The ONLY gotta have book on the1%er club life loaded with rare photos

"No matter if you're a hardcore biker or a weekend warrior - this is THE one book you want to have - Makes a great gift to the biker who thought he had everything" - Del-Ray



If not - you will certainly know his photo's

This is our brother Q Ball. He is a long time (30+ years) professional biker photographer and Real Biker book author



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Be sure to check out all the legit reviews at the bottom . . .

As Q-Ball always says "Long May You Ride"











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Here is what the critics are saying.

Thirty years of Life on the road brings experiences that can't be had anywhere else. Thankfully, Chop Cult member Q-Ball has been documenting his ride along this rough and rowdy path through the lens of his trusty camera. His new book Living the Life combines a collection of these images along with prose from road poet Sorez the Scribe for a perfect paring of word and image.

It took decades for Q-Ball to decide to share these images with the world. He struggled with what to write, what words could possibly accompany such photographs? Cheesy captions, made up from scratch many years after the fact just wouldn't do. Poetry isn't something many of us are experts on around here, but the Scribe's gritty and romantic poems are a rich complement, and were just the catalyst required to let Q-Ball feel comfortable showing his work to the world.

Published by another Chop Cult member, Mr. Boh, who is also responsible for the new magazine out of Baltimore called Lowside, the hard-bound book is an exercise in restraint. With much contemporary graphic design cluttering up dramatic photos, it's a welcome respite to see a clean layout, elegant in it's simplicity, that lets the written word and high-contrast imagery take center stage. In addition to being showcased in the book, many of the best photography is also available in poster form, perfect for framing.

Living the Life was a good choice for the title. It's not so much about the individual or the exact machine they happen to be on, however important and central those details may be. It's about the road less travelled and how much richer that road is on two wheels. Many of these souls are gone now, the Life as they knew it, evaporated. But, through the pen and the lens, we all get a brief glimpse at what that it looked like. The question now, to all of us is: Are we Living the Life?

Bill Bryant
www.chopcult.com

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A book 30 years in the making, Living the life is Doug "Q-Ball" Barber's glimpse into some of the best real biker photography ever to be seen in one book. Q-ball didn't stop there, he had his cohort Eddie "Sorez the Scribe" Pliska write some very profound poems regarding the true biker lifestyle.

What makes this book such a solid piece of work is that it is multi-dimensional and it captures the feeling of actually being there in both picture and verse. Think of it is one part history, one part art and one part literature all rolled into one.

Jeff G. Holt
Street Chopper Magazine

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LIVING THE LIFE is an excellent second chance for those of us who did not always have the foresight to keep a camera handy to record those miles and events of our lives as they flashed by, or if your wondering what it was like to be there? Q-Ball's photos, along with Sorez's verses, will kick your memory or dream machine into gear. As you turn the pages, view the photos, and read the verses, you will feel the mile markers of your own Biker Life flashing by. And if you ain’t been there yet - you will be given it thought after you run these pages by ya!

By K. Peddlar Bridges,
Connecticut Cruise News
Senior Columnist and
Roadpoet eMagazine Editor

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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