Hell's Angel The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club by Ralph Sonny Barger

Author:Ralph Sonny Barger
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2001-10-01T23:00:00+00:00

The sixties were the best thing that ever happened to the Hell's Angels. Every hippie was glad to give you his old lady to fuck, sometimes in exchange for a ride on your motorcycle. There was a big difference between the hippies in San Francisco and the antiwar radicals in Berkeley. Hippies in San Francisco were a mellow bunch who didn't want to work or go to school. They wanted to get loaded, fuck, and party. Berkeley people were idealistic students who held firm left-wing political beliefs and acted on them. Some were violent, but not in a stand-in-the-middle-of-the-street-and-fight kind of way. They preferred sneaking around and blowing up buildings and creating chaos.

We actually had a lot in common with the hippies, but believe it or not, California Attorney General Thomas Lynch, I think we took more baths. We hung out on Haight Street, and many of the Hell's Angels had long hair before many of the hippies did. Before he was killed in 1962, Bobby Zimmerman, president of the Berdoo chapter, had hair down to his waist. Terry the Tramp had real long hair in the early days, and his dressing style linked the look between the 1950s motorcycle leather guy and the 1960 psychedelicized Harley rider. This was the look that a lot of hippies and rock 'n' roll bands took on. This was the look America saw in Life magazine, and we were lumped in. I never let my hair get too long, because it was curly and uncomfortable. Plus I was riding a motorcycle all the time and it would get all knotted up. I preferred a long goateed beard. It scared more people.

Some Angels started weaving their lives into the hippie scene. Gut was a Berdoo Hell's Angel who came up to Oakland and put together Blue Cheer, one of the loudest rock power trios in history. When Frisco member Chocolate George died, there was a big party in Golden Gate Park in his honor after the funeral. The hippies loved Chocolate George Hendricks. He looked like a hippie, but he was all Hell's Angel all of the time. He had just gotten out of prison during the middle of the Flower Power days. He couldn't believe what he found on Haight Street. There's a famous poster of Chocolate George with a hippie girl standing up on the back of his bike leading a parade. He eventually got arrested for that poster. The cops wanted to violate his parole and send him back to prison.

We also got along with the Grateful Dead when we met them through the Frisco chapter. It seemed like I'd known Jerry Garcia all my life. He was that type of guy. I miss him. He also loved and respected the Hell's Angels. If you were a Hell's Angel and if you ever showed up at a Grateful Dead concert, you never paid. During the so-called Summer of Love, 1967, the Hell's Angels showed up at the be-in at Golden Gate

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