The book's full of great poster graphics and stills as well as a few interesting quotes and film-facts. Sonny Barger said this about Jack Nicholson in Hells Angels on Wheels: "Jack just stole the movie. Even when he was a kid he was a good actor. People from other clubs working in the movie thought he was a Hells Angel from a different charter. The way he walked around and acted in a crowd... the people who didn't know him didn't know he was an actor – they thought he was a Hells Angel."
I am still waiting for the definitive biker's book on biker movies – detailing the bikes used, who built them and which club members played which parts – but I suppose too many of the original actors, bikers and film crew are no longer around to do the necessary research.
This is a good read though... and if you get it from the gents at Sideburn, your copy will even be signed by one of the authors.
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Perhaps your 'dream book' could be a future project for a certain head honcho at GKM . . . given the bloke's contacts and existing historical knowledge and passion ?
Too lazy.
Wouldn't be the easiest subject to research, with as you say many of the important players no longer around. Keep you busy for a year or two.....
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