I found the rare 70s stuff from hunting in record shops for a few years (before ebay really hit). But yes, now ebay is your best bet for finding the rare material.
"#2 on you" is on the video tape "Roger Miller Remembered" - that was the TNN special that actually hooked me into his world. It's available on ebay, in fact, I think that guy is selling my copy of the show that I gave him in trade for a Johnny Cash Show.
Keep your right arm for now. Give me some time and I can see if I can get you a copy of some of that stuff. I only have one VCR that doesn't work too great, I have to start backing up my collection. Things like that should really be on You Tube instead of a bootlegger making cash of those items but my manager (nor myself) want to post it on You Tube because it wouldn't be legal and I don't want to upset any big name publishing house, whose name happens to be splattered on my TVs and electronics around my house.
The cut interviews...
Here's a part of the interview I did with Billy Walker, who died earlier this year in a tragic vehicle accident:
Billy: Well, I got real serious with Roger one time and I tried to talk him into leaving them pills alone. Cause I could see what they was doing to him.
Lyle: What was his response to that?
Billy: Well, he agreed with me, but that was about all.
- From what I recall no one really talked about him getting clean other than Gary Mule Deer, Waylon and Roy Clark (from the top of my head anyway). Most which was kept in the book. And from what I can tell, Roger's version of getting clean was just switching to something that no one told him was really bad for him (yet). As did many at that time, it was a topic of conversation between them, I imagine.
Oh, now, that would be really cool about the video. Every since I read where you discovered Roger Miller on that '98 tv special, I've wanted to see it. I looked on Ebay for awhile but I've been burned there before. Let's just say it's not a safe place for me to shop (because I don't know what I'm doing!)
Thanks for that omitted interview. And also for the 3 names to go read again. I remembered the Waylon conversation but not the other two.
Okay, I have ONE more question for this evening. Well, two actually.
1. Do you have the entire manuscript in a Word doc or something that has a word count function? Probably not... it would be too big. HOWEVER,...
2. If you do, has anyone ever done a word count for the word "genius" and/or "creative/creativity?" I'm just dying to know. If you've done it, don't tell me; let me guess first!