hey mike jesse here as someone who was labled as
depressed for a long while i understand yes there were
a few times i saw ek change from nice to mean in
interviews i read an interview where the guy wanted
to interview him and ek said no and the guy went
home in tears
everyone on youtube was so ticked off that richard
hammond got miss treated by ek tooo i thought ek
treated him pertty good though as a fan who never
met ek i herd both good and bad stories i remember
once evel was gonna be in Tx near oklahoma and
bubba blackwell asked if everyone could help pitch
in just so i could meet my hero also i dident know they
had a contract with the family wow i still feel had
ek sued saltman in court would have ment more money
but i have the feeling he was old school it was a
diffrent era now a days its your choice to do some
thing oh well just my views i have the fear no evel
book and a magazine article with elvis on it talks
about the saltman deal tooo this is a pertty cool
discussion glad to be talking with you mike
glad to be posting again tooo
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: Oh that is a cool pic .
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: What gets me is if this is true. And Evel
: was
: this way . I wonder why it wasnt brought up
: in the book that he may have been suffering
: from a Bipolar condition. In other words WHY
: was he an ASS. one minute and so nice the
: next ? I understood he talked with the
: family [Linda Kelly Rob.....] but they
: turned him down due to contractual or
: pending contractual situations . They could
: have shot down what wasnt true. At any rate
: I dont think they or anyone else's family is
: owed any money from a book about there
: public figure rel. They can at any time
: write their own book. I have to say what
: Evel did to Saltman was uncalled for based
: on what he wrote about his Mom. Which was
: nothing bad . And as for the SOB term it can
: either be bad "Your moms a b###h or it
: can be good "Hey you ol som b###h how u
: been" BUT I WILL MAKE THIS CLEAR HOW
: EVEL HANDLED HIMSELF AFTER WAS WHAT KEPT ME
: A FAN ! He didnt hid behind any BS. But
: when My mom told me what she heard on the
: news I told her no way He wouldnt do that
: not Evel . Then I was watching SNL that sat
: and they had a shot of a baseball bat with
: Evel's sig on it. And I knew it was true.And
: I was disapointed in my hero.
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: hey eveleye couldent agree more dude its
: just a
: book to make a profit and not giving the
: family there
: cut just like steve mandich book he did it
: for profit
: and bashed ek every chance he got probley
: the only
: yes he interviewd some close to him but he
: dident
: give the knievel family a part of the profit
: from the
: book evel was seen by right eye he was right
: place
: and came along at the right time i tried to
: listen to
: the audio book sample on i tunes horrible
: wont even
: waste my time i have had nothing but respect
: for
: the knievel family but if your gonna write a
: book and
: bash a legend at least give the family a cut
: of the
: profit now back to slim shaddy now watch
: jesse
: get bashed im just speaking my mind
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: The think the book is complete trash..The
: guy
: that wrote it pretty said everything Evel
: did or stood for was shit. So much lacking
: with most it, if not all the focus on the
: bad. He only talked to people who ether
: hated Evel or people Evel hated, or people
: that were jealous of Evel. Bob Arum is a
: known scumbag and thats being nice..The
: entire book is a joke and not worth the
: paper its printed on. I feel bad for the
: trees that had to die for the printing of
: this piece of trash. Plus i don't believe
: half the stories..Evel put a gun to GH's
: head and cocked it and told him to read..And
: then he still made the movie..right all
: BS..However i did like the picture of Evel
: on the harley..Never seen that one
: before..even if the moron got where the
: picture was from wrong..book burning time..
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: Ok lets hear what you guy's think of Leigh's
: book.
: Did you think it was too harsh ? Did you
: think it was the real story ?
: How about not saying hardly anything about
: Viva Knievel ?
: Do you feel differently towards Evel now ?
: I:E The 29 day coma being a lie .....
: Does anyone think Leigh is still reading our
: site ?
: I have not fully absorbed the whole book
: yet. But I 'll say it was prob a steel pipe
: not Lead .
: And both Hood and Knievel was wrong on
: Wembley
: He simply lost speed as he bounched up the
: ramp. 1.5-2 mph loss is all it takes. Could
: the suspension have been harder on the
: wheelie bike ? Domokos's was . He did'nt
: bounce in Oh! Just some thoughts in my
: head. But I say the most important ,
: greatest thing Evel did was come to know
: Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. Cause
: in the end thats all that matters to us all.
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