Everyone to his own taste, said the man who kissed the cow.
"I want you to know I'm an Army brat; I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops; I identify with them. But I sure as hell don't identify with the bastards who sent them over there."
IIRC, he used his Tenn. National Guard flight time to deliver a tape of Sunday Mornin’ Coming Down to Johnny Cash’s estate when Cash had ignored his other attempts to hear Kris’ song.
Misdiagnosed illness was Lyme.
Hate those damn ticks:
https://www.lymedisease.org/kristofferson-huffpo-parish/
One of the best songwriters of all time.
He’s got 8 kids(that we know about).
Fascinating.
Thanks for the insight.
Johnny Cash was in the Air Force.
He wrote an article in “Gun World” magazine about a Mannlicher Schoenauer rifle he bought in Germany. He said he had always wanted one. I can’t recall the caliber.
Ping....
What a guy!
I will say up front. I can’t stand him. He was in a movie, I think it was Semi Tough. In it he and Nick Nolte played pro football players.
They showed a scene of them bare from the waist I guess. I remember thinking that Nolte looked like he really could have played, but Kristofferson would have been broken in two the first play. I am also surprised he was a ranger.
He certainly was a great song writer tho.
Retired 1SG US Army Jumpmaster and retired foreign service. Love Kris Kristofferson; his songs and music are my favorites of most all favorite songs for playing on my Martin gee-tar. Sunday Morning Coming Down, Why Me Lord, and his songs about love and lovers....
The scene in which he pitilessly guns down Victoria Principal — after first telling her he's going to kill her — is one of the most horrifying things I ever saw in a movie. He's absolutely evil, a stone-cold killer, completely convincing.
Everyone to his own taste, said the man who kissed the cow.
He turned down a teaching position at West Point to pursue his dream of becoming a successful songwriter. ................. And all these years I thought he went to West Point. Well now I see that it was based on his non existent teaching position. I went to West Point, several times.