Kris Kristoffersons helicopter licence?
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Kris Kristoffersons helicopter licence?
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Kris Kristofferson is guesting my country next summer. I heard a story about him landing on Jonny Cash's lawn, handing him a song, and that's how his career started?
My question therefore; Does anyone know, what kind of type of heli he used to fly, or even better, is flying? And where about Have heard some stories about the Mexican gulf?
Fly safe!
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Kris Kristofferson is guesting my country next summer. I heard a story about him landing on Jonny Cash's lawn, handing him a song, and that's how his career started?
My question therefore; Does anyone know, what kind of type of heli he used to fly, or even better, is flying? And where about Have heard some stories about the Mexican gulf?
Fly safe!
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Brilliant guy. IQ in the thousands!
"I have been with the best that the bastards could muster
from Danny the Dildo to Sydney the Snake.
Now I feel like a working girl pausing to wonder
just how much screwin' the spirit can take.
See interview http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/...s/s1422317.htm
I'm pretty sure it was a UH-IH.
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KRIS KRISTOFFERSON: That was - I wish I'd never done that because what happened was, I had known John for a couple of years. I'd been his janitor at the recording studio he recorded at. I gave him every song I ever wrote. I would give them to June Carter or to Luther Perkins, his guitar player. I never wanted to bother him at the time. But he always was encouraging about it but he never recorded any of them. So once, after a couple of years, I joined the National Guard briefly in Tennessee and was flying helicopters because I'd done that in the military. I took a tape out to him and landed on his - almost on his roof. I landed on his property and pitched him the song. Everybody who has heard about that now figures they can do anything they want to and there would never be a greater invasion of privacy than I put John through.
ANDREW DENTON: So when you landed on his lawn in a chopper, he came out?
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON: Well, our memories differ on this one. John said something - well he had, kind of, a creative memory. He said that I stepped out of the helicopter with a beer in one hand and a tape in the other, and it takes two hands to fly a helicopter and I've never flown with a beer in my life. But he did me so much good, I'm willing to go along with the story. It sounds better.
"I have been with the best that the bastards could muster
from Danny the Dildo to Sydney the Snake.
Now I feel like a working girl pausing to wonder
just how much screwin' the spirit can take.
See interview http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/...s/s1422317.htm
I'm pretty sure it was a UH-IH.
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KRIS KRISTOFFERSON: That was - I wish I'd never done that because what happened was, I had known John for a couple of years. I'd been his janitor at the recording studio he recorded at. I gave him every song I ever wrote. I would give them to June Carter or to Luther Perkins, his guitar player. I never wanted to bother him at the time. But he always was encouraging about it but he never recorded any of them. So once, after a couple of years, I joined the National Guard briefly in Tennessee and was flying helicopters because I'd done that in the military. I took a tape out to him and landed on his - almost on his roof. I landed on his property and pitched him the song. Everybody who has heard about that now figures they can do anything they want to and there would never be a greater invasion of privacy than I put John through.
ANDREW DENTON: So when you landed on his lawn in a chopper, he came out?
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON: Well, our memories differ on this one. John said something - well he had, kind of, a creative memory. He said that I stepped out of the helicopter with a beer in one hand and a tape in the other, and it takes two hands to fly a helicopter and I've never flown with a beer in my life. But he did me so much good, I'm willing to go along with the story. It sounds better.
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Former PHI pilot
http://www.nola.com/search/index.ssf...l?ELMUR&coll=1
Kristofferson turned down an instructor's post at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to try and break into the music business in the 1960s. Unable to get any closer than a janitor's job at the Columbia Records studio in Nashville, Tenn., he came to Louisiana and took a job with Petroleum Helicopters Inc. of Lafayette, flying between the Louisiana marshes and offshore petroleum facilities.
"That was about the last three years before I started performing, before people started cutting my songs," he recalled. "I would work a week down here for PHI, sitting on an oil platform and flying helicopters. Then I'd go back to Nashville at the end of the week and spend a week up there trying to pitch the songs, then come back down and write songs for another week."
Kristofferson turned down an instructor's post at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to try and break into the music business in the 1960s. Unable to get any closer than a janitor's job at the Columbia Records studio in Nashville, Tenn., he came to Louisiana and took a job with Petroleum Helicopters Inc. of Lafayette, flying between the Louisiana marshes and offshore petroleum facilities.
"That was about the last three years before I started performing, before people started cutting my songs," he recalled. "I would work a week down here for PHI, sitting on an oil platform and flying helicopters. Then I'd go back to Nashville at the end of the week and spend a week up there trying to pitch the songs, then come back down and write songs for another week."
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Mmmmmmm ....
Amazing guy.... Rhodes Scholar ... Lecturer in I believe English Lit. at West Point and still dumb enough to want to go fly Helicopters ...
You gotta admire a Guy like that
Amazing guy.... Rhodes Scholar ... Lecturer in I believe English Lit. at West Point and still dumb enough to want to go fly Helicopters ...
You gotta admire a Guy like that
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He flew in the Gulf of Mexico for PHI for awhile. He was either fired for not showing up for his hitch, or quit just before being fired. I've talked to several PHI pilots who knew him way back when.
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Story told to me by an old PHI Lead Pilot (Bill Carter for those who remember)...
Said they could never find Kris. He was always off "hiding" somewhere playing his guitar and writing songs. Supposedly...he wrote "Me And Bobby McGee" at the Morgan City base while sitting in an old Bell J-model on floats. (Must have been a winter day - the heat/humidity at MCY could take your breath away on a summer day.)
Said they could never find Kris. He was always off "hiding" somewhere playing his guitar and writing songs. Supposedly...he wrote "Me And Bobby McGee" at the Morgan City base while sitting in an old Bell J-model on floats. (Must have been a winter day - the heat/humidity at MCY could take your breath away on a summer day.)
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So who was Bobby McGee - and some names from the past for old hands in the GoM.
http://www.gogulf.net/BackIssues/PDF's%20for%20Website/bobbymcgee.pdf
http://www.gogulf.net/BackIssues/PDF's%20for%20Website/bobbymcgee.pdf
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I've just come across this - I think it's from his latest. Tell me this isn't genius at work! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rxm17Soz3c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rxm17Soz3c
Kris and J C http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0EQ...elated&search=
Once I heard story about Kris landing Huges 500 Johnny's backyard.... and stepping out so drunk he could hardly stand upright....true or false??
thank god Kris did quit flying and became a songwriter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0EQ...elated&search=Once I heard story about Kris landing Huges 500 Johnny's backyard.... and stepping out so drunk he could hardly stand upright....true or false??
thank god Kris did quit flying and became a songwriter
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I've just come across this, very recent, and I love it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=660fXp-B2...related&search
What is it about this song, and the players, that hooked me instantly. Some may say 'no taste in music' - but in my book this is world class stuff.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=660fXp-B2...related&search
What is it about this song, and the players, that hooked me instantly. Some may say 'no taste in music' - but in my book this is world class stuff.
