Tragic rock and roller Gram Parsons

Old Central Florida citrus money.

It's spelled Graham, baby.

Must be a millennial posting.

It's actually Gram, short for Ingram.

R2 types senile.

He reminds me a bit of Peter Coyote. Sexy.

What's tawdry about his death ?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but...

I recall drug overdose, ice cubes up the ass and his casket being stolen by friends and burnt out in Joshua Tree.

R6 He died of an OD of tequila and morphine in Joshua Tree natl. monument. And there’s this:

Before his death, Parsons stated that he wanted his body cremated at Joshua Tree and his ashes spread over Cap Rock, a prominent natural feature there; however, Parsons' stepfather Bob organized a private ceremony back in New Orleans and neglected to invite any of his friends from the music industry. Two accounts state that Bob Parsons stood to inherit Gram's share of his grandfather's estate if he could prove that Gram was a resident of Louisiana, explaining his eagerness to have him buried there.

To fulfill Parsons' funeral wishes, Kaufman and a friend stole his body from Los Angeles International Airport and in a borrowed hearse, they drove it to Joshua Tree. Upon reaching the Cap Rock section of the park, they attempted to cremate Parsons' body by pouring five gallons of gasoline into the open coffin and throwing a lit match inside. What resulted was an enormous fireball. The police gave chase but, as one account puts it, the men "were unencumbered by sobriety," and they escaped.

The two were arrested several days later. Since there was no law against stealing a dead body, they were only fined $750 for stealing the coffin and were not prosecuted for leaving 35 pounds (16 kg) of his charred remains in the desert. What remained of Parson's body was eventually buried in Garden of Memories Cemetery in Metairie, Louisiana.

The site of Parsons' cremation is today known as The Cap Rock Parking Lot. A local myth in circulation brings Parsons fans out to a large rock flake known to rock climbers as The Gram Parsons Memorial Hand Traverse. This myth was popularized when someone added a slab that marked Parsons' cremation to the memorial rock. The slab has since been removed by the U.S. National Park Service, and relocated to the Joshua Tree Inn.

[quote] "were unencumbered by sobriety,"

Cute

He was a citrus magnate.

Love Gram Parsons. Have every one of his albums & several live & early recordings as well. He was something unique that's for sure. He seems to have a small following among the gays, I assume it's because of his "sensitive guy" appeal. Also I assume some gays were introduced to him through his partnership with Emmylou Harris.

R4 is senile.

He had interesting fashion sense.

Love it

You can stay in the motel where he died - like, the exact room. They've preserved it as it was (naturally). You can also stay in the room Emmylou Harris was in, next door. I forget the name of the motel but I think it's in Pioneertown.

He had a very difficult childhood with both of his parents being alcoholics. He father killed himself when Gram was 12. His mother eventually died of cirrhosis.

[quote]I forget the name of the motel but I think it's in Pioneertown.

The Joshua Tree Inn. Room 8.

You can also rent Janis Joplin's death room in Hollywood and one of Morrison's haunts at the Alta La Cienega Motel (if it hasn't closed.)

Was he part of Gram Parson Project? Can't remember the Flying Burrit. Let me look up....

I like a lot of that sort of country-rock from the early 70s, but Parsons’ recordings have never done anything for me.

I eat old people’s excrement.

Sorry, I was thinking about the Alan Parsons Project (British band).

A friend attended a brunch with the two guys who stole Gram's body. That was their topic of discussion and it convinced her to leave LA, return to the midwest and lead a boring life.

Didn’t Johnny Parsons take over for Jack Paar?

No, that was Jim Parsons who won a Nobel Prize for the Big Bang Theory.

The only thing remaining from the room when he died is the mirror, R15. It's not all original to the day he died.

R13, that's a Nudie suit, not because of the nudes on it but named after designer Nudie Cohn (real name Nuta Kotlyarenko). He made a lot of those beaded and sequined suits for country and crossover stars, plus Elvis' famous gold suit and a Nudie suit style dress for Dolly Parton.

Nudie deserves his own thread. Look at his list of customers and all the flamboyance in his suits. If you wore a Nudie suit you were at least a little bit gay. His store was down the street from Oil Can Harrys. I think they even had a small display case about him. Any of my fellow eldergays get nudie with nudie?

LOVED Nudie suits, but of course they were expensive....If I'd had any guts, I'd have sold my car and bought one.

Was Nudie Romanian? I can’t tell what his last name is. I would love to know his story!

Say what you want about him but he was certainly an

ICONIC CORPSE

Emmylou Harris loved him so he must have been great.