the Easy Rider bike show thousands of motorcycles women everywhere but the
word on the Underground is that the Hells Angels would be there in full force but
this event was at the Queen Mary a retired British ocean liner Docked in Long Beach
California Mongols Motorcycle Club territory Scott Jr Ereckson was National president the
Mongols Motorcycle Club had a big decision on his hands he had to take up a vote was it
even worth it to show up what would happen next would impact motorcycle culture even
to this day let's go directly to the source from the man who was there Scott Jr Ereckson
I'm Scott Jr Ereckson and this is my story
okay the Queen Mary which uh was kind of an interesting situation
uh it was probably my first term as National p and uh uh I had we had moved the national presidency
down to San Diego for the first time I I had got the position and we had taken down to San Diego
it was okayed by everybody it's the first and only time that mother chapter has left uh the LA area
so I was National P I was at the time I'd be 28 years old uh out of San Diego and they called a
residence meeting up in La they wanted to have one so I I had to go up there I went
up to lava's present meeting and the issue was there was a a bike show coming up it's
called the Easy Rider bike show it's going to be held at the Queen Mary so the issue was
do we go or do we not go and I'm saying well what's the issue and they said well
the Hells Angels have already said they're going to attend and I'm saying okay
so another brother who was adamant about going another President says you know we got to go to
this thing he says Long Beach is our turf man this is where we are we have a chapter of Long Beach
it's ours the queen marriage in Long Beach and we have to go what I do is I bring it to a vote and
like I said I don't think everybody was a hundred percent for it but the majority was we had a
majority vote to go so we discussed it about going and you know we weren't sure how many of those
guys were going to be there uh at the time our club wasn't real large at the time I mean maybe
uh shit we might have had maybe maybe a hundred guys at a time and you're talking you're talking
late 80s you know we were we were still coming up and and uh earn our respect and everything anyway
so they decided we're gonna go we all decide we're going to go with a Queen Mary so the day comps
so we got everybody at the clubhouse now like I said I was from San Diego I had a pan head with
a rigid frame it's like every time I wrote this thing it broke I mean nuts rattled off
it uh the frame cracked uh the the tank Mouse broke so at the time this run of the Queen Mary
my bike wasn't up so I had to drive I drove a I caged it down there uh with my girlfriend I
occasioned down there and I had this uh meeting so we all got in there and I walked around the
meeting before we left for the run and uh it was quiet I could tell everybody was thinking
about it you could have heard a pin drop so we had a couple of people we had set ahead of us
so like I've said you get a phone call yet I don't want a head count I said I want a head count of
how many of those guys are there so he said we're calling we can't get a call I said get a call so
we finally got a call and uh they arrested me and there was at least 50 of them there
50 Angels so uh I looked around I pulled my sergeant arms like what do we got like how
many people are in this clubhouse right now and he comes back to me says we got 64 guys
because they're 64s in the clubhouse you know yeah he says we got about eight there already
I said I said okay I said they spotted 50 but there could be way more and he says yeah
I said all right I wish everybody I said you guys ready I said let's Roll
so everybody got on the bikes the bikes rolled I went outside we got in the car and
I could see people were nervous I was nervous myself as you know it was like but it you
know when there ain't no time to be nervous or something like this you gotta you got to get it
handled man I mean Long Beach is ours we gotta we got to make a statement just the way it is
so as we're taking off it starts to drizzle starting to rain so we leave the clubhouse
packs in front I'm in the back of the car makes it hits the light okay I get caught at the light
so I'm yelling at my girlfriend what the fuck you know I said Mallory and her she said I don't know
the cat's gone by time like catch a a red light uh they're gone so all I know is I got to get
on the 710 I'm heading down to 710 I go I can't even see the pack I don't know where they're at
so I got off the freeway and I said I need to get to the Queen Mary
guy at a gas station says well he says just go out to 710 he says you'll see all the turn off
the lights and everything right for the for the turn off for the for the boat and I said all right
Sue got out there and we found it so we go pull in the parking lot and I'm looking
so where the hell these guys at you know where's my guys and parking lot's so big I mean it was an
Easy Rider bike show there was thousands of people there the other people on the inside
people on the outside trying to get in it was a big event so as we come into the entrance the gate
you know where they're where you got to pay in the arms their ear that you're driving through
I see about five Hells Angels at the gate I'm thinking okay they're at the gate
so we make it through the gate I'm gonna go to park so I'm still looking for my brothers
right he's like where are these guys anyway so I parked the car and I get out and I put on my patch
and the girlfriend I had at the time looks me and says are you sure you want to do that
I said what do you mean she says I mean you're by yourself dude there's nobody
around I said yeah I said I am who I am I said I'm wearing my patch so we took off
walking and she goes well where are we going to go I said just head to the ticket booth because
they're on me buying tickets is where they're going to be at the ticket booth so we got to
the ticket booth and as we're walking to the ticket booth I catch a brother brother comes
running over brother named Woody comes running over at the time he's a prospect
Woody says hey he comes up to me says hey man he says there's one there's a man's behind us
so when he tells you that the first thing I think is there's a cop walking behind us and I said I
get it you know yeah I said don't worry about it so did we catch up a couple more stratgers
here's another brother hey another brother comes up another brother oh hey hey Junior comes the boy
here but so now we're in a crew of maybe six guys seven guys that were walking as a group towards us
ticket booth so the prospect what he tells me hey he's still there man so what happens is as
I get to the stairs I turn I look and it's a Hells Angel and I'm going okay it's a Hells Angel I go
one dude ain't gonna be a problem so what I do is I back against the wall and I put everybody
off the wall and I face him now when I face him there's a crowd of people there everybody starts
dissipating as he dis as they start dissipating I see what I'm up against there's about 35 of
these dudes maybe morphed I'd say at least 35 so the guy in front of me that followed us up there
and uh he tells me and so I already know what's going to happen right he's jumping it's going to
go down right now I'm thinking how am I gonna handle this I said I got about I got about six
dudes or about 35 of them and uh I'm thinking I guess let's Split Second but think I'm thinking
this thing doesn't come out well but I'm thinking uh this is it it'll be a Make It or Break It
for me as a president and for us as fuck so I look at this guy and I said you know what
I go fuck you I go come get some of this and I rushed him so as I took off rushing the guy
his eyes lit up and he took off and he took off from the opposite direction but there was
a guy behind him size of a bull came at me so he stepped sidestep the guy behind him came at
me and we hit like two fucking two pit bulls chest to chest would hit the fucking Brown
so when we hit the ground I ended up on top and I was just letting this dude have it I mean I was
all over him so I can hear the commotion you know like it was like a flood I mean
if everything was black I was getting it so it was like I can I can kind of compare it to like
like undertow you're fighting to get you're just fighting to get to air
it's always fight we get to I got to the top I got the top and I got back to that wall and it was me
and Woody against that wall now I'd look down and and the other four or five that were with us were
already knocked unconscious they were on they were getting kicked they want to go and they were done
you know it was just me and Woody and uh so the thing I had going for me is I had my back against
the wall and they kept coming so the way they do they shoot in like five at a time three or four at
a time coming at me and most of these guys believe it or not I was young I was in shape I was 28.
these angels we were fighting we're all old dudes heavyweight overweight that old guys so they get
winded so they come at me about three or four when I throw a pound throw it with them and then they
step back and a fresh three or four and come in and be dealing with them they could never really
get the upper hand because I had my back against the wall and I was in in my head I knew I couldn't
fall I said I knew if I fall I'd be done but uh they were they were dead me I mean I had some
longer hair at a time one guy had caught my hair I'd get crapped from the side by another guy and
but I can honestly say every guy that I met eye to eye with and went after was scared was just
trying to get away from me we did our best man we held him off and uh Woody and Woody was next to
me and like I'm saying this guy's a prospect and uh I mean how many prospects are going to fight
next to their National president it was just me and him so what happens is he gets clipped
and he goes down so now it's just me all the guys are down just me and uh and Woody's down
so I I tried to fight I got an eye on him I'm watching and he's got his hands
up but they're they're stomping him out pretty good and uh he started covered I could see it
turning and stuff then all of a sudden they kick him once and his hands go to his side
and he's no longer defending himself so I'm thinking they're going to kill this
guy man so what I did was uh I fell on top of him and covered his head with my body wow
and I'm telling this whole time I said I said don't die I said don't die I said keep breathing
keep breathing I said I'm here I'm here so what this was going on they were stumping me out like
a cigarette oh my boobs were busted I'd gone down and I knew once I went down it was over but I went
down I had to go down but they were going to kill him So what had happened was even brothers
were actually parked our group that had gone on the bikes were only actually maybe 75 yards away
and had heard the commotion I mean you could hear the commotion the fights people yelling screaming
and somebody said hey something's going on over here so they came in a rush they came
across I remember I was on the ground you know I remember one of my eyes were probably almost
shut and I'm looking up and I got blood written on my face I looked up and like banshees through
the night these guys are you know the the Rays coming down you got the flood lights and the
rains come through the floodlights of the of the parking structure and they're coming through and
it was like it was insane just and these guys are screaming run and do it and these angels
drop what they were doing man and they turn around and they started running
they ran and uh I remember hearing him yell the angels He says they're coming and one guy yelled
where the fuck are they all coming from and they were just coming and uh they picked me
up and drugged me a to a car our brothers did and as they drug me I looked across that parking lot
and I saw angels on the ground with three or four Mongols on each one just picked them up
it was it was like yes you know we did it and uh this is in front of this is this is
thousands of people this was uh Easy Rider bike show I believe I want to say 88 or 89.
uh I got the date tattooed on me I I don't know I don't know when it is but um you know
after this incident it took us all to a different level it took our club to a different level
everybody that knew us it put us in a different level in the eyes of the Hells Angels put us in a
different level you know like I said even even uh I think George Christie one of his videos
states that uh it was ingenious move how we out flanked them and we brought a few in Drew
him in and flanked them when I in reality uh it really wasn't like that uh they caught me kind
of alone and uh my brothers came the rescue but but you know what it ended the outcome was the
same right we flanked them we kicked their ass so you know I think that right there had elevated us
to a whole nother place I mean they looked at us different everybody looked at us different uh the
public looked at us different law enforcement looked at us different uh uh the big four the
big five all looked at us different you know we were now we were not in everybody's door
you know we were a small bunch of guys but uh people knew that we were there to take care of
business and and we and that's how we lived and so we looked earned our reputation I think in
the next episode of the Scott Junior Ereckson story we take you to Laughlin Nevada to talk
about the Laughlin River Run Riot of violent confrontation between the Mongols and the Hells
Angels the Hells Angels got some bad information from a police officer that their brothers were in
trouble and surrounded by Mongols this ended with the death of a Mongol two Hells Angels