>>909315If you read on you may find you have more in common with Bill than you imagine, on that front at least.
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On Bill continuing to get drunk while performing
>"he'd be saying, "Someone bring me a drink" and people would make him drinks and bring them onstage. And he would turn into the bitter guy lying on his back and screaming, "WHAT DO YOU WANT? WHAT ARE YOU HERE FOR?"__________
On Bill's early tour of the South
>"Bill would drink a lot; and he was doing more and more material about religion and politics, and often doing it in front of tiny southern crowds. [...] If Bill drank a lot, he would cut out the prolonged alienation and go straight to berating the audience. They were idiots for laughing at the opening comic who wasn't funny and, more generally, they were responsible for everything wrong in the world. Bill had no problem telling them that."__________
On Bill's love of Elvis
>"Bill had been talking live Elvis for the last three days. At parties he was known to sit on the couch and channel people who knew Elvis. 'Elvis gave me this ring,' he would say, holding out his hand with a large stainless-steel potato-chip bowl balanced on his ring finger. Another night Bill might wear an Elvis towel for his cape [...] a clingy white jumpsuit with a sparkling cummerbund. [...] Bill's Elvis was a failing Elvis, the gargantuan grunting underbelly of the American dream, reduced to passing out sweaty scarves and brand new Cadillacs. [...] Bill said that he identified most with the last shot of Elvis in an old documentary where he was fat, high and pathetic, crying onstage and talking to 'Cilla'."__________
Link: Bill Hicks as Elvis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB12dIqXQA8 