Monday, 6 August 2012

"INDIAN LARRY + ENGLISH DON, 'HELLRIDE' 1996" [BY ENGLISH DON'] . . . . IT GAGS HOW SO MUCH UTTER DROSS SCORES HUGE VIEWS ON POOTUBE YET REAL QUALITY GEMS SUCH AS THIS LANGUISH ALMOST UNSEEN, WTF ??? . . . . MORE ROUTE 66 SHENANIGANS WITH THOSE LARRIKIN LADS, THE BAYONET BROTHERS . . . . TOP SHELF, LO-FI, LOW BUCK ACTION, KILLER SOUNDTRACK TOO !!!

This is just fucking perfect, honest, down home and dirty, boys being boys on the road to perdition shit, Indian Larry and English Don somewhere on Route 666 simply enjoying the crap out of each others company . . . . shot in 16mm over sixteen years ago on what Don Cornwallis labelled the 'Hellride', set to a bitchin choice of soundtrack, sorry I can't tell you what it is, I reckon this timeless road trip mini-flick captures a mood and a vibe that many big buck wannabes totally miss.

A couple of blokes doing what blokes in this kinda situation do, fucking shit up, having fun, hacking each other up with chainsaws, drinking beers, relieving the heat, relieving themselves and generally running amok without actually hurting anybody else . . . . well, except for the servo attendants they 'hold up' in the making of the previously blurbed, infamous 'Harley ad', the cool thing in this piece of Cycle Freak, Bayonet Brothers documentation is the chance to see the stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor . . . . all in all, a super cool, feel good thing . . . . hopefully one day I'll get to do Route 666 on a bike and not in a car as I did back in '97 . . . . I  don't think I'll be packing the McCulloch though.

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