Belt Drive Betty's Blog

A Ton of Belt Drive Betty related news today

<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is so much going on today - where do I start - how about with the bad crap so we can get it out of the way and celebrate the good stuff!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you experience log in issues on our site - please note that we are aware of it and have been fighting with our web site host since the wee hours of this morning. Poor Ali finally fell into bed at 4:30 am - most of the issues except the log in have been resolved and when she gets up she will go to work on that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You are actually logged in and can access everything - it just doesn't appear that you are logged in...weird stuff...but keeps us on our toes I guess! Gotta laugh or I'd cry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then she (Ali) will fix a couple of other little things for us and begin the daunting task of moving web hosts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We will be moving to GoDaddy - they have stepped up their game hugely and since our current host - Host Gator has probably the worst customer service and the most archaic methods of dealing with issues I have ever experienced - well - let's just say I am hoping to see our site speed improve and banking on GoDaddy's commitment to better customer service.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you are looking at starting a site or for a reliable web host may I NOT recommend Host Gator. They are, in my humble opinion and personal experience THE WORST at customer service.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">UPS has apparently lost our calendar order  - they will hunt them down - they promise. In the mean time I have talked to my printer and he will re print them and ship via an alternate route if they don't show up here by next Friday. If it ends up costing me money to priority them out the buyers - then that's what we'll have to do - BUT YOU will have your calendars in time for the holidays...somehow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Now on to the good stuff.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We now have our own Shop Section up and running with our CafePress Store and our affiliate shops:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">BDB Gear: <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/bdbgearstore/8312415">http://www.cafepress.com/bdbgearstore/8312415</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Canadian Riders Support Gear: <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/bdbgearstore/8312759">http://www.cafepress.com/bdbgearstore/8312759</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bikers United in Remembrance Gear: <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/bdbgearstore/8312383">http://www.cafepress.com/bdbgearstore/8312383</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our Bikers United in Remembrance Patches and the 2012 Canadian Riders Support Network Patches will be available on the site later today - They are here and they are GORGEOUS!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ali will get the Pay Pal links up for them this afternoon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They will have their own little section in the shopping area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>In the Affiliate Category:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We also have BDB gear available through Ross Screenprint - Ross is making certain designs for us...Click on the BDB Gear @ Ross Screenprint to see the designs and colours available: <a href="http://beltdrivebetty.com/shop">http://beltdrivebetty.com/shop</a>  We love working with other rider owned businesses for our products wherever possible! And Ross is a Rider - known as the Cabot Trail Biker!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ken the Glassdude is offering Sand Carved Mugs - they are magnificent and he will personalize them for you too - just click the link that says Glassdude! <a href="http://beltdrivebetty.com/shop">http://beltdrivebetty.com/shop</a>  - Yes - Ken the Glassdude is also a biker. If you want to save the shipping cost on these, Ken will ship them to the Bike Shows for me where you can pick them up and we can email you a GC to print off and put in the stocking if it is a gift for Christmas!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You can also get your road side assistance through us in the shop section of our web site by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">clicking the Roadside Assistance link. This is a great serve and exceedingly affordable. I use this road side assistance and it's been great!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our Signs & License Plate Shop links are experiencing a few hiccups courtesy the challenges we had with our host - again, Ali will resolve these after she's gotten some sleep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You can also visit our Amazon Book Store for some great gift and stocking stuffer ideas!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And don't forget subscriptions to our weekly newspaper - and 2012 Phone Books that will be available in January!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It has been a roller coaster day already and it's not even half over!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I had best put the finishing touches on the phone book so the printer can get them done and shipped in time for the bike show!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is  a ton of news in the feeds today including a bust on the <a href="http://beltdrivebetty.com/latest-qc-news/297-motorcycle-television/14074-police-raid-hells-operation">Hells in Montreal</a>....check out the feed at <a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/">www.beltdrivebetty.com</a> where we sift through the news so you don't have to.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I will leave you with a couple of funnies from around the net that tickled my funny bone - you gotta have a laugh and especially on a day like this one!</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Have a fantastic Thanksgiving day to all of my American Friends and to everyone else - happy Thursday.</span></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Belt Drive Betty</span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Editor & Rider</span></b></i>

A Ton of Belt Drive Betty related news today

There is so much going on today - where do I start - how about with the bad crap so we can get it out of the way and celebrate the good stuf...

TV versus Reality

Belt Drive 1 Law & Politics, riding community 5:20 AM

<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sons of Anarchy has become a popular show with bikers and non bikers alike.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/index.php/latest-lifestyle/1615-moviestv/14064-a-world-where-outlaw-bikers-are-bad-but-government-agents-are-even-worse-">An article in the news feeds today talks about how although the bikers are bad</a>, the government officials in the show appear to be worse.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How do you feel about the government agents like the district attorney on SOA?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They say that film often imitates life...do you believe that the cops and other government officials can be as bad as some of them portrayed on the show?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have my opinions but I want to hear yours...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/index.php/lastest-international/286-news-international-/14052-bikie-gang-offended-by-social-patch">In Australia, the Nomads have warned the Gold Coast Riding Club</a> that they need to change their patch to one more acceptable to the outlaw mc. In the past, the Rebels MC has threatened the Ulysses Club telling them they need to get rid of their patch - it appears that anything that looks like it has a bottom and top rocker offends the MC's there.  The Gold Coast Cruisers patch looks NOTHING like the Rebels patch but are they going to argue with the MC?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Australian Newspaper - Gold Coast posted this picture and is asking people to vote on whether or not people think the patches are at all similar:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You can vote here: <a href="http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2011/11/22/367725_gold-coast-news.html">http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2011/11/22/367725_gold-coast-news.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have heard of other cases where MC's challenge riding clubs over their patch designs, and I wonder how many riding clubs know that they should be approaching the dominant club in the region BEFORE they make their patches official and how many even care?  Here in Grande Prairie a number of years ago a riding club was pressured to change their patches because the local dominant did not appreciate it's similarities to their patch and they did not like the rockers on them that gave the illusion of territorial behaviour...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's risky business to piss of an MC but when is enough, enough?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Again - I would love your thoughts on this topic...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are other articles in the news feeds that might prove of interest to you, check them out at <a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/">www.beltdrivebetty.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>I leave you with a few funnies from around the net that have tickled my funny bone...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Have a happy hump day...</span><br />
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TV versus Reality

Sons of Anarchy has become a popular show with bikers and non bikers alike. An article in the news feeds today talks about how although the...

We don't want you in our country - 6 motorcycle club members ejected from Norway

Belt Drive 0 Law & Politics, Rider Friendly Business Association 4:17 AM

<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">6 men from the US spent several days in an Oslo Norway jail - their crime?</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Being members of the Gypsy Jokers Motorcycle Club.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/index.php/lastest-international/286-news-international-/14050-six-americans-were-held-against-their-will-in-norway">The men were  held in custody without being told why.</a> and although an attorney was provided to the men, all the attorney could tell them after talking to officials was: <span class="Apple-style-span">"Some of you have criminal records and some of you don't, but they believe there is a chance that you might do something wrong here."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">They were also denied the right to see a US consulate official.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In the end the 6 were bought tickets by the Norwegian government and sent home, no charges were laid but documents were found on each man that were meant for the pilot regarding why they were deported.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Begin Quote: Instructions for the airline pilot on each of the 'deported' passengers somehow ended up in the passenger's belongings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A U.S. Customs official removed the documents from Kondash's property, noting that the two pages of instructions for the pilot stated, 'Do not give to any unauthorized personnel'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Well you can't have these," the official told Kondash.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As it turns out though, the six passengers were checked by different Customs agents upon returning to Seattle, and all were not as thorough as the one who checked Kondash. Three sets of those same documents were left in the possession of the Americans.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The information regarding the six Americans was essentially the same. It is a two page set of instructions, and on the second page is a series of boxes describing the reason a person is being deported. In the case of the six bikers, they each had four boxes checked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">These are the four boxes checked under the category 'Unescorted deportees (depu) svg-osl-nyc'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He was deported to Norway according to the Chicago Treaty. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He was expelled due to lack of residence permit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not convicted of a crime in this country. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The police consider this person to be stable, and that he poses no threat to himself or others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Those are the descriptions of six Americans who were allowed to fly all the way to Norway in good faith, and rejected at the airport gate. End Quote</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have known Pat Savage for about 10 years now. I have heard
him sing rock, progressive and blues and while he is good at them all, by far,
my favorite is when Pat sings the blues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The blues conjures up images of smoke filled bars, fine old
whiskey and scotch, BB King, T Bone Walker, Freddie King and other great blues legends
and Pat deserves to be right there as one of the great blues guitar pickers.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When it comes to vocals, Blues is not only his roots, but is
his strongest genre where his talent shines it’s brightest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And when Pat picks a guitar, regardless of the genre, the
cords are strong and crisp, his guitar picking moves you, and your body just
can’t help itself. His music moves you right along with the wind he sings of
and the roads he rides.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Harley Man</b> – true blues, smoky, gravelly, foot tapping – the
lyrics tell you the story of a man who loves his bike too much to put it
outside in 40 below weather in spite of the offerings of his ol’ lady for
certain special favors – every biker, Harley Rider or not can identify with the
sentiments represented in this song. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Born to Ride </b>– Hard kicking rock with an undertone of
country blues, you can feel the partnership between rider and passenger, rider
and wind…it’s a great tune that makes your toes start tapping. This is another
track where the guitar picking is phenomenal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>John the Revelator</b>- is an old school blues song, it’s smoky,
husky and is reminiscent of many old time southern Baptist worship songs, the
visuals this song conjures up are of robes, beards and bikes, an odd
juxtaposition that works incredibly well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bonnie Anderson who does some of the lead vocals in this
song has such a powerful and dusky voice and is the perfect foil to Pat’s
gravelly, raw sound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Ridin Hard, Livin Free</b> is a real hard rocking tune perfect
for pounding down the road, the hard driving beat not unlike the beat of your
machine’s heart as it spirits you down to road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>I love the guitar picking in El Diablo</b>. Spanish flavored
rock that makes you think of cowboys of old, bandits on the run and the fight
between good and evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Pat Savage is a dyed in the wool Harley-Davidson fan, and
although he references his machine of choice a lot in his music, every rider
can relate to his tales of why he loves to be on the road, riding, wind in his
face…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">While no words/lyrics in the world can express why a rider
loves to ride, the music can and in many of his tracks you can feel the
expression of the wind as it takes flight and leads you down the road to the
next adventure and that is what music should do, like your bike, it should move
your soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is something to appeal to most everyone on this album,
but by far my favorites are the blues – the genre best suited to Pat’s gravelly
voice and incredible talent with his guitar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Don’t take my word for it though, check out Pat’s Album –
Wind & Fire, which is available for sale at:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://www.savageroads.com/wind-fire/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In London Ontario - <a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/index.php/latest-on-news/296-motorcycle-television/14049-rivals-slip-into-neighbourhood">the police claim that the Outlaws have moved into a club house</a> 4 blocks away from the Hells Angels causing fear in the community, however - that might not be the case...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Also in Ontario, Mark Bocek <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"> - </span><a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/index.php/latest-on-news/296-motorcycle-television/14046-bocek-combines-cage-fighting-with-love-for-motorcycles" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;">a Lightweight UFC fighter, feels the need for speed.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/index.php/latest-canadian-national-news/287-news-canadian-national/14010-canadian-motorcycle-association">Motorcycle Crash Victims to be remembered on November 27th in Port Dover</a> by the Canadian Motorcycle Association & the Christian Motorcycle Association</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the US - <a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/index.php/latest-business/304-businessindustry-news-american/14047-revving-up-business-sas-executive-says-state-aid-saved-company">S & S is grateful for the financial aide they got from the government.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are other articles in the news feeds that may be of interest to you - read them at <a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/">www.beltdrivebetty.com </a>where we sift through the news so you don't have to.</span></div>
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An interview with Pat Savage...

Belt Drive 0 Community, riding community 6:08 AM

<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I had the pleasure of doing an interview with Canadian biker and rocker Pat Savage. If you are a subscriber to our National biker's Weekly - the Busted Knuckle Chronicles, you got to read that interview in the paper on Thursday.  I thought I would share that interview with everyone else today.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tomorrow I will share my review of his new CD - Wind & Fire.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">BDB - I have known you for about 10 years now, I remember you
playing at the Redneck Run in Beaverlodge Alberta years back – you were still
playing at 7 in the morning because there were still people up grooving to the
tunes you were playing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>What gives you such a passion for making your
fans happy?</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">  PS -I’m generally a happy go lucky biker bear, riding &
singing my life away for over 30 years now & what makes me happy is to
inspire others to embrace life & live it to the fullest. I’m also a
passionate guy who knows how to write songs about our biker’s lifestyle &
make a decent living from it. It enables me to then able to tour the entire
world wherever there are Harley folks & share it with them.  <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">·    BDB -<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>You took some time off recently, to recharge the
batteries and reconnect with your music and soul, is that how John the
Revelator came to be? It’s a pretty powerful song about the bible, faith and
motorcycles so I am curious…what inspired that song?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><o:p>    PS - </o:p>I’d been touring nonstop for over 29 years & needed a
real break to make some personal changes. For example my hatred of the dentist
& my ignorance about how much you’re teeth actually affect your physical
wellbeing. Mine were very bad & I was overweight & somewhat lazy doing
lots of time in front of the computer making music or editing film &
promotional tasks. I went to Thailand & got myself new teeth, lost 20 kilos
& developed a much healthier lifestyle. I got the inspiration from the last
episode of the first season of Sons Of Anarchy at the funeral scene when this
fine old traditional gospel song started playing giving me the willies. I
grabbed my guitar & started my own bluesy version. I’m a devout Buddhist
but raised Catholic so it struck many spiritual chords in me.</span></span></div>
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road and your motorcycle, it seems to reflect a certain loyalty to the first
responders of the Fire Department, tell me about how the Wind & Fire
Motorcycle club inspired this album.</span></span></div>
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over to Germany to be closer to my new biker market after having toured every
state & province in North America. I performed at Harley Davidson Club
Kempen’s rally in Belgium & there I met Eddy Styveson & Berry DeGynst,
the European president & VP of Wind & Fire MC. They asked me to be the
European Representative & I agreed. After moving back to Canada I was asked
to be the International Celebrity Representative, which I am currently. The
title track is dedicated to them & the lyrics are about riding Harley after
risking their lives everyday in their perilous jobs.  <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Joe Cocker is at the top of a very long list of inspiring artists I’ve had the
pleasure to warm up the stage for. Both of these guys are good examples of
career longevity & are constantly upping their game rather than fading
away. I have played with many great artists & am blessed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>I know from our discussions about Savage Roads
the Pay per View series that you have and are riding with motorcyclists around
the world experiencing their little piece of heaven on earth, what drove you to
doing a series like this? It has to be a massive undertaking.</span></span></div>
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this. We travel to exotic places with our cameras & get up on Harley’s and,
with the local biker folks as our guide, we explore local, regional &
national art, music, cuisine, history, architecture & biker friendly
hangouts and & stops along the road. We are traveling to exotic places
therefore we’re rollin down the road less traveled. The “Savage” roads if you
will. It is a huge undertaking but we shoot simply & without all the
catering & huge trucks. More commando style we just roll film & capture
it all.</span></span></div>
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future albums?  I know, silly question –
you get your inspiration from the road and the people you connect with, but
something tells me you have already got another album in mind…care to share a
little about that?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p>        PS - </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Well this Wind & Fire CD took us one full year to record
in Legend Studios in Phuket Thailand with South African producer Gary Crause
writing & recording the tunes with me. It’s a very good CD & hope you
will agree & more importantly the thousands of biker fans I’ve got all over
the planet. Next up I’m recording an acoustic unplugged style CD called “Savage
Steel”. I’m working with my step dad Fred Steele & two very talented biker
poets Larry Scerri & Eddie Sorez to write some ballad type biker tunes.
Also covering David Allen Coe’s “That Old Pan Head Of Mine” & writing
tributes to my friends “Ode To Billy Lane” & “Indian Larry”. Acoustic
guitar based ballads with banjos, mandolins & harmonicas playin along. This
is will come out early next spring & you will be the first to get a copy!</span></span></div>
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years, working on both an album and a video series?  Have you been “enjoying the ride?’ It seems to
me that even after entertaining for 30 years you are enjoying your work more
now than at any point in your career, and it comes through in your album, there
seems to be an honesty that shines through in this album in a way it never has
before.</span></span></div>
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that after 30 years of nonstop “rippin it” onstage & off all around the
globe, I went through some personal changes & went deeper into my soul than
ever before & taking a long overdue break from touring to shoot an episode
of “The Savage Roads” in Krabi Thailand & recording “Wind & Fire”. The
road is long & winding, but we always keep on finding, brand new roads to
travel & some well-deserved stops along the ride. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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fans know about the best Harley ridin music I’ve ever written & recorded
Betty. ML&R<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Visit Pat's Web Site at: </span><a href="http://www.savageroads.com/wind-fire">www.savageroads.com/wind-fire</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><o:p>Also in the US, <a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/index.php/lastest-international/286-news-international-/13999-harry-on-a-harley-look-away-charles-prince-dons-a-red-bandana-and-aviator-shades-then-hits-arizona-highway-on-a-p11000-classic-bike-">Prince Harry rides a Harley in Nevada</a></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There's a ton of other news from the week end that may be of interest to you, you can check out the daily news feeds at <a href="http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/">www.beltdrivebetty.com</a></span></div>
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