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Here is the book signing schedule. I will post updates as they come in.
February 12-14 Timonium Bike Show www.cycleshow.net
February 20 5-9pm Beach Cove 8416 Bayside Rd, Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732
February 27 12 noon-6pm Renegade Classics 131 Central Square Drive Prince Frederick, MD 20678 www.renegadeclassicssomd.com
April 24 Renegade Classics Juvenile Diabetes Poker Run www.renegadeclassicssomd.com
living the life
photographs by Doug Barber, aka Q-Ball
poems by Eddie (Sorez) Pliska, aka Sorez the Scribe
designed by Eric Wheatley
Published and Printed in the United States of America.
Published by Lowside Syndicate.
www.lowsidesyn.com
Printed by Ridge Printing.
8900 Yellow Brick Rd. | Baltimore, MD 21237
www.ridgeprinting.com
All rights reserved under international copyright conventions.
No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced
or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or
mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any
information storage or retrieval system, without the
written consent of the publisher and author.
First Edition January 2010
This edition is limited to 3,000 copies.
ISBN 978-0-615-34271-9
Copyright 2009 Doug Barber
Here is what the critics are saying.
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Classic images of bikers from the 70’s and earlier are a
hit among today’s discriminating enthusiasts. And it’s
not just a case of looking back through rose colored
glasses to motorcycling’s past. Rather it is the natural consequence
when popular culture celebrates cartoonish exaggerations,
and shuns the genuine.
Doug Barber’s photos remind us of a time when the bikes,
and the people that rode them were the real deal. Thankfully,
Doug was there living it; not just as an observer from
the outside. This collection of images combined with the
words of Sorez the Scribe provides a unique glimpse into
our culture’s past. For those that lived, partied and rode
during that time it’s a memory book of sorts. For the new
generation it represents the path less chosen, inspiration,
and a history book of our two-wheeled forefathers.
Living the life, it’s good for your soul.”
Todd Ingram
Editorial Director
Iron Horse Magazine
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The Marriage of Biker Poetry
and Photographic Genius:
Q-Ball’s master lens and Sorez the Scribe’s road sharpened
pen ignites the page with the lure of the
steel pony, the rolling thunder, the chink, chink,
chink of the gravel, and a brotherhood that rides forever
towards the horizon. While there are many photo
books that spread bikers and their motorcycles flat
out across a coffee table, and certainly Biker Poetry
is beginning to stand on its own in the poetry community,
Living the Life is the ‘IMAX of Biker Nation.’
Sorez’s poetic cadence draws you into Q-Ball’s lens
where you are not just looking at some pictures, you
are on the bike, riding with the pack, or just taking a
solo run into the wind. From Basket Case to Road to
Redemption Q-Ball and Sorez bring the Code of Ethics
into ‘True 3D Soul’ with photo-word-graphics.
Living the Life is more than a photo-documentary,
or a poetry book, and it is deeper than a historical
perspective, Living the Life is history in the making
- a history that can open the pipes and blast down
highways at the speed of light.
MarySusan Williams-Migneault
RoadHousePress
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Stay tuned for updates, and book signing locations. Also visit Lowside Syndicate for more information.

www.lowsidesyn.com
To all my Friends, and Known Associates,
Thank you for your encouragement. It’s taken over 30 years of blood, sweat, and tears to get here. I can’t say that I have loved every moment, but I will admit my life has been made richer by knowing you. My hope is that you will find “Living the Life” worthy. If you do, may I ask just one more favor, to help get the word out.
Many Thanks, Long May You Ride, Q-Ball qball@vtwinbiker.com www.VtwinBiker.com
Also check out,
Biker Poetry Comes of Age Biker Poetry Comes of Age: The Landscape An Interview with Q-Ball of Vtwinbiker.com By MarySusan Williams-Migneault (RoadHousePress)
Old School Vintage Biker Photography
*Fan Mail at bottom of this page.*
*Fan Mail*

You have no idea how this is going to impact many people. Greybeards like us long and love to remember and re live the old days, and the young ones desire to understand and be a part of our time and world that was so great! We knew and still do know where it's at. The real thing is not dead, the real bikers are not dead. We've just been overrun with the media's attempt to make merchandise of us. I am looking forward to your book and receiving your mag. If you really look at your photos you not only see the subject in the picture but you can see the man behind the camera. The one that see's the beauty and heart in the image he catches, has that same beauty and heart in himself first or else he could not see it to capture it for others to see. For the others are there but they do not see. They do not have the heart or beauty in them to look for it. You truly have a gift. And I am not blowing smoke up your ass! I really love and am impressed by your art! And if a scruffy old bum like me can see it others can too.."of course no one has ever called me dumb"...... Later turtle

That book proposal is just bangin bro. I want half a dozen copies for my not so deserving friends. Let me know when they're available. Neil...AKA...Neil Cotter Rolling Thunder VIP Escort 'Leave no one behind' myspace.com/neilakaneil

Gidday mate, just took a squizz at ya book. Bloody ripper. Been on 2 wheels nearly 40 years and some of those pics look like they were from my past. Still riding and won't stop until they push dirt over me. The book will be popular in Oz I can tell you. I will be directing some brothers to check it out. Keep it going mate. looks the ducks guts! Cisco-Bendigo/ Australia
Send me your thoughts and photos, and I’ll post them here.
Long May You Ride, Q-Ball qball@vtwinbiker.com www.VtwinBiker.com
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