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F6, loved Lewis Black, he looked comfortable and i felt comfortable with him from the start, say A,
Bill Hicks, lol, almost passed to the last one then 7:26 hit, lol, "no worries" .. the population line was a
beaut .. heh, he could have thrown in, AND 'some of them are shit angry about an influx of boat refugees!'

Bill Hicks said truths, yet he sounded so damn hard, uncomfortable with life. I jumped to the last
and listened to the first bit, was thinking he is a good comedian, but hits things soooooo hard.

I was curious about the man and gee, it's sad, but now i understand ..

Cancer diagnosis and death

In April 1993, while touring in Australia, Hicks started complaining of pains in his side, and on June 16 of that year, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that had spread to his liver.[16] He started receiving weekly chemotherapy, while still touring and also recording his album, Arizona Bay, with Kevin Booth. He was also working with comedian Fallon Woodland on a pilot episode of a new talk show, titled Counts of the Netherworld for Channel 4 at the time of his death. The budget and concept had been approved, and a pilot was filmed. The Counts of the Netherworld pilot was shown at the various Tenth Anniversary Tribute Night events around the world on February 26, 2004.

After being diagnosed with cancer, Hicks would often joke openly at performances exclaiming it would be his last. Hicks performed the actual final show of his career at Caroline's in New York on January 6, 1994. He moved back to his parents' house in Little Rock, Arkansas, shortly thereafter. He called his friends to say goodbye, before he stopped speaking on February 14[citation needed], and re-read J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring.[17] He spent time with his parents, playing them the music he loved and showing them documentaries about his interests. He died of cancer in the presence of his parents at 11:20 p.m. on February 26, 1994.[18] Hicks was buried in the family plot in Leakesville, Mississippi.

On February 7, 1994, after his diagnosis with cancer, Hicks authored a short prayer on his perspective,
wishes and thanks of his of life, to be released after his death as his "last word",[16] ending with the words:
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I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit. ”

The Bill Hicks Foundation for Wildlife Rehabilitation, dedicated to Hicks in tribute to
his love of animals, rescues and rehabilitates injured wildlife in the Texas Hill Country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks

Thanks.

[fuagf]

"Do you hear the sound? What sound?" ... Do you hear the sound? What sound? That high pitched" .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-A5HFj4BLE

LOL, was thinking back to the future and ended up there .. different humor .. rotflmao! .. now what happens ..

"Oh, hahahahahaha" ... same years aliens put a .............. LOL ..

$13143 on coffee .. LOL ..

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Bill Hicks' Last Show
[possibly/probably prior to the Igby's performance linked next below; certainly sounds better/stronger -- per his reference to the October 1, 1993 Letterman censorship incident "last Friday" (in Part 2), first week October 1993 -- in any event, as I wrap up posting Bill Hicks, this and the Igby's are what I've found of his final performances]

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Tk_j3Yh04

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Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbIQSgnj2dE

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Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCPG7Iw233M

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Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XPYNiJApCs

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Part 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq39pv5uz2c

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Part 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOMKjdW-BIY

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Part 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H40dQOZLass

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Bill Hicks, Igby's, Last Recorded Concert

1 of 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89o0Lvu-bvw
2 of 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_-ff6D2TwA
3 of 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLrmykzVBJk
4 of 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-r5pXHlDn4
5 of 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDQVPXVAlok
6 of 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czTTmD4wxfw
7 of 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbQlKaLJsac

also at

BILL HICKS LAST EVER PERFORMANCE

1 of 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrYc1dSD3SE
2 of 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jWPPmoGPZs
3 of 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNThE3FCcIQ
4 of 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep22nS6_C9M
5 of 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqhb0bC-tas
6 of 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTS6rHNyklQ
7 of 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVmaLTQqaSs
8 of 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xha5ll2XUV0

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I was born William Melvin Hicks on December 16, 1961 in Valdosta, Georgia. Ugh. Melvin Hicks from Georgia. Yee Har! I already had gotten off to life on the wrong foot. I was always “awake,” I guess you’d say. Some part of me clamoring for new insights and new ways to make the world a better place.

All of this came out years down the line, in my multitude of creative interests that are the tools I now bring to the Party. Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who’ve helped me. I’d read these words and off I went – dreaming my own imaginative dreams. Exercising them at will, eventually to form bands, comedy, more bands, movies, anything creative. This is the coin of the realm I use in my words – Vision.

On June 16, 1993 I was diagnosed with having “liver cancer that had spread from the pancreas.” One of life’s weirdest and worst jokes imaginable. I’d been making such progress recently in my attitude, my career and realizing my dreams that it just stood me on my head for a while. “Why me!?” I would cry out, and “Why now!?”

Well, I know now there may never be any answers to those particular questions, but maybe in telling a little about myself, we can find some other answers to other questions. That might help our way down our own particular paths, towards realizing my dream of New Hope and New Happiness. Amen.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

- Bill Hicks, February 7, 1994

http://www.billhicks.com/

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Bill Hicks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks

Bill Hicks discography [fwiw]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks_discography

other Hicks performances linked at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=38280052 and http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=38283024