| Author | Message | ||
     Bandm |
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/michael-parks -film-and-tv-character-actor-dies-at-77/ar-BBAZ792 ?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp | ||
| Glitch |
Pegs down  | ||
| Crusty |
RIP Michael Parks. While I found most of the show's episodes pretty boring, I loved the Pilot and have it in my DVD library. It was as Inspirational for me as Easy Rider was at the time. | ||
| 46champ |
damn that is too bad. Loved the show and his albums. | ||
| Etennuly |
What was the triangle decal on his tank? | ||
| Zac4mac |
A very large contributor to my desire to be "a biker" in the late 70s. That, Easy Rider and Zen and the Art... RIP Jim Bronson.. | ||
| Zac4mac |
He got me to thinking you didn't have to be/look like those guys in the Devil/Biker movies but could still have a super great time.. 70s and 80s I spent a lot of sleeping bag time next to my bike just off the shoulder of the 2-lane, .380 in my right hand, in the bag. | ||
| Two_seasons |
Pretty much my experience too. IMDb calls the series "A disillusioned reporter, James "Jim" Bronson, quits his job and starts wandering the road on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle as a form of soul-searching. He meets various characters. Some he helps, others he educates." Sounds a lot like this board. I like the series opener too. Kinda of says it all about life in general. RIP  | ||
| Hughlysses |
What was the triangle decal on his tank? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence | ||
| Glitch |
Its the Eye of Providence.  | ||
| Airbozo |
Had to look it up, but during the filming of the episode "Amid Splinters of the Thunderbolt", my Adopted parents met him in Colorado. My dad claims he is in the episode, but I've never seen him. They were on their honeymoon. | ||
| Njloco |
I used to watch the show all the time, I read somewhere that he would have become a much bigger star except his voice was so low, still I enjoyed watching it. | ||
| M2x2 |
Car guy, "Where you heading?" Bronson, "wherever the road takes me." Car guy, "Gee, I wish I were you." Bronson. "Well hang in there." AND ALONG CAME BRONSON. Opening show statement. | ||
| Glitch |
I love it when the Sportster turns into a dirt bike | ||
| Screamer |
I was in a motorcycle club in the early 70's. We were too young to afford nice bikes so someone would always break down on the weekend runs. To try to shame everyone in to being better prepared - if you broke down you had to carry the "Bronson Rock" (until the next person broke down). It was about the size of a grapefruit and had "Bronson Tool Kit" painted on it. Patterned after a common plot twist that had Bronson dumping his bike and often pounding some part back in to being functional - with a rock. It was an amazing rock (at least the TV version was)... | ||
| Aesquire |
I love the show as a kid... However, when I started riding motorcycles I was very disappointed I couldn't fly down dirt trails the way Bronson did. I figured my Suzuki GT380 was the problem and if I had a chopped Harley Sportster the off road stuff would be easy. Yeah, I was soooo wrong about that.  Then Came Bronson, The Fugitive, The Incredible Hulk, there were a bunch of great "good guy on the run" shows including Kung Fu and The A Team. So I grew up expecting that once I was on my own, I'd be saving some girl, or family, or town, every week. Come to think of it, a lot of my childhood television gave me unrealistic expectations about life. | ||
| Airbozo |
"Come to think of it, a lot of my childhood television gave me unrealistic expectations about life." Yeah me too. At this point in my life I had expected to be lost in space for several years now, with a custom Winchester, a flying car and THE best mom and dad waiting for me in a colony on the moon. | ||
| Njloco |
Well, all my rocks worked great. | ||
| Strokizator |
Come to think of it, a lot of my childhood television gave me unrealistic expectations about life. "One of the greatest surprises of my adult life is that quicksand hasn’t played a larger role." - Robert St. John |
