It made no sense to let him in, but we both thought it made sense to us.” and I looked at each other and said, ‘Oh, why didn't you tell us that?’ And we let him in. I just got back from India.' I don’t know if it was true or not. And then all of a sudden he said, ‘But you guys don't understand. “And he was mumbling and trying to get in. “So we argued with this drunk guy for ten minutes,” Morris recalls. During a five-night, sold-out run with Lynyrd Skynyrd in February 1974, Morris was sitting with Weiss at the bar near the back of the club when a drunk guy banged on the door, demanding to be let in. Weiss spent so much time at Ebbets Field in the ’70s, he became an unofficial partner of sorts. Weiss got sober, too, and went on to become a popular lecturer at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in Los Angeles. While Morris and Weiss did their share of partying in the ’70s, Morris has been sober since 1988. Weiss, we think we have a warrant for your arrest.’ It was some minor thing, too.” And while the cops came crawling right behind them, they noticed Chuck E., stopped everything they were doing and said, ‘You're Chuck E.

The EMTs came in and resuscitated me and took me to the hospital. was trying to help me, which he could do very well. “My girlfriend at the time was screaming hysterically,' Morris continues, 'and Chuck E. The police came into my apartment while I was lying semi-unconscious in the bathtub. Back then, the ambulances were always followed by the police if it was an obvious drug overdose. 'Weiss came running in and tried to revive me, and then he called the ambulance. Morris had overdosed on 'some bad drugs,' he remembers. Morris credits Weiss with saving his life in 1974 while the two were neighbors. When Morris was running Ebbets Field from 1973 to 1977, he and Weiss lived across the hall from each other in an apartment building at East Ninth Avenue and Pennsylvania Street. Morris says they hit it off immediately and became best friends. Morris, former president and CEO of AEG Presents Rocky Mountains and now chairman emeritus for the concert promoter, was managing the Sink in Boulder when he first met Weiss, nearly five decades ago. He was also a disc jockey on rock station KFML-FM in the early ’70s.

He wrestled for Smiley Junior High School, backed up blues greats like Lightnin’ Hopkins (who later took Weiss on tour) at Chuck Morris’s Tulagi in Boulder and Ebbets Field in Denver, and taught a music-business class at the University of Colorado.

While Weiss had been a fixture in Los Angeles’s music scene since the late ’70s, helping launch the Viper Room with Johnny Depp and having a booth named after him at Canter's Deli, he grew up in Denver. Weiss, who was immortalized in song by friends Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones, died on July 20 at the age of 76 after a long battle with cancer.

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