Posted on 09/21/2014 9:45:17 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
WHEN Willie Nelson invites you to get high with him on his bus, you go.
The man is the patron saint of pot, after all, and I’m the poster girl for bad pot trips.
It seemed like a match made in hash heaven.
When Nelson sang at the 9:30 club in D.C. one recent night, I ventured onto the Honeysuckle Rose, as his tour bus and home-away-from-home is called.
I was feeling pretty shy about meeting him. The 81-year-old Redheaded Stranger is an icon, one of America’s top songwriters and, as Rolling Stone said, “a hippie’s hippie and a redneck’s redneck.” The Smithsonian wants his guitar, “Trigger.”
I needed a marijuana Miyagi, and who better than Nelson, who has a second-degree black belt in taekwondo and a first-degree black belt in helping Norml push for pot legalization?
In a Rolling Stone cover piece last month on “America’s Most Beloved Outlaw,” Nelson told writer Patrick Doyle that he had read my column on having a bad reaction to a marijuana-infused candy bar while I was in Denver covering the pot revolution in Colorado.
“Maybe she’ll read the label now!” he said, laughing, adding that I was welcome to get high on his bus “anytime.”
So that’s how I found myself, before Nelson’s show here, sitting opposite him in a booth on the bus as he drank black coffee out of a pottery cup, beneath a bulletin board filled with family photos.
His eyes were brass-colored, to use Loretta Lynn’s description. His long pigtails were graying. His green T-shirt bore the logo of his son’s band, Promise of the Real.
So, Sensei, if I ever decide to give legal pot a whirl again, what do I need to know?
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Willie yer bringin me down man...
I love Willie’s music but this whole “Dean Martin of pot” thing is pretty damn tired at this point. He’s turning himself into a comedic caricature, as opposed to one of the most accomplished singer-songwriters of the past half century.
I think we should all spend time trying to criticize and correct the bad habits of an 81 year old man.
Right. All that pot is keeping Willie well preserved. Saw him perform a couple of weeks ago. The voice is a bit thin, but he’s still got it.
He only noticed her because after she threw her panties on the stage, she put her ankles behind her ears.
Yep. It makes me admire people like Ricky Skaggs that much more, for having some dignity and not trying to stay “relevant” in foolish ways, but through his music.
Went to one of his concerts in Omaha in the early ‘80’s.
Rednecks and hippies and everyone in between.
I always figured willie was Maureen’s bastard son by
the mail man.
Well Dowd, they say there is a man for every woman and a woman for every man. Maybe your time has come, and you’ve found you’re Willie. And as the song says, “If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.”
Thank god someone knows the rules!
Willie Nelson gives rednecks a bad name. Hell, he gives hippies a bad name. Irresponsible in even the smallest of matters, grungy for grunge’s sake, and with an absolutely rotten view of what it is to be an American, he has become a greedy, avaricious, and totally narcissistic prima donna who has totally forgotten, if he ever knew, what the life of a simple country person really revolves around.
Willie Felon is more like it. Clyde Barrow and Charles Starkweather were more honest representations of “good ol’ boys”.
Not that I am being critical of Willie or anything.
LOL! That would cause me to faint.
Now that there is....yeah, that’s...uh....
If I’m in the mood for country, I’ll stick to Faron Young. Can’t stand that scuzzie dopehead Nelson... hate his voice, hate his singing, hate his looks, hate his politics, hate the whole pathetic druggie culture that surrounds him. Wish he’d move to another state. Because I even hate sharing Texas with him.
Willie Nelson is my favorite singer/songwriter. I heard him first on the radio about 1950 and my love for his music hasn’t faded over the years, in fact it has gotten stronger. I think I have everything he has ever recorded but I have only been to one concert. I think I saw him at the airport a few years ago but I was too shy to approach him. I am sorry about that now.
And when she did that thing in the middle looked just like Willie nelson ....
I think the proper term today is "harsh'n my buzz"......
It’s a point of pride.
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