar." " He bought me all sorts of dresses and this ring." "And, uh... we got Hank his own rhinestone suit." "I mean, he bought everything!" "It was like we were real millionaires." "(whooping and hollering)" "What do you do with $8 million?" " Guy bought thousands of pills." "He got uppers, downers, painkillers, ounces of coke, a lot of weed." " I guess..." "I guess you buy rhinestone suits for your dog." " No kidding, man, there was whores on top of horses, riding through the hallways of the hotel." "It was craziness." "I mean, it really got rude." " I don't remember who brought the midgets to the party, but at one time, there was a whole gaggle of 'em." "They stayed for a couple of hours, but then they left in a hurry when Guy wanted 'em to walk around with ashtrays tied to their little heads." "(laughing ) Man, they were gone." "They split." "All of them except Reggie." "That little guy never knew when to walk away." " I partied with every rock star, man." "I was with, uh, Jimi," "New Year's at the Fillmore." "I was with Keith Moon." "Uh, Ringo Starr," "Ricardo Montalban," "Freddie Mercury, and-- [beeped out]" "I was with him for a long time." "That was intense." "Usually I'd just go to the shows, get to know the roadies, and eventually kinda, you know, ingratiate myself to them and if I made a good impression, they would pass me on to, uh... to the stars." "Or the sound guys." "And they'd pass me on to the stars." "Or the manager." " Guy hired Reggie to document his so-called life." "And also, I think, it's a weird status symbol." "And Reggie had what my momma would call "an unnatural affection" for Guy." "And I'll sing it before you go" "And say so long" "If our love ain't worth a damn..." " The lottery solved a lot of problems." "Like..." "like with the drugs, for instance." "When we were poor, it was, uh... well, it was a real struggle to afford them." "But after the lottery, it wasn't a problem at all." "It was like this whole other world I didn't know existed!" "And Guy was the best tour guide a girl could have." "All these..." "these pretty little pills." "You know, a lot of people say that you can't make love when you're on pills." "Only that's not true." "Not all the time, anyway." "Have you ever done it on Dexatrim?" " No, I haven't." " Wow!" "(laughing )" "Yeah..." "Yeah, we made love quite a lot back then." "God, Guy was... just really good, too, you know?" "Make sure you put that in your film, okay?" "That Guy was really good in bed." "Because he was." "He was really sweet and..." "and gentle in bed." " The lottery money did nothing but hurt Guy." " In what sense?" " In every sense." "In a musical sense, he lost that hunger." "In the physical sense, if you don't have the money to rent horses when you throw a big party, you're not gonna run the risk of getting kicked in the brain." " I don't think Guy slept that whole first week of being a millionaire." "It wasn't until he got kicked in the head by one of those rental horses that he finally got some rest." " He was out two days and, you know, I was really worried about him, 'cause I saw that horse kick the shit out of him." "I mean, he really got brained." "But when he started finally coming around, and me and Mary Lou and some of the boys were standing around," "I said, "Jimmy, are you alive, Jimmy?"" "He looks at me with this crazy look in his eyes and he says" " in a southern drawl - "I ain't Jimmy." "I'm Guy Terrifico."" " Guy's just got kicked in the head by a horse and he's coming down from every known drug to man." "You don't wanna argue with him." "If he says his name is Guy Terrifico, he's Guy Terrifico." "Hello, Guy." " And so he insisted we go - like, right now - and change his name legally." "So we're carrying Guy down through the hotel lobby..." " The manager walks up and hands me Guy's bar tab." " And it's $100,000." " $250,000?" " A hundred grand." " I said, "Why, for $250,000 he could buy this fucking dump."" " That's a lot of rhine coats, baby." " And the guy says to me," ""The way that guy parties, it might not be a bad idea."" "And Guy gives me that look, and I just know from that look the decision's been made." "And next week," "Jimmy Jablowski was Guy Terrifico and Guy Terrifico was the new owner of Barrio Terrifico, his very own honky-tonk, right in the middle of downtown." " Guy opened his club, Barrio Terrifico, not so much because of his unusual drinking habits, although those were legendary, but he couldn't just invite" "Waylon Jennings and the Flying Burrito Brothers back to his rumpus room to play songs and party with him." "That's what Guy really wanted." "The club was an excuse." "Barrio Terrifico was a chance for Guy to hang out with his heroes, to hang out with these great singer-songwriters, who as far as he was concerned were really into the same thing that he was:" "great, progressive country music." " Well, I played his bar, and they paid me, and, uh... you know, some people bought me a drink." "They said Guy bought me a drink." "And then, uh..." "Then we would..." "Freddy and I was taken into what they call "the green room"" "and we were introduced to somebody that was comatose." "I mean, somebody was passed out." "And, they said that was Guy." "And.. and..." "What did you think, Freddy?" " He looked dead to me." " Barrio Terrifico's was..." "What can I say that's not self-incriminating?" "I was 15 when I started playing there." "It was short and sweet." "But when it was alive and kicking, it was the best gig around." "(cheering) It paid more than other gigs." "The rider was anything and everything you'd want." "It was dangerous, man." "The thing I remember most about it, was how great Guy would treat the bands." "As soon as you'd get there for soundcheck," "Terrifico would start plying you with drinks, whatever else he had kicking around." "And he always had something kicking around." "(cheering )" "By the time he'd get ready to play, a lot of the bands would be too messed up to play." "Normally, this would be a bar owner's nightmare, but for Terrifico, it was like a dream come true." "Guy just wanted to hang out with musicians, that's all." "(whistling and shouting )" " You know, in this time period," "Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers were doing this really new thing they're fusing country and rock." "And of course Dylan's been doing that a little bit." "And you start to get straight country artists like Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, they're starting to move in that direction as well." "Problem is, these country artists are too country for the rock bars and the rock guys are too rock'n'roll for the country bars!" "So where are these people gonna play?" "Barrio Terrifico in Canada, Armadillo World Hdqs down in Austin, these were the havens for these new " "I dunno, you can call 'em musical revolutionaries." " By this time, I'd resigned myself to the fact that the album would never be finished." "Guy had achieved rock-star status without ever being a rock star." "He had essentially bought the title." "And when he started hanging out with the Stones," "I thought, Well, this is it, his musical career is dead." "My star had supernovaed in the biggest way." " The Stones came to town." "They played two nights." "And both nights, they came to the Barrio after the show." " Keith and Mick... were really influenced by the sorts of things Guy was doing." "They got it." "They understood that he was a genius, that he was doing things that Dylan had done, but he could do it without leaving country out of the equation." "And it got them interested for a brief little while." "I don't really think the Stones affected country music so much as country music" " and Guy Terrifico was a big part of it - affected the Rolling Stones." "She said a gambling man don't make no husband" "And a house of cards won't keep out the rain" " We were playing the Devil's Bedposts." " The Devil's Bedposts?" " Yeah, this five-card stud with the black fours wild." "And the black fours are the Devil's Bedposts." "But, you know, it also refers to taking uppers and downers at the same time, kinda throwing your body back and forth against the Devil's Bedposts." "That night, uh, Guy was taking Thorazine and cocaine and he'd lost a fair chunk of change." "But it wasn't he's a bad poker player, he was just too screwed up to play." "Well, I watched him snort up this line." "It was a big line, too." "And his head flew back" "like he was just really getting into that first big rush." "Well, his head keep going back and back, until he finally just fell off the chair and he hit the ground real hard and he just laid there." " His eyes were open..." "but he wasn't moving at all." " Well, one of the guys, he came running over and checks Guy's pulse and he says, "He's not breathing."" " "He's not breathing."" "When I heard that, what was I supposed to think?" "You're not breathing, you're dead, right?" " Guy shoots upright and kinda looks around, and he's confused 'cause we're all staring at him." "He gets up and walks over to the table and says,"Can any of you suckers beat five aces?"" "Turns his cards over, I shit you not, the sonofabitch is holding three aces and two black fours." "That's the Devil's Bedposts." " You know, when I get calls and letters from conspiracy freaks and journalists like you, I... asking me if I think the way that Guy died was suspicious," "I just tell them, "It's not the way Guy died that was suspicious, it's the way Guy lived that was suspicious." "Look how he treated his body." " Ah, crap." " He cheated death on a daily basis." " Yeah!" " You know, you can only run from death for so long before it finally catches up with you and bites you on the ass." " That night, he beat the devil." "Either that, or it was one hell of a bluff." " He died and rose again." " Well, God protects fools and songwriters." " What else would you call it?" " Es un milagro." " It's a miracle." " Mary Lou's going on all about this being a miracle and whatnot." "And old Guy, in his fragile condition, he's going for it, he's buying it." "And he goes and visits this preacher man who tells him all about St. Paul getting kicked off his horse on the road to Damascus." "And now I got St. Terrifico on my hands." "He's decided the whole album's gonna be gospel." "So he starts writing his own sacred music." " We're gonna do a little prayer here, if that's all right." "Dear Lord... we'd like to ask for your assistance and guidance in nailing this gospel tune." "We'd like to ask for special guidance... for Wheeler Rowley." "'Cause if he fucks up that bridge one more time... forgive me, Lord, I'm going to have to kick his ass." "(stifled laughter)" "Amen." "All right, let's red-light this motherfucker." "I sought Jesus all my life" "All I found me was a big fat wife" "Kids so gosh darn ugly, make an onion cry" "But I just grin and bear it" "While the Good Lord lets me have it" "I got a 40 ounces of heaven behind the bar" " We went to church and everything." "Guy was even gonna join the choir." " How long did it last?" " Um..." "Sorry, what?" "... just grin and bear it" "While the Good Lord lets me have it" "I got a 40 ounces of heaven behind the bar" " How long did his Christian period last?" " Oh, uh..." "Well, I think we went to church twice." "So it was maybe three, or two weeks." "Guy was very devout." "He wouldn't have missed church while he was a Christian, so for sure it was two weeks." "(banjo music)" "It was definitely two weeks, because it was the second time we went that they did Communion." "Well, Guy ate the little piece of bread and then he jumps up and he starts waving his arms all over and yabbering away." "And this little old lady sitting beside us, she thinks that he's talking in tongues, so she gets up and starts interpreting for him." "No I ain't drunk and talking in tongues" "No I ain't high I just stutter" "Well, it turns out that Guy had the little piece of bread lodged in his windpipe." "That was pretty much the end of it." " Well, I think it was a case of "Oh, Lord, save me!" "But not right now, 'cause I'm having too much fun being a sinner."" "Well, let me tell you something." "He was a good little church worker there for a while, and that's a hell of a lot more than I can say for most people." " When we went back to recording the album," "Guy was more disciplined." "He smoked four, five packs a day, popped a few pills;" "he'd have a drink in his hand, maybe just a beer." "Music was definitely the priority when we started recording again after the lottery." "It's worth a song" "For the days" "We could not bear to be apart" "When I could see" "Into your ever-loving heart" "It's worth a song" "And I'll sing it" "Before you go and say so long" "'Cause if our love ain't worth a damn" "At least it's worth a song" " The first record was the one that made me think that you didn't have to have a voice like George Jones to be able to make a country lyric break your heart." " It's sort of like Dylan that way." " Yeah." " It just works, you know, and the songs are so good that he gets away with it." "... ain't worth a damn" "If our love ain't worth a damn" "It's worth a song" " Well, I sent some demo tapes to a booking agent down in Nashville and in the demo tapes" "I included several songs that we had finished - all really nice gospel songs." "Didn 't expect to hear much back on it, but sure enough, we got a call from the Horton Family Jamboree, a really family-oriented show that went out weekly live to TV and radio to a couple of hundred-thousand people," "mostly blue-haired." "(applause)" "They never knew what they were getting into." " And may God bless each and every one of you." "Let's have a round of applause for baby brother Farley." "(applause)" "It's his first time with us here on the Horton Family Jamboree." "Tell the folks how old you are, baby brother Farley." "(audience):" "Ahhh..." " Now, for all our friends listening live on the radio, Farley is" " I'm only six!" " The Nashville trip was doomed to be a success." "Everything about it was wrong from the get-go." " Now, our last act this evening is a new talent." "And he's come all the way from Canada to be with us here tonight!" "Ladies and gentlemen, let's give a warm Jamboree welcome to Mr. Guy Terrifico and his band!" " Even if Guy had been sober when he played that show, it would've been a disaster." "And he wasn't sober, he was deranged." "After the physical and psychological beatings he had taken," "Guy should never have been on that stage." " He tried so hard to be good and sober." " Hey, fellas, buckeroos..." "How ya doing?" " But the sobriety, mixed with the pressure, is a horrible combination." " You wouldn't believe the night I've had." " He was excited and scared all at the same time." "He was like a little boy." " He didn't even have a liquor drink until that incident at Haggard's hotel room." "And, you know, that really shook him to the core, man." " So I get us invited to a party up at ol' Merle Haggard's hotel room, and we get there, there's 10, 12 people hanging around, the straphangers, and Guy kinda sashays up to Merle and says:" " "Hiya, Merle." Uh..." "Kept saying, "Hey, hi, buddy."" "And put his arm around me and this and that." ""Good to see ya" and all that." "I just stared at this guy." "I said:" " "Who the fuck are you?" Guy says, "It's me, Guy Terrifico." "We met in my bar a couple of months ago."" " I remember you." "It's not that." "It's... it's, uh, it's this other thing." "I don't remember when we became, uh, you know, buddies or anything like that." "That's another issue."" " There's this awful, awkward, deafening silence, except maybe a few giggles by Merle's entourage." "Poor Guy, he's just..." "he's just trying to hold it together." " He starts talking about this show he's doing in town somewhere and maybe I should come check it out." "I guess we could've walked away from the bar and just left it at that, but, uh... before I knew it, he was talking about doing an album together." " And Merle says..." ""I'd record an album of duets with rutting elks before I play one fucking note with you."" " "... with a rutting elk before I played one fucking note with you."" " Hey, that's... that's right, that's it." " He broke Guy's heart." "What do you do when one of your heroes says... says that?" " And I'll never forget this, man." "It's like it was happening in slow motion." "Guy brings his fist way back and takes a swing at Merle Haggard." " It was a bit of humiliation, embarrassment, disappointment, and probably a little bit of withdrawal, too." "Guy just snapped and took a swing at Merle." " So Merle just kinda sidesteps him and one-punches him." "And let me tell you something, he hit him with some bad intentions." " He was an asshole." "And, uh..." "So I knocked him out." "(boxing-ring bell)" " Well, Guy kinda wobbled around there a minute and he said something that I still don't understand." "He said, "But I don't wanna do a show in Kenton, Ohio."" "What the hell does that mean?" " After the fight with Merle Haggard, they carried Guy into the limo and right away he started drinking." " No, I-I-I'm just saying sure he was drunk, but when Merle cold-cocked him, he was out 15, 20 minutes." "Just consider what that does to a guy's brain." "You know, perhaps we should consider that on that night, his actions at the Horton Family Jamboree were perhaps caused by undetected, latent brain damage of sorts." " Nonetheless, he was very drunk when he got onstage that night." " Oh, yeah, he was Chateau shitfaced." " Do you know who I met tonight?" "I met the one and only" "Merle Haggard." "Y'all know who Merle Haggard is, don'tcha?" "(children):" "Yes, sir." " Certainly." " Oh, you do?" "(feedback)" " He's a country-music" " Hey, hey!" "Fellas..." "Hey, I'm try..." "I'm trying to have a conversation here." "(band stops playing)" "Who is he?" " He's a country-music superstar, sir." " I heard you right." "Country-music superstar." "Hoo." "What about you, little fella?" "D'you know who Merle Haggard is?" "Let me tell you who Merle Haggard is, buddy." "If you still wanna know." "(audience exclaiming)" "That's right." "He done that to my pretty face." "Now what kind of man does something like that?" "You wanna know who Merle Haggard is?" " Okay." " You do?" "I'll tell ya." "He's a country-music superstar." "He is." "He really is." "Now, do you wanna hear why Merle Haggard's a country-music star?" " Okay." " Hold on to this for me." "Boys?" "What do you say we give them a little bit of Working Man's Blues?" "For the ladies and gentlemen out in the audience." " A little thank-you for coming on the show tonight." "I wish you all the best in your future career!" " Oh, I wanna thank you." "It's a privilege" " Aw!" " --to come on your show." " It's our pleasure." " It's... been fantastic fun." " Fantastic for us, too!" " It's a blessing." "Can I say goodnight to the folks before we go?" " Absolutely!" "Say goodnight!" "Well it's a hard job just getting by" "With nine kids and a wife" "And I've been a workin' man damn near all my life" "I go back workin '" "As long as my two hands are fit to use" "I drink a little beer in a tavern" "If I get some of them working-man blues" "Hey hey hey hey" "(feedback) I said hey" "Hey the working man Working man like me" " Get outta here!" "(booing ) (feedback)" " Thank you." "Good night." "God bless." "Fuck all y'all for coming." " Yeah, "Fuck all y'all for coming."" " Go home back to Canada!" " At the time, I thought it wasn't very funny, but..." " We'll be right back!" " Good night, Irene." "It's over." "Adios." "Bye-bye show business." "But you just can't buy publicity like that." "And those 24 hours in Nashville made Guy famous." " If Guy had done that Horton Jamboree number, say, even in the mid-'60s, it'd been the death of his career." "But by the time Terrifico came along," "Nashville had been terrorized by Kris Kristofferson for a number of years by then." " I loved Guy Terrifico." "He was the only guy back in the early '70s who drank more than I did." "Stirred up more shit than I did." "How could I not love him?" "He made me look like a choirboy, for Chrissake." "God bless him." "I met him that night he pulled the stunt on that television show." " Really?" "In Nashville?" " Yeah." "We'd just finished a set at the Broken Wheel - uh, Golden Wheel - Broken Wheel - and this guy walks through the door with a massive head wound and a midget." "And Stephen Bruton, my guitar player, says, "Hey, Kris, your fans are here!"" " He comes walking right over to us, his face is all beat up and bloody." "I said, "What the hell happened to you?"" "He said, "The Horton Family Jamboree."" " Stephen said, "I seen worse."" " I said, "You should've seen what they did to Johnny Paycheck."" "(rim shot) Eventually, the place clears out - just a few drunks and us - and Terrifico kinda... gets his courage screwed up and he comes over and he real sheepishly walks up and just says, "Hey, y'all." "Mind if I play y'all a song?"" " He borrowed my guitar and, uh, played us a song he wrote." "And it was..." " Hands down, one of the prettiest things I ever heard in my life." " Mind-blowing in its honesty." " Truly beautiful." "Heartbreaking." " I saw a tear in Stephen's eye." " Kris Kristofferson said that you were moved to tears." " That lying son of a..." " You gotta understand, this was really a unique time in country music." "It was a very beautiful time and things were really changing." " Song of the year for 1970:" ""Sunday Morning Coming Down," Kris Kristofferson." "(cheering)" " Then you had Kris Kristofferson," "Johnny Cash, Waylon," "Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson." "They were changing the face of country music as we all knew it." " By the late '60s, early '70s, there was a few people in country who weren't satisfied with the status quo." " I think Nashville is afraid of change in a lot of ways, you know." "And, uh, I've never..." "I think they think maybe that to change, and to try to bring something new to the music and throw off some of the shackles, uh, is gonna destroy, you know, the old country." "What they call the pure country music." "You can't do that." " These guys are writing strong, personal, authentic songs" "largely bereft of the artifice that dominated Top 40 AM pop radio and dominated Nashville-oriented country music." " I mean," "Nashville was really getting shaken up by these guys, both musically and otherwise." " A lot of these guys were primarily songwriters." "And, you know, songwriters are a funny breed." " Appreciate it." "(laughter)" "I think..." "Marty and Merle must've been laying out." "I wanna thank Johnny Cash, and I'm glad I wasn't against "Today I Start Loving You Again."" "And I haven't figured out wh-what the hell I'm doing up on the stage." "Because I'm basically uncomfortable doing it." "It is a contradiction, you know, if you're a private person and a private artist." " I'll tell you what, when I first got the letter about a year or so ago from..." "Senor Fantastico or Guy or whoever sent it, um, the first thing I thought about - before, you know, what a fuckup he was - was that late night in a honky-tonk with that old boy singing his heart out." "And that's the main reason I agreed to do it." " He managed to impress Bruton and Kristofferson to the point where they're both on this new record." "Unbelievable!" " Well, he covered one of my songs,"Day Drinking"..." "Just him and an acoustic guitar, playing and singing." "And right in the middle of this, he hollers, "Play that guitar, Mr. Bruton!"" "Play that guitar Mr. Bruton" " It don't get any more direct than that." " It meant the world to Guy, that night in Nashville, when Kris Kristofferson and Stephen Bruton said they like his song?" "Oh God bless you Now take me to church" " More like a druid sacrifice, probably, somewhere." " Guy loved those guys!" "And they were getting on like a house on fire." "Guy even wanted to stay in Nashville for a while." "But then..." " By the time we got back to the hotel, the police were waiting for Guy." "It seems the Horton family had compiled a big laundry list of charges against him." "I was able to negotiate a cash settlement and a police escort out of town, which they were glad to accommodate." " They took him straight from the Nashville jailhouse to the airport." " Cop walked Guy down the aisle to his seat, strapped him in, handed him a magazine and said:" "(laughing) "Don't y'all come back, hear?"" " Guy didn't say a word, until we got him on the plane, back to Vancouver, and then he said, "I think that went well."" "That was it!" " About a week after we got back to Canada, we're just about to release the single from the first album when the publicity from the Jamboree incident started coming in." "And it came in, it got bigger and bigger and bigger." " All right!" "Get up, get down and get ready!" "Welcome..." "Mr. Guy-y-y-y-y Terrifico!" " Now I'm in a rare position." "I've got a full-blown country star on my hands - hasn't even released his first album." " I think Guy's manager bought into the concept wholesale that any publicity is good publicity." "People knew the name Guy Terrifico, but not for those great songs, they knew it for his psychotic behaviour." "He turned into a monster." "It was this monster that dogged him for the rest of his career." " Absolutely." "People knew the name, so I did what any good manager would do:" "I took the show on the road." " And what a show it was." " What a show it was indeed." "The Hawk, Ronnie Hawkins, was just about to go on the road." " Ah!" "I'm the toughest rock'n'roller on Yonge Street." "(laughing)" " And he owed me a couple of favours, so I asked him if he'd like to go out on a double bill and he said:" " Let me tell you something, Guy, when you go on this tour with me, you ain't gonna make much money, but you gonna get more pussy than Warren Beatty and Frank Sinatra put together." "And ol' Guy said, "Well, I've got lots of money."" "So I said," ""Well, welcome aboard, then!" "Welcome aboard!"" " Let's go, Reggie, let's go." "Get in the seat." " The first tour they send Guy out on after Nashville is with Ronnie Hawkins!" "The guy's playing country music, but he's going out with this rockabilly guy!" "And they're playing these really tough rock 'n' roll bars." "Bars with bikers, guys with tattoos, boogie-till-you-puke kinda places." " Besides his talent and besides the band's talent, he had some backup singers too, that were really good." "And one of 'em was named Mary Lou." " All right, we'd like to bring someone out on the stage, an angel and a songbird, Miss Mary Lou." "Please make her feel welcome." "(cheering and applause)" " Now, Mary Lou had a magnificent voice." "She was a songbird!" "But..." " I get real bad performance anxiety." "It's a clinical condition." "I've had it ever since I was a kid." "Whenever I have to perform, my body would react in that way." " We're gonna sing a song for you written by a great American," "Mr. Johnny Cash." " Whoo-hoo!" "(farting)" " Uh, Johnny sang this with his wife, June Carter Cash" "(farting) (laughter)" "(whistling)" " --uh, who is, in my mind, the only lady of country music who's in the same league as my Miss Mary Lou in terms of class, beauty and talent-- (farting)" "(laughter)" " For some reason, when she'd get them nervous cramps, or whatever it is, she'd be singing along and goddamn, baby, on the stage, she would gas, she'd pass gas, boy," "and it sounded like a Tarzan yell, sometimes, it was so loud." " One more time!" "(farting )" "(laughter)" "(cheering )" "(coughing )" "I can't even play Balderdash because of it." " The first two shows in New York, I think, uh... really, uh..." "Unfortunately for everyone involved, set the tone for the whole tour." "You know, uh..." "Well, it gave it a real sort of, unfortunate theme, almost." "Oh whisky" " Whoo-hooooo!" "(cheering)" " The first time, it was, like..." "What the hell's this guy doing, you know?" "I mean, he's..." "he's fucking my drum kit." " The crowd just ate it up, man." "I mean, they went crazy." "They were screaming and chanting his name..." "And I think that first night, especially, just really blew his mind." " Fuck all y'all for coming." "(cheering )" " The second night at Max's was sold out." "People lined around the block." "And when Guy hit the stage, they went apeshit." "Well every night's another Saturday night" "I get a-rollin' with Canadian rye" "And then I'm following that little white line" "Just to make it to the show on time" " When Guy came out flying that night, man, he ripped into the first few songs and the audience was lovin' it, then someone started yelling, "Hump the drum!"" " Hump the drum!" " Hump the drum!" "(cheering)" " And then suddenly, the whole bar starts yelling it." "(audience chanting):" "Hump the drum!" "..." " And I think Guy thought it was really funny and he didn't wanna disappoint 'em, so he did it again, and the audience loved it." "And he loved the fact that they loved it." "That's how it all started." "(audience chanting):" "Hump the drum!" "..." " Whoo!" "Do it!" "(audience chanting):" "Hump the drum!" "..." " Most nights, he'd... hump it till it broke." "He'd always buy me new drums." "I mean, I must've gone through, oh, 18 pieces in those two months." "And it wasn't about the money... or the fact that he was humping my drums into a million pieces, it was the fact that he was, uh..." "well, that he was... fucking my drums." "Know what I'm saying?" "And you just don't do that." "(audience chanting):" "Hump the drum!" "..." " Now, I don't think that Wheels was too happy with it, but, what the hell, the business is called "show."" "The audience loved it, and those that didn't were disgusted or appalled." " Well, Jimi Hendrix, he humped his guitar and, uh... and Pete Townsend humped his amplifier, b-but not John Entwistle's bass or Roger Daltry's leg." " The next night," "I had T-shirts made with "Hump the drum"" "right across the front." "They sold like hotcakes." " You can fuck your friends... you can fuck your instrument." "But you can't fuck your friend's instrument." " People would be lined up out the door and around the block to see him." "Just all these... oh, man, just these crazy people." "And they were all there to see Guy." "(cheering )" " Hi there." " At first, I think it was exciting for Guy." " What about you?" "How did you like it?" " Ah..." "I didn't." "It was just... it was just too much, man." "All these people coming out and giving all this love to him, and he really tried to give that love back, you know?" "He wasn't just mine to love anymore." "Now it wasn't just... me and Guy singing in the bathtub." "After I stopped singing, uh..." "I went back home." "Me and Hank, we split." "Darling please forgive me" "For doing what I've done" " Sort of like running away from home to join the circus." "Except the opposite, I ran away from the circus." "I hear people say that." "Well, that's what I did." "I ran away from the circus." " Because of Mary Lou's..." "(farting ) ... "condition," we had to replace her with Loni." "(gunshot)" "(gunshots)" "While that cured one problem, it created yet another." " Fuckin' Phil Kaufman calls me up, and he says to me, he says, "You wanna go on tour?"" "I'm, like, "Fuckin'" "A right." "With who?"" "And fuckin' he's all, "Fuckin' Guy Terrifico." "Ever fuckin' heard of him?"" "Fuckin' right I'd heard of him." "Who fuckin' hadn't, right?" "And I'm all, uh, "I played at his fuckin' bar when I was a goddamn backup singer for the, uh... the, uh... the, uh... the fuckin' whatyamacallit, uh, fuckin'... the Drifters, like, four years ago."" "And we'd flirted like there was no fuckin' tomorrow." "I was, like, "Fuckin'" "A right." Why the fuck wouldn't I, right?" "I mean, he's rich, he has an album, and we'd flirt like there was no fuckin' tomorrow." " What the hell is this, Ma?" " This lady's making a... movie about your friggin' deadbeat father." " Who's that?" " That lady's making a.. film about your grandpa." " Grandpa?" " Oh, no, she ain't your grandpa." " Grandpa?" " No." "No grandpa." " Grandpa?" " No." "No gran" " She ain't your fricking grandpa!" "Your grandpa's a deadbeat living in Cuba!" " Way to go, Ma." " Uh..." " As you can see, it was a great fuckin' tour and I'm really fuckin' glad I went." " When I went to see the Hawk during that first tour," "I wanted to sit in with the Hawk." "And I ended up sitting in with Guy." "(cheering)" "But Guy ended up being a hell of a guitar player." "Had a good, soulful voice." "I enjoyed sitting in with him." "I thought he sounded cool." "I'll be drowning' my sorrow" "In whisky tomorrow" "Tonight I'm gonna explode" "So pick me up and tune me up" "And see me to the stage" "Could someone help me carry this load" "'Cause every time I try to go out on a limb" "I end up breaking my bones" " The good thing about Guy was he was made for the stage." "It's all right it's all right it's all right..." " He took it a little bit over the top - every time." " The sonofabitch could play things, man." "I mean... just amazing," " But he could communicate;" "you could read where he was going, you could read in what he was gonna do and what he was gonna say." "And it was scary." "'Cause he was good and he never backed out." "He did it every time!" " Of all the dangerous weirdos we met on tour, the biggest and most dangerous was Mr. Stuff." "It's probably why Guy hired him." " His official title... is Director of, uh..." "Stuff." " Mr. Stuff was the kind of guy who could find you dirty Detroit crank at 2 A. M., say, in Salt Lake City." " Stuff, why don't you say something?" " To who?" " The cameraman." " But to whom am I speaking to?" " Home viewers." "Future posterity, future generations." "... But I take my time" "A friend of the devil is a friend of mine" "I get home before daylight" "Just might get some sleep tonight" " Mr. Stuff could get a lot of stuff and get a lot of stuff done." "And, uh, at that time, we needed a lot of stuff." " Guy and his fuckin' drug habit was that guy's meal ticket." " He was a brute." " Get your midget ass on the bus." " Guy gave that guy more money than a fuckin', fuckin', uh..." " A real bad potato." "... fuckin', uh..." "Tutan-tutin-fuckin'-khamen." " Guy saw himself as an outlaw and Mr. Stuff was an outlaw." " Gimme the fuckin' camera!" " Hey." " Heyyyy!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "C'mon..." " But he was a real outlaw." "Hey!" " Look, if could say one thing to the people of the future, what would it be, Mr. Stuff?" " Don't fuck... with the Stuff." " That's nice, actually." "I like that." " Hey, Guy!" "I wanna party with you on your bus!" " Hell, I wanna party on my bus." " Mr. Stuff had a way to communicate with the kind of people that came to Guy's shows." " Hee-haw!" "Ugh!" " So Mr. Stuff was Guy's bodyguard?" " Yeah, that was one of his roles." "At the time, when we hired him, we thought it was a good idea, but obviously we didn 't think of, uh... who was gonna protect him from his protector." " People of the future..." "(both):... don't fuck with the Stuff." " No, with me, I thought." "People of the future, you've been warned:" "Don't fuck with me or Mr. Stuff." "This here's Guy Terrifico, breaking for chicken feet." "I'm looking for a front door." "Can anybody help me?" " About a month of what is now being called the "Hump the Drum Tour,"" "we released a first single:" ""Another Saturday Night. "" "Went straight to number two in the country charts;" "it hit number 16 in the rock charts." "I'm seeing double so I drink myself blind" "'Cause Sunday morning's getting harder to find" "But how am I ever gonna see the light" "When every night's another Saturday night" " When the single did good, it gave Guy the confidence he needed, musically." "He sorta remembered it was about the music." "I put my hand in the hand of the man" "And I still got stoned" " I took Sam Peckinpah to see him in L.A." "Like I said, they sounded great." "Sam just loved it." "But near the end of the set, he's halfway through a song and some people started chanting:" ""Hump the drum!" "Hump the drum!"" "See him up there trying to play and the crowd just not letting him." "It was sad." "Sam, with his gift of being able to see and feel other men's suffering on a profound level, got pissed off." "He pulled a gun out and started firing in the air, shouting:" ""Shut your mouths and listen, you bunch of fucking Hollywood rump wranglers!"" "The man's a poet." "I had to tackle him, take the gun out of his hands." "He was furious." "Giving 'em what they want can be hard on a man's soul." "How am I ever gonna see the light" "(audience chanting):" "Hump the drum!" "..." "When every night's another Saturday night" " The road kills people." "It really does." "I mean, it's a cliche, but it's very, very, very true." " We'd go from the bus to the show." "And the show back to the hotel room." "Then back to the bar again for another show." "Then back to the bus." "And all that time, he couldn 't go out by himself." "'Cause he'd be afraid of people who'd recognize him and mob him." "And I think that frightened and scared him." "And... and the pressure, the pressure of doing a show night after night after night" "Man, you try it." "(music)" " Good night!" "(cheering )" " As the tour wore on, it got worse." "Guy was taking more and more drugs just to cope." " Guy was always up by 2, 3 o'clock in the afternoon." "He'd throw back a few pills, drink two or three pots of coffee." " The more drugs he took, just to get up onstage, you can imagine, the performances started to suffer." " Then he'd start to sip on a beer, kinda get his breath back." " He's too fucked-up to play country music and he's playing it for an audience that doesn't even wanna hear it." " Roll up a couple doobs, have a little smoke, start sipping on some scotch." " It's hard enough bombing, but when you're a country artist, or a wannabe country artist, bombing in a rock 'n' roll bar full of bikers, you're wearing a white Nudie suit" "with pot leaves and pink roses on it..." " When he hit the stage, he was drunk!" " Tough gig." " Dead drunk!" "But he could handle his liquor." "And he always put on a show and always had to play the freak part." "And it drove him nuts." "Poor Guy." " But at that point in the tour, it almost didn't matter, 'cause all they wanted was for Guy to stagger onstage, screw the drum kit, hell, and they'd be happy." " I mean, the poor guy had to wear a cup when he played." " A cup?" " You know, an athletic cup to protect his guys when he's humping the drum." "You know, a country star shouldn 't have to wear a cup." " No, you don 't feel sorry for Guy Terrifico;" "he don't feel sorry for himself." "He was smart enough;" "he knows that's what got him invited to all those big shows." "But Guy deserved to play them big shows with Kristofferson and Hendrix at the Isle of Wight, all those big-ass places." "But what got him booked on those shows was being crazy, playing the freak, playing the clown." "He was better than that." " The next time I saw Guy was in London." "Our band and Guy's band were to fly to the Isle of Wight the next day." " If there's one show you didn't wanna miss in 1970, it was the Isle of Wight." "There was Hendrix, The Who, Kristofferson..." " Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell." "Tiny Tim, for Chrissake." "It was huge." "Can you hear me out there or not?" "I can't sing real loud." "(cheering)" "At that stage in my career," "I'd never played for anything close to the size of the Isle of Wight." "Guy and his band were in the same boat." "We'd gone from playing for 300 or 400 people at the Broken Wheel to over 500,000 people on an island off the coast of England." "(cheering )" "I think they're gonna shoot us." "Busted flat in Baton Rouge" "I was pretty amazed by it all." "Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans" " The promoters, in their wisdom... had flown us both into London on the same day, the day before, and had booked both bands in the same hotel, on the same floor." "Which was a very bad idea on many, many levels." " We had a few drinks that night." "I was trying to calm my nerves." "I dunno what the hell Guy was doing." " I remember we all went out that night and Guy and his crew hit the town pretty hard." " Guy showed up outside of Buckingham Palace, where he's arrested for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness." " He had pulled his underwear over his pants, tied a Canadian flag around his neck like a cape, and he's screaming:" ""I'm a national treasure!" "I'm a national treasure!"" "Freedom's just another word" "For nothing left to lose" " The morning we were to fly over to the Isle of Wight, we were still hurting from the night before, so we were just having breakfast there at the hotel in London and Guy just gets up," "he says, "I'm gonna go find me a decent cup of coffee."" " We didn't see him for another two years!" " He just left." "That was it." "(audience shouting)" "Well I took enough pills" "For the whole damn town" "And I drank enough whisky" "To lift a ship off the ground" " Two years." "Nobody knew where he was or what he was doing." "Some people say he recorded an album with Elton John." "You got others who wanna tell me he's with the Rolling Stones in the south of France." " He deserted us." "He deserted everyone." "Me, Mary Lou, Phil, the band, his fans." "He deserted everyone that cared about him." " You know, maybe he did some of these things 'cause... 'cause he was human, and not because of being high." "I mean, he was high, but he was a human." "He was a high human." "And maybe he..." "he just got scared." "You know?" " It's hard to get up in front of people, but especially if you're exposing the stuff that comes right out of your soul and if you got any honesty about you while you're doing it," "I guess it's a vulnerable position to be in." " Could you sing in front of 500,000 people screaming your name, expecting stuff?" "I couldn't." "Could you?" " Good night." " You suck!" "... My life" "Would make a damn good country song" " Not a peep in over two-and-a-half years, and then suddenly I start getting phone calls from Amsterdam." ""I've got these new songs!" "We're gonna record 'em." "Get the old band back together." "I'm coming home. "" "Then in February 1972, the eagle landed." " He threw his arms around me and held me really tight." "And I..." "I held him right back." " When Guy came back, something had changed." "He was different." "All he wanted to do was hang out with Mary Lou and play his music." " Right after he came back from Europe, we bought a cottage on one of the little islands off Vancouver." "Ten acres with a couple of funny little shacks on it, but it had everything we needed." "Going to the country" "Sunshine smile on me" " God, it was so beautiful up there." "We had each other, you know?" "And we had our friends hanging out, playing music." "That is where Guy and the band were gonna... record the next album." "That's where he proposed to me, and we also had our wedding right there." "It was so beautiful..." "We were married by a Rastafarian priest." " Repeat after me." "To love, when y'an affa gonna bed when tings is salt or when tings be jamming." "(both):" "To yanhafagonobed when tings go salty..." " Oh, God, it was so much fun!" "It was just me and Guy and..." "Donnie and the band and Phil and Reggie." " So... no fuckery." "And everyting will be bounounounous!" "Seen?" "(both):" "So no fuckery..." "(laughing)" "... and, uh.... (both):... everything will be bounounounous sing." "It was the best wedding ever." " I now pronounce you... man and wife." "You may kiss your lovely woman." "(all ):" "Whoo-hoo!" " The whole band went up to the cottage for the wedding." "And afterwards, everyone stayed on and... we still had to work on the arrangements for Guy's new songs." " It just goes, um..." "You are flesh and blood and so warm..." " When he played us these songs, our collective jaws just dropped." "I mean, they were amazing." "And I tell you something, if he'd stuck around," "I guarantee you we'd've had a hit album." "... The way I feel With your body" "Next to mine" "We do one more in here, boys." "The chorus is coming!" "(laughing)" "I promise!" "It'll be real pretty." "Here we go." "When I get that other verse figured out, you'll hear it." "(laughter)" " He was determined, he was focused;" "the songs he had written, they were great." "They were better than the first album." "... I'm only make believe" " In about four or five days, we were ready to record." "It was incredible!" "But he wanted to do a live show first." "Before recording, he wanted to work out the kinks." "You know, get the band tight." "So I booked him at a concert hall;" "everybody in town showed up." "Tell me what it all means" "So put me on the road with my sweetheart and guitar" "(guitar)" "It's all right it's all right it's all right" "It's all right it's all right it's all right" "It's all right it's all right it's all right" " The place was packed." "The band was tight, the songs were hot," "Guy was sober." "It was the show to end all shows." "Well I'll be drowning my sorrows in whisky tomorrow" "Tonight I'm gonna explode..." "You all right?" "What about you?" "You all right?" "All right, boys, let's go back out there." "Donnie, let's go give 'em what they want." "(cheering)" "Thank you." "(cheering) Thank you very much." "Thank you." "(woman):" "Giddy up, motherfucker!" " Yeah..." " It was probably the first show Guy ever played sober." "It's kinda like being the designated driver and realizing your drunk friends ain't all that damn funny." "(shouting and whistling)" " Audiences live vicariously through public stars." "Rock'n'roll, country, whatever, we like 'em to be fuckups." "We like 'em to live lives that we wouldn't dare lead." "Guy Terrifico was brilliant." "The audiences didn't appreciate him." "They wanted the Hump the damn Drum." "(audience chanting ):" "Hump the drum!" "..." " Sad comment on what the public needs from their musical stars." " Here's the deal." "Uh, I'm gonna play you a song" "(woman):" "Play "Saturday Night"!" " -and, uh, this song - for this one," "I guess I'd just like you guys to hush up a bit and have a good listen." " Play "Saturday Night,"" "fucker!" " When we're done, you know, we're gonna party like there's no tomorrow." "How's that sound?" "(wild cheering)" "Uh, a couple years back," "I ran into a great and wasted friend of mine in a hotel lobby in Amsterdam..." "I could see he was about a step away from dying and... well, I wondered why." "And a song by Kris Kristofferson came to me" "(cheering and whistling)" "I'm glad to say he's no longer wasted and he's got him a good woman." " Whoo!" "(whistling)" " So..." "I'd like to dedicate this song to Kris Kristofferson, who showed me how to beat the devil." "(whistling)" "This here's The New Mister Me." "The moment that you saw him" "You just looked the other way" "The blood within his eye" "Was like a curse" "He had two heavy pistols" "Which were greasied up and ready" "And a face like Bobby Dylan's only worse" "He ordered him a whisky" "Which he drank like he was thirsty" "And he ordered him another of the same" "Suddenly the silence of the frozen room was shattered" "By a kid who shot before he called his name" "He looked up at his killer" "From the floor where he had fallen" "He said well look what you have gone and done to me" "He said son I think you blew it" "But you are truly welcome to it" "You can be the new Mister Me" "Yeah you can be the new Mister Me Me Me" "Ain't it true that's what you want to be" "Yessiree Bob" "And I'll be somewhere sunny" "Where it's funny and it's free" "And you can be the new Mister Me" "Well I was there the day they say that Bobby Dylan died" "You and I both know he got away" "He's out there stealing' horses" "Really learning' how to ride" "And he's the reason I am free today" "Singin' you can be the new Mister Me Me Me" "Ain't it true that's what you wanna be" "Yessiree Bob" "And I'll be somewhere sunny" "Where it's funny and it's free" "And you can be the new Mister Me" "(guitar)" "(gunshot) (screaming )" " Gunfire erupted in a downtown bar late this evening." "(gunshot) (screaming)" " I seen Guy fall off his stool, but, uh... hell," "I seen him do that a million times before." " Witnesses report two men were shot." "(gunshot) (screaming)" " Well, then a bullet hit me." " I ran up and Guy was already unconscious and bleeding." "I grabbed him offstage and dragged him to the stage door, where his Caddy was, and threw him in the backseat, drove like hell to the hospital." " The thing that bothers me... is that the only account we have of what transpired immediately after that is Phil Kaufman's." "And Phil's story is absurd." " I parked at the Emergency entrance," "I ran inside to get a doctor, a nurse or anyone to help him." "I was back out in 30 seconds - a minute, tops." " Mr. Terrifico was rushed to hospital, where in a bizarre twist..." " The car was gone?" " Yeah, someone stole it." "They..." "Somebody took it, not knowing there's a guy in the backseat, dying or dead." "It-it-it's the only rational explanation." " Don't believe a goddamn word Phil Kaufman says." " Sure, a lot of people don't believe it." "That's fine." "Who the fuck cares?" "You don't believe me, you don't believe me." " Why not?" " 'Cause he's a dirty liar, is why not." "Because he's in on it." " Mr. Stuff shot him," "Mr. Stuff disappeared - he's never been seen again - and so did Guy." "As hard as that is for some people to believe." " But why would Mr. Stuff want to shoot Guy?" " He made money off, uh, Guy's strange drug requirements and since Guy came back from Europe he wasn't doing drugs - or not, at least, in that monumental amount he was before." "So Mr. Stuff wasn't getting his cut." "You see..." "you see what I'm saying here?" " What do they think, we're all morons?" " I heard about Reggie's thoughts on the matter and, uh, like I said," "I don't think he believes that Guy really faked his death." "I..." "I believe he hoped that he had, 'cause he really wanted Guy to be alive and... he just ain't." " I can tell you beyond a doubt that there were real bullets flying around that night, and I'm just lucky to be alive." "And if Guy got hit by one of them bullets, then he'd be lucky to be alive too." "And I can't say for sure that he did." "On account of the fact that I was... lying behind my drum kit... you know... bleeding." " But I do know one thing." "He's a hell of a lot easier to work with now that he died." " What does that mean to you, "Bring It Back Home"?" " Well, sometimes when a band starts going wild over the course of a song and you wanna bring it back to the focus of what it's about - either repeating the first verse or tying the story up," "they refer to it as, "Okay, now it's time to bring it back home."" " Yeah, he did a version of a song I wrote a while back." "The CD I got, he just sang on half of the verses and did harmony vocals on the choruses." " And the other verses were just not there?" " Nothin '." "It's a song waitin' to be a song." "(harmonica)" "The moment that you saw him" "You just looked the other way" "The blood within his eye..." " Who do you think sent everyone the songs and the letters?" " It was signed "Senor Fantastico."" " Senor Fantastico." "Considering your history with Guy, what made you decide to play on this album?" " I liked his music." "Fell in love with his music, in fact." " Are Senor Fantastico and Guy Terrifico the same person?" " I'd say there's a distinct possibility." "He ordered him another of the same" " If Guy was alive, where do you think he'd be?" " Um..." "Spain." " Spain?" " Yeah." "Yeah, he loved it there." "That's where we had our honeymoon and he just loved the..." "the people." "And the music and the food." "It was just" " Wait." "When did you go on your honeymoon?" " What do you mean?" " I mean you said you got married at the cottage on this island, then the band stayed on and immediately started rehearsing the next album, then Guy played the show at Barrio's and got shot." "So when did you go on your honeymoon?" " Look, you want me to say because his body disappeared that Guy faked his own death." "Well, I can't say that." "I really can't." " No." "No, we didn't." " And if you wanna know when and where these missing tapes were recorded, I can't tell you that either." " I mean, that's where we were gonna go." "But, no." "No, we didn't go there." "You're right." "Because..." "after we got married..." "Guy got shot and..." "and I didn't see him again." " But if he did fake his death, well, then, that's it, he's dead." "You following me?" " Guy Terrifico was Jim Jablowski's Frankenstein." "And if the thing he created was killing him, or he killed the thing he created, what does it matter?" "He's gone." " Well, I sure hope he didn't get shot." "I hope he's out there somewhere recording songs and sending' 'em to us." " I think he's still out there." " Yeah?" " Yeah." " He could be." "He could be." "He really could." "I hope he is." " I think he just got sick and tired of being Guy Terrifico." "Which is... more than understandable." " I'd like to think he's down on a beach in Cuba somewhere, with a bucket of mojitos, strumming' on the ol' guitar." " A young drunk kid named Jim Jablowski gave Guy Terrifico life." "And if he wants to take that life away, he has every right." "And there's nothing anyone can do that's gonna bring him back." "And I got one more silver dollar" "And I ain't gonna let 'em catch me no" "I ain't gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider" "No I ain't let 'em catch me no" "I ain't gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider" "No I ain't gonna let 'em catch me no" "No I ain't gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider" "Subtitling:" "CNST, Montreal" " Guy, if you're out there, Bubba you owe me 50 bucks." "(cheering and applause)" "Okay, I wrote this song about Guy and a few others of us who are cut from the same cloth." "It's called "The Pilgrim, Chapter 33."" "(guitar)" "See him wasted on the sidewalk" "In his jacket and his jeans" "Wearin' yesterday's misfortunes like a smile" "Once he had a future full of money love and dreams" "Which he spent like they was goin' outta style" "And he keeps right on a-changin'" "For the better or the worse" "Searchin' for a shrine he's never found" "Never knowin' if believin'" "Is a blessin' or a curse" "Or if the goin' up was worth the coming' down" "He's a poet he's a picker" "He's a prophet he's a pusher" "He's a pilgrim and a preacher" "And a problem when he's stoned" "He's a walkin' contradiction" "Partly truth partly fiction" "Takin' every wrong direction" "On his lonely way back home" "He has tasted good and evil" "In your bedrooms and your bars" "He's traded in tomorrow for today" " Whoo!" "(laughter)" "Runnin' from his devils lord and reaching' for the stars" "And losin' all he loved along the way" "But if this world keeps right on turnin'" "For the better or the worse" "And all he ever gets is older and around" "From the rockin' of the cradle" "To the rollin' of the hearse" "The goin' up was worth the coming' down" "He's a poet he's a liar" "He's a prophet he's a dreamer" "He's a pilgrim and a preacher" "And a problem when he's stoned" "He's a walkin' contradiction" "Partly truth and partly fiction" "Takin' every wrong direction" "On his lonely way back home" "There's a lotta wrong directions on that lonely way back home." "Thank you." "(applause)"