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Books Out in Bad Standings, One Light Coming: A Biker's St, Biker Chicks: The Mag, Biker Chicz: The Attraction, The Assimilation | ||
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Edward Winterhalder (born 1955) is an American author, television producer and screenwriter who has written eleven books and five screenplays about motorcycle clubs and the outlaw biker culture. One of his books, The Assimilation: Rock Machine Become Bandidos, has been published in multiple languages.
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Early life
Winterhalder was born in New England, grew up in southern Connecticut, and moved to Oklahoma in 1975 after serving in the US Army. In Oklahoma he joined the Rogues Motorcycle Club and was a close associate of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club from 1979 to 1997, and a high-ranking member of the Bandidos from 1997 to 2003.
Music
Under the pseudonym of Warren Winters, Winterhalder formed the Warren Winters Band in the 1980s after fronting the Connecticut Dust Band during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Playing guitar and singing lead vocals, he utilized a group of studio musicians and his childhood friend Kurt Newman (drums) to record the As I Was debut album in 1984 on the Shovster Records label. In 1988, the Crossbar Hotel album was recorded at Grace Recording Studios in Connecticut with Warren Winters (guitar & lead vocals), Andy Rutman (guitar), Kurt Newman (drums), Lou Sabetta (keyboards) and Mario Figueroa (bass). On both albums, the song writing credits noted that all songs were written by Edward Winterhalder.
In 1995, a Best Of Warren Winters CD was mastered and produced by Chris Westerman of Blackwater Sound in New Hampshire. Along with hit songs from the As I Was and Crossbar Hotel albums, the CD featured a few songs from his Connecticut Dust Band days and some unreleased tracks from studio sessions. While the music of the Warren Winters Band was once described as being somewhere between rock n roll and progressive country, a 2011 article in France compared the Warren Winters Band sound to Acey Stone, Circuit Rider and Justen O'Brien.
Bandidos
In May 1997 Winterhalder established the Oklahoma chapter of the Bandidos and was the high-ranking member of the Bandidos responsible for the assimilation of a Canadian outlaw motorcycle club known as the Rock Machine into the Bandidos, which became the first Canadian chapters of the Bandidos motorcycle club. Winterhalder left the Bandidos in September 2003 to spend time with his family, pursue business interests and better manage his construction company.
Career
Since 2005, Winterhalder has authored or co-authored books, and produced television shows and DVDs on the Harley-Davidson biker lifestyle. He is the creator and executive producer of the Real American Bikers: War Dogs MC, Biker Chicz and Living on the Edge television series, and the subject of a feature-length documentary movie that is being filmed in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Dubai.
Winterhalder is a consultant to the entertainment industry for television shows and feature films that focus on the biker lifestyle. He has appeared in TV shows on National Geographic aka Nat Geo (US, Australia, UK & New Zealand), History Television (Canada), the History Channel (US & Australia), Global TV (Canada), Prime TV (New Zealand), and the AB Groupe (France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and southwest Germany).
Winterhalder has been interviewed on Fox News Channel, the O'Reilly Factor hosted by Bill O'Reilly, ABC Nightline, MSNBC News Nation, Inside Edition, and CBC. He has been a featured author on Bravo TV's "The Word" in the same episode as JK Rowling, has appeared in the Outlaw Bikers television series in Canada, been quoted in magazines and newspapers such as GQ, Vice Media, USA Today, Seattle Weekly, the Austin Chronicle, the Sunshine Coast Daily in Australia, and The Guardian in England UK, and has been interviewed by Pat Campbell for the Pat Campbell radio show on 1170 KFAQ in Tulsa, Oklahoma.