Editor’s Note: “For Good or Ill” – Hunter Thompson returns to Rolling Stone (1973)

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A few snaps from the Rolling Stone with Hunter’s return to form

Bring on the gibberish!

I recently scored a few vintage Rolling Stone Magazine back issues at my local independent record shop. The walls are lined with these suckers. I was in there at lunch time doing my “Lunch Break Lacquer” routine and I spied a couple oldies, but damn goodies. 

One of the ones I picked up was from 1963, issue number 128 with Bette Midler on the cover. Nothing against Ol’ Bette, but her mug never enticed me to buy a magazine before…and may never, period.  The reason why I picked it up was for the Hunter S. Thompson article, “Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl”. 

Hunter had been absent from the pages of the fabled rock rag for sometime (whereabouts unknown), but returned to the mag and returned to form in one fell swoop.  The Superbowl was being played in Los Angeles that year., where the ‘Skins” and “Fins” would go head to head in a battle of the bored in what resulted in a nationally televised snooze fest.

The night prior to the game, The Good Doctor was holed up in a San Francisco (up all night, of course) drinking coffee and Wild Turkey, smoking short Jamaican cigars, while getting “more and more wired” on the Allman Brother’s, “Mountain Jam” that was howling out of four big speakers hung from each corner of the room”.

The next night he made haste to LA to catch the game.  He spilt the gory details all over this issue of Rolling Stone. At the bottom of the article there was a note from the editor (see pic). Apparently they were happy to have him back…as I am sure the reader’s were as well.

Hunter, back on the gig…”a man on the move and just sick enough to be totally confident“