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  • ("Come and Get It")

  • - It was just like the motorcycle.

  • Anybody who has any kind of sensuality in them at all

  • would get a tremendous boot out of just

  • what the Angels call "screwing it on",

  • just getting a big bike and just running it flat out

  • as fast as it will go.

  • I used to take it out at night on the Coast Highway,

  • just drunk out of my mind,

  • ride it for 20 and 30 miles

  • in just short pants and a t-shirt.

  • It's a beautiful feeling.

  • ("Come and Get It")

  • I recognize it as an illusion and a fantasy.

  • But for somebody who has nothing else to go back to,

  • this is maybe one of the happiest minutes of his life.

  • And you can imagine if that's true,

  • just how powerful he'd feel if he could

  • give you one of these, you know,

  • kind of, yeah, in the head with a karate,

  • it's not a chop.

  • It's a head snap.

  • The Angels, a lot of the Angels are big on karate.

  • ("Come and Get It")

  • - Hunter Thompson, our guest,

  • is a new kind of journalist.

  • The journalist who is not detached,

  • who becomes involved,

  • and in fact, he was almost an honorary member,

  • or a dishonored member,

  • of the Oakland Hells Angels.

  • You were with them for about a year or so?

  • - [Hunter] About a year, yeah.

  • They claim, the Angels anyway,

  • claim that they don't look for trouble.

  • You know, they just try to live peaceful lives

  • and be left alone.

  • But on the other hand, they go out

  • and put themselves into situations

  • deliberately and constantly,

  • that are either gonna humiliate somebody else,

  • or cause them to avoid humiliation by fighting.

  • - [Studs] You speak of foul fighting.

  • They stomp someone,

  • you were stomped,

  • in which there's no question of rules involved here,

  • just beating, violence for the sake of violence.

  • - [Hunter] Well they have a rule,

  • it's bylaw either number 10 or 11,

  • that says, "When an Angel punches a non-Angel

  • "all other Angels will participate."

  • So I was a victim of bylaw number 10 or 11.

  • I should have known that though.

  • It's a lapse of caution.

  • ("Four by Nine (Bed Version)")

  • All during this stomping

  • I could see the guy who'd originally

  • teed off on me just out of, you know, nowhere

  • with no warning, circling around with a rock about,

  • must have weighed about 20 pounds.

  • I tried to keep my eyes on him

  • because I didn't wanna get my skull fractured.

  • ("Four by Nine (Bed Version)")

  • - [Studs] Your observations are more than about the Angels,

  • they're about our society.

  • And it's since World War Two pretty much, isn't it,

  • this phenomenon has come to be?

  • - [Hunter] I think the Angels came out of World War Two,

  • and this whole kind of alienated, violent subculture

  • of people wandering around looking for, you know,

  • either an opportunity, or if not an opportunity,

  • then vengeance for not getting an opportunity.

  • Then they get to be 30, and suddenly they wake up

  • one morning and they realize, you know,

  • there are no more chances.

  • It's all gone.

  • It makes them meaner, you know,

  • and maybe they want to get back at the people

  • who put them in this terrible,

  • this dead end tunnel.

  • - [Studs] Now who are these people

  • they want to get back at?

  • - [Hunter] Oh, they don't know.

  • It's kind of "they", paranoid.

  • You know, it's you, it's me,

  • it's whoever might come too close to them on the highway

  • in a car.

  • It's somebody that makes a remark in a bar to them.

  • They call them the citizens,

  • anybody who looks respectable

  • and looks like he isn't doomed, you know,

  • like he has some kind of option, or money,

  • or a home, or all the things they don't have.

  • ("Another Man's Treasure")

  • - [Studs] What do you see for us, for everything?

  • - Christ, it's bad.

  • I mean, I'm not very optimistic.

  • I think one of the most important things is to recognize

  • that we do have this mounting violence in us,

  • and then to find the reasons.

  • And once you find that, it's like curing a boil.

  • And if people insist on saying,

  • "I am a very gentle person

  • "and only these little bad gang of hoodlums

  • "over there is ugly and mean,"

  • then it's just putting off the recognition

  • that the same venom that the Angels are spewing

  • around in public,

  • a lot of people are just keeping bottled up in private.

  • I think this technological,

  • the science of obsolescence,

  • or the fact that people are becoming obsolete.

  • The people who are most affected by this

  • are the ones least capable of understanding

  • the reasons for it,

  • so the venom builds up much quicker.

  • It feeds on their ignorance.

  • Until you recognize what's happening,

  • you know, what makes you do these wild things.

  • Christ, I used to throw beer bottles into bar mirrors

  • and stuff like that, and get stomped, always.

  • I can't remember ever winning a fight.

  • I don't do it anymore because I finally caught onto

  • what was happening.

  • Until you recognize it,

  • it's like an albatross around your neck.

  • ("Another Man's Treasure")

  • Yeah, I learned a lot about myself

  • just writing about the Angels.

  • I was seeing a very ugly side of myself a lot of times.

  • I'm much more conscious of the kind of anger

  • that lurks everywhere.

  • I don't do any, you know,

  • I keep my mouth shut now.

  • I've turned into a professional coward.

  • ("Unfiltered")

  • I wouldn't just call the Hells Angels in Oakland

  • the only violent part of our society.

  • I think Lyndon Johnson is, you know,

  • would be a good Hells Angel.

  • The Angels reflect not only the lower segments

  • of the society, but the higher and, you know,

  • where violence takes a much more sophisticated

  • and respectable form.

  • ("Unfiltered")

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