By Phil Cross
"Phil's new book Gypsy Joker To A Hells Angel is in accordance with forty four years as a Hells Angel. photographs & tales are a needs to learn for all bike riders" - Sonny Barger
In the early Nineteen Sixties, a tender military vet, motorcyclist, beginner photographer, and insurgent named Phil pass joined a bike membership referred to as the Hells Angels. It grew to become out to be a bogus bankruptcy of the membership that might quickly locate infamy, so he switched to a different membership known as the evening Riders. just like the bogus bankruptcy of the Hells Angels, this grew to become out to be a membership whose brotherhood used to be run by means of a guy Mr. go describes as “a whole asshole.” in the future, Mr. move crammed the chief in a ringer-type washer and joined a membership referred to as the Gypsy Jokers. He began a San Jose bankruptcy of the Jokers and launched into the main action-packed years of his existence. The Jokers have been in the course of a taking pictures warfare with the true Hells Angels. The struggling with grew to become so extreme that the Jokers published snipers atop their clubhouse. This was once a coarse time, however it was once additionally the peak of the free-love hippie period, and as a tender guy, Phil loved himself to the fullest. He by no means permit whatever as minor as a bit reformatory time cease his enjoyable. as soon as, whereas serving time for scuffling with and fleeing an officer, Phil broke out of reformatory, entered his motorcycle in a motorcycle exhibit, gained the motorcycle express, and broke again into detention center ahead of someone came upon he used to be lacking. even though Phil used to be tough—he used to be a certififed martial arts instructor—the Angels proved a tricky foe. After a number of beating-induced emergency room visits, Mr. pass made up our minds that for those who can’t beat ’em, sign up for ’em, so he and such a lot of his membership brothers patched over to develop into the San Jose bankruptcy of the Hells Angels.
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This kid couldn’t do anything right. Anyway, after I found out about Lupe’s scam, I left and the fake club disbanded soon afterward. In 1964, I joined the Night Riders. For this club, we even went so far as to get patches. The club lasted for about a year after I joined it. The club really didn’t have it together enough, and it didn’t have the leadership to amount to anything. The three guys I remember best from that club are Johnny Straiter, Portagee Bob, and Indian. I got along with real well with both Johnny and Portagee Bob; they were good guys.
For this club, we even went so far as to get patches. The club lasted for about a year after I joined it. The club really didn’t have it together enough, and it didn’t have the leadership to amount to anything. The three guys I remember best from that club are Johnny Straiter, Portagee Bob, and Indian. I got along with real well with both Johnny and Portagee Bob; they were good guys. Indian was another story. I never liked him, and unfortunately he was our president. Johnny was our sergeant at arms and was considered the old guy in the club (he was probably all of twenty-nine years old).
Everybody wanted to get tattoos overseas. Here I am showing off the one I got when I was fourteen years old. This giant Buddha is in Kamakura, Japan. When you go inside it, there is a little Buddha in the head. AFTER I GOT HOME from the navy, I decided to pay a visit my friend Junior. That meant making a trip to Oklahoma. There were two problems with this idea. One, I had almost no money, and, two, I had no vehicle, not even a bike. I did have a perfectly good thumb, though, so that’s what I used to get there.