His face when he called it 60% garbage showed his truth! This man took a beat down for stepping up for a woman and dog being beaten as the crowd just laughed is insane
I believe this interview was in 1965, almost 60 years ago. Yea, a guy shouldn't beat his wife or his dog. It was a very different world. Just accept this for what it is and STFU.......
It is very possible that women on average do not respect weak men. They will not stay with a weak man. I am sure many a marriage was saved back then because the husband brought his wife in line. With a divorce rate at 50 percent right now, much of that is due to the emasculation of the man's role in society and his own family.
@James Michael Bro you need to curb that. A woman may lose control , they are emotional and all that, I understand you do your best,, I raised 8 kids with a woman that never stopped her violence, I survived and am still a free man, No one is perfect, you can only do your best.,
If Hunter got his butt kicked for telling a guy to stop beating his wife and dog, that's good by me and most people. I've never thought much of Hunter S. Thomson until I saw this. Good on him.
I think he means "good for Hunter that he was able to stand up for what is right (what Hunter thought was right)" Not good he got beat up. At least that's my take on the comment, perhaps a bit badly worded. Hunter was trying to set Junkie George right. That George could't handle that and hit Hunter, imo that would warrant self defence. If Hunter came prepared he should have pulled out his gun and delivered instant justice on George. Put that dog out of his misery. It's the only language these 1% understand. And also respect.
true but they knew they were getting great publicity from the book so they gave him a pass believe me anyone else would be a dead man. I don't understand wht everyone thinks hst is so great he was insane look how he died he blew what little brains he had left out of his head
+motchka If your dubious assertion is true that he's "considered by many, including other great authors, to be one of the most influential journalists and writers of the 20th century" then we live in a terribly degenerate time in our society. He was an opportunistic, self-indulgent, self-serving, unprincipled, drug addicted, narcissist, coward and malcontent who fit perfectly into the societal death spiral of post-modern decadence. LOL... "great authors" by what standard of evaluation?
Tell ya what. Don't mind your own business, and step in and tell an HA husband how to not treat his wife. Hunter did and stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
Ive' rode harleys for years..I'm 60 Iv'e known hells angels in my home town..I also love to read. Hunter Thompson had more balls than most men. Everyone in this crowd loved Skip..yet Hunter stood his ground. Isn't that what the HA's are all about..standing your ground?
Yeah, but H.A. guy was right. After spending so much time with the club, as did Hunter, you should be able to have a beer and a laugh over it. Then again, I wasn't there either so idk how badly Hunter was beaten up. Maybe he's still mad about it.
@@crackernumber2 Think about it... Hunter must’ve weight 140lbs wet and he stood up to a Hells Angel and called him a coward for beating his wife and dog. Mad respect. That’s a real man, not these stupid bikers.
@@sergmanization thats a stupid man. He was lucky they didn't kill him. Hunter is also a hypocrite because he shot himself in front of his famliy..... thats a coward. You're more then welcome to go up to any 1%er and tell them how you feel......... anytime
He couldn't even make eye contact with him. Standing your ground? Hahahaha no. The embarrassment of running out (like he wanted to) was the only thing that kept him quiet in that seat.
Ahh the good ol days when you see a man beating a women to a pulp, you're suppose to watch because he's keeping her in line. Times have changed alright cause that woman abuser would have been messed up by any guy today. Back in those days if you were physically or sexually assaulting your kids it's suppose to stay within the family right.
@@randyjames6991 I'm seeing a whole species of the homosapiens worshipping BUBBA the jailhouse rapest right now! Just about everybody alive in the whole species wants to make someone their bitch! Only a few that don't belong to the wavelength don't abide! My ears are open! Almost everyone talks this way now! And I acknowledge that much of the time so many live the opposite of this way but they make a place for it! And it's a disease! But not everyone guilty!
i might have, were I a writer. But then I understand respect. Respect begets respect. AND I would have been smart enough (and respectful enough. See how that works?) to let the club read it first. AND I'd have given them all the beer (and copies) they wanted. They're not hard to get along with. Just show them respect.
I can't BELIEVE how the people in that audience thought that "sometimes you have to beat your wife like a rug to keep them in line" was so funny!!!!! Even the women were laughing about it! I'm completely blown away. There are so many women who go through that every day, and nothing about it is funny.
Are we really surprised, I mean this is the same generation who supports building walls and segregation. This must be what they mean by “make America great again.” So they can all go back to beating their loved ones and dogs publicly with no fear. Hate breeds ignorance.
You are all people so fragile and butthurt you change history so kids can be rule following conforming pricks just like the rule makers want. So what people thought it was fine then. Can we be happy its not fine now?
@@TheWitchOvAgnesi your blind to the facts...if a non fighter stands his grounds its tougher than beating a man who stands for what he believes in. Dont let the game get to your head
@@lordsysop Just so you know... what you said makes absolutely no sense. Not trying to be mean, it just doesn't communicate anything. Basically just jibberish. At best you're comparing apples to coconuts.
@@TheWitchOvAgnesi he stood up to one man and got jumped by 4 other man and still lived through it and didn't back down to this guy. No one else stood up to Junkie George, but him and the dog. They were the weak guys if you ask me. They jumped a man to defend a guy who was beating his wife.
I knew a man who felt it improper for another man to stick his nose in his business. As fate would have it I also witnessed this same man beaten, his heels placed on the curb and his opponent stomp and break both of his legs below the knees. Later in hospital this same man asked me why I stood by and did nothing to help him. I told him that karma is a bitch and perhaps now he knew how his old lady felt when he beat her. Men of violence ARE ALL "PUNKS" and mark my words, karma is a bitch.
Think about it... Hunter must’ve weight 140lbs wet and he stood up to a Hells Angel and called him a coward for beating his wife and dog. Mad respect. That’s a real man, not these stupid bikers.
There is more going on in this scene than one mans unsettled score with another. The changing of society (mid '60s through the mid'70s) and its attitude toward all forms of freedoms is on display here. Motorcycles, drugs, the biker lifestyle, gonzo journalism and all forms of free expression. I support Hunter, cherish his work and insight concerning America. I also support any persons right to ride and gather as riders, but not violence waged on the defenseless or unarmed.
So true skid mark! ! ! 66 6! These men are brothers in arms. ! rUnning game on all those who will listen>?? 6?????? Its time to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I am all outa gum!!!
Thompson was a rude foul mouthed piece of garbage! He was also a closed minded self serving drug adled moron who like all other liberal monsters believed in freedom of expression as long as you believe the same as they do! If I choose to be Godly and patriotic and stand up for my morality I'm to be ridiculed and publicly branded a bigot or facists!! When in reality it is the other way around!! Why do liberal turds like Thompson have this insane urge to force their beliefs on me! If I don't accept and embrace them then I am to be ridiculed and slandered! To each his own! So stop forcing your toilet lifestyle on me!
@@Popesontour so you criticize Thompson and liberals for ridiculing and labeling you a bigot and a fascist for being "Godly and patriotic", while you label Thompson as a moron and liberals as monsters! You accuse Thompson of being rude and foul mouthed, while you refer to liberals as turds. You claim to support freedom of expression but you bemoan Thompson's freedom of expression because you see it as something which is being forced on you. You claim to have been slandered, while referring to Thompson as a piece of garbage. You say Thompson is closed minded, while saying you don't accept another point of view. And you have the temerity to refer to yourself as moral? As with many "Godly", hyper patriots you love to play the victim. While the printed words of Thompson may trigger you, they don't force anything on you!
How times change; less than fifty years later and 'beating your girl like a rug' to 'keep her in line' just isn't nearly as funny as it seems to be to this (live)studio audience.. H.S.T seems to be the only sane individual in the room that day.
progress has been made no doubt. as much as I loved the music, the pop culture seemed slightly off. because of this upward humanistic trend, I suppose a critical look back is instructive.
I think most of the female audience thought if a woman who goes with a hells angel gets battered then fuck her back in that area ,I cant see middle class white women caring much about a biker chick back in those days. I do not feel like this.starting violence is not on.imo.
When you're in control of a situation, you don't need violence to get your way. If I ever felt that I needed to hit a woman to get her to do what I wanted, that would mean I dropped the ball long before that.
You must not have a wife, expecially one with the mentality that chooses to live with a 1%er. Try that, then tell us what you think. I tell ya, and old school biker mama, if you let her start slippin and dont straighten her out, She will take you out, because your a punk ass bitch. Truth!
I'm with Hunter and the Dog. The only difference is I wouldn't have used words when I'm beating the piss out of some punkass wuss that beats woman and animals.
So ... a) a previous confrontation needs resolving about a man's right to beat his wife b) man defending wife beating gets about 85% of talk time c) man who came to defense of wife and was beat up for it is cut off at the end unable to give his side of the story What a program.
Kissy, Kissy!.... I don't know, the biker and H Thompson seem to smiling while having this..."confrontation".... Maybe it was scripted ? (sells more books)
A. They're probably all dead. B. The book was a best seller and Hunter already talked about his side of the story in the book. Also the interviewer was probably scared to cut the Hells Angel off. C. It's called time restraints. It's not a conspiracy.
Hunter Thompson was the coward?!? What about he Hells Angel guy who was beating a woman? Maybe he should pick on someone his own size! To the contrary, Thompson exemplified bravery by standing up against a group of bikers for what was right. What upside down nonsense is this!! Bizarre
Nige Robinson This guy, Cliff Robertson was also one of the OG artists back in the day 3.bp.blogspot.com/-Sr_uijBqjbk/T152N1tAGGI/AAAAAAAAAcs/vLeAJW4TodQ/s1600/2000+AD+Prog+1485.jpg
when people are drunk, sometimes violence occurs, and the custom of men not hitting women, bing a part of the code of chivalry, is not respected by lower class people. Bikers are predominantly lower class people, as far as education and behavior is concerned. A woman who stays with aman who beats her is actually the femalecountrpart to a wife beater. in other words, if she was a man she would be a wife beater too. because she is a lowlife like her 'old man'. Beating a dog for defending it's mistress? There just ain't no churching THAT up.
wilson blauheuer most retarded comment on youtube. So anyone who allows others to mistreat them, would mistreat other people themselves if they could? Lunacy
FACT-no one really gave half a shit when skip workman died last year except his friends and family.He will forever be remembered by those who DIDN'T personally know him as a greasy low life thug. FACT-Hunter's prolific literary legacy will last until all of the books are turned to ash,and will inspire and inform as long as people are alive on earth .
FACT - It's easy to be prolific when you write the same thing over and over again. Wading through that legacy is a tedious slog. The world needs a good list of "The HST worth bothering about."
This is sad. The audience laughs at Hunter as “guilt by association, if you associate with these unredeemable types, you deserve whatever you get.” But he probably saved the woman’s life, by distracting away from her beating and it’s probably one of the best things he ever did for anyone, and certainly establishes that he was a real man, and that the angels were cowards, no matter how big a pack they ran in, and that that’s why cowards run in a pack.
@@wolverine4ever38 You a biker, bro? If so, double what black1582 sez..1 percenters are all cowards at heart - they need all the rest of the wankers behind 'em to feel tough...
First time seeing this and as a fan of HST it's interesting to see him in the flesh in such a circumstance. He was clearly an intelligent guy with sound principles. That said, he should have probably gone back and had a few beers with them after the incident.
Ive read alot of biographys while i was in prison. It became interesting when id read a hunter S T biography then i read a sonny berger (founder or pres. Or something of hells angels) biography that both mentioned certain events from different POV's. And the electric acid cool aid test i think had some dealings with HTS.....it just became cool ovce id read so many that the characters all overlapped. There was timoty leary also and jerry garcia and slash.....alot of em begam to overlap
I've seen some photographs of HST after the beating, he was pretty "smashed", if you will, his face was swollen in a really bad shape and, after all, the so called "fair fight" is not a concept that belongs to so tight-knit groups as mororcycle clubs so, he got four of them against him. Considering that, I don't know if it's easy for a man to simply forgive such stomping and just have a few beers with his "executioners" aftewards acting like nothing had happened. Much more if the man who got the beat thought he was right since the beginning. And, mostly, since from that very moment, it seems to me that any shade of ilusion or enchantment that HST could have about the HA just broke down, as he realised that his principles and theirs would always clash. So, probably the best way to go was just to walk away without looking back again. I also think that the situation that occured to HST is, somehow, similar to what happened to several artists, writers and intelectuals of the sixties. I mean, they belived that bikers (not just Angels) were kind of a "frontline" of the counter culture. It was a understandable mistake to commit back then since bikers were kind of the "ultimate free souls" and hippies shared with them some aesthetic clues, behavioral aspects and tastes. But once that those artists, writers and intelectuals could tell the differences that put the biker world apart of the hippie/counter culture world, each one followed their separed paths. In short, what happened in Altamont was, to the eye of the big public, what happened before, in an other scale, to HST, a clash between social and demographic groups that shared some superficial aspects and the same zeitgeist, but were different on their respectives core values. Hope this help to clarify some key elements of that rich and exciting Era. Peace from Brazil to everyone. ✌
Yep...takes big balls to point firearms at your wife to scare the shit outta her for a laugh. Hunter was a pussy that couldn't mind his own business and couldn't keep a simple straight forward deal.
It is little wonder Thompson did so many drugs - he might have been the only sane person in that studio. He had to do something to keep up with convention . . .
@@buckovens6706 Hunter was a prick his writtings will fail. If you admire him your lost in a cloack of hopeless anonymity. Congratulations on your insight
Oh and I read the book Thompson wrote he SEEMED to be doing what journalists should do. He did say some good things about the Hells Angels he spent time with even though the fight happened at the end of their relationship and he could have just smeared all of them and slanted everything. He only mentioned the fight relatively briefly at the end of the book.
Jim G Yea, I know. One night at the bar my bother stop a guy from betting the hell out of his old lady, and when he was holding the guy down the hood of the car, he felt something on his back beating on the back of his head, and damn it was the guys bitch. Go figure a. So fuk that, from now on the bitchs are on there own.
@@angryskull1481....The same thing happened to me ! I was trying to stop this guy from beating up his girl....And all of a sudden, they both started kicking my ass...!! WTF? Learned my lesson...stay out of couple fights !!!!
Yeah. Plants. Hunter did okay, just went about it the wrong way. After getting permission to "hangaround" for his book, he bought a BSA M/C. Not a bad bike but not a Harley. Then during a fight, he hid in his car's trunk instead of helping the 81's. Then he mouthed off, called an 81 a "punk" and got stomped. Tiny saved his life. To top it all off, he never paid up the 81's like he said he was. Hunter was the punk. Poor Skip. RIP...
Hunter made the mistake of thinking he was an equal. It’s one thing to hang around ,it’s another to think anyone gives a shit what you think Hunter. You weren’t a member so, you got what you gave.
Skip was a good dude,he was great in the movie Hells Angels 69,navy vet and did lots for vets working with the VA,he just liked to ride drink and party,nothing wrong with that.
@@ricochette3237 But he did say that "to keep a woman in line, you need to beat them like a rug, once in a while". So he seemed to support the actions of junkie George. Hell's Angels are punks and scum.
@@TheWitchOvAgnesi , he was in fear of his life. Self preservation is a natural instinct. Your mom probably looked at your dad much the same way, or your wife to you.
Watching Hunter S. Thompson here, do you know who I think would be perfect to play him in a movie? WIll Arnet. Will Arnet looks like him here. All he has to do is just emulate him. :)
I remember looking for this interview, years ago, it's great to finally see it. But I wonder why it hasn't occurred to some of the other commenters that this was pretty much a staged interview. The audience is being told exactly when to laugh, the HA being allowed to bring his bike in, (you can just imagine some hip young broadcaster guy saying how 'edgy & cool' that would be), & HST looking incredibly uncomfortable, because it didn't want to do it that way, if at all. Thanks for showing this clip, I'm definitely subscribing.
Interesting bio/documentary. Hunter Thompson was a great American writer. I cracked up when the guy asked “what happened to the kegs of beer you promised us?” 😂🤣😂🤣😂
I always like when people say "I dont care what anyone thinks of me" yet they thought to voice that so they might care a whole lot what people think, so they go to extremes to prove the point.
That was hilarious! The Hells Angel was right! That was normal for them at that time. It gives you an insight into proper etiquette among people who are drunks and bullies. I'm surprised that Hunter was less than conciliatory with him on the show. But dealing with bullies is tricky. How you handle yourself in these situations is what they look for. They don't mind crazy, they don't mind publicity, but they constantly test to see if you are a stand up guy or a punk. Hunter should set up a meeting with them and just bring the beer. Send the books by mail later. But make peace with them. What he said about them in the book wasn't flattering, and after a few beers, they may have hard questions to ask him.
You just wonder how things would have went if Hunter had sent 4 kegs,on ice up to their party. Thompson's "Hell's Angels" was the first book I read after High School graduation. The book did make the rounds. I had to look and yes it is in my local library, my favorite Thompson book. I liked his shorter stories a good bit.
Skip Workmen had a point (besides the OL beating which of course is wrong), Hunter Thompson used the HA's to write a book and make money for himself and his publishers and it appears the HA's got nothing, not even beer money. That would not be the way things work today and by judging Hunters demeanor he knows Skip is right, he made bank off them and then trashed them. Sonny Barger was smart in finally getting the brand legal status to protect their interests.
I love the fucking "internet courage" some people are getting...I PROMISE you....that if you were anywhere NEAR a group Hell's Angels..none of you would be so quick to talk shit..period.
They arent laughing at the idea of women being abused. They are laughing at the idea that this man actually said it's ok to beat women. It's a shock laugh. Something like, "OMG he really said that! Thats hilarious!" I guess You don't understand humor. Its ok. Maybe youre just autistic 😃
JosephusXIX skip didn't beat his old lady... lolol the other hells angel did. so ya. skip did have some class.. I mean if it were me who was promised a couple kegs of beer and didn't receive it.. he would of been beaten as well.
@@GWulf47 its actually possible to have a relationship where neither person uses violence to get what they want, most people learn how to behave like this at around 6-7 years old, some worthless simpletons such as yourself might have some trouble with it though.
His face when he called it 60% garbage showed his truth! This man took a beat down for stepping up for a woman and dog being beaten as the crowd just laughed is insane
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I believe this interview was in 1965, almost 60 years ago. Yea, a guy shouldn't beat his wife or his dog. It was a very different world. Just accept this for what it is and STFU.......
What the hell did I just watch? Imagine something like this being in TV now. 😮
Frankincensed nope because everyone is a cry baby these days.
It is very possible that women on average do not respect weak men. They will not stay with a weak man. I am sure many a marriage was saved back then because the husband brought his wife in line. With a divorce rate at 50 percent right now, much of that is due to the emasculation of the man's role in society and his own family.
So what your saying is all the reality TV drama is fake
Jealous?
Imagine seeing two people talk past each other and one of them going on and on about a small debt. On TV now.
Hunter was right. You should never beat your wife or dog.
but its ok to have running gun battles with ur neighbours...which Hunter had regularly!!!..lol
@James Michael
Bro you need to curb that. A woman may lose control , they are emotional and all that, I understand you do your best,, I raised 8 kids with a woman that never stopped her violence, I survived and am still a free man, No one is perfect, you can only do your best.,
Beat the woman, not the dog.
@James Michael He was defo one of a kind that's for sure!
@James Michael 4 girls ! You have my sympathies. So much harder than the boys.
"This is exactly what happened.....junky George was beating his old lady", damn near died laughing! He just says it so nonchalantly 😂😂😂
Sheldon Ferguson “beat your old lady but don’t kick your dog.” 😂
Yeah it’s a pretty hilarious hey.. imagine being the child watching that. So hilarious… Life ruiningly hilarious
If Hunter got his butt kicked for telling a guy to stop beating his wife and dog, that's good by me and most people. I've never thought much of Hunter S. Thomson until I saw this. Good on him.
...what?
I think he means "good for Hunter that he was able to stand up for what is right (what Hunter thought was right)" Not good he got beat up. At least that's my take on the comment, perhaps a bit badly worded. Hunter was trying to set Junkie George right. That George could't handle that and hit Hunter, imo that would warrant self defence. If Hunter came prepared he should have pulled out his gun and delivered instant justice on George. Put that dog out of his misery. It's the only language these 1% understand. And also respect.
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Hunter stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
walking up to a drunk hells angel at 3 am, in a room full of hells angles, and calling him a punk and still being able to walk to his car? lucky man
true but they knew they were getting great publicity from the book so they gave him a pass believe me anyone else would be a dead man. I don't understand wht everyone thinks hst is so great he was insane look how he died he blew what little brains he had left out of his head
+motchka If your dubious assertion is true that he's "considered by many, including other great authors, to be one of the most influential journalists and writers of the 20th century" then we live in a terribly degenerate time in our society. He was an opportunistic, self-indulgent, self-serving, unprincipled, drug addicted, narcissist, coward and malcontent who fit perfectly into the societal death spiral of post-modern decadence. LOL... "great authors" by what standard of evaluation?
rjoskar He walked to his car after getting out of the hospital. Not so lucky. Odds are he didn't t commit suicide. A likely case of Arkancide.
You don't know a lot about a whole lot of authors do you?
Not lucky, just a real man!!!
Respect to Hunter, the man had some integrity, not to mention courage to stand up for what is right.
@Mofo Yes, like his books for their fun, but Hunter was a self indulged scumbag. Don't get him confused for someone with morals.
Living the dream
Not to mention a coward. His in the trunk of his car when shit got real
HUNTER IS TRASH!
Yeah, but Hunter stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
This should be in the library of Congress.
When the guy said "you have to beat your wife like a rug" Hunter said "I agree with you"
That's because Hunter smacked his wife around
What a dipsh it for cutting in to Thompson's version!
the dog even knew it was wrong to hit the women but the biker couldn't ...
Tell ya what. Don't mind your own business, and step in and tell an HA husband how to not treat his wife. Hunter did and stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
Ive' rode harleys for years..I'm 60 Iv'e known hells angels in my home town..I also love to read. Hunter Thompson had more balls than most men. Everyone in this crowd loved Skip..yet Hunter stood his ground. Isn't that what the HA's are all about..standing your ground?
Yeah, but H.A. guy was right. After spending so much time with the club, as did Hunter, you should be able to have a beer and a laugh over it. Then again, I wasn't there either so idk how badly Hunter was beaten up. Maybe he's still mad about it.
@@christopherdiedrich40 you don't go to a HA party as a civilian and start lipping off
@@crackernumber2 Think about it... Hunter must’ve weight 140lbs wet and he stood up to a Hells Angel and called him a coward for beating his wife and dog. Mad respect. That’s a real man, not these stupid bikers.
@@sergmanization thats a stupid man. He was lucky they didn't kill him.
Hunter is also a hypocrite because he shot himself in front of his famliy..... thats a coward.
You're more then welcome to go up to any 1%er and tell them how you feel......... anytime
He couldn't even make eye contact with him. Standing your ground? Hahahaha no. The embarrassment of running out (like he wanted to) was the only thing that kept him quiet in that seat.
wow times have changed! the audience laughing about a guy beating his wife.
They're laughing at the way the line was delivered! Keep it in context! Every other time hunter is talking about the incident there is no laughter!
BS..they are laughing at the guys name "Junkie George"...but times have changed...the world is full of sissy asses!
No kidding about time being different huh? What year is this?😂
Ahh the good ol days when you see a man beating a women to a pulp, you're suppose to watch because he's keeping her in line. Times have changed alright cause that woman abuser would have been messed up by any guy today. Back in those days if you were physically or sexually assaulting your kids it's suppose to stay within the family right.
@@randyjames6991 I'm seeing a whole species of the homosapiens worshipping BUBBA the jailhouse rapest right now! Just about everybody alive in the whole species wants to make someone their bitch! Only a few that don't belong to the wavelength don't abide! My ears are open! Almost everyone talks this way now! And I acknowledge that much of the time so many live the opposite of this way but they make a place for it! And it's a disease! But not everyone guilty!
I wonder if there's anyone alive with the guts that Hunter had to ride with these guys and then write his book!
i might have, were I a writer. But then I understand respect. Respect begets respect. AND I would have been smart enough (and respectful enough. See how that works?) to let the club read it first. AND I'd have given them all the beer (and copies) they wanted. They're not hard to get along with. Just show them respect.
Hunter stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
“Only a punk beats his wife and dog”. I prescribe to that as well Hunter .
Hunter stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
You "prescribe" to it? The word is "ascribe"... SMH
@@stanleymasterson1135 the word is SUBscribe.
I can't BELIEVE how the people in that audience thought that "sometimes you have to beat your wife like a rug to keep them in line" was so funny!!!!! Even the women were laughing about it! I'm completely blown away. There are so many women who go through that every day, and nothing about it is funny.
It's a pretty fucking hilarious line
@@drillerkiller5199 Says the fragile masculine snowflake..
Are we really surprised, I mean this is the same generation who supports building walls and segregation. This must be what they mean by “make America great again.” So they can all go back to beating their loved ones and dogs publicly with no fear. Hate breeds ignorance.
@@damone70 STFU and leave him alone.
You are all people so fragile and butthurt you change history so kids can be rule following conforming pricks just like the rule makers want. So what people thought it was fine then. Can we be happy its not fine now?
Hunter had the balls to confront a Hell's Angel in a group of Hell's Angels. Good job Doc!
Even though Hunter smacked his wife around and pointed firearms at her to scare the shit outta her
@@jad2484 proof?
@@TGCampbell8
"Hunter S Thompson, The Last 24!
Hunter used and lied to the angels.
@@shannonhiers3474
Absolutely he did. He's lucky they didn't whack him. His skinny ass got off easy compared to others.
Hats off to Hunter for having the balls to square up to a Hell's Angels and live to tell about it.
Squared up and got his wig split... and then couldn't meet this man's gaze. Yeah, real tough guy. More like a beaten dog.
@@TheWitchOvAgnesi your blind to the facts...if a non fighter stands his grounds its tougher than beating a man who stands for what he believes in. Dont let the game get to your head
@@lordsysop Just so you know... what you said makes absolutely no sense. Not trying to be mean, it just doesn't communicate anything. Basically just jibberish. At best you're comparing apples to coconuts.
Hum it's on TV.
@@TheWitchOvAgnesi he stood up to one man and got jumped by 4 other man and still lived through it and didn't back down to this guy. No one else stood up to Junkie George, but him and the dog. They were the weak guys if you ask me. They jumped a man to defend a guy who was beating his wife.
Best entrance....EVER!!
I wished there was more of this!!
Dude rode his bike right onto the tv show set, cool!
Hes a legend where I live. Went to school with his boys.
I knew a man who felt it improper for another man to stick his nose in his business. As fate would have it I also witnessed this same man beaten, his heels placed on the curb and his opponent stomp and break both of his legs below the knees. Later in hospital this same man asked me why I stood by and did nothing to help him. I told him that karma is a bitch and perhaps now he knew how his old lady felt when he beat her. Men of violence ARE ALL "PUNKS" and mark my words, karma is a bitch.
I agree.
Why you lying for?
Think about it... Hunter must’ve weight 140lbs wet and he stood up to a Hells Angel and called him a coward for beating his wife and dog. Mad respect. That’s a real man, not these stupid bikers.
Dude riding in on his motorcycle was a self-consumed idiot.
@@mackmcclure6708 ....just like every other HA i've ever met.
@@bastardmcx5229 just like every other HA ... what?
@@mackmcclure6708 HA= hells angel
How do you know the bitch didnt deserve it?
The laughed the same way when Skip said they never got their beer
or when the dog bit Junky George. It was all a weird misadventure.
There is more going on in this scene than one mans unsettled score with another.
The changing of society (mid '60s through the mid'70s) and its attitude toward all forms of freedoms is on display here. Motorcycles, drugs, the biker lifestyle, gonzo journalism and all forms of free expression. I support Hunter, cherish his work and insight concerning America. I also support any persons right to ride and gather as riders, but not violence waged on the defenseless or unarmed.
So true skid mark! ! ! 66 6! These men are brothers in arms. ! rUnning game on all those who will listen>?? 6?????? Its time to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I am all outa gum!!!
Thank you professor
Thompson was a rude foul mouthed piece of garbage! He was also a closed minded self serving drug adled moron who like all other liberal monsters believed in freedom of expression as long as you believe the same as they do! If I choose to be Godly and patriotic and stand up for my morality I'm to be ridiculed and publicly branded a bigot or facists!! When in reality it is the other way around!! Why do liberal turds like Thompson have this insane urge to force their beliefs on me! If I don't accept and embrace them then I am to be ridiculed and slandered! To each his own! So stop forcing your toilet lifestyle on me!
@@Popesontour so you criticize Thompson and liberals for ridiculing and labeling you a bigot and a fascist for being "Godly and patriotic", while you label Thompson as a moron and liberals as monsters! You accuse Thompson of being rude and foul mouthed, while you refer to liberals as turds. You claim to support freedom of expression but you bemoan Thompson's freedom of expression because you see it as something which is being forced on you. You claim to have been slandered, while referring to Thompson as a piece of garbage. You say Thompson is closed minded, while saying you don't accept another point of view. And you have the temerity to refer to yourself as moral? As with many "Godly", hyper patriots you love to play the victim. While the printed words of Thompson may trigger you, they don't force anything on you!
Sure. They're on the teevee. They're there to do the primary thing going on in this scene : 1) I'm on teevee; 3) Profit.
He wrote what he wrote, its up to the reader what he wants to believe. "Only a coward hits his wife".
How times change; less than fifty years later and 'beating your girl like a rug' to 'keep her in line' just isn't nearly as funny as it seems to be to this (live)studio audience.. H.S.T seems to be the only sane individual in the room that day.
Indeed. Even the women in the audience are laughing. Many of these people are still alive. Now are we in a position to preach?
progress has been made no doubt. as much as I loved the music, the pop culture seemed slightly off. because of this upward humanistic trend, I suppose a critical look back is instructive.
***** His book on the Angels came out in 1966 and this encounter was probably around that time or not long afterward.
I think most of the female audience thought if a woman who goes with a hells angel gets battered then fuck her back in that area ,I cant see middle class white women caring much about a biker chick back in those days.
I do not feel like this.starting violence is not on.imo.
This was before the rise of rampant femnazi cultural marxism.
Hunter was a ballsy dude
He was obviously scared shitless. Expected to be punched in the face at any moment, as he should have been.
"Ballsy" ?? ......I see some smug, privileged , liberal intellectual trying to cover his ass .
He was a punk.
He's a POS wannabe that made a million lying to HA members... and you don't think they would be pissed. He shit talked his offer...
I bet he wouldn’t do it again! That’s not ballsy just plain stupid!
When you're in control of a situation, you don't need violence to get your way. If I ever felt that I needed to hit a woman to get her to do what I wanted, that would mean I dropped the ball long before that.
Truth. Only a punk beats his wife and dog
You must not have a wife, expecially one with the mentality that chooses to live with a 1%er. Try that, then tell us what you think. I tell ya, and old school biker mama, if you let her start slippin and dont straighten her out,
She will take you out, because your a punk ass bitch.
Truth!
Bwahaha ok zero experience
I'm with Hunter and the Dog. The only difference is I wouldn't have used words when I'm beating the piss out of some punkass wuss that beats woman and animals.
Punk
U 2
So ...
a) a previous confrontation needs resolving about a man's right to beat his wife
b) man defending wife beating gets about 85% of talk time
c) man who came to defense of wife and was beat up for it is cut off at the end unable to give his side of the story
What a program.
Sounds about like what happens to anyone that comes on a mainstream media platform and brings up the JQ.
Kissy, Kissy!.... I don't know, the biker and H Thompson seem to smiling while having this..."confrontation"....
Maybe it was scripted ? (sells more books)
A. They're probably all dead.
B. The book was a best seller and Hunter already talked about his side of the story in the book. Also the interviewer was probably scared to cut the Hells Angel off.
C. It's called time restraints. It's not a conspiracy.
Hunter stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
I always found it funny that he drove away so fast, and frightened, he didn't realize that Magoo was asleep in the back seat.
I love this video I love supporting 81 love you all respect
Righteous Panhead chopper
Absolutely
What ever..I've read the book and liked it, but, Hunter should have given them beer and the books. a deal is a deal.
Hunter Thompson was the coward?!? What about he Hells Angel guy who was beating a woman? Maybe he should pick on someone his own size! To the contrary, Thompson exemplified bravery by standing up against a group of bikers for what was right. What upside down nonsense is this!! Bizarre
+T1Brit
Carlos Ezquerra was the original Dredd artist in the 2000 AD graphic magazine. John Wagner wrote the excellent stories. Great team
Nige Robinson This guy, Cliff Robertson was also one of the OG artists back in the day
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when people are drunk, sometimes violence occurs, and the custom of men not hitting women, bing a part of the code of chivalry, is not respected by lower class people. Bikers are predominantly lower class people, as far as education and behavior is concerned. A woman who stays with aman who beats her is actually the femalecountrpart to a wife beater. in other words, if she was a man she would be a wife beater too. because she is a lowlife like her 'old man'. Beating a dog for defending it's mistress? There just ain't no churching THAT up.
wilson blauheuer most retarded comment on youtube. So anyone who allows others to mistreat them, would mistreat other people themselves if they could? Lunacy
thebullybuffalo shut up you hippie
"I wanna know about the two kegs of beer you owe us" truth, but you get your head cracked open and I wouldn't be too forthcoming with beer either
Hunter stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
FACT-no one really gave half a shit when skip workman died last year except his friends and family.He will forever be remembered by those who DIDN'T personally know him as a greasy low life thug.
FACT-Hunter's prolific literary legacy will last until all of the books are turned to ash,and will inspire and inform as long as people are alive on earth .
FACT - It's easy to be prolific when you write the same thing over and over again. Wading through that legacy is a tedious slog. The world needs a good list of "The HST worth bothering about."
This is sad. The audience laughs at Hunter as “guilt by association, if you associate with these unredeemable types, you deserve whatever you get.” But he probably saved the woman’s life, by distracting away from her beating and it’s probably one of the best things he ever did for anyone, and certainly establishes that he was a real man, and that the angels were cowards, no matter how big a pack they ran in, and that that’s why cowards run in a pack.
WHAT THE UNHOLY HELL DO YOU MEAN BY THE PHRASE "UNREDEEMABLE TYPES"................ARE YOU GOD ?...........SHUT UP ASSWIPE
lot's of tough talk from behind a keyboard....white
@@wolverine4ever38 You sound really offended.
@@wolverine4ever38 You a biker, bro? If so, double what black1582 sez..1 percenters are all cowards at heart - they need all the rest of the wankers behind 'em to feel tough...
Thank you so much for this. This video is just like what I was looking for.
First time seeing this and as a fan of HST it's interesting to see him in the flesh in such a circumstance. He was clearly an intelligent guy with sound principles. That said, he should have probably gone back and had a few beers with them after the incident.
Ive read alot of biographys while i was in prison. It became interesting when id read a hunter S T biography then i read a sonny berger (founder or pres. Or something of hells angels) biography that both mentioned certain events from different POV's. And the electric acid cool aid test i think had some dealings with HTS.....it just became cool ovce id read so many that the characters all overlapped. There was timoty leary also and jerry garcia and slash.....alot of em begam to overlap
I've seen some photographs of HST after the beating, he was pretty "smashed", if you will, his face was swollen in a really bad shape and, after all, the so called "fair fight" is not a concept that belongs to so tight-knit groups as mororcycle clubs so, he got four of them against him. Considering that, I don't know if it's easy for a man to simply forgive such stomping and just have a few beers with his "executioners" aftewards acting like nothing had happened.
Much more if the man who got the beat thought he was right since the beginning. And, mostly, since from that very moment, it seems to me that any shade of ilusion or enchantment that HST could have about the HA just broke down, as he realised that his principles and theirs would always clash. So, probably the best way to go was just to walk away without looking back again.
I also think that the situation that occured to HST is, somehow, similar to what happened to several artists, writers and intelectuals of the sixties. I mean, they belived that bikers (not just Angels) were kind of a "frontline" of the counter culture. It was a understandable mistake to commit back then since bikers were kind of the "ultimate free souls" and hippies shared with them some aesthetic clues, behavioral aspects and tastes. But once that those artists, writers and intelectuals could tell the differences that put the biker world apart of the hippie/counter culture world, each one followed their separed paths.
In short, what happened in Altamont was, to the eye of the big public, what happened before, in an other scale, to HST, a clash between social and demographic groups that shared some superficial aspects and the same zeitgeist, but were different on their respectives core values.
Hope this help to clarify some key elements of that rich and exciting Era.
Peace from Brazil to everyone. ✌
very well put, my Brazilian brother. You get it way better than most of us Americans. Not shocking. LOL
Im sure its been said, but best entance ever. And best opening statement!
Thompson was spot on when he said only a punk beats wife and dog.
And totally hypocritical. Hunter smacked his wife around and pointed firearms at her to scare the shit outta her.
And, Hunter stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
Love it Hunter S Thompson tuned up 👍
Hunter was a man with balls so big it's a wonder he walked upright.
Yep...takes big balls to point firearms at your wife to scare the shit outta her for a laugh. Hunter was a pussy that couldn't mind his own business and couldn't keep a simple straight forward deal.
Hunter stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
Skip work man....great name
Old School for sure.. where in the hell is the Kegs of Beer... the dog took care of business
Should have kept his word and brought the Men their 2 Kegs of beer 🍺
they ganked him and beat the fuck out of him. He decided that he would not honor a promise to such people. I do not blame him.
@Saul Goode Yeah I call it wet noodle alert - Peace
Hunter was stitched up, ridiculous not to let him reply.
+Anton Haq Hunter was interupting all the way through, so left no time to actually here him ! own fault !!!!
Man the public loved these guys back then.
No they were just laughing at him.
They still love us. (Support your local Hells Angels)
It is little wonder Thompson did so many drugs - he might have been the only sane person in that studio. He had to do something to keep up with convention . . .
I commented pretty similarly above, before reading comments..seriously, all the inappropriate laugh timing was creepy.
Search for the vid on here of hunter Thompson’s daily drug intake.
It’s epic
@@buckovens6706 Hunter was a prick his writtings will fail. If you admire him your lost in a cloack of hopeless anonymity. Congratulations on your insight
Nobody in this clip seems prepared to be on television
Oh and I read the book Thompson wrote he SEEMED to be doing what journalists should do. He did say some good things about the Hells Angels he spent time with even though the fight happened at the end of their relationship and he could have just smeared all of them and slanted everything. He only mentioned the fight relatively briefly at the end of the book.
Never get involved in a domestic dispute, it never ends well lol.
Jim G Yea, I know. One night at the bar my bother stop a guy from betting the hell out of his old lady, and when he was holding the guy down the hood of the car, he felt something on his back beating on the back of his head, and damn it was the guys bitch. Go figure a. So fuk that, from now on the bitchs are on there own.
@@angryskull1481....The same thing happened to me ! I was trying to stop this guy from beating up his girl....And all of a sudden, they both started kicking my ass...!! WTF?
Learned my lesson...stay out of couple fights !!!!
Exactly!!! Hunter stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
Hilarious , Where's our two cases of beer ?
Kegs*
Workman OWNS Thompson here.
Yeah. Plants.
Hunter did okay, just went about it the wrong way.
After getting permission to "hangaround" for his book, he bought a BSA M/C. Not a bad bike but not a Harley.
Then during a fight, he hid in his car's trunk instead of helping the 81's.
Then he mouthed off, called an 81 a "punk" and got stomped. Tiny saved his life.
To top it all off, he never paid up the 81's like he said he was.
Hunter was the punk.
Poor Skip. RIP...
Hunter made the mistake of thinking he was an equal. It’s one thing to hang around ,it’s another to think anyone gives a shit what you think Hunter. You weren’t a member so, you got what you gave.
Yes, we have decades and decades of evidence of them not caring. Right up to this thread today.
Skip was a good dude,he was great in the movie Hells Angels 69,navy vet and did lots for vets working with the VA,he just liked to ride drink and party,nothing wrong with that.
And beat women and dogs... yeah great guy.
@@PH5221 he never beat women or dogs that was junkie George,get your story straight
@@ricochette3237 But he did say that "to keep a woman in line, you need to beat them like a rug, once in a while". So he seemed to support the actions of junkie George. Hell's Angels are punks and scum.
That's the bloke who's tripping on the Altamont stage during "Under My Thumb".
No it's not
Nope
@@ingramtl Apologies
@@cheeptrick5464 Apologies
@@anthonyday5555 no problem
Hunter the only brave one, daring to think and expose shit. Crowd, interviewer and the hell's angel simpletons.
@@sliderdrago8189 Christ another idiot.
@Saul Goode Why would you say that? And 'satanic' too ??? Hahahaha!! You're not on all cylinders buddy. What the hell are you, some dumbass kid?
Yet he can't meet this man's gaze? Look at him... eyes sunk, tail between his legs. Typically pussy libtard.
@@TheWitchOvAgnesi , he was in fear of his life.
Self preservation is a natural instinct.
Your mom probably looked at your dad much the same way, or your wife to you.
Hunter also told alot of lies.
Are more 60`s uploads ? I`am will gona watch them all I love it!;-
Put this up against The Wendy Williams show and you'll see how far down we've gone
Don't know this show but if you said Oprah, Rikki Lake, Jerry Springer or Sally Jessie Raphael, I'd have to agree.
This was a great video loved it thanks for sharing
To all praising hunter for being so brave.. when skip makes the "beat like a rug" comment did y'all not see hunter laugh and say "I agree"?
The man risked his life when it mattered. He can laugh at a joke when it's harmless
Hunter stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
I respect this hell's Angel
why? is it the wife beating or meth smoking that convinced you?
HT was right. Only a punk beats a woman (and a dog).
Watching Hunter S. Thompson here, do you know who I think would be perfect to play him in a movie? WIll Arnet. Will Arnet looks like him here. All he has to do is just emulate him. :)
These people would love the one about the fire at the orphanage.
@Matthew Meditz All the kids were screaming while they burned up, just like Waco! Man, it was hilarious! What a hoot!
/sarc JUST KIDDING!!
Jeff Brownlee . Lol!
RIP Skip...
4:22 Joan Baez in the audience. Nobody mentions that in the comments. Times change.
Yes they did. Four years ago.
Aww.... the good ol' days.
good ole days of meth smoking and wife beating yeee yeeee soooooo coool good ol boys hurrr deee deeer
Johnny Depp totally nailed this guy in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
***** I liked it laughed the whole time.
+johnny rebel He was better than Hunter!
Wow they should have pushed for a better deal , two kegs of beer ?
I remember looking for this interview, years ago, it's great to finally see it.
But I wonder why it hasn't occurred to some of the other commenters that this was pretty much a staged interview. The audience is being told exactly when to laugh, the HA being allowed to bring his bike in, (you can just imagine some hip young broadcaster guy saying how 'edgy & cool' that would be), & HST looking incredibly uncomfortable, because it didn't want to do it that way, if at all.
Thanks for showing this clip, I'm definitely subscribing.
Interesting bio/documentary. Hunter Thompson was a great American writer. I cracked up when the guy asked “what happened to the kegs of beer you promised us?” 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Hunter stepped over the line and got his a$$ beat. (Support your local Hells Angels)
What gets me is the women clapping about junky george beating the woman who life was so bad that she stayed with a man who beat her.
Should have just given them 2 kegs of beer. Like he promised.
Thank God for men like Hunter S. Thompson.
RIP, Hunter.
This such a strange interview.
You mean fake interview
I always like when people say "I dont care what anyone thinks of me" yet they thought to voice that so they might care a whole lot what people think, so they go to extremes to prove the point.
A wife beater is entertainment? Fell through a wormhole here.
Sure nice name jerkoff
I wonder if they ever got their 2 kegs of beer
That was hilarious! The Hells Angel was right! That was normal for them at that time.
It gives you an insight into proper etiquette among people who are drunks and bullies. I'm surprised that Hunter was less than conciliatory with him on the show.
But dealing with bullies is tricky. How you handle yourself in these situations is what they look for.
They don't mind crazy, they don't mind publicity, but they constantly test to see if you are a stand up guy or a punk.
Hunter should set up a meeting with them and just bring the beer. Send the books by mail later. But make peace with them.
What he said about them in the book wasn't flattering, and after a few beers, they may have hard questions to ask him.
It’s too bad that Hunter can no longer sit down with them and bring the beer considering he blew his brains out in 2003.
But, did he?
You just wonder how things would have went if Hunter had sent 4 kegs,on ice up to their party. Thompson's "Hell's Angels" was the first book I read after High School graduation. The book did make the rounds. I had to look and yes it is in my local library, my favorite Thompson book. I liked his shorter stories a good bit.
Seems to me, if he promised them some beer and some books for access, he should have paid up and been good to his word, beating aside. (honor)
Skip Workmen had a point (besides the OL beating which of course is wrong), Hunter Thompson used the HA's to write a book and make money for himself and his publishers and it appears the HA's got nothing, not even beer money. That would not be the way things work today and by judging Hunters demeanor he knows Skip is right, he made bank off them and then trashed them. Sonny Barger was smart in finally getting the brand legal status to protect their interests.
I love the fucking "internet courage" some people are getting...I PROMISE you....that if you were anywhere NEAR a group Hell's Angels..none of you would be so quick to talk shit..period.
Oh, I'd talk shit, but not about them. LOL
The way this is told, makes me believe Hunter S. was a truly brave man. Stood up to oppression and conformism in many forms.
Skip Workman was very cool
LOL, it takes four "super hard" angels to beat up Hunter Thompson.
@@YuriTardid One bullet is stronger than four Hells.
He had me at “ junkie Jorge was beating his old lady “
Poor sweet thing 😇
If you let a woman get you riled up enough to actually beat her, she already beat you. Just walk away while you still have some self-respect.
can't argue with that.
It was terrifying how not only men laughed, but women were laughing just as hard at the "beating your woman like a rug" comment.
Did that terrify you? What a good little communist.
It was sickening.
They arent laughing at the idea of women being abused. They are laughing at the idea that this man actually said it's ok to beat women. It's a shock laugh. Something like, "OMG he really said that! Thats hilarious!" I guess
You don't understand humor. Its ok. Maybe youre just autistic 😃
HUNTER YOU NEED TO OWN UP TO YOUR WORD!!!!!!!
They need to make a film based on Hunter's Hells Angels book with Johnny Depp.
+Jon Why?
+Wyme Wruscel The definition of "honesty" is rarely so diminished.
+Wyme Wruscel fuck you
Was this Skip Workman or Cliff Dirkman (of the HA) Wikipedia lists the encounter on CBC Television as the latter, on Hunter S Thompsons Bio
The biker dude (Skip) was speaking calm and logically and showed class.
Lots of class, beat "your" woman. What a fucking dirtbag.
JosephusXIX skip didn't beat his old lady... lolol the other hells angel did. so ya. skip did have some class.. I mean if it were me who was promised a couple kegs of beer and didn't receive it.. he would of been beaten as well.
bpf 007 I bet your bitch walks all over you. Do you do the housework, or are you a man?
Wanted a case of beer for payment? Fucking loser trash biker.
@@GWulf47 its actually possible to have a relationship where neither person uses violence to get what they want, most people learn how to behave like this at around 6-7 years old, some worthless simpletons such as yourself might have some trouble with it though.
@0:42 Hunter's face said it all" 😵