Inside lurked a LIVING LEGEND who NEVER recorded Louie Louie - need we say more? JERRY LEE LEWIS, PIG- WELCOME TO ORANGE COUNTY, MR. LEWIS. IT'S AN HONOR TO MEET YOU. JLL- I know it is.
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JLL- (laughter) They's a lot of wives!
PIG: YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED ABOUT HALF-A DOZEN TIMES.
JLL: But who's countin'. (73)
JLL: How's that?
PIG: I'veE SEEN THE NUTTY PROFESSOR EIGHT TIMES!
JLL- Nutty? What EXACTLY are you on about boy! ? Watch. (72)
JLL: (standing up, sternly) Did I detect a bit of irreverent humor there? THAT'S the problem nowadays: Too many damn jokes!
PIG: WELL, I mEANT. (65)
Like I have what you've got til it's the wife BACK ON THE
JLL: Did I
PIG: WAS IT TO BELIEVE?
JLL: First, always said, gone. (64)
What's the matter? You should be able to down that in a flash, high pockets!
PIG: I'veE NEVER SEEN A SHOT GLASS I COULDN'T PUT MY HAND AROUND!
1 — B - — EBB 1 JB 1 ffi — s — [ jmm — iM . (62)
Have you seen today's excuse for these rockefellers — er, Rockabillies? Rockabilly my candy ass! Before these pussies was even hatched, Jerry Lee was pushin' flaming Steinways ↪off
JLL: How often you shave?
PIG: PARDON. (50)
JLL: U C What?
PIG: UCI. (49)
PIG: SPEAKING OF COUSINS, THE BIGGEST THREAT TO YOUR CAREER SO FAR WOULD HAD TO HAVE BEEN YOUR INFAMOUS MARRIAGE TO MYRA, YOUR ELEVEN- YEAR-OLD COUSIN, BACK IN 1957. (49)
JLL: I know where I been, I know where I am, and I sure as HELL know where I'm goin'. (47)
yourself now - Straighten up! Drink easy!
PIG: BUT JERRY, YOU'VE BEEN AROUND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. (45)
JLL: Yeah, I see you (laughter) and I ain't to sure I like what I see. (41)
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JLL- (laughter) Thafes alot of wives! PIG: YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED ABOUT HALF-A DOZEN TIMES- JLL: But who's countin'.
JLL: How's that? PIG: I'veE SEEN THE NUTTY PROFESSOR EIGHT TIMES! JLL- Nutty? What EXACTLY are you on about boy! ? Watch.
JLL: (standing up, sternly) Did I detect a bit of irreverent humor there? THAT'S the problem nowadays: Too many damn jokes! PIG: WELL, I amEANT.
Like I have what you've got til it's the wife BACK ON THE JLL: Did I PIG: WAS IT TO BELIEVE? JLL: First, always said, gone.
)What's the matter? You should be able to down that in a flash, high pockets! PIG: I'veE NEVER SEEN A SHOT GLASS I COULDN'T PUT MY HAND AROUND! 1 — B - — EBB 1 JB 1 ffi — s — [ jmm — iM .
Have you seen today's excuse for these rockefellers — er, Rockabillies? Rockabilly my candy ass! Before these pussies was even hatched, Jerry Lee was pushin' flaming Steinways off the Atlantic City Pier! Exceptin' for Johnny Wonderful, there ain 't NOBODY that can come close to me.
JLL: How often you shave? PIG: PARDON.
JLL: U C What? PIG: UCI.
PIG: SPEAKING OF COUSINS, THE BIGGEST THREAT TO YOUR CAREER SO FAR WOULD HAD TO HAVE BEEN YOUR INFAMOUS MARRIAGE TO MYRA, YOUR ELEVEN- YEAR-OLD COUSIN, BACK IN 1957.
JLL: I know where I been , I know where I am, and I sure as HELL know where I'm goin'.
yourself now - Straighten up! Drink easy! PIG: BUT JERRY , YOU'VE BEEN AROUND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
JLL: Yeah, I see you (laughter) and I ain 't to sure I like what I see.
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It Was a grey evening.
The sun hod already sank into the Pacific as my bus deposited me at the door of the southland's veteran watering hole, The Drowning Pool.
Inside lurked a LIVING LEGEND who NEVER recorded Louie Louie - need we say more? JERRY LEE LEWIS, PIG- WELCOME TO ORANGE COUNTY, MR.
LEWIS.
IT'S AN HONOR TO MEET YOU.
JLL- I know it is.
But listen, son - you can call me Jerry.
PIG: THANK YOU.
HOW ARE YOU FEELING THESE DAYS, MR.
LEW— I amEAN, JERRY.
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YOU HAD THE WHOLE WORLD SITTING ON THE EDGE OF ITS SEATS WITH YOUR RECENT ILLNESS.
Well, this is a pretty big old world.
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AS SERIOUS AN ILLNESS AS THE MEDIA LED US son, ALL illness You don't know is serious.
Like I have what you've got til it's the wife BACK ON THE JLL: Did I PIG: WAS IT TO BELIEVE? JLL: First, always said, gone.
But.
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I ain't dead.
Yet.
Besides, was after me to lose some weight anyhow.
PIG: AND AMAZINGLY ENOUGH, ALREADY YOU'RE ROAD.
JLL- Well, it's the only life this broken down piano picker knows.
But I have jumped bigger hurdles than this and kept on rockin' .
PIG: I SHOULD SAY SO, SIR - UM, JERRY.
YOU CERTAINLY PUT ON QUITE A SHOW TONIGHT.
JLL: TWO shows, boy.
I go on again at midnight.
I'm a workin' man! Besides, the liquor comes free.
You look like a scotch-drinkin' man yourself, (suddenly, Jerry motioned over a bartender and before I knew it, I was nursing the BIGGEST shot glass I d ever seen.
)What's the matter? You should be able to down that in a flash, high pockets! PIG: I'veE NEVER SEEN A SHOT GLASS I COULDN'T PUT MY HAND AROUND! 1 — B - — EBB 1 JB 1 ffi — s — [ jmm — iM .
' — JLL: Owner's my cousin.
I got a hell of alot of cousins.
PIG: SPEAKING OF COUSINS, THE BIGGEST THREAT TO YOUR CAREER SO FAR WOULD HAD TO HAVE BEEN YOUR INFAMOUS MARRIAGE TO MYRA, YOUR ELEVEN- YEAR-OLD COUSIN, BACK IN 1957.
JLL: Thirteen son, thirteen.
And I don't take kindly to words like infamous.
People seem too quick to judge.
Then And Now.
LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN.
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? JLL: I said, LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE.
Don't you read your bible, son? PIG- (jokingly) I am WAITING FOR IT TO COME ON HBO.
JLL: (standing up, sternly) Did I detect a bit of irreverent humor there? THAT'S the problem nowadays: Too many damn jokes! PIG: WELL, I amEANT.
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JLL: I know exactly what you meant.
Times ain't changed much since '57- •• or the YEAR ONE for that matter.
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People always been kinda devo.
What's that sayin 1 - Roll With the flow? It's that kind of thinking that got us where we are today.
And that ain't very far.
PIG: YOU'RE KNOWN AS A VERY OUTSPOKEN MAN.
JLL: I know where I been, I know where I am, and I sure as HELL know where I'm goin'.
Can you say the same for yourself, son? PIG: SURE.
I am GOING BACK TO U C I IN THE SPRING.
JLL: U C What? PIG: UCI.
JLL: Yeah, I see you (laughter) and I ain't to sure I like what I see.
Answer just one question.
PIG: OKAY.
JLL: How often you shave? PIG: PARDON.
ME? JLL: Once a week? Twice? Like I was sayin'- I know where I'm going.
In fact, somtimes I can see the end of that big old road called Life.
And I have seen more forks on that road than you've ever seen miles.
Ain't that the truth? But, I have always stuck to the right, when everyone else was runnin' this way and that, like chickens with their heads cut off.
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Hell, Elvis — One minute, it's just him and me, neck'n neck, goin' for that rock'n roll crown.
But E he was never the King in my books.
He came outta the Army singin' ballads and makin' movies.
And on the radio there weren't nothin' but Bobby n s Hell, Bobby Vinton.
Bobby Darin.
Bobby Vee.
Bobby Curtola.
Bobby Wyman.
Bobby Idol.
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Y know, I was the only one left playin' REAL rock'n roll.
Then AND Now.
Have you seen today's excuse for these rockefellers — er, Rockabillies? Rockabilly my candy ass! Before these pussies was even hatched, Jerry Lee was pushin' flaming Steinways off the Atlantic City Pier! Exceptin' for Johnny Wonderful, there ain't NOBODY that can come close to me.
Ain't that right? You damn well can't argue with history.
PIG: I'veE ALWAYS BEEN A FAN OF YOURS.
JLL: Few have truly stuck by me through thick and thin.
PIG- I'veE ALWAYS REMAINED LOYAL.
EVEN AFTER DEAN MARTIN.
JLL: How's that? PIG: I'veE SEEN THE NUTTY PROFESSOR EIGHT TIMES! JLL- Nutty? What EXACTLY are you on about boy! ? Watch.
yourself now - Straighten up! Drink easy! PIG: BUT JERRY, YOU'VE BEEN AROUND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
JLL: Yup.
PIG: THAT'S ALOT OF SHOWS.
JLL- (laughter) Thafes alot of wives! PIG: YOU'VE BEEN MARRIED ABOUT HALF-A DOZEN TIMES- JLL: But who's countin'.
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YOU'VE LOST TWO OF YOUR SONS TO SENSELESS DEATHS- JLL: Our Almighty Creator works in some mighty mysterious ways.
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YOU SHOT YOUR BASS PLAYER ONCE- JLL: They don't call me The Killer for nothin 1 ! PIG: YOU EVEN TRIED TO SHOOT ELVIS ONCE.
JLL: (defensively) I DID? (pause) Oh yeah, maybe I did.
Well, someone had to try to put that sumbitch outta his misery.
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PIG: BUT STILL, YOU AND YOUR PUMPIN' PIANO ROLL ON.
HOW? WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING? THE MONEY? THE DRUGS? THE WOMEN? OR SIMPLY A LUST FOR LIFE? JLL: Let me address them items one by one: Money? Yeah, I can use it.
Drugs? Hell no! I smoked a joint once, and I started singin' like Johnny Cash.
Then all of a sudden I sounded like Kitty Wells! ahh, but WOMEN- that's another story boy, There ain't nothin' finer in this whole damn world than the love of a good woman.
But as for your question, I love'em and leave'em.
Or they leave me.
A whorish woman leads a man as an ox to slaughter.
But, that lust for life you spoke of - besides being a -darn good title for an album, let me just jot that one down- I guess you could say- yean, Lust.
Lust for that great seductive Black 1 Nothing.
PIG: HUH? JLL: Yessir- Now, I ain't talkin' about the ejac that pork runs fuck real beca beyo You 1 supr orgasm as PETIT MORT, or even the ulation of the hanged man.
Hell, 's about as meaningful as a can of and beans! I'm talkin' about what through your mind when you've been ing for maybe a couple of days, and ize that you're still fucking,, use your lustin' after something nd flesh.
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BEYOND rock'n roll, re lustin after that onrushing, that emely seductive Black Nothing.
irniimmimni I'm talkin 1 about what runs through your mind when you've had so many drinks and so many pills that you start .
to get aroused in a very Spiritual sort of way;in how many drinks and pills it'll take you to get to the very edge of that elusive Black Nothing.
I ain't sure this is exactly what Hammer or Blackwell had in mind when the wrote me GREAT BALLS O FIRE, but it sure as hell is what Jerry Lee's got in HIS mind when he sings Too much love drives a man insane! PIG: ONE LAST QUESTION BEFORE I VE GOT .
TO CATCH THE LAST BUS YOU'VE OFTEN SAID THAT YOU BELIEVE, FUNDAMENTALLY, YOU'RE A GOOD CHRISTIAN SOUL, AND THAT YOU'VE TRIED TO LIVE A DECENT, HONEST, YET FULL LIFE.
JLL: Yes, I have tried.
ROLL.
erry Lee & Myra :■:,;■.
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JLL- Now, that may smell of paradox, but essentially, it's the one-and-only , God-fearin', Bible-beatin' Truth! Like I already said:- I know where I been, I know where I am, and- PIG-.
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YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE GOING TO ROT IN HELL.
JLL: Y ou took the : words right outta my mouth, son.