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Edward Winterhalder (born 1955) is an American author who has written more than forty books about
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and
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culture published in the English, French, German and Spanish languages; a television producer who has created programs about
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and the
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lifestyle for networks and broadcasters worldwide; a singer, songwriter, musician and record producer; and screenwriter.


Early life

Winterhalder was born in
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, grew up in southern
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, 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
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outlaw motorcycle club An outlaw motorcycle club is a motorcycle subculture generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, ...
from 1979 to 1997, and a high-ranking member of the
Bandidos The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, is an outlaw motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. Formed in San Leon, Texas in 1966, the Bandidos MC is estimated to have between 2,000 and 2,500 members and 303 chapters, l ...
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
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. 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. In February 2019, Kentucky-based Sophomore Lounge Records announced that a 30th anniversary limited edition vinyl LP record reissue of the Warren Winters Band ''Crossbar Hotel'' album would be released on April 5, 2019. ''Then And Now'' by the Warren Winters Band was released in March 2020; the record included previously unreleased songs written by Edward Winterhalder that were recorded between 1974 and 2020.


Bandidos

In May 1997 Winterhalder established the Oklahoma chapter of the
Bandidos The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, is an outlaw motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. Formed in San Leon, Texas in 1966, the Bandidos MC is estimated to have between 2,000 and 2,500 members and 303 chapters, l ...
and was the high-ranking member of the
Bandidos The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, is an outlaw motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. Formed in San Leon, Texas in 1966, the Bandidos MC is estimated to have between 2,000 and 2,500 members and 303 chapters, l ...
responsible for the assimilation of a Canadian
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known as the
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into the
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during the
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, which became the first Canadian chapters of the
Bandidos The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, is an outlaw motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. Formed in San Leon, Texas in 1966, the Bandidos MC is estimated to have between 2,000 and 2,500 members and 303 chapters, l ...
motorcycle club. Winterhalder left the
Bandidos The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, is an outlaw motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. Formed in San Leon, Texas in 1966, the Bandidos MC is estimated to have between 2,000 and 2,500 members and 303 chapters, l ...
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 about the
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biker culture. He is the creator/executive producer of ''Steel Horse Cowboys: Leather, Chrome & Thunder'', ''Real American Bikers: War Dogs MC'', ''Biker Chicz'' and ''Living on the Edge: Riding with the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club in Pennsylvania'', and is the subject of a feature-length documentary movie that was being filmed in 2015 and 2016 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, has appeared in TV shows on National Geographic aka Nat Geo (US, Australia, UK & New Zealand),
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(Canada), the
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(US & Australia),
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(Canada), Prime TV (New Zealand), and the AB Groupe (France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and southwest Germany), and has been interviewed on Fox News Channel, the O'Reilly Factor hosted by Bill O'Reilly, ABC Nightline,
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's NewsNation with Tamron Hall,
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, and CBC. He has been a featured author on Bravo TV's "The Word" in the same episode as
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, has appeared in the ''Outlaw Bikers'' television series in Canada, and been quoted in magazines and newspapers such as GQ,
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, the Sunshine Coast Daily in Australia, and
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in England UK. Winterhalder was a keynote speaker at the 2019 Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in
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; his session was moderated by Sameer Al Jaberi, a native of the
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. In 2015, he was interviewed by Pat Campbell for the Pat Campbell radio show on 1170 KFAQ in
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, Oklahoma.


Books and DVDs

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Discography


As producer

* At Long Last - LP (1980) – Connecticut Dust Band * As I Was - LP (1984) – Warren Winters Band * Crossbar Hotel - LP (1988) – Warren Winters Band * Best Of Warren Winters - CD (1995) – Warren Winters Band * Then And Now - LP (2020) – Warren Winters Band


As Songwriter


References


External links

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