David Mann Died

[DREDIOCK]

Obviously old news but
Was sitting here watching American Chopper when they said Dave Mann died. Sept 11 2004

Damn shame always loved his artwork.

To those unfamiliour with him it can easily be said he was the Norman Rockwell of American Bikers.




RIP



http://home.att.net/~knucklehead-47/dmann.htm

[Heater]

It is a shame...I met him in Daytona in 92'  He was one of the most down to earth people I have ever met.

[DiabloTX]

Pssssst, hey DRED, Indian Larry is dead too.

[Jackal1]

Mann was old school to the bone and was able to capture and get that feel to come shining through in a lot of his work.

[lazs2]

don't really know if Mann portrayed us or we portrayed his work.

lazs

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by lazs2
don't really know if Mann portrayed us or we portrayed his work.

lazs

  Heh! True enough. Things that make ya go Hmmmmm.

[capt. apathy]

Originally posted by lazs2
don't really know if Mann portrayed us or we portrayed his work.

lazs

I'd say a bit of both.

he could sure paint the feeling, but I've met more than a few who used the ER mag (complete with one of his pics in every issue) as a 'how to' manual.  though they were usually that guy who's leathers matched the paint on his bike (the bike daddy bought him).

[Gunslinger]

yea I saw this epp too and was truely touched.  As much as the tuttles get made fun of for being "assemblers" instead of builders they actually built an awsome bike as a tribute to him (note: the project started when he was alive and he died before it was completed)

They had an artist do a tribute painting of him entitled "the last ride home" wich his widow loved.

and they ran of 3000 prints of the painting as a fundraiser for her to help with her hosptital bills.

it was a real touching tribute to say the least.  I never got into bikes but looked up some of his work after the show.

[lazs2]

the first year of two of er a lot of people I knew were on the pages of it.  Hard to tell if the pic were copies of Manns work or vice versa.   The first er mags did a pretty good job of showing the dark side of it too.  

in fiction and in pics.   You could read a fictionalized story of a drug deal gone bad or look at a pic of my friend leading a group of 50 bikes into San Quentin or.... whatever..  It was a weird time and the captn is right... ER was used as a how to book for some It was usefull to use that naievety sometimes.   You could cash in your notoriety with those guys.

I'm rambling... either we have said all there is to say about it in this thread or there can never be enough said about it.   doesn't really matter.   Nothing like it will ever exist again.  Probly a lot of it never did exist and a lot of it was even worse than ER could print.  

But please... let's not get the tv ness imitators even in the thread.

first time I met arlen ness I knew he was the future and the future was gay accountant posers.... like the tv shows.

lazs

[bunch]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
....he was the Norman Rockwell of American Bikers.




RIP

Who was the Leroy Neiman of American Bikers?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by bunch
Who was the Leroy Neiman of American Bikers?

Im sure quite a few. After all LSD used to be very popular:)